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The California Attorney General’s Office issued a consumer alert Friday related to dried plum fruit and candy products that allegedly contain dangerous levels of lead, including several products sold by San Diego retailers. California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office said it has sent letters directing retailers to immediately remove the products from shelves, many of which appear to be marketed to children.

It seems that lockdowns and mandates for vaccines and masks are on the way out, and we will learn to live with the risks of COVID as just another slightly more deadly disease than the flu. Big Pharma will no longer make unreasonable profits with its vaccines as they prove ineffective in the long run and there are alternative treatments for COVID at much less cost. We will all be able to return to a normal life. The Supreme Court will not be packed with three members instead of the nine currently favoring a conservative interpretation of the Constitution. Biden...

VIDEOSniff! He walked amongst us for an all too brief period of time. And now here is CNN's Alisyn Camerota mourning the passing of Jeff Zucker from the biased media scene. Repulsive Poison Toad, you may be gone but you are not forgotten!

During his February 3 YouTube livestream, outspoken conservative rocker Ted Nugent discussed his plans to hit the road in support of his new album, "Detroit Muscle", which is due on April 29 via Pavement Music. The follow-up to 2018's "The Music Made Me Do It" was recorded with Ted's current band, which includes bassist Greg Smith and drummer Jason "Tickets go on sale tomorrow, I think, for this gonzo beach party rock and roll concert headlined by Ted Nugent in Panama City [Florida] on April 29th," Ted said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "Write that down. That's confirmed. There'll be no...

@ColumbiaBugle Not enough. GoFundMe must be investigated. Statement...

A new House Bill aimed at helping some of the state's most vulnerable will receive a public hearing next week. HB 4079, known as the Oregon Freedom Pilot Program, would increase taxes on luxury items. The money collected would be given out to low-income pregnant women and adults who have aged out of the foster youth program. Those who qualify would receive $750 a month for up to three years, but only if they agree to the requirements of completing a financial literacy class and letting purchases made with the $750 be tracked for analytical purposes. The $750 would come...

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos just solidified himself as one of the biggest climate activist hypocrites in world politics. Superyacht and BezosThe city of Rotterdam reportedly gave the green light to disassemble one of Netherland’s oldest bridges to make way for the third richest man in the world’s superyacht, according to BBC. Bezos postured himself as an environmental icon for years. In 2020, Bezos made headlines when he pledged $10 billion dollars of his personal wealth to form the Bezos Earth Fund. The hypocrisy is truly astounding: The Conversation reported that “a superyacht with a permanent crew, helicopter pad, submarines...

A large team of Moroccan workers was in the “final stages” of a precarious mission to rescue a 5-year-old boy named Rayan from a 105-foot deep well that he had been trapped in since Tuesday. Workers were bulldozing cautiously to avoid soil erosion, landslides and falling rocks as they tried to reach the boy. The teams could not descend directly into the well because it was too narrow, the report said. As the frantic rescue effort reached its fourth day, the North African nation was reportedly riveted to live coverage of the rescue effort in the rural village of Ighran,...

Last week, Israel’s Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett described the Iranian regime as an octopus that for decades had encircled Israel with its tentacles in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, and Yemen. He announced that Israel was now going to change its policy and instead of struggling against the tentacles, it will strike at the head of the octopus in Tehran. Prime Minister Bennet was referring to the theocratic regime’s military and financial sponsorship of Bashar al-Assad’s bloody civil war in Syria, now in its 11th year, and the mullahs backing for the Houthi rebels in Yemen, the terrorist Hezbollah in Lebanon...

Church worshippers were in total shock as a policeman interrupted the mass service at St. Bernadette’s Catholic Church in Mount Hawthorn Perth, Australia on Thursday evening.“It is highly regrettable that the police felt themselves obliged to intervene during a religious service in one of Perth’s Catholic parishes in order to enforce the mask-wearing mandate,” Catholic Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe said in a statement according to news.com.au.“The celebration of the Eucharist is the central act of Catholic worship and is sacred to all Catholics,” he added. (snip)“Police responded to a report from a member of the public of people not...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 600 sitting senators have died or resigned from office since the first Congress met in 1789. That doesn’t mean another will happen soon, but it does underline the precarious position that President Joe Biden and Democrats’ reed-thin Senate majority are in following Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján’s stroke. Luján, 49, should recover and return to the Capitol in four weeks to six weeks, barring setbacks, Democrats say. If that happens, Luján’s absence could have limited impact on his party’s priorities, including Biden’s pending nomination to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. If the New Mexico senator’s...

Candice Bergen, elected on Wednesday to replace the ousted Erin O’Toole as interim leader of the Canadian Conservative caucus, came out swinging in her debut House of Commons appearance by blasting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for refusing to extend an “olive branch” to Freedom Convoy demonstrators. O’Toole was dumped by the Conservatives in a secret ballot and replaced by Bergen (who is not to be confused with the American actress of the same name). The Conservatives felt O’Toole was ineffective as an opposition leader and blamed him for losing a snap election to the Liberals in 2021 – a vote...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Biden’s administration was asked for evidence to back up dramatic claims about national security developments this past week, it demurred with a simple rejoinder: You’ll have to trust us on that. No, they would not reveal what led them to say they knew that Russia was plotting a false flag operation as a pretext to invade Ukraine. No, they would not explain their confidence that civilian casualties were caused by a suicide bombing rather than U.S. special forces during a raid in Syria. The administration’s response took a particularly caustic turn as spokespeople suggested that...

UPDATE: Following the publication of this article and an intense backlash against the company, GoFundMe has announced that all donors to the fundraiser for the Canadian Freedom Convoy will be “automatically” refunded. The Company claims it reversed course due to “donor feedback” after it announced it would “redirect” donations intended for the Canadian Freedom Convoy to “credible and established charities” that are chosen by Freedom Convoy organizers and “verified by GoFundMe.” GoFundme’s update was released on Twitter at 11:56 p.m. Pacific time on Friday via Twitter. AD The original story continues below: In what is likely to go down in...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams apologized for a 2019 video where he called white police officers 'crackers.' Adams, 61, was caught bragging about being an 'unbelievably' good police officer compared to his white colleagues at a 2019 event in East Harlem where he was announcing he was going to run for mayor. 'Every day in the police department, I kicked those crackers’ a**,' he said in the recently resurfaced video. 'Man, I was unbelievable in the police department with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement.' At a press conference on Friday, which was unrelated to the 2019 incident, the new...

Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Mark 6:30-34 Friends, today’s Gospel shows Jesus’ compassion for the multitude in the desert. "When Jesus disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things." There is the motif of the people Israel in the desert after their escape from Egypt. Isolated, alone, afraid, and without food, they clamored for something from Moses. Here we see people who are dying to be fed, and a prophet who is under threat of death. This crowd...

Amid the most ambitious universal vaccination effort in history, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci dodged a Republican senator's inquiry about the estimated number of deaths caused by COVID-19 vaccines during a hearing on Capitol Hill.Walensky promised during the Jan. 11 hearing to follow up and provide Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., with the requested figure.But more than three weeks later, the senator's office said it has not received the information.Tuberville's communications director, Ryann DuRant, told WND on Friday that after the senator's exchange with Walensky, his office submitted...

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Feb. 4. IMPORTANT NOTICES FROM THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT INTEREST TO BE PAID IN COIN. The following official notices were to-day promulgated by the Treasury Department "Holders of the Bonds of the United States, payable three years from date, the coupons of semi-annual interest thereon being due on the 19th inst., are hereby notified that provision is made for the payment in coin of all such coupons agreeably to their tenors, at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States in the City of New-York. All such coupons must be presented at that office, accompanied with schedules...

Asheville – In the past few years, national publications championed Asheville as one of the best vacation spots. The area’s natural beauty, top rated cuisine and cultural experiences position the area as a top tourist spot. It was named #8 on Travel + Leisure’s “50 Best Places to Travel in 2020. The trusted vacation magazine said this about the city: “With a small-town feel and big-city cultural cred, Asheville, North Carolina, is home to artists, musicians, and food and drink entrepreneurs who were making microbrews and serving farm-to-table meals long before such things were de rigueur,” Travel + Leisure wrote....

People over age 65 at the highest risk for severe COVID-19 have often been the least likely to receive monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)—a highly effective treatment for the disease—both across and within U.S. "Monoclonal antibodies should first go to patients at the highest risk of death from COVID-19, but the opposite happened—the healthiest patients were the most likely to get treatment. Monoclonal antibodies are very effective at treating mild to moderate COVID-19 infection among non-hospitalized patients. But during the pandemic, mAbs have been in short supply. Federal guidelines prioritize patients at higher risk of being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19, including...