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Are any Freeprs here Election Day Judges? I was considering becoming an election judge here in the People's Republic Of Maryland and thought I would reach out to other judge.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- At least 18 people shot, two fatally, in holiday weekend shootings across Chicago, police said. A man was fatally shot during a downtown fight early Sunday morning, Chicago police said. The shooting happened at about 1:36 a.m. in the Loop, police said. Two men, 38 and 24 years old, were involved in a physical altercation in the 400 block of South Wells Street. The 24-year-old took out a gun and shot the 38-year-old in the chest. Around the same time, a teen boy was shot on the North Side early Sunday morning, Chicago police said. The shooting...

Love may not “cost a thing,” as Jennifer Lopez once sang, but dating sure does. And it’s hitting millennials’ and Gen Z’s wallets particularly hard. In fact, 22% of millennials (ages 26 to 41) and 19% of Gen Zers (ages 18 to 25) have gone into debt from what they’ve spent on dating, according to a September Lendingtree survey. Overall, survey respondents said they spend about $91 on a night out, on average. Respondents who identify as women said they would spend an average of $81 on a date, while respondents who identify as men said they would spend an...

Drivers of Lamborghinis crash in Denver, both face DUI charge By: Stephanie ButzerOct 07, 2022 DENVER, Colo. — The drivers of two Lamborghinis crashed in Denver on Thursday evening and both were arrested on DUI charges. The crash, which occurred around 10:09 p.m., ended with one car on fire in the front yard of Denver Fire Department Station 1, located at 745 W Colfax Ave., just east of Speer Boulevard. Both were arrested on a DUI charge, according to the Denver Police Department. Police said one person was transported to a hospital, but the injuries were not serious. The drivers...

The Bible In Paintings 2 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S WORD JOSEPH AND MARY TRAVEL TO BETHLEHEM L U K E CHAPTER 2 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register. So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there...

She called the Black child of Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin “changuito,” or “a monkey,” who gets carried around like a purse. “Su negrito, like on the side.” Of Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón, she simply said, “F— that guy. He’s with the Blacks.” L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez says she was merely caught up in “a moment of intense frustration and anger” during an hour-long, secretly recorded meeting in October 2021 with L.A. County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera and fellow Latino Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León.

Miami Gardens is helping those impacted by Hurricane Ian. Monday morning a semi-tractor trailer filled with water, food... ...a food truck is also being sent to serve up warm cooked meals to victims in minority communities impacted in Lee County. People in that area say they feel left behind and Miami Gardens wanted to make sure they have all the materials they need during this tragedy. "I don't have to live on Sanibel or Fort Myers Beach to be one of the people they should care about because to me that seems like that's all they care about at this...

While California Governor Gavin Newsom is warning he may call a Special Session of the Legislature to impose additional tax increases on oil companies, it is surprising he professes no idea how gas prices in California are so much higher than other states. Gov. Newsom has the temerity to ask why, and is making grotesque accusations.

Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Justice for records related to the housing of U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd at Joint Base Andrews after he shot and killed U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:22-cv-02948)). Judicial Watch has received information that Byrd was housed at Andrews in the immediate period after he killed Babbitt. (snip) In its complaint,...

A jury found Richard Gillmore guilty in 1987 of raping a 13-year-old girl ... An Oregon serial rapist known as the "jogger rapist" is scheduled to be released from prison in December ... Richard Gillmore, who got his nickname because he would stake out victims while jogging by their homes, was arrested in 1986. He confessed to raping nine girls in the Portland area in the 1970s and 1980s but was only convicted in one case due to the statute of limitations. A jury found him guilty in 1987 of raping 13-year-old Tiffany Edens the year before. She is his...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 6 Prayer 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be...

According to the latest data, black Americans, who make up 13 percent of the population, comprised 60.4 percent of known murder offenders in 2021—a new record! ============================================== Steve Sailer @Steve_Sailer · Follow FBI announces: Blacks made up 60.4% of known murder offenders in 2021. That would be a new record for black dominance of murders, up from a record 56.5% black in 2020, although methodological snafus reduced police department participation this year. ================================================== We can argue until we’re blue in the face about why this is happening, but the data speaks for itself. Nothing can be done to solve this...

New wolf depredation incidents are being reported in northern Colorado. First, in Rio Blanco County, just south of Meeker, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has confirmed 18 head of 600-pound calves were attacked and killed by wolves ... on the LK Ranch, owned by Lenny and Jackie Klinglesmith. The cattle were up in their summer pasture, when the wolf depredation incidents were discovered. Travis Duncan with Colorado Parks and Wildlife says necropsies on each animal have been performed and it is an active investigation. ... A second Colorado wolf depredation incident was in the past few days in Jackson County, near...

Hand Grenade Simulator (Photo: Newport Oregon Police Department) NEWPORT, Ore. (KATU) — Police in Oregon said three explosive devices washed ashore Tuesday, prompting several calls to law enforcement. Police in Newport said they responded to three separate devices that washed up on the beach in the area, between Yaquina Bay State Park and Agate Beach. Each device was white in color and had a label attached to them that reads “Warning Explosive.” The label clearly states the item is a "Simulator, Hand Grenade M116A," with instructions to "remove safety clip from fuse lighter, carefully pull off cap until cord is...

10 October 2022Monday of week 28 in Ordinary Time Basilica of St. Paulinus, Trier, Germany Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingGalatians 4:22-24,26-27,31-5:1 ©Christ freed us: do not submit again to slaveryThe Law says, if you remember, that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl, and one by his free-born wife. The child of the slave-girl was born in the ordinary way; the child of the free woman was born as the result of a promise. This can be regarded as an allegory: the women stand for the two covenants. The first who comes from Mount Sinai, and...

The America First Legal Foundation (AFL) has sued fourteen federal agencies for concealing a secretive Biden regime plan to take over election administration ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. In March of 2021, Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14019, “Promoting Access to Voting,” which called for all 600 federal agencies to submit to a “Strategic Plan” to “expand access to voter registration and election information.” The order urges the agencies to use “agency materials, websites, online forms, social media platforms, and other points of public access” to educate the public on “how to register to vote”—including “multilingual voter registration and...

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Beltway globalists that nest in and around the White House will not abandon the utopian vision of an America hardwired only to wind and solar power. In 2019, 266 members of the influential Business Roundtable, including the world’s largest fund managers, bankers, communications carriers, even fossil-fuel companies at the risk of their own survival, signed off on a one-page statement reimagining the American corporation. It described a new paradigm of corporate social responsibility to its stakeholders, a perspective that elevates employees, contractors, and suppliers over the interests of profit-seeking shareholders whose investments underwrite a company’s financial health. It presented a...

What’s happening: PayPal is updating its acceptable use policy, with the update taking effect on November 3. You might say to yourself, well, I don’t use my account with the financial services company for anything improper or illegal, so what do I have to worry about? Here’s why that might not necessarily be true: PayPal says it’s expanding its existing list of prohibited activities to include the “sending, posting, or publication of messages, content, or materials that meet certain criteria.” The full details are explained right here, but PayPal is basically set to start levying a fine when users are...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Oct. 9. A reconnoissance was made yesterday by Gen. STAHL to Aldie and Middlebury, resulting in the capture of forty or fifty rebel soldiers, several negroes and an ambulance. The prisoners were at once paroled. An expedition, commanded by Col. DAVIES, consisting of BAYARD's Cavalry and a battery, started out on Tuesday for the purpose of capturing some rolling stock of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, in the vicinity of Rappahannock Station. It was ascertained that the rebels were evidently preparing to fall back from Winchester to Richmond, and had transferred all the rolling stock lately in use...