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In another alarm of nature spiraling to hell in Florida, scientists suspect global warming has enabled devil fish to plague and ravage the St. Johns River. This summer, a team of state water and wildlife experts with the help of a commercial fishing crew cast industrial nets in a Central Florida portion of the river several miles south of Cocoa called Lake Winder. Of the estimated 40,000 pounds of many species hauled in for examination, only a small portion, less than 20 percent, was Floridian: bass, crappie, brim, catfish, bowfin and others. The rest were exotics: a type from South...

The Palm Beach County School Board voted 6-1 to spend three thousand dollars on sending radical leftist and District 2 school board member Alexandria Ayala, to an NSBA Equity Symposium, despite being warned again by the DeSantis administration about their ‘equity’ policy. NSBA stands for National School Board Association, and it’s to the left of Che Guevara. Every school board in the state has been warned not to violate state law. Palm Beach County was warned again by Senior Chancellor Jacob Oliva in a letter dated November 18, 2022, which said, in part:

From Our Special Correspondent. Gen. STAHL's HEADQUARTERS, CHANTILLY, Dec. 1, 1862. A brief account of the recent reconnoissance by Gen. STAHL, who returned to this place last evening, I have already telegraphed you. As this was one of the most important movements of the kind that has recently been made -- both in regard to its influence upon our own men and the enemy -- a detailed statement of the affair, by an eye-witness, cannot be otherwise than interesting. The expedition was planned with the utmost secrecy and carried out with dispatch, and in the most successful manner -- reflecting...

The German government wants to stop energy companies from increasing electricity and gas prices in 2023, Bild newspaper reported Saturday, citing draft legislation. The government has already ordered a cap on energy prices for next year to quell the energy crisis that threatens household budgets and the viability of many businesses. What is the government planning? A draft law on next year's energy price brake, which was announced by Berlin last month, will also force utility companies to justify any increase in price, for example, extreme volatility in financial markets, Bild reported. Otherwise, they would be banned from increasing prices...

On Wednesday, a federal court gave approval to a plan by the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota to reward 12 Black Lives Matter rioters with a collective total of $600,000 over injuries they sustained during said riots. The Daily Caller reports that the court’s decision settled a lawsuit originally filed by the far-left American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota (ACLU-MN) on behalf of the rioters, and subsequently forbids the city of Minneapolis from using force to suppress violent riots. The injunction by the Minnesota U.S. District Court also forces all Minneapolis police officers who are deployed to riots to wear body-cameras,...

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...

CNN — For days, Twitter owner Elon Musk had teased a massive bombshell disclosure based on internal company documents that he claimed would reveal “what really happened” inside Twitter when it decided to temporarily suppress a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden and his laptop. But on Friday, instead of releasing a trove of documents to the public, Musk’s big reveal pointed to a series of tweets by the journalist Matt Taibbi, who had been provided with emails that largely corroborated what was already known about the incident. Attracting thousands of retweets, Taibbi’s winding tweet thread reaffirmed how,...

MacGregor: Up until this time at night we have had freezing but during the day it has gone back up to 40 even 50 degrees. It has to drop below freezing and stay that way for at least two weeks. So if it is now below freezing and stays that way you can do the math. Your looking for something happening no earlier than the 10th; probably no later than the 19th of December. And you're talking about concentrations of Russian troops all the way around the country. We've accounted now formally, these are people who sit in front of...

“Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower and fades away; Job 14:1-2 I've been told a number of times over the course of my life that I am an old soul. As such, I find that the older I get, the more reflective I become. Perhaps you are this way too? I will often look at old pictures of family and friends, particularly those I have not kept up with since then, and think back to that day, and try to recreate the scenario in my head...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 16 The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees 5 When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread. 6 “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 7 They discussed this among themselves and said, “It is because we didn’t bring any bread.” 8 Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, “You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? 9 Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and...

Just yesterday, Elon Musk revealed devastating internal Twitter emails that prove what conservatives already knew: that the social media giant was actively working with the Democrats to control the flow of information during the 2020 presidential election. Musk, Twitter's new head, tweeted a link to the account of journalist Matt Taibbi, who posted a thread of tweets including screenshots of emails from Twitter employees. twitter image Taibbi's tweets refer to an email sent on Oct. 24, 2020, showing Biden's team asking Twitter to "review certain tweets." There is a reply to a previous email that the Tweets had been "handled."

Just six little words from The Communist Manifesto sum up the green agenda entirely. It’s safe to say that many of those who think of themselves as communists would not don the communist hat if they were to actually read the manual of Marx and Engels. After all, don’t they too often own property, and in particular, real estate? Don’t they too enjoy the comfort of food? Aren’t many of them parents who would argue that they in fact have their child’s best interest at heart, not the government? I’d say so, on all points. On a personal note, I...

Joe Biden Friday evening traveled to Boston to participate in an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers phone bank. Biden was a stuttering mess as usual. At one point Joe Biden began talking about the Georgia Senate runoff. Democrat Warnock is in a tight race against Republican Herschel Walker for Georgia’s senate seat. Radical Marxist Warnock won the senate run-off in January 2021 and now he’s running to serve a full six-year term. Joe Biden has not been invited to stump for Warnock and he accidentally blurted out why. “I can’t think of anything [Raphael Warnock] hasn’t voted for with us,”...

The ad campaign had featured the story of 37-year-old British Columbia woman Jennyfer Hatch, who on October 23 had opted to die by doctor-assisted suicide due to chronic pain she experienced from having Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. uebec-based clothing company Simons removed its controversial advertisement campaign “All is Beauty” – the accompanying video featured the title “The Most Beautiful Exit” – after facing numerous accusations that the promotion glamorized assisted suicide. The campaign, which initially launched in late October, sparked controversy on social media throughout November. As of December 1, the ads are no longer present on the company’s official website or...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk promoted a series of tweets on Friday revealing internal documents about how the company handled a news article about Hunter Biden in 2020, controversially blocking people from tweeting and direct-messaging about it. In a lengthy tweet thread, writer Matt Taibbi said he received “thousands of internal documents” from sources at Twitter — and Musk himself tweeted “Here we go!! 🍿🍿” when the thread began. NBC News has not seen or verified those files. The thread came after Musk teased that past inner workings of Twitter would be exposed. On Monday, he said the “Twitter Files on...

This isn't about diversity, open borders, or internationalism. This is about Democrats gaining raw power through a harvest of ballots from a permanent underclass. The past few weeks have given rise to several uncomfortable questions. In the past, the party in power has always been held accountable for what it's done in the previous two years. History teaches us that if that party has a horrible record, its members are thrown out of office in a massive wave election in a rejection of their policies. That didn't happen, and even worse, they have us on the same trajectory that was...

“He spoke many things to them in parables” (Matthew 13:3). The parable was one of the staple teaching tools the Lord Jesus used to convey spiritual truth in an understandable way. The word parable contains the idea of placing something alongside something else to make a comparison. In this way, Jesus would place a moral truth alongside a physical example that people could more easily grasp. By this common form of Jewish teaching, He used a common object or practice to elucidate an intangible truth or principle. From His earliest teaching sessions, Christ used graphic analogies to instruct on divine...

“There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered his rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from his” (Hebrews 4:9-10 NKJV). You may wonder, “What does it mean to enter this promised rest? What should it look like in my life?” Simply put, entering his promised rest means fully trusting that Christ has done all the work of salvation for you. You’re to rest in his saving grace by faith alone. I pray that God will remove the scales from our eyes and allow us to truly understand this....

In the early hours of the morning on December 1, Alaska State Troopers received an alert that a man traveling by snow machine from Noorvik to Kotzebue had become stranded. The man was in a cold, remote location with no connectivity, and he activated the Emergency SOS via satellite feature on his ‌iPhone 14‌ to alert authorities to his predicament. Apple's Emergency Response Center worked with local search and rescue teams and the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Coordinator to send out volunteer searchers directly to the GPS coordinates that were relayed to Apple using the emergency function. The...

Biden and the Democrats clearly do not care about the suffering of the American people. The inflation rate is still hovering around 8-9%, in contrast with the 1.4% when Donald Trump left office. A record number of people (853) have died at the U.S. southern border in the past 12 months (and those are only the ones we know about and not including the people, including children, that were raped, robbed or killed on the trek through central America to the border). Fentanyl pouring across the Southern border is killing 100,000 Americans a year. Crime is way up in all...