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Mike rants about Canadian Government while waiting for the convoy to pass his location in Saskatchewan. So Mike waited hours and hours for the convoy to show up and it was only the first leg. The second longer leg of the convoy was reported to be around the 75km in length. Either way, it's great to see Canadians unvaxed and fully vaxed standing together in protest of the never ending mandates. Keeping in mind that Canada is over 83% fully vaxed. * The protests started with the trucker mandate that was being implemented but very quickly changed to more of...

A same-sex penguin couple has become foster parents to a newborn hatchling in a first for an upstate New York zoo. Humboldt penguins Elmer and Lima first got together this past mating season, and built a nest together in the fall, which they have both defended from incoming predators. Their devotion to each other led officials at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo to test how the two would be as parents, using a dummy egg, before letting them take care of a fertilized egg of their own. Before giving the couple an egg of their own, zoo officials tested Elmer and...

All fans at SoFi stadium on Sunday were supposed to wear N95s. But, um, these fans weren’t. One is an immunocompromised celebrity. Another is a cerebral compromised governor. Meanwhile, 5 year olds are forced to mask all day at school.

Just got one of those texts about a suspicious Amazon purchase - which of course is not actually Amazon. The scam goes, you call the number, their cyber team will "help" you clear the charge. All you need to do is install this app that allows their team to remote control your computer or phone and they'll clear things right up. I don't know if it's because I had a fun weekend, a good night's sleep last night, or just 'cause it is Monday... I'm in the mood to mess with these people some. Sometime today I'm going to grab...

CHICAGO -- Eighteen people were shot, four fatally, in Chicago gun violence over the weekend, police said. One teenage boy was fatally shot and another critically wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon in Little Village on the Southwest Side. The teen boys were inside a vehicle making a drug transaction about 1:20 p.m. in the 2300-block of South Sawyer Avenue when two suspects pulled out guns and fired shots, Chicago police said. A 16-year-old boy was shot in the head and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, police said. He died to his injuries. The other, 17,...

On the cusp of the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is battling back the biggest surge of the virus yet with the omicron variant. Cases, even while receding in some places, are near record levels. And daily deaths, while lower than the peak of last winter, are still averaging more than 2,000 nationwide. 2022 could be the year COVID becomes an endemic disease, meaning it is always circulating within the population but at low rates or causing just seasonal outbreaks. U.S. can get "sufficient control" over COVID-19 so it "does not disrupt us in society, does...

Prime minister had been isolating after being in contact with someone who is infected

Police have been granted more time to question Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood who was arrested on suspicion of rape and assault. The 20-year-old footballer, who made his debut for the club in March 2019, was arrested on Sunday following allegations on social media. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said he remained in custody for questioning. Manchester United earlier said the forward would not return to training or matches until further notice. Greenwood has not responded to the social media allegations. GMP said: "Detectives have been granted additional time to speak to a man in his 20s who is being held...

It’s all very well for Kevin McCarthy and other GOP members of Congress to rant on Fox News about how terrible the border crisis is, but what are they doing about it? At least 2 million illegal migrants crossed the border last year, and all we heard from Congress was hot air. Republicans in Washington will tell you they are powerless to do anything about illegal migration until after they regain control in November, assuming they do. But one lone New York gubernatorial candidate did more to inform the public about the Biden administration’s partnership with people-smuggling cartels than did...

Well, it turns out things haven't gone so good for wokester company, Penzey's Spices, which ran a 'Republicans are racist' campaign for .. I am not sure what purpose, it wasn't business. According to Fox News: A Wisconsin-based spice company that made headlines earlier this month when its CEO sent an email to customers accusing Republicans of racism is now asking people to buy gift cards after hemorrhaging tens of thousands of customers. Earlier this month, Penzeys Spices CEO Bill Penzey renamed the extended Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend to be "Republicans are racist weekend" in a newsletter to...

Throughout much of 2021, left-of-center political analysts often asked themselves, What is Kyrsten Sinema’s deal? As she battled all year against simple Senate passage of the Build Back Better legislation, and against the filibuster reforms needed to enact other Biden priorities like voting rights, it became quite the parlor game. Sinema’s Democratic partner in Senate obstruction, Joe Manchin, had the obvious excuse of representing one of the reddest states in the country. Sinema’s Arizona is a battleground state that is trending blue. The fact that her centrist Arizona Senate colleague Mark Kelly, who is up for reelection this very year,...

‘Thomas still has male body parts and is still attracted to women’ ************************************************************************************ A member of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team said some team members are uncomfortable changing in the locker room with transgender swimmer Justin Thomas. Thomas, 22, who spent the previous three years swimming with the men’s team before he began transitioning to a woman, has created an uneasy environment in the locker room, as he still retains his biologically male genitalia — which are sometimes exposed — and is attracted to women, one teammate told the Daily Mail in an interview. “It’s really upsetting because...

In the past 18 months military leaders have toppled the governments of Mali, Chad, Guinea, Sudan and now, Burkina Faso. West African leaders on Friday called an emergency summit on the situation in Burkina Faso, where the new military leader, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, told the nation in his first public address that he would return the country to constitutional order “when the conditions are right.” The resurgence ofcoups has alarmed the region’s remaining civilian leaders. Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Friday, “It represents a threat to peace, security and stability in West-Africa.” First came Mali, in August 2020....

Mendenhall Law Group is suing four universities in Ohio over those institutions' vaccine and COVID-19 testing requirements. Campus Reform spoke with parents and students represented in the suits.. Mendenhall Law Group, a firm based out of Akron, Ohio, has filed a series of lawsuits taking aim against COVID-19 policies in effect at four universities across the state. The firm argues that policies regarding vaccination, masking, and testing at Ohio University, University of Cincinnati, Bowling Green State University, and Miami University of Ohio are in violation of state law. The lawsuits were filed on behalf of affected students, employees, and parents....

Bannon: You believe that some of the biggest and most powerful and respected names in pharmaceuticals, and that would be Pfizer and Moderna and others, are essentially a modern day Enron, is that not your theory of the case? Edward Dowd: Correct and...

With Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement, President Biden is now following through on his campaign promise that if a vacancy occurs on his watch, he will nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. “The person I will nominate will be somebody with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity,” Biden said last week. “And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court. “It’s long overdue, in my view,” he added. “I made that commitment during the campaign for President, and I will keep that commitment.” Among the believed frontrunners is Judge...

PMO says Justin Trudeau will hold a media availability Monday at 11:15 ET https://twitter.com/iamSas/status/1487974991190798336

On Jan. 24, Europe's biggest religious freedom case went to trial. A Finnish member of parliament, Päivi Räsänen, has been charged by the Finnish prosecutor general with three counts of "ethnic agitation," a hate speech provision in Finland's criminal code. Each count relates to Räsänen's respectful expression of widely-held Christian beliefs.The first charge concerns a 2019 tweet in which Räsänen questioned the decision of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (her own denomination) to partner with Helsinki's gay pride parade; this tweet also featured an image of Romans 1:24-27. Räsänen had moved on and forgotten about this tweet — until...

Aortic valve stenosis, or AS, is a heart condition that often shows no symptoms until it’s already too late. The condition is when the heart's aortic valve narrows, reducing or blocking blood flow from the heart into the main artery to the body (aorta).This can cause chest pain, dizziness, fatigue, or a rapid, fluttering heartbeat in the more severe and life-threatening cases.Some people are more prone to getting it, including those of older age, with diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart conditions from birth.Given the ageing of the UK population, it is thought that there may be a large pool...

During the 2020 fall semester, Kali Fontanilla—a high school English language teacher working in the Salinas, California, school district—noticed that many of her students were failing one of their other classes: ethnic studies. This was at the height of the pandemic, and instruction was entirely online, leaving many students in the lurch. Still, Fontanilla thought it was odd to see so many Fs. Salinas has a majority Mexican population; all of Fontanilla's students were Hispanic and were learning English as a second language. Education officials who propose adding ethnic studies to various curriculums—and making it mandatory, as the Salinas school...