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STOCKTON, Calif. — Family and friends gathered at Stagg High School in Stockton Friday night, for an emotional vigil honoring the teenager who was killed this week in what is being called a "random act."

Like many people in Shanghai, Joyce has spent weeks shut at home since the latest Covid-19 lockdown was imposed on March 28. The software industry executive, who asked to be identified only by her first name to avoid attention from the authorities, says she has suffered from food shortages, and the compound where she lives has resorted to “group buying,” where different individuals are responsible for sourcing as much of a certain product as possible for the community. “A lot of people are struggling with being confined at home, because they have literally no income,” she says. Group purchases “are...

A Florida federal judge’s decision on Monday to ban mask-wearing requirements on public transportation was appealed on Wednesday by the Biden administration without a request for an immediate stay. The ruling led many travelers on planes, trains, buses and subways to drop the precaution, some in celebratory fashion. With COVID-19 now causing far fewer hospitalizations and deaths than seen for most of the past two years, such a policy change was probably only weeks away anyway — and the sense of relief it provided to many was easy to understand. But there are at least 8 million Americans who are...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

Find attached a slowed down version of Glen singing Galveston w/ Jimmy Webb accompanying. The two of them together were nothing short of amazing.Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22, 1936) is an American rock and country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting a music and comedy variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from January 1969 through June 1972.During his 50 years in show business, Campbell has released more than 70 albums. He has sold 45...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE J U D G E S CHAPTER 16 When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, “Come back once more; he has told me everything.” So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. Having put him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him. Then she called, “Samson, the Philistines are...

If you take this guy seriously, you’re living in a simulation Elon Musk holds out the promise of restoring “free speech” to Twitter. Yesterday the Tesla CEO offered $43 billion dollars to buy the social media platform outright. Conservatives are intoxicated by the idea. If by some miracle the shareholders take the offer, Musk promises to relax speech-policing and make the algorithms open source. Presumably, he’ll continue shitposting from his toilet. If we take Musk at his word, his intention is to open real debate and save our democracy. Then again, he also told us “China rocks,” robot slaves will...

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God (and Trump judges), we’re free at last! Or at least until a bunch of Obama appeals court judges reverse the district court. Which would be the worst political move ever for the Biden White House (though there is stiff competition for that designation, to be sure). In any case, the number of mask wearers will soon shrink to about the level of CNN+ subscribers. Oh, wait. . . Also, this was the week we discovered that Kamala Harris is also a major space cadet.

Once, the Greek philosopher and dead white male, Socrates, taught that “To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.” True, in the past one might have written the preceding as “Once Socrates famously taught”; however, given the postmodern, know-nothing Left, notably its Manichean minions in academia, one no longer enjoys the luxury of such assumptions. Indeed, Socrates’ teaching is not merely dismissed by our lettered “betters”; his teaching is the target of their exorbitantly expensive, taxpayer-fueled indoctrination factories. (Spare me the “some universities are private”; with the notable exception of places like Hillsdale College and Grove City College, all of...

“‘Again, you have heard that the ancients were told, “You shall not make false vows, but shall fulfill your vows to the Lord.” But I say to you, make no oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black’” (Matthew 5:33–36). In the regular business of life, people use vows and oaths—at marriage ceremonies,...

Jesus told the parable of the prodigal as a teaching tool to get across a great truth. This parable is not only about forgiveness of a lost man. Even more so, it is about the delight of the father who greets his son. You know the story. A young man took his portion of his father’s inheritance and squandered it on riotous living. He ended up broken, ruined in health and spirit. At his lowest point, he decided to return to his father. Scripture tells us, “And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a...

Rule one in politics: never believe your own BS. Spin away, but do not pretend what you want to be true is the same as what is true. Data do not lie. Democrats seem intent on pretending otherwise in 2022. Democrats are being told that their problem is not one of actual performance or actual results. The problem, they say, is simply doing a poor job in communicating their tremendous and successful record. Americans have formed their opinions lacking the information on all that has happened since Joe Biden became president and Democrats gained control of both chambers of Congress....

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Police say a woman shot her husband twice, possibly in self-defense, in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. Police say the 34-year-old woman fired from a car at Chew and Brinton streets around midnight Friday. The 40-year-old husband was struck in both of his legs. The gunfire also damaged an unattended, parked car and a nearby home. Police found the woman in her car around the corner from the scene. Investigators say she is cooperating. "She does have an active protection from abuse warrant against her husband. We did verify that through our computer system. So there is...

This is the first state specific article and focuses on Pennsylvania (PA). …I chose PA because we have seen large numbers of flights into the state, and when questions were raised by a US House member and a candidate for Governor last Christmas about the flights, the current Governor and his aides (sadly) chose to lie to the public in response. Americans deserve better from our Government. Bringing thousands (millions?) of people here with little to no vetting given that we know all too well that some of the people crossing the border are drug dealers, sex traffickers, terrorists and...

We have many laws against lying to the public. You can't sell securities in the capital markets by making statements that are either knowingly false or are made with reckless indifference to the truth. You can't sell your house and hide material defects. Same for your car. It's against the law to call a cake a banana cake if contains no banana. Don't even think about selling candy as chocolate bars just because it tastes like chocolate. But believe it or not, there is no law against trying to win the presidency or any other election by fraud. There's no...

In coming years, conservatives may look back on the lockdowns with a certain fondness, despite the suffering and damage they caused. Why do I say that? Because the lockdowns meant that parents got a chance to see what was going on in their children's classrooms and were rightly horrified. For now, though, there's a fierce ideological battle between normal people and leftists. In Evanston/Skokie School District, the leftists are ahead with a radical gender plan. Meanwhile, in Florida, the conservative DeSantis team is blocking racist textbooks. Evanston/Skokie School District is in Evanston, Illinois. It's home to Northwestern University and is...

IPray For The Peace of JerusalemRevelation 12The Woman and the Dragon 12 A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood...

The newly released tape of the House minority leader suggesting the resignation of President Trump may bespeak a swamp that's more contaminated than any of us can imagine. First, who did the recording? And second, who released it? CNBC reports that Representative Liz Cheney denies leaking the tape of her conversation with Kevin McCarthy. A spokesperson for Cheney, one of two Republicans on the House select committee probing the Capitol riot, said in a statement Friday morning that the congresswoman "did not record or leak the tape and does not know how the reporters got it." Rachel Maddow played a...

A 26-year-old Irvine man has been charged with ambushing two Chapman University alumni who were stabbed to death in their apartment near Angel Stadium. Ramy Fahim, the defendant, worked at the office of a wealth management firm in Newport Beach with one of the victims, 23-year-old Griffin Robert Cuomo, Anaheim police said. The other man who was killed, Jonathan Andrew Bahm, also 23, had no prior connection to Fahim, Sgt. Shane Carringer said.

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