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An enjoyable 20 minute flashback on John Madden. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PQgMzgp8QI

Donald and Melania Trump returned to the New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago after skipping last year's lavish gala in the wake of his election defeat. Sources close to the former president had told DailyMail.com Friday that he was expected to attend this year's black-tie gathering and attendees posted shots of the former first couple at the gala before midnight. Trump was in a tuxedo, with wife Melania in a shimmering silver gown.

President Biden is staring down a number of minefields when he returns to Washington in the new year. Biden will have to tackle major issues including getting the coronavirus under control after a severe spike from the omicron variant during the holiday season. He will have to ensure that the deadly virus doesn’t overwhelm the nation’s health systems and the financial markets.

Democratic politicians and media have been slamming Gov. Ron DeSantis throughout the pandemic, claiming he’s left Florida a deathtrap with his response. Of course, that isn’t true, but that hasn’t stopped them from saying it. It also hasn’t stopped folks like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) from fleeing her city while there’s a record number of COVID cases and living it up in the freedom of Florida with her boyfriend. According to National Review, AOC was spotted dining outside of Doraku Sushi and Izakaya in Miami Beach raising a drink and checking her phone.(snip) In her home city, AOC would have...

The world is a strange enough place without wild conspiracies, and it’s the exception that proves the rule. In 2021, there were many (at least five) fears, social media movements, news stories, and legends first seen as implausible that, in the light of emerging evidence, proved not to be unfounded. In some cases, the media's initial dismissal fueled further speculation and itself became part of the theory. While not all of these have been verified as 100% true, they were widely dismissed last year as conspiracy or fringe theories. The #FreeBritney 'conspiracy theorists' were vindicated The U.S. government takes UFOs...

The headlines scream throughout the media. New Omicron variant fills up children's hospitals A five-fold increase in pediatric admissions in New York City this month. Pediatric hospitalizations up 395% in NYC amid COVID-19 surgeHealth Advisory: NYC Has 4-Fold Increase In Children Hospitalized For Covid-19 CoronavirusIn two weeks, they went from 3.1 per day to 15.6 per day and statewide from under 6 per day to around 26 per day. Are we to believe that a city with 7 million people and a state with 19 million are overwhelmed with these small numbers? If they are overwhelmed with those small numbers...

CLAIM "The most populated state in India just declared they are officially COVID-19 free after promoting widespread use of the safe proven medicine" VERDICT UNSUPPORTED SOURCE: Jim Hoft, Pearson Sharp, Gateway Pundit, One America News Network, 2 Oct. 2021 DETAILSInadequate support: The article didn’t provide any evidence supporting a causal link between the use of ivermectin and the sharp decline of COVID-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh other than regional government recommendation. Many other factors, including immunity from previous infection, vaccination, and lockdowns, likely helped reduce the number of cases. Public health authorities, including the Indian Council of Medical Research, currently...

It's that time of year again—when the infallible prophets at The Babylon Bee tell you what will happen in the next year with 100% accuracy! Will 2022 be better than this year? You decide! Here is a definitive list of things that will happen in 2022: January 1 - USPS will deliver your Christmas package January 6 - Second insurrection attempt canceled January 20 - Pfizer unveils booster shots 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 January 21 - Men break every record ever held by women January 22 - Harvard gender studies professor discovers five new pronouns January 23 -...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After the local Conejo Guardian reported alarming trends in Ventura County hospitals, more nurses have come forward to affirm the rise in unexplained heart problems, strokes, and blood clotting in local vaccinated patient populations. They also say doctors refuse to consider these adverse reactions to Covid shots. Sam, a critical care nurse at an ICU in a Ventura County hospital, came forward because, “I’m tired of all the B.S. that’s going on,” he told the Guardian. “It’s crazy how nobody questions anything anymore.” He has witnessed a surge in the numbers of young people experiencing...

APTOS—The family of the 17-year-old boy who was stabbed to death on the Aptos High School campus in August has filed a claim against Pajaro Valley Unified School District, alleging that the district was negligent in ending the School Resource Officer (SRO) program, and in not adequately monitoring the two students responsible for the attack.

Mercedes-Benz’s latest hot car ad has caused Asian social media to blow up over ads featuring models sporting makeup that allegedly creates stereotypical “slanted eyes” which the Chinese find extremely offensive. The high-end German automaker removed the ad in deference to the Chinese from the social media network Weibo on Dec. 25 after a massive blowup over the “slanted eyes” issue. “Is there any beauty in this makeup?” one incensed critic wrote, according to the Global Times. “It is not [open for] interpretation. No Chinese will think this kind of ‘beauty’ is attractive,” another remarked. The Global Times, which is...

During CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage, network commentator Don Lemon delivered a monologue directed at his critics. Lemon said he doesn’t care what people think about him because he is a “grown, successful black man.” “I carry the same drink almost the entire night, so it is kind of an act. But, I am letting people into my life, and this is how I am all the time. I share everything,” Lemon began.

After decades of blaming gun on the streets for violent crime, and elections of district attorneys who actually believe that crap, Hollywood's elites are finally getting religion on gun ownership.They're arming up. According to the Daily Mail:As Long Angeles crime spirals out of control, even some of the city's wealthiest residents have flocked to Beverly Hills' only gun store to buy firearms to protect themselves and their belongings.Beverly Hills Guns first opened by appointment only in July 2020, and has seen upscale residents from Santa Monica to the Hollywood Hills increasingly in a panic following some high-profile smash and grabs...

A group of Republican-led states slammed Nasdaq’s implementation of a diversity disclosure rule for corporate boards this week, arguing in a court filing that the requirement is illegal and unconstitutional. The states outlined their position in a legal brief supporting a lawsuit in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which seeks to block the rule. In the filing, the GOP administrations argued that Nasdaq rule “violates both the Constitution and exceeds the SEC and Nasdaq’s statutory authority.” “It is unconscionable to see discrimination so blatantly put on display by requiring these companies to hire employees based solely on race, sex,...

Former Clinton adviser and Newsmax TV Dick Morris said he sees former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) vying for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. Morris said Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and current Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg would also be among those competing for the party’s nod.

Episode Description Dr. Robert Malone is the inventor of the nine original mRNA vaccine patents, which were originally filed in 1989 (including both the idea of mRNA vaccines and the original proof of principle experiments) and RNA transfection. Dr. Malone, has close to 100 peer-reviewed publications which have been cited over 12,000 times. Since January 2020, Dr. Malone has been leading a large team focused on clinical research design, drug development, computer modeling and mechanisms of action of repurposed drugs for the treatment of COVID-19. Dr. Malone is the Medical Director of The Unity Project, a group of 300...

This is one of the greatest renditions of "Auld Lang Syne" I've heard. It's kind of a bluegrass / Americana mix with a great fiddle and (I think) ukulele. Of all things, I heard it a few minutes ago on an Accuweather review of New Years celebrations around the world and Shazam identified it for me. It was recorded in 2006

As Long Angeles crime spirals out of control, even some of the city's wealthiest residents have flocked to Beverly Hills' only gun store to buy firearms to protect themselves and their belongings. Beverly Hills Guns first opened by appointment only in July 2020, and has seen upscale residents from Santa Monica to the Hollywood Hills increasingly in a panic following some high-profile smash and grabs and violent home invasions in recent weeks, Los Angeles Magazine reports. Many are self-proclaimed progressives who've never even held a gun before, but who've been so spooked by soaring crime in the famously wealthy enclave...

If Ronald Reagan were president today..... Today, the first day of 2022 we wake up $29.5 Trillion in debt. The GDP is $23.4 Trillion, resulting in a GDP / Debt ratio of 126%. When President Reagan left office in 1989 the GDP / Debt was just 50% not the 126% it is today under Biden, Pelosi, Schumer. With today's GDP of 23.4 T the Debt would only be $11.7 T not 29.5 T under Reagan's policies, could you imagine a country with $18 T less debt? In 2021 alone the Debt per citizen increased from $83,926 to $87,477 or an...

Sex is the most powerful, all-pervasive force in human experience. It may be intensely personal, meaningful, and creative at one moment, and depersonalized, meaningless, and careless the next. Much of its glory is that it can bring us as close as we may get in life to experiencing the mystery of our mortality, and because of this it is sanctified. Yet it can also be a blind, nearly irresistible force seeking wanton release on the biological level, and in this way its sanctity is perverted. Paradoxically, sex—the most chaotic, powerful, and untutored drive—can only be fully experienced when it includes...