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I'm just wondering what might have happened if it had a nuclear payload and it was set to go off after dropping to 75,000 feet or so?

Jill Biden on Saturday praised her husband Joe Biden's decision to shoot down a Chinese balloon suspected of spying on America. The First Lady, speaking at a clinic that provides free mental health services to active military and veterans, praised the military for its work, including its care to ensure no civilians were injuried. 'We're more aware of the military when we're in times of war, but now we're in times of peace. And, just like this morning, if any of you were watching the TV, where they were following the, you know, the balloon from China, and we saw...

AIM HIGH A college professor prepared a final exam for his students. The test questions were divided into three categories, and the students were instructed to choose questions from only one of the categories. The first category of questions was the hardest and worth fifty points. The second, which was easier, was worth forty points. The third, the simplest, was worth thirty points. Upon completion of the test, students who had chosen the hardest fifty-point questions were given As. The students who had chosen the forty-point questions received Bs. Those who had settled for the easiest thirty-pointers were given...

Deputies with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department seized nearly 100 pounds of drugs while arresting a man with a felony warrant in Tacoma, according to a media release. On Thursday, Pierce County investigators assisted the FBI and Department of Corrections with the arrest of a man who was wanted for violating the conditions of his community custody. Investigators had received a tip the man was not only staying in a motel in the 6800 block of Tacoma Mall Boulevard but was heavily armed and selling a large number of drugs. After the man was spotted in a car in the...

Have you seen President Trump's powerful 4 minute video message? Don't miss it!A NATION IN DECLINEQ is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure...

Mark 6:30-34 Friends, today’s Gospel shows Jesus’ compassion for the multitude in the desert. “When Jesus disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.”There is the motif of the people Israel in the desert after their escape from Egypt. Isolated, alone, afraid, and without food, they clamored for something from Moses. Here we see people who are dying to be fed, and a prophet who is under threat of death. This crowd around the threatened Jesus is a...

Officials in Columbiana County are responding to East Palestine following a train derailment and major fire that lit up the night sky for miles Friday night. Initial calls came out shortly after 9 p.m. to the area of East Taggart Street along the railroad tracks that travel east-west through town

The first sure loser has entered the race for 2024. Though an official announcement is not expected until February 15, we can say with all but certainty now that Nimrata Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations, will make a bid to succeed Joe Biden’s ghost in the coveted Oval Office. This makes Haley, a one-time rising star and Trump admin alumna, the first Republican to mount a race for the White House against 45, who declared back in November. Dead on arrival doesn’t begin to describe it. Polls are famously useless, but...

A professor in Salem, Oregon, – who is a self-described expert in "racism… and social change" – derided White people for showing up as "damaging" to people of color.

Political technologist and officer of the Russian army, Igor Mangushev, known for appearing on stage last summer holding, according to him, the skull of a slain Ukrainian soldier, received a serious head injury in the Luhansk region under unexplained circumstances.

Would you rather be a front-desk clerk or "Director of First Impressions"? A barber or a "Grooming Manager"? How you answer could mean a significant difference in annual earnings. That's because companies routinely inflate workers' titles to avoid paying them in full for overtime work, according to researchers from the University of Texas and Harvard Business School. It's no secret companies go to great lengths to keep their labor costs down. What the new working paper reveals is that firms save a total of $4 billion in overtime payments a year simply by getting creative with titles. For employees, however,...

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Yet none of those officials has admitted that they were the ones spreading disinformation, for the purpose of electing Joe Biden

Perhaps I am wrong, but the tone, disposition and presentation of this monologue by U.K. News pundit Neil Oliver, suggests to me that he is under pressure or threat due to his open commentary supporting a resistance uprising against the ruling class. Within his weekly outline, there is a notable change in tone from Mr. Oliver as he outlines those voices that have been targeted by censorship, deplatforming and ongoing threats by western aligned media doing the bidding of their government overlords. Perhaps Mr. Oliver has finally found himself in the crosshairs of the system which will not permit public...

A high school swimmer from New Jersey was disqualified from a race for wearing an American flag on his cap in honor of his grandfather who was killed in the September 11 terror attacks. The boy's father, Rob Miller said his son, whose name was not released, was told the flag on his swimming cap was too large and in violation of competition rules. He said the opposing coach waited until after the 400-meter free relay race was over to have the insignia measured.

Digger driver Sasha Walpole, 40, reveals she is the mystery horse-lover who had 'passionate' five-minute sex session with the duke in pub field - after rendezvous was laid bare in memoir Spare

The real story as to why it took so long to shoot down the Chinese balloon was not the normal chaos of the Biden Administration but its incompetence and wokeness. Lardass Austin, SOD and Gen Missy Milley, CJCOS were caught in a trap from the beginning of the incident. If anything went wrong, there could be responsibility and blame assigned. If everything went right, then victory could be assumed by right of their positions. So what was needed was a front person to take the fall if everything went wrong. Putting their brain cells into overdrive, they decided to pick...

Methylene blue (MB), a powerful antioxidant with a clinical impact comparable to even vitamin C, is a major exception to the principles of orthomolecular medicine. It is not produced in the body, and it is not naturally present in any animal or plant. Nevertheless, its documented beneficial health effects rival that of any other known substance, whether normally found in nature or coming out of a laboratory. Just like vitamin C, the true benefits of MB in so many different diseases remain unappreciated and unused by most clinicians, even though it has been safely utilized in many patients for a...

Aconsortium of political advocacy groups are pushing for an investigation into allegations that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) has had staffers running her personal errands and performing sundry household tasks on the taxpayer dime. As first reported in December by The Daily Beast, Sinema aides are bound by a 37-page memo that lays out a very specific set of demands: the senator’s groceries are to be picked up promptly, her hour-long massages are to be booked weekly, and her internet service at home in D.C. must always be in working order. (If not, an assistant “should call Verizon to schedule a...

Drag queens have launched a Christmas tour dubbed “The Naughty List” that has already garnered controversy from a journalist who observed and recorded one event held in Austin, Texas, describing it as “a blatantly sexualized show meant to groom children.” The show’s host, Andrew Robert Levitt, who performs under the stage name “Nina West,” is affiliated with two of the foremost children’s television networks: Disney and Nickelodeon. His tour is scheduled to make 18 stops in cities across the United States for a total of 36 shows. This article featured unedited videos and images from the event, which are sometimes...