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Woodies on the Wharf June 22-25, 2023 Santa Cruz Wharf Santa Cruz, CA santacruzwoodies.com Free to see 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Schedule (tentative) 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Woodies parked on the Wharf Activities throughout the day include music, merchandise sales, raffles prizes including beach bikes and surfboards surfboard shaping 3:30 p.m. The Parade off the Wharf The Parade off the Wharf begins promptly at 3:30 p.m. This is a highlight of the show both for Woodie owners and for the thousands of people who come to the wharf to see the cars. SANTA CRUZ, CALIF. -- It all...

A whistle-blower said the tax agency found a message from 2017 in which Hunter Biden pressured a Chinese business partner by saying he was with his father, who was then out of office. The lead I.R.S. agent investigating whether Hunter Biden committed tax crimes told Congress his team uncovered evidence that Mr. Biden had invoked his father, who was then out of office, while pressing a potential Chinese business partner in 2017 to move ahead with a proposed energy deal, House Republicans said. In testimony made public on Thursday, Gary Shapley, an I.R.S. agent since 2009 who supervised the tax...

Chaos ensues in the White House briefing room after @JamesRosenTV asks Biden spokesman John Kirby about the explosive whistleblower allegations in the Hunter Biden criminal investigation. Kirby refuses to comment and walks out of the room.

What does it mean to be a School Resource Officer? You are the visible face of authority to both the students and the staff. You wear the uniform and carry a gun, but sometimes all you can do is listen until it becomes a law enforcement problem. You are also a first responder when defending your school from violent attacks. Sometimes you have to act because it is too late to talk. I heard about a School Resource Officer who spoke up at a school board meeting, and what he said speaks for most of us.

'I said I was going to therapy and I really went to lose my virginity,' the actress admitted on 'Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen' On Tuesday's episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the 24-year-old actress admitted that, as a teenager, the worst trouble she got in involved a time she "lied" to her parents, Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. "I said I was going to therapy and I really went to lose my virginity," said Maya, who currently appears among an ensemble cast in Wes Anderson's new movie Asteroid City. Laughing, the Stranger Things actress...

The answer is, “How the hell would I know?” – the governor runs the tightest ship in the business, and not only do his peeps not leak, but you’ll never catch him lying on top of his covers in a robe, hair in curlers and kicking his painted toenails with the telephone receiver up to his ear calling up Maggie Haberman and asking “Whatchya doin’?” But the fact that Team Heavy D is not out there briefing the world on its strategy does not mean he doesn’t have one. The Trump team wants you to think that the RDS campaign...

In October, two Santa Cruz siblings were violently removed from a relative’s home and forced into a family therapy program with their mother. After that, Maya and Sebastian, now 16 and 12, were not heard from until May 29, when they ran away from their mother’s home and went into hiding. “We finally got away,” Maya says in the first of a series of videos, taken with a shaky camera as the kids were driven away during their 3am escape. Since then, the kids have taken to Instagram to describe their experiences with reunification therapy, a controversial program that ostensibly...

Evegeniy Prigozhin, head of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, appeared to fling down a direct political and, possibly, military challenge to the Kremlin on Friday, June 23. In another video he declared that Russia’s grounds for invading Ukraine were false and accused the country’s senior leaders of systematically lying to President Vladimir Putin about the debacle.In another profanity-laced 30-minute video posted on his personal Telegram channel, Prigozhin effectively declared that Russia’s full-scale invasion and its ongoing war with Ukraine were illegal. Among other statements, which directly contradicted official Russian positions regarding the Ukraine war, Prigozhin flatly denied the Kremlin’s longstanding...

Rep. Lauren Boebert confirmed Thursday that she is now a grandmother and doesn’t have time for “spats” with members of Congress like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called her a “little bitch” on the House floor Wednesday. Boebert (R-Colo.), 36, let slip the joyful news while speaking with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night about her shouting match with Greene (R-Ga.) over dueling impeachment resolutions targeting President Biden. “Sean, I did not put my life on pause and leave my four boys and my now-grandson to come here and just get in spats with people,” she said. “I came...

Team JAJO had some special –– and terrifying –– visitors while sailing in the Strait of Gibraltar as part of the 2023 Ocean Race on Thursday. A group of orcas, otherwise known as killer whales, surrounded the Dutch crew’s yacht, first circling the boat and then ramming into it. “This was a scary moment,” Jelmer van Beek, Team JAJO skipper, said, according to the Associated Press. “Three orcas came straight at us and started hitting the rudders. Impressive to see the orcas, beautiful animals, but also a dangerous moment for us as a team.” Some of Team JAJO’s crew banged...

The NJ Attorney General says Middletown is putting the physical safety of transgender students at risk by "outing" them to their parents. MIDDLETOWN, NJ — The state of New Jersey has now sued the Middletown school district, plus Marlboro and Manalapan, over their new transgender student policies. In Middletown, teachers are now required to notify parents if their child seeks to officially go by a different name or gender pronoun, or use a different bathroom in school. Marlboro and Manalapan-Englishtown Regional school boards approved similar transgender policies this week. But NJ Attorney General Matt Platkin says the districts are...

Part V: A Pinch of Incense to Modernism -- How Accepting Ecclesia Dei, etc. Poisoned PrinciplesSee all the previous posts in this series on Ecclesia Dei and its aftermath on our Modernism page. I started out this series bringing up principles. If someone calls you a person of principle, what do they mean? The American Heritage Dictionary defines principle as: A basic truth, law, or assumption.A rule or standard, especially of good behavior.The collectivity of moral or ethical standards or judgments.The adjective principled means "characterized by principle." So a person of principle or a principled person is one who holds...

The top two public health agencies in the United States conducted a joint study showing that the risk of developing autoimmune heart disease among the “fully vaccinated” for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) is a shocking 13,200 percent higher than it is among the unvaccinated. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discovered that compared to the background risk in the general population, the risk of myocarditis is 133 times greater in those who took the mRNA injections from either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna. Genesis Gold Group Researchers from several top universities...

ABC’s “World News Tonight” and “CBS Evening News” on Thursday evening ignored the bombshell IRS whistleblower allegations that Hunter Biden received preferential treatment from the Justice Department (DOJ) regarding probes into tax violations. On Thursday morning, House Republicans released transcripts of two IRS whistleblowers, one of whom provided evidence that Joe Biden was present when Hunter Biden pressured a Chinese business partner to send them millions of dollars, Breitbart News reported. A second whistleblower also said the DOJ interfered in the effort to investigate Hunter Biden for tax crimes, although Joe Biden’s attorney general recently claimed otherwise.

Ever since the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, theories have continuously emerged that questioned the official narrative. Some are ludicrous, such as the one about a cursed mummy onboard that was repeated by the NY Times shortly after the sinking. Some have legs, such as the notion that a German U-Boat sunk her in their quest for WWI sea domination. One theory in particular stands out as not only plausible, but potentially tied to the current tragedy unfolding in the news. According to Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies: Since no one is offering the conspiracy narrative of the submarine...

"The FBI verified its authenticity in November of 2019 by matching the device number against Hunter Biden’s Apple iCloud ID," IRS whistleblower Shapley testified. The FBI knew the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware repair shop was authentic back in 2019. IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley Jr revealed in testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee that "in October 2019, the FBI became aware that a repair shop had a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden and that laptop might contain evidence of a crime." This was a full year before the laptop came to light via the New...

Hunter Biden identified himself as “heteroflexible” on a social networking and hook-up site geared towards people interested in the sexual practices of bondage, domination, sadism, masochism (BDSM), and other forms of fetishism. Hunter Biden’s profile on the website FetLife, short for fetish life, which is described as being like “Facebook for kinksters,” reveals his self-described sexual orientation to be “heteroflexible,” meaning that he is interested in having sex not just with women, but with other men. According to a definition of “heteroflexible” available on the FetLife website, “This term refers to people who are mostly attracted to the ‘opposite’ gender...

Medical residents from other states are receiving instruction at the University of New Mexico Center for Reproductive Health in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. One way that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade last year, has impacted abortion care across the U.S. is in medical training. Obstetrics and gynecology students studying in states where abortion is banned can no longer receive integrated abortion care training into their years of study. Dr. Jody Steinauer, director of the University of California-San Francisco Bixby Center ... said that OB-GYN medical students now have to travel...

An exclusive report from Politico has uncovered former President Barrack Obama has been holding secretive meetings with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and several other Democrats. According to the report Obama has held “informal, but lengthy private meetings with groups of next-generation House Democrats.” The report revealed Obama met with several Democrat lawmakers such as Maxwell Frost of Florida, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Haley Stevens of Michigan and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey.

Under a historic water crisis in the desert southwest, the Navajo Nation asked for a court order requiring the federal government to determine the Nation’s water needs and to devise a plan to meet those needs. In a 5-4 decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court held that the United States owes no “affirmative duty” to the Navajo Nation to secure water, reversing a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The majority ruled that the 1868 Treaty of Bosque Redondo, known to the Nation as the Old Paper, or Naal Tsoos Sani, established no federal obligation...