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FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Link Come on in, we're open Need a place just to hang out? This is it.FReeper Canteen We serve coffee, tea, hot cocoa, conversation and music.How about some homemade eggnog? (got another order in)Our AWESOME military, our AWESOME allies, and their families are welcomed and honored here.No worries in the FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe. Pull up a chair. Grab a cup and start a conversation.You never know who you...

On July 25, 2019, Trump called Zelensky to congratulate him on his recent parliamentary victory.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been portrayed as Santa in an anti-Western propaganda video released on the country's social media. The clip shows a boy in the West writing and drawing a picture for Santa, wishing for traditional male toys as well as a mother and father. In the drawing, the child in the fiction has drawn himself holding hands with a woman and a man. Pictures on the mantelpiece in the child's home show he currently has 'Parent 1' and 'Parent 2' - who are both shown to be male. The boy baulks at seemingly being made to dress...

Because the USSC wanted this case, it bypassed the lower courts. The filing attorney believes that the date January 6th was chosen as a signal of what the result is going to be.Brunson v. Alma S. Adams; et al., (Biden, Harris, Pence & 385 Members of Congress) Currently, there are two lawsuits identical to each other. The first One, filed by Loy Brunson is still held up in the Utah Federal Court. The second one, filed by Raland J. Brunson has made it to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), Docket #22-380, where 9 Justices in conference will...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (TND) — Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, is convinced he would win a second term in the U.S. Senate if he runs again, despite failing twice at becoming the Republican nominee for president and being known for breaking from his GOP colleagues during certain standoffs with Democrats. "I’m convinced that if I run, I win," Romney told Politico while discussing his potential bid for reelection that would come up in 2024. Probably the most noteworthy divergence Romney has taken from his own party was when he voted in favor of impeaching former President Donald Trump, becoming the...

It was Christmas Eve 1881. I was fifteen years old and feeling like the world had caved in on me because there just hadn't been enough money to buy me the rifle that I'd wanted so bad that year for Christmas. We did the chores early that night for some reason. I just figured Daddy wanted a little extra time so we could read in the Bible. After supper was over I took my boots off and stretched out in front of the fireplace and waited for Daddy to get down the old Bible. I was still feeling sorry for...

We are watching people around the world erupt. They see the writing on the wall and have decided that they aren’t going to take it anymore. In China, from The Economist: “Under a road bridge in central Beijing, just before two o’clock in the morning on November 28th, one of that city’s most powerful men came face to face with youngsters driven to despair by China’s harsh “zero-covid” controls. The brief meeting was revealing in several ways. It offered a glimpse of the security machine built by China’s supreme leader, President Xi Jinping, and the Communist Party’s confidence in it....

Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed legislation Thursday limiting the locations in which concealed carry permit holders can be armed for self-defense. The gun control was passed in reaction to SCOTUS’s June 23, 2022, Bruen decision, which struck down New York’s proper cause requirement for concealed carry permit issuance. NJ.com reports that the legislation, A4769, creates “sensitive places” in which firearms cannot be carried.

Pizza is a great meal to bring people together, with many distinct styles and flavors to choose from. From the thin-crust New York style to the wood-fired San Franciscan style, there is, certainly, something for everyone.

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) said Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow” that Republican support of giant omnibus spending bills “should never happen” again. Anchor Larry Kudlow said, “Senator Lee, just the last point here. I think Sen. Rand Paul put his finger on it. He was on our show a couple of nights ago. He said the GOP has lost any power of the purse, and he said the GOP has emasculated itself. This is not a good episode for the Republican Party, is it?” Lee said, “No, not at all.”

A 31-year-old man in Florida was arrested for allegedly holding a sewing needle to his neighbor’s neck and threatening to kill him before nearly beating his roommate’s raccoon to death with a hammer. Tevin Keason Williams was taken into custody last week and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of aggravated animal cruelty, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show. Each of the charges against Williams are third-degree felonies punishable by a maximum five years in state prison. According to a sworn probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, deputies with the Lake County...

Convicted Hagerstown Cop Killer (2 times) with life sentence released with no prior knowledge to the State's Attorney or anyone else - What a great way to leave the Governorship - ?and run for President?

Post WW2: Unlike Western governments recruiting Ex Nazis, the Arab-Islamic front was ideological, hatred cooperation. SOME EXAMPLES:Johannes Von Leers: Who published his venom for Goebbels, in Peron's Argentina and for Nasser's Egypt, converted to Islam, and changed his name to Omar Amin. {1}. Otto Remer & Ernst-Wilhelm Springer: Ex SS Otto Remer became "political advisor to Nasser," the other ex Nazi, Ernst-Wilhelm Springer, of the defunct neo-Nazi "Social Reich Party" SRP, Joining him in Egypt in 1953. {2} Springer, later explaining after arrested for arms dealing to Arabs, his motivation: standing with "the political attitude of the Arabs" - AKA...

Greetings and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. I know you're used to my intros containing a mix of anecdotes, assorted snark and little vignettes from my real life. But this week, in light of current events, I'm changing it up. This week, I simply want to focus on Mark Steyn himself and his recovery from not one, but two heart attacks. I'd like to use this small corner of his legendary website (the precious and unique uppity Jewish mother safe space that he grants me), nestled within the almost superhuman quantity of prose, shows, music, reviews, obituaries...

A California woman who killed her former stepfather after discovering hundreds of nude images of herself on his computer was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder. The murderer, Jade Janks, murdered Thomas Merriman, who was one of the founders of Butterfly Farms, a research and education non-profit dedicated to the conservation of butterflies located in Encinitas, Calif., according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. Janks faces life in prison During a weeks-long trial, prosecutors argued Janks, a 39-year-old Solana Beach interior designer, drugged, strangled and suffocated Merriman, 64, with a plastic bag on New Year's Eve 2020, after she stumbled upon racy...

DUNNELLON, Fla. — A stolen tractor valued at over $50,000 was located in Levy County, according to the Levy County Sheriff's Office (LCSO). LCSO said that on Dec. 14, detectives were made aware that a John Deere front-end loader had been stolen from a job site in the City of Dunnellon and that the tractor may have been hidden in the Morriston area of Levy County. Investigation revealed Anthony Ralph, 42, was in possession of a similar John Deere tractor. A LCSO detective, with assistance from officers with the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), responded to the location. When officers...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting pesticides and herbicides on the men's skin and injecting it into their veins.

A 31-year-old man in Florida was arrested for allegedly holding a sewing needle to his neighbor’s neck and threatening to kill him before nearly beating his roommate’s raccoon to death with a hammer. Tevin Keason Williams was taken into custody last week and charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of aggravated animal cruelty, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show. Each of the charges against Williams are third-degree felonies punishable by a maximum five years in state prison. According to a sworn probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, deputies with the Lake County...

Before turning against the U.S. military to command the Confederate army, Robert E. Lee served as the superintendent of West Point, the hallowed military academy that produced patriots like Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower.But in the coming days, the storied academy will take down a portrait of Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform from its library, where it has been hanging since the 1950s and place it in storage. It will also remove the stone bust of the Civil War's top southern general at Reconciliation Plaza. And Lee’s quote about honor will be stripped from the academy’s...

When he made Barry Lyndon in 1975, Kubrick shot with two ultra-rare Carl Zeiss prime lenses, which had been created for NASA for use in the Apollo space program and were modified for Kubrick to use with a Mitchell BNC camera (which was also specially modified to accept the lenses).Also... The first film to understand 18th century cosmetics (and earlier ages, too) - and how the face would just recede in candlelight without white lead (ceruse), rouge, beauty spots, mouse skin eyebrows and the like. A non-made up face, for men and women, and you would simply not appear...