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If you’ve never found yourself thinking, “I need more Hillary Clinton in my life,” you are not alone. If you’re like Bill Clinton and actively wishing for les Hillary in your life, I’ve got some bad news for you – she has a TV show coming out. It’s on Apple TV and you don’t have to watch it, of course, but in many ways you will not be able to escape it. “Gutsy” is the title of the show, but it really should be called “Payoff.” It’s the show no one outside of Apple wanted, and if you’re a shareholder...

The U.S. economy shrank at slightly slower pace in the second quarter than previously reported, but continued to meet the criteria for a so-called technical recession as raging inflation and higher interest rates weighed on spending. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, shrank by 0.6% on an annualized basis in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said in its second reading of the data on Thursday. That is below the initially reported 0.9% decline. GDP already contracted by 1.6% in the period from January to March, the worst performance since the spring...

On Tuesday of this week, "independent" Missouri U.S. Senate candidate John Wood, a senior investigative counsel on the Jan. 6 committee, announced his withdrawal from the race. The move came as something of a shock to most people as his patron, former Missouri Republican U.S. Sen. John Danforth, had already spent millions on Wood's campaign. It did not, however, come as a shock to me. A week before his withdrawal announcement, I had a chance encounter with Wood at a Kansas City diner. The fallout from that breakfast may well have hastened Wood's departure. Wood had entered the race in...

Continuing Silicon Valley’s long and storied history of misreading dystopian satires as instruction manuals, a startup has created a tech product that makes call center workers' voices sound white. The startup, called Sanas and founded by three former Stanford students, was first reported on by Joshua Bote for SFGate on Monday. On Sanas' website, you can “hear the magic”: a simulated conversation between a call center worker with an Indian accent that can be modified with a slider that applies Sanas’s accent translation. After Sanas is applied, the voice sounds more like a text-to-voice reader than another human being, but...

I did not support Dr. Oz in the PA Senate primary, but I am sure supporting him now against Heart Attack Shrek, the communist mutant who spent the first half-century of his life sponging off his parents and now wants to spend the second half sponging off the feds with a DC sinecure. Primaries mean something. If we believe in elections – and we have been pretty outspoken about the obnoxious election shenanigans we faced in 2020 – then we should act like it. Dr. Oz won. A lot of folks wanted someone else. But you know who didn’t? A...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For Jonathan Peter Jackson, a direct relative of two prominent members of the Black Panther Party, revolutionary thought and family history have always been intertwined, particularly in August. That’s the month in 1971 when his uncle, the famed Panther George Jackson, was killed during an uprising at San Quentin State Prison in California. A revolutionary whose words resonated inside and out of the prison walls, he was a published author, activist and radical thought leader. To many, February is the month dedicated to celebrating Black Americans’ contributions to a country where they were once enslaved. But Black...

25 August 2022Thursday of week 21 in Ordinary Time St. Louis Church, Castroville, Texas Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First reading1 Corinthians 1:1-9 ©You have been enriched in many ways in ChristI, Paul, appointed by God to be an apostle, together with brother Sosthenes, send greetings to the church of God in Corinth, to the holy people of Jesus Christ, who are called to take their place among all the saints everywhere who pray to our Lord Jesus Christ; for he is their Lord no less than ours. May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ send you...

Yesterday morning, President Joe Biden revealed his administration’s plan to forgive billions of dollars in student loans. According to a White House Fact Sheet, the plan will forgive up to $20,000 in federally held debt for students who received Pell Grants and up to $10,000 for students who did not. Forgiveness applies to individuals earning less than $125,000, with an income ceiling of $250,000 for married couples. Additionally, the Covid-era pause on student-loan payments will be extended until December 31, 2022. The plan also allows borrowers with undergraduate loans to cap repayment at just five percent of monthly income. Critics...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was “swatted” at her home in Rome, Georgia at 1:00 a.m. on Wednesday, after a pro-trans extremist made a false 911 call to the police. Five officers were reportedly dispatched to Greene’s house in response to an alarming false report. In an interview later Monday, Green said she had immediately grabbed her gun upon hearing a ruckus outside her front door, but she thankfully put it down before she answered. The term “swatting” refers to the illegal practice of calling the police to make a false report about dangerous and illegal activity in an attempt...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE GOD COMPLETES JONAH'S RESCUE J O N A H CHAPTER 2 AND THE LORD COMMANDED THE FISH, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land. 1 Asia Minor, 3rd Century "Jonah Cast Up" 2 DIRK CRABETH "Jona en de Walvis" 3 Detail Source 4 "Jonah Escapes the Whale" 5 "Jonah is Spit on Land by the Fish" 6 HERRAD OF LANDSBERG "The Prophet Jonas Is Spit out by Fish at Nineveh" 7 "Jonas Rejected by the Whale" 8 "Jonas und der Wal" 9 JAMES TISSOT "Jonah, as in...

The MSM doesn't want you to know this. Why Ukraine? Other than many US biolabs were located there, I don't know.

Read this FR Post, read all of it. It's not too long or complicated: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4087463/posts You do not need to analyze anything in the CVRs; you need only get a copy. You might simply call and have them emailed or downloaded. Or you might have to go into your County Clerk’s office to pick them up. BUT DO SO SOON. Once you have County’s CVRs, you will be connected with national coordinators. You may also contact your County Sheriff according to the discussion in the above FR link.

In the social hierarchy of prison inmates, mob bosses, bank robbers, and cop killers tend to get respect. But “short eyes,” those convicts who have committed crimes against children, especially sexual abuse, are hated, harassed, and abused. In schools, however, this group of detestable perverts rates a “meh.” The numbers are stunning. A report prepared for the U.S. Department of Education in 2004 revealed that nearly 9.6 percent of students are victims of sexual abuse by school personnel, and these are just the reported cases. Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct & Exploitation (SESAME), a nonprofit that works to stop childhood...

Joe Biden unilaterally announced massive forgiveness of student loans Wednesday afternoon, as reported by The Gateway Pundit. An estimated $300 billion of loans up to $10,000 per borrower making under $125,000 per year ($250,000 for couples) as well as up to $20,000 for Pell Grants will be forgiven by the Biden administration citing a new interpretation of the 2003 HEROES Act by Biden admin lawyers that say the secretary of Education has the authority to use national emergencies–specifically the COVID pandemic–to wipe out student debt en masse. Schumer: “With the flick of a pen, President Biden has taken a giant...

House Republicans are not only forecast to win control of the lower chamber in November’s midterm elections, they’re also poised to bring with them a roster of new arrivals who have embraced the former president A number of Trump loyalists have bumped off more moderate Republicans in the summer primaries — a list that grew longer on Tuesday with conservative victories in Florida and New York — while a number of other centrists are stepping into retirement. The combination foreshadows a power shift in the House GOP that has the potential to complicate any bipartisan compromise with President Biden, while...

There are a lot of ifs and time grows short. he late spring scenario of a massive GOP win—in historic proportions analogous to 1938, 1994, or 2010—is said now to be “iffy.” The Left boasts that it now has a chance at keeping the House, with even better odds for maintaining control over the Senate. Polls are all over the place. Now they show generic Republican leads, now Democratic. The general experience in polling is that they are more often conducted by left-leaning institutions and massaged to show Democratic “momentum.” Since the polling meltdown of 2016—when most polls showed a...

Researchers have cracked down on a covert social media influence campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms that promoted US foreign policy interests abroad. The crackdown marks the first time a covert influence operation promoting US interests abroad has been discovered and taken down by social media platforms, say researchers from the Stanford Internet Observatory and research company Graphika. “Our joint investigation found an interconnected web of accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and five other social media platforms that used deceptive tactics to promote pro-western narratives in the Middle East and Central Asia,” they wrote in a report published on...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans bearing heavy college debt loads welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden's announcement on Wednesday that he would forgive $10,000 in student loans, and some shared hopes they can jettison extra work hours and perhaps take a vacation or return to school. "I would not have second thoughts when planning a trip or going on a vacation," said John Paul, 49, a restaurant manager in Washington DC who said he took out loans for his son's tuition. "Earlier, it would be at the back of our mind that we have this debt hanging over us. Now we are...

A federal jury in California has awarded $31 million in damages to Vanessa Bryant and Chris Chester, whose spouses and children were killed in a 2020 helicopter crash, after Los Angeles County emergency personnel shared photos of their dead bodies. The jury returned their unanimous verdict after four-and-a-half hours of deliberation. The nine jurors agreed that the photos of NBA star Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, and other crash victims brought the co-plaintiffs emotional distress and invaded their privacy. Bryant was awarded $16 million and Chester was awarded $15 million. Bryant’s attorneys did not specify a dollar amount that they...

SullivanStrickler, an IT firm based in Atlanta, says it did nothing wrong The Atlanta-based tech firm SullivanStrickler says it had “no reason to believe” there was anything illegal about sending four of its employees to a South Georgia county to copy every election file they could find: memory cards that store votes, ballot scanners, and an election server. The company asserted this week it was doing legitimate work in January 2021 at the behest of Sidney Powell, an attorney for then-President Donald Trump who had promised on national TV to “unleash the kraken” of claims that the presidential election was...