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Jack in the Box puts together the new, limited-time Tiny Taco Big Box as a shareable way to enjoy their Tiny Tacos. Each Tiny Taco Big Box includes 25 Tiny Tacos (crispy corn shell tacos with a meat filling) and three sauces for dipping: Taco, Creamy Avocado Lime, and Buttermilk Ranch. Jack in the Box's Tiny Taco Big Box costs $6 in my area (may vary) compared to $3.49 for a regular order of Tiny Tacos (which includes 15 Tiny Tacos and one dipping sauce).

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby announced a new "extremism" policy being rolled out by the Pentagon under President Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday that the Department of Defense says provides "increased clarity" on what amounts to "extremist activities" or "prohibited activity" by service members. While Kirby "emphasized" that "the Department is focused on prohibited activity, not on a particular ideology, thought or political orientation," the new guidelines create a broad definition for "active participation."

Butano State Park suffered less damage than its famous neighbor Big BasinIt’s not as famous as Big Basin Redwoods State Park, its hallowed neighbor to the south. It doesn’t draw nearly as many visitors or feature as many ancient redwoods. But Butano State Park, a 4,700-acre landscape of steep shady canyons, rippling streams and impressive coast redwood trees located in southern San Mateo County near Pescadero, has a loyal following among Bay Area campers, hikers and nature lovers. Both parks were hit by the devastating CZU Lightning Complex Fire last year, but Butano, often in Big Basin’s shadow, is bouncing...

COVID-19 booster shots will be required for all eligible students and staff at University of California campuses, and chancellors were told Tuesday to come up with plans for a safe return from winter break that could include a remote-learning start as coronavirus cases increase throughout California amid the highly infectious Omicron variant.

The Omicron variant ushers us in our third COVID-19 year with 62% of U.S. citizens fully vaccinated. And yet 30%+ of the U.S. population keep COVID-19 thriving because they feel their political or religious rights are violated, worse yet, dogma leads them to believe COVID-19 does not represent a threat – to them. We have reached an inflection point where the vaccinated majority are held hostage by the dubious rights of the unvaccinated minority. Lucky for us freedom of speech and religion is not a protected absolute in our constitution when it comes to public safety. We need to mandate...

The biggest domestic Irish companies, as well as major multinationals, would face a new minimum corporate tax rate of 15 percent, under plans to be put forward by the European Commission on Wednesday. The move comes in a draft directive to be published in Brussels to mandate the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) plan for a minimum corporate tax rate across the Union.Earlier this week the OECD published detailed proposals for its proposed minimum effective corporate tax rate of 15 percent, to apply to multinationals with a turnover of over €750 million. Ireland had earlier signed up to...

FOURTH WEEK OF ADVENT LUKE 1:39-45 Friends, today’s Gospel again tells of Mary’s visit to Elizabeth. I’ve always been fascinated by Mary’s “haste” in this story of the Visitation. Upon hearing the message of Gabriel concerning her own pregnancy and that of her cousin, Mary proceeded “in haste” into the hill country of Judah to see Elizabeth. Why did she go with such speed and purpose? Because she had found her mission, her role in the theo-drama. We are dominated today by the ego-drama in all of its ramifications and implications. The ego-drama is the play that I’m writing, I’m...

Whilst doing some Spring cleaning back in 2013, a man threw his old PC hard drive into the trash, which quickly joined the mountain of rubbish at his local landfill site in Newport, Wales, UK. Little did he know at the time, that same hard drive contained a wallet filled with 7,500 Bitcoin, worth a cool £500,000 ($665,000) in the early crypto days. Now? That wallet is worth $357 million. Once he realized, the man began a desperate search for the hard drive and has been searching ever since. Over the past eight years, James Howells has been crawling through...

The boys who cried wolf... https://rumble.com/vr4zqj-o-m-i-c-r-o-n.html

Omicron has no recent ancestor. Its most recent ancestor existed in the beginning of year 2020 and went extinct. The weirdness of this is similar to a young man who is alive today and is proven genetically to be a biological son of George Washington: you know that something very special is going on. However, having come to a conclusion that Omicron is a result of intentional development (though possibly released accidentally), we need to think it through. Omicron could be released as An intentional release of this specific variant along the lines of Bill Gates’ suggestion that “we need...

Center for Vaccine Development director Dr. Peter Hotez said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily” that he believes, especially for health care workers, people will need coronavirus booster shots every three months. Hotez said, “Now we have an added problem, and that is specific to the Omicron variant, that third booster was holding up so well for Delta, Alpha and other variants, for Omicron, it is waning really quickly.” Anchor Chuck Todd said, “So we know that Moderna is apparently working on a booster that would tackle Omicron. Are we going to be in this sort of gap, it sounds like?...

Most people are familiar with Swedish cinnamon buns or the Danish “danish” (they’re called weinerbrød in Denmark). But unless you’ve been to Finland, you’ve probably never heard of pullapitko. Pullapitko, or pulla bread, is a cardamom-spiced sweet loaf that can be found from the north to the south of Finland. It’s like if a buttery brioche and a challah had a love-child; it’s mixed with loads of milk and butter (courtesy of a brioche father) and woven like challah (thanks, Mom!). For the record, there does not seem to be a relationship between the three breads but isn’t this the...

The ruler of Dubai was ordered to pay his princess ex-wife and their children more than $730 million in the most expensive divorce settlement in British history. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, 72, was ordered in London’s High Court on Tuesday to pay Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, a half-sister of Jordan’s King Abdullah II, a lump sum of around $333 million within the next three months. He also has to immediately pay several million more for the education of their children — Al Jalila, 14, and Zayed, 9 — and then guarantee $385 million to cover future payments.

The zealous and often illogical promotion of vaccines by the government appears to have officially turned a majority of Americans into anti-vaxxers. Not metaphorically, but apparently, literally as a matter of basic English.The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “anti-vaxxer” as “a person who opposes … regulations mandating vaccination.”So, if you oppose a vaccine requirement, you are an anti-vaxxer. Well, an official NBC News Survey by Hart Research found that 50% of American adults opposed “requiring that everyone who is now eligible must get a COVID-19 vaccine.” It appears half of Americans are now officially anti-vaxxers.In reality, based on the more common, colloquial...

A new bill filed by Senator Joe Gruters (Tampa) aims to require all school board meetings in Florida to be recorded and streamed live on a publicly available website as well as granting members of the public more freedom to participate in discussion. Senate Bill 1300 (SB 1300) would mandate that a minimum of 30 minutes at the start of every school board meeting be allocated for individual members of the public and representatives of groups to freely speak on any topic relating to the meeting and its proceedings. Each speaker would be given at least 3 minutes to touch...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - In what could be an unprecedented move in California, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo on Tuesday announced his idea to make all city employees, as a condition of employment, and residents or visitors who enter city-owned facilities, to have a booster shot or third round of vaccinations.

TALLAHASSEE — A legal showdown over a controversial state elections law is set to take place next month, after a federal judge rejected efforts to short-circuit a trial in constitutional challenges by voting-rights groups. The League of Women Voters of Florida, the Florida Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights Florida and a number of other groups filed a series of lawsuits challenging the measure (SB 90), passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature this spring as part of GOP leaders’ nationwide attempts to make it more difficult for people to vote by mail. Lawyers for the plaintiffs allege that the changes are...

President Joe Biden greets the Washington Nationals’ Racing Presidents at the Congressional Baseball Game, Wednesday, September 29, 2021, at Nationals Park in Washington.

The last two years of parenting young children in a pandemic have felt like an extended, unyielding version of that moment. Every day we measure the threats and perform intricate cost-benefit analyses. What’s more damaging, for example: unrelenting isolation or the possibility of a child contracting the virus from a return to daycare? The stress of playing Russian roulette with our children’s lives—or refusing to, keeping them home as much as possible—is crushing. I think of that old carnival ride, the Gravitron, which spins so quickly that riders are lifted from the floor, held against padded walls by forces three...

Just yesterday I came across a twitter site called They Say Its Rare. This site collates harrowing stories of vaccine-caused death and injury from across the world. Twitter is normally a bad, bad vehicle for shared grieving and loss - mainly because the world is full of souless wangrods, and many of those wangrods have twitter accounts. But in this case it seems to work. Maybe it's because literally every post is a separate vignette of loss and appalled anger. There's no room for incredulity or doubt. No space for cretinous tweets such as 'how do you know it was...