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So yeah, I really do need to try to keep ahead of the flood of memes and the rest, or it will become unmanageable. So here’s an extra helping, for readers who set their Saturday morning schedule by TWiP. Now, should the slogan be “Go, Canada!”, or “D’oh, Canada?”

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento City Unified School District announced Saturday it doesn't have the resources to impose its looming COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which was supposed to take effect in just a few days. An email to parents from the district obtained by KCRA 3 says in-person learning will continue "until further notice" after the district said it didn't have enough resources to meet its mandate.

(Reuters) - Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, appears set to launch in Apple's App Store on Monday, according to posts from an executive on a test version viewed by Reuters, potentially marking the return of the former president to social media on the U.S. Presidents Day holiday. The launch would restore Trump's presence on social media more than a year after he was banned from Twitter Inc, Facebook and Alphabet Inc's YouTube.

Alice in Chains members Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, Mike Inez and William DuVall have sold their catalogs with the band to Round Hill Music, a rep for the company has confirmed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but sources tell Variety the deal was for $50 million. The Round Hill deal does not encompass copyrights belonging to the estates of original singer Layne Staley or original bassist Mike Starr, who passed away in 2002 and 2011, respectively; on Monday their respective estates announced they had sold their music rights to Primary Wave. Round Hill will receive a 100% interest...

Rutgers University professor Joye C. Anestis says there was an unprecedented surge in firearm purchases in New Jersey and across the nation in 2020. New research from the university's Gun Violence Research Center of New Jersey now gives us some insight into why people buy guns. The proliferation of gun violence in the United States — amplified by this winter’s tragedy in Oxford, Michigan, and the anniversary of Sandy Hook — has led yet again to calls to action for legislation to regulate firearm purchasing. And while legislation, which focuses on who can purchase a firearm, is a vital component...

20 February 20227th Sunday in Ordinary Time Saint-Eucaire (Eucherius) church, Metz, France Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First reading1 Samuel 26:2,7-9,11-13,22-23 ©Do not lift your hand against the Lord's anointedSaul set off and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand men chosen from Israel to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph. In the dark David and Abishai made their way towards the force, where they found Saul lying asleep inside the camp, his spear stuck in the ground beside his head, with Abner and the troops lying round him. Then Abishai said to David, ‘Today...

At least three people were killed and 12 others wounded in shootings in Chicago since Friday, 5 p.m. One person was dead after being struck by gunfire while in a car Friday evening in Calumet Heights on the Far South Side. The male, whose age wasn’t immediately known, was in a car about 6:30 p.m. in the 9300 block of South Harper Avenue when he was struck in the head by gunfire, Chicago police said. A few hours later, a man was fatally shot Friday night in East Chatham on the South Side. The man, 27, was sitting in a...

I’ve decided to join the People’s Convoy leaving from Barstow, CA and proceeding to Washington DC. There are other convoys, taking different routes, but that one runs, at one point, within a few miles of my house and I’ll be able to stop in and recharge the batteries, figuratively and literally. The question is why, at my age, with the struggles already presented, would I take on this mission? First, I’m a writer and while that doesn’t pay for much, it does sustain me at times. Second, I’ve been working to right the ship of state since 1987 when it...

NEW YORK (AP) — There were many reasons to think NBC made a savvy business deal in 2014 when it locked up the American media rights to the Olympics through 2032 for $7.75 billion. As the Beijing winter games come to a close, it’s harder to see them now. These Olympics were a disaster for the network: a buzz-free, hermetically-sealed event in an authoritarian country a half-day’s time zone away, where the enduring images will be the emotional meltdown of Russian teen-agers after a drug-tainted figure skating competition and a bereft Mikaela Shiffrin, sitting on a ski slope wondering what...

"Values moms" are sick and tired of what the public schools are teaching their kids. A couple of days ago, I watched a Dick Morris video about the "values moms" moving to the GOP. In other words, we used to hear about "soccer moms" in the '90s and "security moms" after 9-11 — and now it's "values moms" sick and tired of what the public schools are teaching their kids. And the Democrats, and especially the teachers' unions, are losing big time. Why? Because they are reacting to the parents in the same way that P.M. Trudeau reacted to the...

“Wokeness” has oozed into every facet of American society. From education to entertainment, Americans are regularly taught that equality of outcome trumps opportunity, whiteness is bad, and America itself is even worse. Even the C-suite has gone “woke,” reading the left-wing tea leaves on social media to score cheap political points. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink—a longtime fossil-fuel investor and supporter of the Chinese Communist Party—is now determined to end climate change through “the decarbonizing of the global economy.” According to WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar, his company’s black employees “wake up every day and have fear,” as “their children cringe with...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemColossians 418 I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you._______________________________________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

Thanks for joining us. Today we study a heartwarming Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) story about Hannah, who could not conceive a child when people thought having a “barren womb” meant that God did not favor you. Consequently, women plagued by that problem were disparaged. Meanwhile Hannah’s husband Elkanah, had another wife named Peninnah who bore children. Scripture describes the contentious relationship between Hannah and “her rival” Peninnah:“Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her. This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) held a special virtual meeting in early June 2020 to announce the publication of a book written by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret that laid out a grand manifesto called ‘Covid-19: The Great Reset’. This is what Schwab had to say: We can emerge from this crisis a better world, if we act quickly and jointly. The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible. This is our best chance to instigate stakeholder capitalism – and here’s how it can be achieved.Schwab...

The Canadian truckers' fight for freedom is our fight for freedom. “Where is the fight now?” The news about Chris Barber’s arrest and the Canadian truckers’ response of retreat just broke when I asked this to two delivery guys in an elevator ride who were talking about Ottawa. Their sudden silent stares meant they most likely thought I was critical of the drivers. If only support could be gifted in some tangible tapestry for each and every trucker. Watching yet another battle in man’s fight for liberty get extinguished, is watching yet another aspect of life die. Rivaling my focus...

The band Heavy Young Heathens accused U.S. Olympic figure skating pair Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier of using its music without permission in a routine at the Beijing Winter Olympics, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday. The group is suing the duo, NBC and U.S. Figure Skating, for copyright violations over the pair skating to the band’s version of “House of the Rising Sun.” Heavy Young Heathens members Robert and Aron Marderosian claimed that while “House of the Rising Sun” is based on a folk song, their rendition “is a signature song of theirs throughout the world” ― due in...

How long can we remain a functioning country? Our schizophrenic national divide is reaching a point at which the fabric of society is being shredded. The willful adherence to false “facts,” by both media and government actors is impossible to miss. Yet those in power plow forward with evil intention, knowing that the bulk of society will pay no attention; they’re asleep, they don’t care, and the label “misinformation” is enough to quell curiosity. Compare George Floyd to any victim of black-on-black crime, for an easy example. Floyd was an addict, a bad actor with a criminal record and evil...

The Talk Shows February 20th, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest anchor Bill Hemmer: Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby; Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Panel: Return of the Wallass idiots: Bush’s Turd Blossum Karl Rove; Fox Resident War Monger Jennifer Griffin; the always pleasant but wrong Harold Ford Jr. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor. Mayor London Breed (D-San Francisco); Richard Engel, reporting from Ukraine; Matthew Bodner, reporting from Russia. Panel: Yamiche Alcindor, PBS; Courtney...

The conservative media also skewed what the filing said. For example, Mr. Durham’s filing never used the word “infiltrate.” And it never claimed that Mr. Joffe’s company was being paid by the Clinton campaign. Most important, contrary to the reporting, the filing never said the White House data that came under scrutiny was from the Trump era. According to lawyers for David Dagon, a Georgia Institute of Technology data scientist who helped develop the Yota analysis, the data — so-called DNS logs, which are records of when computers or smartphones have prepared to communicate with servers over the internet —...

It took some time for the authoritarian ideas of the World Economic Forum (WEF) to become excoriated in the mainstream press. But one of the most nefarious elements of Stakeholder Capitalism are Universal Environmental, Social, and Government (ESG) Scores. But what are ESG scores, and could they be a gateway to a social credit system? Stakeholder Capitalism is WEF founder Klaus Schwab’s model for imposing his ethical prescriptions onto free-market exchange. Businesses will no longer be beholden to “the prevailing shareholder-primacy model of profit maximization”, but instead to “more socially conscious” stakeholders: experts in fields like environmental sustainability, racial and...