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(Last Updated On: February 23, 2023) NATIONAL CHOCOLATE SOUFFLÉ DAY National Chocolate Soufflé Day celebrates a delightfully delicious dessert on February 28th each year. #ChocolateSouffleDay The word soufflé is the past participle of the French verb souffler, which means “to blow up” or more loosely “puff up” which describes a soufflé perfectly. A soufflé is a lightly baked cake made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites that are combined with other ingredients to make the dish either a savory main dish or a sweet dessert. Two essential components make up every soufflé. A French crème patisserie base/flavored cream sauce...

The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) is a British organization that evaluates news outlets' susceptibility to disinformation. The ultimate aim is to persuade online advertisers to blacklist dangerous publications and websites. One such publication, according to GDI's extremely dubious criteria, is Reason. GDI's recent report on disinformation notes that the organization exists to help "advertisers and the ad tech industry in assessing the reputational and brand risk when advertising with online media outlets and to help them avoid financially supporting disinformation online." The U.S. government evidently values this work; in fact, the State Department subsidizes it. The National Endowment for Democracy—a...

A double rapist who changed gender while waiting to stand trial has been jailed for eight years. Isla Bryson attacked two women in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as Adam Graham. The judge said Bryson posed a high risk of reoffending and would be supervised for three years after release. The case sparked a heated debate over whether Bryson should be housed in a male or a female prison after transitioning from a man to a woman. Bryson, 31, was initially remanded to a women's jail after being found guilty, but was then moved to a...

Originally posted on May 2, 2021 If there is one thing that becomes apparent when you talk to a lot of normie conservatives, it is that they have absolutely no idea how or why they keep getting rolled over by the radical Left. They work and they work and they work to win elections, they invest their time and money to get “their guy” into office, only to find him selling them out on the first important issue within a month of taking office. They pass laws, only to be thwarted in the courts. When they win in the courts,...

Left-Wing Media Monitor Aimed to Punish COVID Lab Leak Theory PublishersA State Department-supported "disinformation" tracking group pressured advertisers to punish websites promoting the COVID-19 "lab leak" theory, which a federal agency now says is the most likely origin of the virus, the Washington Examiner reported.The Global Disinformation Index (GDI), which was focused on creating blacklists of conservative news outlets for advertising companies, applied pressure to those companies to cut ties with websites boosting the once alleged "conspiracy" that COVID-19 emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China.The Energy Department recently concluded that, based on intelligence, the lab leak was the probable...

Home prices fell for the sixth straight month in December as high mortgage rates damped buyer demand, according to data released Tuesday. New S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index data released Tuesday showed prices falling nationally by 0.3 percent in December from the previous month after season adjustments. But prices were still higher than at the same time a year earlier, posting non-seasonally adjusted increase of 5.8 percent. “Home prices fell again in December, but levels are still higher than a year ago. Buyers and sellers ended the year on a discouraging note, with sales declining as mortgage rates soared, new listings...

Opinion VS Reality We are all sick and tired of our liberal friends and the totally corrupt liberal media outlets lying to us about very basic facts. They have succeeded to the extent that many Americans are clueless about many demographic facts about our great country. Well, leave it to Carol Carlson to get the latest facts on how opinions of brain-washed Americans differs greatly from the actual facts. So let’s read this great article provided by Carol, and let’s all pledge to ignore the lies and dis-information from the Dems and Fake News, and spread the truth about our...

A drone that was likely targeting civilian infrastructure crashed near Moscow on Tuesday, a regional official said, after the defence ministry reported downing two Ukrainian drones in southern Russia. The reported incidents are the latest in a series of suspected drone attacks in recent months inside Russia -- sometimes far from the border with Ukraine -- that Moscow has blamed on Kyiv. "As for the incident with the crash of a UAV in district of Kolomna... the target was probably a civilian infrastructure facility, which was not damaged," Moscow regional governor Andrei Vorobyov said in a statement, referring to unmanned...

On this date (or very close to it) in 628, the Persian emperor Khosrau* II was put to death by the order of his son and usurper. Chip off the old block, that boy, since he was taking power the same way as Khosrau himself had done way back in 590. But with the old man’s fall, the Sassanid Empire entered its death spiral: by 651, it would be overwhelmed by the armies of Islam. Little could the younger Khosrau have conceived of his glorious Persian state laid low by these desert zealots! Persia’s last great pre-Muslim empire flourished in...

War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength Axios reports that President Biden is preparing to run aggressively for re-election on the economy. His plan is to focus on the GDP which is 20.1T while we have a nearly 32T debt and ran a 1.38T deficit in 2022. He will also run on the low unemployment numbers. Biden will aggressively ride on an alleged ‘healthy economy.’ Can they hold off a deeper recession or pretend there is no recession until 2024? Biden, who hasn’t made a formal decision to run for re-election, will on Tuesday take his message of...

First reported here (twice), complete with video, when it happened last December at NAS JRB Fort Worth. The mishap was remarkable because the pilot ejected while the a/c was on the ground. The news reports that followed all spoke to the engine as the cause -- which would seem to indicate that neither the pilot nor other aspects of the aircraft were under suspicion -- and DoD ordered engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney to stop delivering new engines for the F-35B until the problem was sorted.Last Friday, a news source that may not be quoted here for copyright reasons reported...

Jansen Panettiere's officially died due to issues with his heart. "Though it offers little solace, the Medical Examiner reported Jansen's sudden passing was due to cardiomegaly (enlarged heart), coupled with aortic valve complications," the family said in a statement to ABC News. According to the Mayo Clinic, cardiomegaly isn't actually a disease but a condition that is generally caused by something else.

During the 2022 Illinois Republican Primary, IL GOP leaders played favorites with their preferred list of so-called “establishment” candidates – even funding mailers that viciously attacked their conservative grassroots opponents. And in exclusive audio obtained by Illinois Review, IL GOP chairman Don Tracy, during a meeting with conservative leaders in July, admits that the Richard Irvin campaign for governor was allowed to use the IL GOP postage discount for mailers – a perk not afforded to other candidates in the governor’s race. But when it comes to supporting conservative school board candidates who are running in the upcoming April 4th...

Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma sent a letter to Attorney General Gentner Drummond Monday indicating that he was “troubled” by a recent opinion the AG gave regarding religious charter schools. Drummond issued an opinion late last week recanting his predecessor, John O’Conner’s, support of religious charter schools calling it “state-funded religion.” Stitt responded to Drummond’s claims Monday, arguing that by not providing religious citizens with an alternative, they may very well be forced to choose between their faith and receiving an education, according to the letter. “You state that ‘religious liberty is one of our most fundamental freedoms’ that...

Talk about damning with faint praise . . .In a discussion today of Biden's prospective '24 run, the only real reason the Morning Joe panel could come up with as to why Kamala Harris will remain on the ticket was her gender and the color of her skin.Jonathan Lemire was explicit about that: "The Vice President is going to be on the ticket for many reasons, including, of course, that as noted, the base -- the foundation of the Democratic party right now: black women. They're not going to alienate that by pushing Kamala—Vice President Harris—off as Joe Biden's running...

When a 16-year-old Palestinian boy told his mother "I'll come back to you as a Martyr," she could have discouraged him with several possible responses. However, she did not tell him she loves him and would rather he lived to adulthood and raised a family. She did not tell him NOT to seek suicide as a “Martyr.” What she did, alternatively, was give him instructions on how to assure Allah accepted him as a Martyr.

No Surprise: Francis Admits “Crisis Of Faith”In El Pastor, a second book-interview published by Francesca Ambrogetti and Sergio Rubin, Pope Francis once again admits that he has had [and still has?] crisis of faith.For him, "a faith that does not put us in crisis is a faith in crisis.” Beyond this senseless play on words, in Christianity doubt is a sin.With regard to homosexuality, Francis indulges in victimism and laments that they had “suffered” for being “rejected by the Church,”“I want them to know that it is not the 'rejection of the Church', but of 'people of the Church',” he...

Giant mirrors positioned to reflect sunlight back into space may be needed to meet climate targets, according to a report from the United Nations. Solar radiation modification (SRM), also known as solar geoengineering, is among the proposals from the UN Environment Programme to use radical technology to avoid a climate emergency. “SRM is the only known approach that could be used to cool the Earth within a few years,” the report, compiled by an expert panel of climate scientists, stated. “Climate model simulations consistently show that SRM could offset some of the effects of increasing greenhouse gases on global and...

The U.S. Air Force relieved six leaders from their positions at a nuclear base in North Dakota but offered few details about why they were removed. A brief press release said Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Gebara, commander of 8th Air Force, removed two commanders from their positions of leadership at Minot Air Force Base on Monday. Task and Purpose identified the these leaders as Col. Gregory Mayer, who led the 5th Mission Support Group, and Maj. Jonathan Welch, commander of the 5th Logistics Readiness Squadron. They were removed “due to a loss of confidence in their ability to complete their...

On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft. Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one...