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Stealer's Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With YouHalf a century at this time, March of 1973, a song by a band called Stealer's Wheel began climbing the charts with a song called "Stuck In The Middle With You". Written by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan, the song would peak on the Billboard Hot 100 at #6 on May 12th of that year. Not too shabby. 19 years later, the song would get another surge in popularity by being featured in the Quentin Tarantino film "Reservoir Dogs." Although the scene it was featured in, in which a policeman is brutally...

President Joe Biden criticized Florida’s regulation of transgender medical care for children and ban on gender ideology in the classroom, calling the measures “close to sinful.” Biden said in an interview with Daily Show guest host Kal Penn: “What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful. I mean it’s just terrible what they’re doing.” Although the president did not specify which laws he was referring to, Republican lawmakers in Florida and other states have introduced bills and regulations to protect children from transgender medical interventions and restrict classroom instruction in gender ideology. During his...

Legislation to create a “fundamental right” to abort unborn babies advanced in the Maryland House on Wednesday despite a flood of opposition from state residents. WYPR Baltimore reports the House likely will vote on final passage of the constitutional amendment, House Bill 705, later this week and send it to the state Senate for consideration. Maryland already allows unborn babies to be aborted for any reason up to birth, but the proposed constitutional amendment would make it more difficult for future state legislatures to pass any protections for unborn babies and mothers against abortion. If the legislature passes the amendment...

Catholic group spends millions tracking lecherous seminarians and clergyDENVER (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Catholic group has spent millions of dollars to identify a significant number of seminarians and priests who use homosexual dating and hookup apps. On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that Grindr was the gay hookup app most frequently used by clerics, with priests also using lesser-known homosexual dating apps like Growlr, Scruff and Jack'd. Some were also found to have used heterosexual dating apps and casual hookup apps like OkCupid. Casual Clerical SexLast Friday, Jayd Henricks, president of Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal, admitted that the group...

At the same time that Department of Justice officials were using spying and corruption statutes to aggressively pursue Donald Trump’s allies based on what turned out to be rumor and innuendo, they declined to use those same laws to investigate evidence of wrongdoing involving Biden family members and one of their corrupt Chinese business partners, DOJ documents and federal court records reveal. In 2016-2017, the evidence shows, the FBI raided the offices and intercepted the communications of Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, a Chinese national agents suspected of espionage even as he was negotiating business deals with former Vice President Joe...

A non-profit foundation established by lay Catholics has furnished US bishops with data linking priests with online gay dating services, the Washington Post reports. The Post, in a critical investigative story, reports that the Colorado-based group, Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal (CLCR) “has spent millions of dollars to buy mobile app tracking data that identified priests who used gay dating and hookup apps and then shared it with bishops around the country.” But the president of the foundation, Jayd Henricks, a former official of the US bishops’ conference, explains that CLCR has much broader purposes and programs, and the...

As fighting grows deadlier in the eastern city of Bakhmut, another big counteroffensive against Russia could cost more lives than Kyiv's forces can afford to lose, a Ukrainian senior official warned.The anonymous official told The Washington Post that all hope for a spring counteroffensive will rely on the arrival of Western military aid and trained troops.Currently, Ukraine doesn't have "the people or weapons" to push forward, the official said, as its most experienced soldiers continue to be killed or injured in battle."If you have more resources, you more actively attack," the senior official said. "If you have fewer resources, you...

A mysterious object in our solar system could be an alien mothership sending smaller probes to monitor the Earth, according to a new draft report co-authored by the head of the Pentagon’s UFO research office.Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, put forward the theory in a recently released, but still-unfinalized paper he wrote with a long-serving head of Harvard University’s astronomy department, Abraham Loeb.AF vets testify that UFOs shut down 10 nukes, shot missile out of skyThe paper explores the idea that extraterrestrial life is already visiting us in the form of ʻOumuamua, which in...

President Biden accused congressional Republicans Tuesday of “calling for … defunding the police” — an audacious attempt to distance Democrats from such calls ahead of the 2024 election. The 80-year-old president made the claim during a visit with mass shooting survivors in Monterey Park, Calif., as he tries to position himself as tough on crime ahead of his anticipated re-election campaign. “Congressional Republicans should pass my budget instead of calling for cuts in these [mental health] services or defunding the police or abolishing the FBI, as we hear from our MAGA Republican friends,” Biden said.

Fifth Circuit appellate judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, who was shouted down by Stanford Law School students as administrators looked on in silence, says the protesters behaved like "dogshit." Now, in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon, Duncan is calling on the school to discipline the students who disrupted his talk and to fire the school’s associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, who stepped in during the event to chastise him and deliver what the judge described as a "bizarre therapy session from hell." Duncan’s remarks come after nearly a hundred students at Stanford Law School disrupted his remarks...

The Biden family business received a $3 million wire transfer from a Chinese energy company and subsequent payments after President Joe Biden left the vice presidency in 2017, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) announced upon receiving suspicious activity reports from the Treasury this week. U.S. banks have flagged over 150 SARs from Hunter and James Biden that included “large” amounts of money flagged for further review. According to a 2020 Senate report, SARs “often contain evidence of potential criminal activities, such as money laundering and fraud.” “According to bank documents we’ve already obtained, we know one company owned...

COLUMBIA, SC (WSPA) – Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives voted to reduce the salary of a constitutional officer. Monday night, the House passed an amendment to their budget proposal that would cut Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom’s salary to $1. “This is in regards to what I’m calling the $3.5 billion whoopsie,” said Representative Heather Bauer (D-Richland). Rep. Bauer was referring to an accounting error lawmakers learned about in February. Comptroller General Eckstrom informed senators about a $3.5 billion overstatement of the state’s cash balances. The number was reported in his office’s annual financial report. According to Eckstrom,...

Update from Ukraine | USA lost the Drone | Ruzzia wants escalation and pushes on Bakhmut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLYVqPJ8YQ0 https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ ****NEW SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: March 15, 2023 Invasion Day 384 – Summary The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-384-summary/ This is Militaryland Website recap of – February 2023 https://militaryland.net/news/website-recap-february-2023/

An “emergency” was required on Jan 6 to prevent the 2020 election coup from being uncovered. .... Snip.... This is a very important read. What this shows is that the Democrats and the Deep State needed an “emergency” on January 6th to culminate their 2020 Election steal. In order to complete the 2020 Election coup, Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell and Pence needed to create an emergency. The only way to prevent Congress from delaying the certification of state electoral votes was to create a crisis that could easily be designated an emergency. Just moments, literally 3 minutes before two representatives issued...

Jane Fonda appears to have advocated the murder of people who disagree with her about abortion. On national television. I believe that her right to free speech should probably allow her to say something as vile as this from a legal point of view. If any murder is committed as a result of her words, her legal situation would change. Legal issues aside, human decency and basic kindness should have stopped her. If modern woke standards are now applied to Fonda's conduct, her career is over. Let's see what happens. God's great creation has a place for her. Its name...

Former President Trump criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for his remarks about U.S. support for Ukraine on Monday, saying that the governor is just following in his footsteps. DeSantis made headlines on Tuesday with his response to a questionnaire sent out by Fox New’s Tucker Carlson. DeSantis said that supporting Ukraine in its year-long fight against Russia is not one of America’s “vital interests,” while describing the war as a territorial dispute.

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May called Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk a “proponent of hate” on Tuesday, ahead of Kirk’s speaking event at the school, and encouraged students to “neutralize and negate” TPUSA’s influence on campus. In a video message responding to students who are allegedly in “distress” over the upcoming event on campus, May bizarrely referred to Kirk as “a well-documented proponent of misinformation and hate,” and claimed he has “advocated for violence against transgender individuals.”

The 80 year old billionaire wed his 30 year old boyfriend Donovan Michaels in Beverly Hills, they say. Two couples attended the small ceremony which was held in the shroud of secrecy. Congrats to all. Geffen, a media mogul, is said to be worth $7.7 billion. He’s used much of his wealth in enormous acts of philanthropy, endowing museums, arts centers, and hospitals. In the past Geffen was famously linked with Cher. But in more recent years he’s had a string of boyfriends. And now he’s tied the knot. Joni Mitchell sang that Geffen was a “free man in Paris”...

Swiss Catholic priests resist pro-LGBT code of conduct issued by heterodox bishopThe code of conduct issued by Bishop Joseph Bonnemain prohibits priests from making ‘sweeping negative assessments of allegedly unbiblical behavior based on sexual orientation.’A group of faithful Swiss priests in the Diocese of Chur has put out a new statement in response to the mounting pressure for priests and Church employees to sign a pro-LGBT code of conduct issued by a heterodox bishop. In its statement, the group Churer Priesterkreis suggests that priests, deacons, and all employees of the diocese who are forced to sign the heterodox code of...