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Masks are back, and, this time, they’re not just for Covid-19. A “tripledemic” of the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, known as R.S.V., sweeping through the United States has prompted several cities and counties, including New York City and Los Angeles County, to encourage people to wear a mask in indoor public spaces once again...... There is strong evidence that masks help to reduce the transmission of several respiratory viruses. One paper published in 2020 by researchers in Hong Kong showed that people sick with either Covid-19 or the flu breathed out fewer viral particles when they were wearing...

10 minutes. You will be entertained. If he's new to you, you'll be searching for everything he's posted. Rough week. I'm fine. My love of 42 years is OK now but Diabetes is a killer no matter what you do. Introducing JP to the uninitiated. He's with us. Year two of hell on earth. Sorry but you'll get a smile here. Guaranteed. ;-)

For Alexandra Pelosi, the brutal attack on her father earlier this year was a culmination of vitriol that had been building for decades. Her family’s name, she says, has been weaponized for years, turned into a curse word for Republicans. **SNIP** The bubbling political rhetoric that led to that moment is chronicled in a new documentary premiering Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on HBO. The film, “Pelosi in the House," directed and produced by Alexandra Pelosi, the youngest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's five children, follows the elder Pelosi’s career over three decades. **SNIP** “There’s a thread from the very...

China recently carried out the maiden flight for a type of new high-altitude, high-speed demonstrator drone, which can help test and verify a number of new technologies including artificial intelligence, loyal wingman and drone swarm, the aircraft’s maker announced on Thursday. Independently developed by the flight test center of the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the Liuxing-260 successfully completed its first flight, AVIC said in a statement released on social media on Thursday. ............. Drone swarms launchers & anti-drones CM-502 LW-30, ZK-K20, ZR-1500 625E SWS2 LD-3000 HQ-17AE Skydome CCP Drone Swarm capabilities publicU TUBE

It is absolutely ridiculous and absurd for Jamal Bryant to suggest that his megachurch in Atlanta should grow weed on its property in order to attract more black males. Not only is this a terrible idea, it is also illegal. I mean, come on, who in their right mind would think that a church, of all places, should be growing a controlled substance? And to suggest that it would help to attract black males and teach them farming? Give me a break. But don’t take my word for it, just listen to what the officials in Georgia have to say...

Best-selling author and Chicago-area pastor Dane Ortlund may have fired a church employee in retaliation for complaining of bullying and discrimination, an Illinois state investigation has found. Ortlund is the author of “Gentle and Lowly” and pastor of Naperville Presbyterian Church (NPC). The Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR), which handles charges of employment discrimination, investigated and found “substantial evidence” of retaliation in the firing of NPC’s former operations director. Christianity Today first reported the investigation’s finding this week. The outlet noted that this type of finding is rare, both at the state level and nationally. A copy of the...

A US State Department study on the prison found that it was infested with rats and maggots while due to low staff numbers, the inmates were only allowed out of their cells for 30 minutes a week. One section of the study reads: 'Many cells also lacked running water, and in those cells, inmates removed human waste by bucket.'It continued: 'Sanitation was a general problem, with cells infested with rats, maggots and insects. Ventilation was also a general problem. Prisoners in maximum security had access to sanitary facilities only one hour a day and used slop buckets as toilets.'Another section...

The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order. Twitter didn't monitor employee computers at all, it was not uncommon for employees to install spyware on work devices. Twitter does not have separate development, test, staging, and production environments. At least 5,000 employees had privileged access to production systems...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14)Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.

@scotthortonshow Worst president since Truman Quote @ryangrim The White House is whipping against Bernie Sanders Yemen war powers resolution, urging a no vote this evening, sources involved tell me @SenSanders Today, I withdrew from consideration by the U.S. Senate my War Powers Resolution after the Biden administration agreed to continue working with my office on ending the war in Yemen.

Queen Elisabeth was a beautiful woman. She was the world's last head of state to serve in the armed services in World War Two. She stood for high ideals. But the PC trashing of Western Societies goes on now at the hands of leftist government criminals who have no shame. They trash anything good she stood for. God Bless Freedom. God Save The West. Please pray with me for us all.

China on Tuesday (December 13, 2022) urged India to "strictly control" and "restrain" its front-line troops, days after the troops of the two countries clashed in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh, resulting in minor injuries to some soldiers on both sides. China also said that the soldiers of the Indian Army "illegally crossed the line to block" a routine patrol of Chinese border troops.

Ukrainian company appeal to the command: "We did not receive proper weapons and artillery support. As a result, 70% of the company was killed or wounded. We didn't even have equipment to evacuate the wounded, which is why several of the wounded did not survive."

'A Christmas Carol' starring George C. Scott. '1984'

[Catholic Caucus] For Receiving CommunionFrom the church bulletin of SAINT KATERI TEKAKWITHA CATHOLIC COMMUNITY in Beaumont/Banning, California:We would like to remind you again that the recommended posture for receiving communion is standing and you can receive the host on your tongue or in the hand. " The Norm for receiving the Holy Communion in the Dioceses of the USA is Standing. This norm is repeated in the Diocese of San Bernardino. In the Diocese of San Bernardino, where it is the custom of the people to make the sign of the cross, this cus- tom is not abrogated and may...

President Joe Biden attacked the 'extreme' Supreme Court for threatening rights as he signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law Tuesday He also vowed to protect transgender children and 'callous' laws targeting them 'Congress is acting because an extreme Supreme Court has stripped away the rights afforded to millions of Americans that existed for half a century,' he said

California Sen. Alex Padilla will not support Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' resolution aimed at blocking U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen... His "no" vote marked a blow to the resolution, the fate of which was originally expected to be decided on the Senate floor on Tuesday. But Sanders announced Tuesday evening that he would be pulling the resolution from the floor instead so he could work with the Biden administration to draft a bill the White House would agree to. One of Padilla's main concerns, according to a spokesperson, was that the bill did not have President Joe...

CTH took considerable flak for reporting on the uniparty system of Georgia politics prior to the 2020 midterms. With the election in the rearview mirror, the Georgia Secretary of State is now proposing to permanently codify Democrat control of the state. (Via Reason) […] Speaking to The New York Times last week, Raffensperger said he would petition the state legislature with three separate proposals. One would force large counties to open more locations for voting early. Another would lower the vote total needed to avoid a runoff from 50 percent to 45. The third proposal is the most consequential, and...

Twenty protesters withstood freezing temperatures over the weekend to defy the project, which started in August after Ducey issued an executive order directing the state Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to fill gaps in the existing border wall in Yuma County. The project's $95 million expansion into Cochise County comprises about 3,000 steel containers, The Associated Press reported. Ducey's office did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Until last week, when protesters blocked access to the site, work crews stacked hundreds of shipping containers topped with razor wire along Arizona's remote eastern boundary with Mexico. Demonstrators say they...

Guest post by Tim Canova While there has been much public attention on the U.S. Supreme Court’s present consideration of the “independent state legislature” theory in Moore v. Harper involving North Carolina’s redistricting, that case would not immediately upend the 2020 Presidential Election. In contrast, a little-known case that appeared recently on the Court docket could do just that. The case of Brunson v. Adams, not even reported in the mainstream media, was filed pro se by ordinary American citizens – four brothers from Utah — seeking the removal of President Biden and Vice President Harris, along with 291 U.S....