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Blocking a roadway with a stopped vehicle might be construed as a crime. And be punishable. Driving around a block (slowly enough to avoid the traffic ahead of you) is not. If you have the numbers -- and I think we do -- then: (a) Anyone who needs to peel off and refuel, or take care of other business, can do so without harming the cause; and (b) Not only trucks, but cars, vans, and even motorcycles and bicycles can join in the fun. The beauty is: what can police do? Pull over an individual vehicle? Block a lane? That...

RLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A medical examiner in Florida said Thursday that comedian Bob Saget died from an accidental blow to the head, likely from a backwards fall. Saget was found dead Jan. 9 in a Florida hotel room. He’d performed in the area the night before as part of a stand-up tour. A toxicology analysis didn't show any illicit drugs or toxins in Saget's body, according to a statement from Medical Examiner Joshua Stephany in Orlando. An autopsy report released later Thursday showed that Saget had an abrasion on his scalp, a fracture at the base of his skull,...

Voters won’t be able to use drop boxes, nor may they let someone else mail or return their absentee ballot to clerks in the April general election.MADISON, Wis. (CN) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday declined to extend, through an upcoming April election, a stay of a recent lower court order banning the use of absentee ballot drop boxes and the return of an absentee ballot by someone other than the voter. The decision casts further doubt on these election practices in future Wisconsin elections, including consequential contests for a U.S. Senate seat and the governorship this fall. Taxpayers...

Vancouver entrepreneur Jeff Booth said he does not like being called an “organizer” for the funding going toward the self-described freedom convoy protests. And he insists he’s not a “facilitator” either. But Mr. Booth said he helped create a Bitcoin wallet that has helped channel donations toward those demonstrations. More than $500,000 has been raised through the wallet so far. In a wide-ranging interview, Mr. Booth said he believes in freedom of speech and his entire family is double-vaccinated against COVID-19. He also “understands both points of view” about pandemic restrictions across Canada, which he believes were “right at first.”...

What’s on Ukraine’s agenda at Berlin talks. Ukraine hoped to reinstate the work of the Trilateral Contact Group. Its suggestions included improving verification of the ceasefire in Donbas, reopening of control points on the contact line, and swapping prisoners. Ahead of the Berlin meeting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said he hopes that a summit of the Normandy Four leaders would follow the talks. Talks end with no final statement. The advisors to the leaders of the Normandy Four held nine-hour talks that ended with no joint statement, the Ukrainian President’s Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak said at a news conference....

An error on a Las Vegas slot machine led officials to go on a lengthy search for a big jackpot winner. Casino patron Robert Taylor, from Arizona, won a $229,368.52 jackpot at the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Jan. 8, according to a press release from the Nevada Gaming Control Board. However, because of a malfunction with the slot machine, Taylor didn’t realize he had won, so he left the casino without the prize.

Fight the good fight...from a Canadian group, nonethelesss

Converts blast blasphemy linking Islamic 'Maryam' with Catholic 'Mary' PARIS (ChurchMilitant.com) - A respected Islamic scholar and Parisian Catholic priest is condemning the recitation of the Koran and Muslim prayer in Paris' largest church as the "abandonment of evangelization" and the "introduction of the Antichrist." Father Guy Pagès' censure is being echoed by Parisian Muslim converts, who face the death penalty for apostasy from Islam — including a former high-ranking Islamic jurist who confessed to engaging in interfaith events "only to sanitize the true face of Islam in preparation for jihad." Catholics were shocked by the Muslim–Catholic celebration hosted by...

On Thursday's "Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt," long time Democratic political strategist Carville said he has an idea on how to revitalize 2022 election prospects for his Party: make it legal to punch people who are not vaccinated. "I wish what they'd do is pass a law to make you immune from liability if you punch some unvaccinated person right in the face, which I'd really like to do," Carville said. "If you ask me what's my first reaction to you if you're not vaccinated, you don't have any medical reason not to be, you're a...

BREAKING: TD Bank to hand nearly $1.4M in Freedom Convoy funds to Ontario courtTHE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang Remove Ads Canada’s Toronto-Dominion Bank struck a financial blow against the “Freedom Convoy” protesters in Ottawa on Friday, announcing that it plans to surrender $1.4 million in donations to the group to an Ontario court. TD Bank confirmed it had frozen accounts holding the cash in private accounts and is now applying to the Ontario Superior Court to accept the money, and will file an interpleader application that, if granted, allows the court to accept the funds and decide how to disburse it....

The second-ranking officials at the Vatican Secretariat of State engaged Italian intelligence officers to sweep his Vatican offices for bugs, a former official at the department told Vatican prosecutors. Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, who is sostituto at the Secretariat of State, along with Msgr. Mauro Carlino, asked Italian intelligence officials to examine their offices and phones for electronic surveillance, and requested information on individuals who were “trying to break into the economic structures of the Holy See with malicious intent,” according to newly-reported testimony in the Vatican’s financial crimes investigation. The testimony reportedly comes from Vincenzo Mauriello, a former lay...

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America 02/11/22 Even more Voter Fraud was just discovered in Wisconsin. It shows the Election was Rigged and Stolen. A hearing this week revealed at least 50,000 illegal phantom votes were cast in the 2020 Presidential Election, which is more than twice the “victory” margin. Incredible problems were also uncovered within Wisconsin’s voter rolls, including an apartment building with 102 percent turnout rate (not possible), 113 ballots cast from an address where no one lives, 3,713 “voters” registered to U.S. Post Offices, and 625,000 dead people on Wisconsin’s...

The Halton Catholic School District Board voted 5-3 to fly the pride flag outside its schools every June.BURLINGTON, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — An Ontario Catholic school district board voted last month to fly the LGBT pride flag outside all of its schools this coming June to signal support for “pride month,” reversing its decision last April not to raise the rainbow colors. The Halton Catholic School District Board (HCSDB) in Burlington, Ontario, voted 5­-3 on January 18 to raise the homosexual pride flag this June and every June thereafter, throwing its support behind the LGBT movement. The following day a message...

Venite Adoremus: Archbishop Viganò Calls on All Bishops and Priests to Offer the Traditional Mass Archbishop Carlo Maria ViganoEditor’s Note: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has issued his most rousing call to date for the complete restoration of the Traditional Roman Rite. He shares his personal experience of the liturgical revolution. He relays the long-forgotten memories of his youth in which he was nurtured by the Old Rite. Yet, at the beginning of his priesthood the revolutionaries substituted what he calls a “counterfeit ritual”. He relays that the need to go into hiding — due to threats to his life following...

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Female Ukrainian soldiers are taking to the video-sharing app TikTok to post glam pictures and videos of themselves in their bid to win the soft power propaganda war with Russia. Clips of glamorous women in Ukrainian military uniforms dancing, fooling around in barracks, and even holding bullets have gone viral on social media. As tensions between Russia and Ukraine remain strained, sharing candid videos and pictures of troops behind the scenes have become another front for a quasi-war. Typically, the videos feature soldiers performing dances, but some also show female troops taking apart and reassembling weapons, or having fun in...

Jeremy Giambi, former major league outfielder and first baseman, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his parents' home in Claremont, authorities said.

I know many of you/ us don't want the United States involved in a war over Ukraine. I agree, though I believe there would be no invasion of Ukraine if Donald Trump were president. I also love Tucker Carlson, he's the most worthwhile host on Fox. However, I challenge anyone to justify the fanciful version of facts Tucker Carlson just put on with the help of Tulsi Gabbard. The clear news today is that Joe Biden, for at least the second time, unequivocally announced that a Russian invasion of Ukraine cannot and will not be militarily opposed by the United...

The Canadian government is successfully colluding with big banks to seize assets intended for the peaceful protesters of the Freedom Convoy movement. On Friday, TD Bank told CTV News that it would "apply to surrender to an Ontario court the money that had not been refunded by GoFundMe, totalling about $1 million, as well as some $400,000 the group had accepted through direct donations." “TD has asked the court to accept the funds, which were raised through crowdfunding and deposited into personal accounts at TD, so they may be managed and distributed in accordance with the intentions of the donors,...

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