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Sunday will bring us a particularly interesting sporting event- the F**k the Police Bowl, also known as the Super Bowl. There will reportedly be a football game played but it's the entertainment that's of note. Over the last few years the Superbowl has devolved into an overblown half time spectacle sandwiched around a sporting event. This year is no different, except for the participants and their legacies. There are two in particular, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. They exhort the killing of cops. Dre blessed us with "F**k tha Police" in 1988 https://youtu.be/o_O8Msj7Sd0To spare you having to watch it here...

The FBI and the Philadelphia Police Department’s Violent Crimes Task Force is asking for the public’s help to identify a person who has robbed a Prudential Bank branch four times. According to police, the person robbed the Prudential Bank branch on 1722 Broad Street on Jan. 4, Jan. 18, Jan. 28 and Feb. 9. Police said the suspect is considered armed and dangerous. An unspecified reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest. Anyone with information about the robberies or the person who may be involved is urged to call 215-418-4000.

Canadian judge orders Freedom Convoy to clear bridge by 7pm TONIGHT: Trudeau says 'everything is on the table' - including using the military - and promised 'quick action' after call with Biden to discuss Americans backing the protest. H/T FreeReign....... Trudeau demeaned the more than 50 percent of donations to support the protesters.......referring to US donations as 'foreign financing'. Yet, Trudeau seeks help from foreign president Biden.....even plotting the strategy on the US taxpayers dime. He can't have it both ways...... <><> sneering that truckers are getting "foreign help." <><>all too willing to get "foreign aid" to solve his problems.

@RepThomasMassie There’s about 95% overlap between “people who got everything wrong about COVID” and “man-made climate-change alarmists.” Every time they got something completely wrong about COVID, they told you “science changes,” but with respect to climate change they will tell you “the science is settled!

I’m proud to co-author this legislation — under the leadership of @BuffyWicks — to broadly require vaccination for employees in all businesses in California. The path to normalcy is through broad vaccination. Period.

While carrying the Nigerian flag, a white man touring the country informed the people of the world that the country is safe. In the trending clip, the tourist standing near a waterfall in Ekiti is heard declaring that, contrary to popular belief that Nigeria is a dangerous place, the white man Nigeria is a secure place where he has not been assaulted during his visit. ADVERTISING In his words: “Welcome to Nigeria. As you can see, a lot of people don’t think that Nigeria is the safest country but that is not at all true. I am here in beautiful...

MURRIETA, Calif.—California Sen. Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) showed up to a packed school board meeting in Murrieta, California, a city of about 110,000 people in southwestern Riverside County, on Feb. 10 to back more than 150 parents, students, and community leaders fighting mask and vaccine mandates. Melendez blasted the Murrieta Valley Unified School District Board of Education for not taking a stand against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s edicts and warned if they didn’t there would be consequences. “The state is making mandates. You as a school district don’t want your budgets to be affected, but I will tell you this: You...

The same night Mumphrey collapsed, nearly one thousand miles away, Bremen High School’s Cameran Wheatley also fell onto the court and was later pronounced dead.“That’s tragic as I don’t know what,” a parent with children attending the school said. “I wouldn’t think anything like that would happen at a high school to anyone that young.”ABC 7 reported that Wheatley’s father confirmed his son had a clean bill of health and had played several sports for almost 10 years. (Snip) The teens’ vaccination statuses are unknown, and autopsy reports have yet to be released.However, healthy athletes don’t often collapse and die,...

People that want to wear the masks can wear them to their heart's content. Nobody is stopping them. But why do the rest of us have to wear masks? If they are wearing a mask, then they are safe, right? Or are they telling us that THEIR masks don't work and that we have to wear them too in order to keep them "safe"? Now that makes no sense at all. If the masks work, the others can wear them for themselves and be protected against whatever it is out there that might make them sick. What do they care...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had deployed 500 employees and is "surging additional staff" in coordination with California police forces to prevent disruptions at the Super Bowl in response to an international trucking protest.

Public Service Company of New Mexico consumers will likely face blackouts this summer and in summer 2023 unless the utility and state regulators find emergency solutions to cover expected shortages during peak demand, officials say. PNM and some commissioners say extending operations for a few months at the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station, scheduled to shut down in June, could resolve immediate problems facing the utility and consumers this summer. But PNM executives say the utility will almost certainly face critical shortages again in summer 2023 because the PRC has yet to approve new resources to replace some of the...

According to an anonymous whistleblower letter posted by Air Force Times, Pentagon policy makers are promoting “diversity and inclusion” at the expense of high, uncompromised standards in an elite Special Operations Forces command. The letter focuses an unnamed female captain who began training with the Special Tactics Training Squadron (STTS) in 2018, hoping to become the first woman to join a combat controller team (CCT).The female captain dropped out of physically demanding combat controller course exercises several times, but unlike male trainees with similar difficulties, Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) officials kept extending special concessions to keep her in...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) called the two Republican lawmakers who last week were censured by the Republican National Committee (RNC) “patriots” and criticized the committee’s move to rebuke them. “I think this censure of these two Republicans who are simply doing their jobs, they're investigating what happened that day so it never happens again, I think it is wrong. And I'm glad that some Republicans are standing up against it,” she said during a Friday appearance on “The View.” “Certainly all Democrats are against it,” she continued. “You've got to be able to look at what happened historically to be...

Protesters blocking the Ambassador Bridge face a deadline of 7pm Friday to clear out, after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that 'everything is on the table' to end the Freedom Convoy demonstrations after speaking directly with President Joe Biden. A Canadian court on Friday issued the injunction to end the blockade at the key bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario with Detroit, setting up a potential showdown between police and protesters when the 7pm deadline arrives. Specifics of the injunction are being worked out, with a draft to be presented to the court when the proceedings resume on Friday evening....

It all comes back to Biden’s brutal bungling of the Afghanistan pull-out, including the emptying of the prison at Bagram.History is teaching us a lesson in real-time. Under one party’s administration, violent jihadis are running scared. Under the other one, they flourish.

A growing number of states this week announced plans to end or phase out mask mandates, but New Mexico won’t be joining them – at least for now. Acting Health Secretary Dr. David Scrase said Wednesday his email inbox is brimming with messages “from people essentially demanding an end to the mask mandate.” But he said the state plans to stay the course with its health orders and isn’t ready to say if they will be extended again. The current orders – which last week were extended through March 4 – include a mask requirement in indoor public settings. “We...

Former Trump Administration National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s sister-in-law just filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against CNN. Valerie Flynn claims the network deceptively edited a video to falsely make it appear she is a follower of QAnon.The lawsuit says: “CNN abandoned all journalistic standards and integrity, including CNN’s own standards and code of ethics, in writing, editing, and publishing the false narrative. CNN did not seek the truth or report it. It betrayed the truth to sensationalize the news for self-glory, profit and politics. “The entire family then exclaimed, ‘God Bless America.’ In the altered clip used in the...

Gu’s Instagram page is a collection of motivational and inspirational slogans, a scrapbook designed to present a specific, curated image of her to the world. One user commented on an otherwise innocuous post: “Why can you use Instagram and millions of Chinese people from mainland cannot, why you got such special treatment as a Chinese citizen. That’s not fair, can you speak up for those millions of Chinese who don’t have internet freedom,” user “cilla chan” wrote. “Anyone can download a vpn,” Gu replied, “it’s literally free on the App Store”. The website Protocol noted that multiple users fired back...

Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke appears to have flip-flopped – again – on confiscating AR-15s, as polls show him trailing behind Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The failed senatorial and presidential contender said earlier this week that he has "no interest in taking" assault weapons from gun owners. "I’m not interested in taking anything from anyone," O’Rourke said to reporters in Tyler, Texas. "What I want to make sure that we do is defend the Second Amendment. I want to make sure that we protect our fellow Texans far better than we’re doing right now."

Multiple reports hold that this year’s Oscars won’t require vaccines in part because some nominees aren’t vaccinated>P One of the more baffling news reports this week is that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will not be requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for attendees of the 2022 Oscars. And on Thursday night during his opening monologue, Jimmy Kimmel joked that it’s time to “wildly speculate” about who precisely the Academy is catering to. “Let the witch hunt begin,” he joked. So, in case you’re catching up, supposedly, despite having a vaccine mandate for all employees, the Academy has ditched a...