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What could go wrong? An illegal magic mushroom shop in Portland attracted hoards of customers Shroom House sells psilocybin mushrooms despite the fact its illegal in Oregon The upmarket shop says it's 'not a dispensary' but a 'health and wellness shop' Its opening comes amid rising crime and an exodus of businesses from the city Applications for psilocybin dispensaries will start being accepted in January Hundreds of Portland residents have flocked to a whimsical new magical mushroom store that has opened in the city - despite being totally illegal. The upmarket mushroom shop, called Shroom House, appeared in the city...

Flying drummers, flying angels, live animals, and a 1,000-member cast. It’s all part of a Christmas extravaganza at a Dallas-area megachurch — which recently sparked backlash, after a clip from a show rehearsal went viral on TikTok. “A nice humble place of worship,” commented one TikTok user about the production at Prestonwood Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch in Plano, Texas, pastored by Jack Graham, founder of PowerPoint Ministries. Many of the clip’s more than 14,000 other comments follow a similar snarky tone. “I’m not sure how I feel about this. I’m in awe and I’m turned off at the...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hosted their first state dinner Tuesday evening in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron.SNIPJoining the main guests of honor, Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, is an exclusive list of 130 guests, who will be seated across 13 candlelit tables of 10 in the State Dining Room. Among the attendees are Apple CEO Tim Cook, who brought as his guest former Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, statesman Henry Kissinger, Chief Justice John Roberts, media mogul Rubert Murdoch, managing director of the IMF Christine Lagarde, two Olympic gold medalists, Bernard Arnault, chairman...

Multimedia mogul Charlamagne Tha God offered a blunt assessment over whether President Biden has earned the Black vote if he seeks re-election in 2024: He hasn’t yet. In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Charlamagne was asked to revisit his infamous 2020 “Breakfast Club” interview with then-presidential candidate Biden when he told them “you ain’t Black” if they were undecided between and President Trump. Biden later walked back the comments. “The only thing I took away from it was he was taking a page out of Trump’s book, and he was saying the quiet part out loud, you know?”...

The fugitive accused of stabbing an elderly Massachusetts couple to death after an argument over a barking dog was captured in Florida, cops announced. Christopher Keeley, 27, was arrested Thursday at 8:20 p.m. in Miami Beach, over 1,500 miles from where he allegedly bludgeoned Carl and Vicki Mattson, both 70, in their Marshfield home, the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said. Police believe Keeley killed the couple after an argument over a barking dog.

“For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence” (Proverbs 4:16-17 KJV).

A Georgia sheepdog is recovering from injuries after squaring off against a pack of coyotes, killing eight of them, while protecting his herd. Casper, a sheepdog who works on John Wierwiller’s Georgia farm, fought off more than half a dozen coyotes in a fight that lasted over half an hour, WAGA-TV reported. Wierwiller says that Casper disappeared for two days after the brutal fight. “We knew he was hurt because we found parts of his tail and blood and other things, so we were worried,” Wierwiller said.

Three seething pro-abortion protesters crashed a pregnancy crisis center banquet in Washington DC, claiming attendees had 'blood on their hands.' The Capitol Hill Crisis Pregnancy Center Annual Banquet was well past its dinner course on Thursday when the raging protesters popped up from the crowd and started screaming while executive director Janet Durig spoke. A woman, who has not yet been identified, stood up and loudly told the attendees: 'You are judging those who are attempting to receive medical healthcare. That's all on your f**king hands.' As security calmly escorted the woman to the door, she began screaming: 'Blood on...

The exchange mistakenly transferred $10.5 million, rather than $100, to Thevamanogari Manivel's account in May 2021 after entering the wrong figure in the payment field...Manivel, 40, was apprehended at Melbourne airport carrying a large amount of cash and luggage, and a one-way ticket to Malaysia...

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The Original "M*A*S*H" Theme Song lyrics and all in that opening music set. Here I am your "Hawkeye" Host doing the triage. Your "Radar" Host listening for "choppers". And Yes your repentant Major Frank Burns Host Hypochristian to the hilt. A Deluge Of Questions (Warning: You May Find These Questions Offensive Strong Language Included)... December is a great time to dump news you want to go away down the line like this stuff was on a Friday night in December. Yes Elon I hear you say we need a 'sensible moderate' like DeSantis to be our next President...That doesn't mean...

An Arizona polygamist cult leader had 20 wives aged as young as nine, married his own daughter, and drove his spouses around in a trailer with a bucket for a toilet, it is claimed. A new FBI affidavit has revealed shocking allegations against Bentley-driving Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, who was arrested in Arizona earlier this year. Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, is accused by witnesses of 'marrying' up to 20 women and girls as young as nine, including his own daughter, according to the affidavit filed on Friday, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. He has been in federal custody on obstruction...

Russian military, the month of November was the deadliest in the war in Ukraine so far. According to the official Ukrainian numbers, the Russian forces lost more than 15,000 troops killed and hundreds of tanks and artillery pieces, and other weapon systems in the past 30 days or so. Russian Casualties in November in Ukraine The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense assesses that in November alone, its forces killed more than 16,400 troops, which means that the Ukrainians wounded between 32,800 and 49,000 Russians, if we go off from the standard one killed for three wounded formula. Moreover, the Ukrainians claim...

They made him more lifelike than his reality! Definitely nailed his weasely underhandedness. There's a little cursing so those sensitive to that are warned.

Australian Country Music singer, Wonni Slim, a.k.a. Aussie Slim, is the creator of "Roll Out The Rubber Bullets" a simple but wonderful little song condemning leftist police brutality and leftist police corruption in the state of Victoria, Australia. (https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2022/09/06/aussie-freedom-fighters-10-wonni-slim-roll-out-the-rubber-bullets/) He is one of the victims of that police brutality. Just over three weeks ago, I was present when a young cop went berserk and pepper sprayed several people, including Wonni, who were no danger to anything except PC crap in government and its politicised police force. Yesterday Wonni spoke up publicly at the scene of the crime in front of...

We pretty much all knew there was collusion in suppression of information on the various information meat markets, but now Musk has released internal Twitter correspondence that confirms. Taibi has a mass of Twitter documents and will release them serially on Twitter with Musk's blessing. Taibi is hardly a conservative. Now the 1st Amendment like all of the Bill of Rights limits the actions of the governments, both federal and state. It does not limit the actions of private officials or corporations UNLESS the private entity acts at the bidding of government. Well, pilgrims the FBI was pressing Twitter to...

Calls for diversity on campuses and in Main Street businesses and banning hate speech, even that protected by the First Amendment, are no longer issues to fight over for college students. Now, it’s a reason for the electric chair. In a remarkable shift showing how students, many lining up for President Joe Biden’s loan forgiveness plan, have turned left since the 2020 election, a new Yale survey suggests that America’s best and brightest are giving up on key constitutional freedoms and even embracing socialism. In the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale University national student survey, conducted by McLaughlin...

The Moore County Sheriff’s Office says is investigating incidents at multiple electric substations in Moore County that were shot up on Saturday night as a “criminal occurrence,” causing more than half the county’s Workers from Duke Energy and authorities from the sheriff‘s office were at the substation off N.C. 211 near West Pine Middle School looking over the damage around midnight. Deputies were scanning the the area for bullet casings and other evidence, and vehicles were going through the woods in search of more evidence at the scene. In a text message to a reporter, Chief Mike Cameron of the...

White House blasts Trump after he suggested on his social media platform that the Constitution be suspended due to 2020 election "fraud" The White House on Saturday blasted former President Trump, after he suggested on his Truth Social platform that the Constitution be suspended due to what he calls the "massive fraud" of the 2020 election. Trump's posts came after Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, released information about Twitter's role in limiting access to a story about Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden. "So, with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big...

Shoppers say they're seeing more requests to add gratuity at more places — even on some online orders. During the holiday season, how do you tell when to add a tip and when to skip it? Dipayan Biswas, a marketing and business professor at the University of South Florida, told CNN that "it's a relatively new phenomenon" that he sees becoming more widespread. Biswas, who's studied tipping for a decade, said the new trend started with the boom of digital kiosks. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic happened, along with inflation, which enticed businesses to allow tips to make jobs more lucrative....