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Unidentified flying objects are real and may be “unfriendly” advanced technology, the former head of Nasa’s UFO inquiry has said... [...] After reading numerous reports, and speaking to witnesses, who have seen strange objects in the sky, Dr Zurbuchen said he remains convinced there is something out there. He said: “Not only did I talk to pilots, I talked to individuals who had sightings and they were really convinced. I really felt they told me the subjective truth. They were not lying, they were not making things up. I think they were telling me what they saw. “The fact that...

There has been a massive shift in support away from Gov. Ron DeSantis to former President Donald Trump in Florida, the latest Victory Polling data shows.The latest survey shows Trump asserting his sheer dominance in Florida after trailing in this same survey mere months ago.In May, for instance, the two presidential hopefuls were tied, but DeSantis’s standing has continually dropped over the course of his presidential campaign.August’s survey shows Trump leading the Republican field in Florida with 59 percent of the vote, reflecting a 21-point increase from his standing in late May. DeSantis now comes in a distant second, 39...

Former President Donald Trump still leads the Republican primary field by double digits, even if hypothetically convicted of a crime, a recent Yahoo!/YouGov survey found.The survey asked Republicans and Republican-leaners, “If Trump is convicted of a serious crime in the coming months, who would you vote for in your state’s 2024 Republican primary?”In that scenario, Trump still maintains a double-digit lead among his GOP challengers with 35 percent support. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis comes 15 points behind with 20 percent support, followed by anti-woke businessman Vivek Ramaswamy (nine percent), South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (five percent), and former New Jersey...

I'm 57 years old and last week I joined a Menopause Support Group on Facebook, basically to ask a few questions about certain cervical issues prior to attending an appointment with my OB-GYN in a few weeks for my annual check-up. First of all, joining this group was like joining an 18th Century Scottish secret society with a bunch of questions to answer prior to getting approval. After I was approved, I searched for my topic and scrolled down the page to read some posts/comments.Imagine my surprise (why would I be surprised by anything at this point?) when I came...

Republicans and their cable news allies are still hot and bothered about climate change. A few examples: Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) accused Climate Envoy John Kerry of being a “grifter,” trying to charge taxpayers “a quadrillion dollars to fix a problem that doesn’t exist.” Liberals don’t “really believe in global warming,” Tucker Carlson asserted, because “the entire theory is absurd and they know it.” “It’s, hot, hot, hot, all right,” Laura Ingraham told Fox News viewers. “After all, we’re in the middle of a season called ‘summer.’” Stronger hurricanes are “a fact of life in the Sunshine State,” declared Florida...

Vice President Kamala Harris greeted supporters on Martha’s Vineyard Saturday on behalf of the Biden-Harris campaign. Her arrival at the idyllic, high-priced Massachusetts resort was touted as a "grassroots reception." However, access to the VP, on an island in which 75% of voters pulled a lever for the Democrat ticket in 2020, cost as much as $10,000. "I guarantee you not one working-class Democrat (was) invited to the Kamala event," long-time Martha’s Vineyard homeowner, high-profile attorney and longtime Democrat supporter Alan Dershowitz told Fox News Digital. The big-ticket appearance underscored growing concerns, according to many long-time island residents, on an...

Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel of the United States Army and a political analyst, told Tucker Carlson in an interview on his program on the social media network X, formerly known as Twitter, that Ukraine has already lost 400,000 soldiers in its war with Russia. His revelation comes as the New York Times reported that Ukraine’s counteroffensive is struggling because some of Kiev’s best troops are “in the wrong places.”“I think all of the lies that have been told for more than a year and a half about “the Ukrainians are winning”, “Ukrainian causes just”, “the Russians are evil”, “the...

Greece arrested 79 individuals on charges of arson, perhaps in an attempt to blame it on climate change. Is this what happened in Maui, Yellowknife and Tenerife? Environmentalist are trying to falsely magnify "climate change" to use it as an excuse to promote Marxism By Ezequiel Doiny On August 27, 2023 the Gateway Pundit reported "Greece’s catastrophic wildfire has taken a disturbing turn as police authorities have arrested 79 individuals on charges of arson. These suspects are being held responsible for deliberately setting fires that have caused widespread devastation across the country. Greece has witnessed several attempts by arsonists to...

A gunman fatally shot three Black people with an assault rifle covered with swastikas inside a Jacksonville, Florida store in what police are calling a “racially motivated” attack on Saturday. The victims were described as two African-American men and a woman, who were slain by a white male, who shot himself to death before he could be apprehended. The unidentified shooter was earlier seen lurking around the campus of a nearby historically black college before the attack— and he detailed his hatred of black people in one of “several manifestos,” law enforcement said.

But I would posit that perhaps Ramaswamy signifies something more. If you are a youngish person looking to get into politics or some other career of public renown, it’s only natural that you would model yourself on the people in your lifetime who have had ostentatious success in those areas, people like Obama and Trump and Musk. It seems likely that, in the future, we will see a lot more politicians like Vivek Ramaswamy.

Former President Donald Trump’s recently released mugshot will not play well for him in a general election and only appeals to his existing base, a dismissive ex-White House Press Secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki said Saturday. The Hill reports Psakai used commentary she wrote for her weekly MSNBC Daily newsletter titled “Trump’s mug shot will backfire in 2024” to set out her claim.

Preterism is one of today’s popular views of the end times; its adherents among church staff continue to rapidly grow in number. Below is a list of its basic beliefs: Nero was the Antichrist. There will be no future individual Antichrist. The Tribulation Period is already over. It occurred when the Roman army besieged Jerusalem in AD 66-70. Christ “returned” in the clouds in AD 70 to witness the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman army. God replaced Old Testament Israel with the Church. Therefore, all the biblical promises to Israel belong to the Church. Armageddon already happened in AD...

David Bloch, a high school snowboarding coach, has filed a lawsuit against his former employers alleging that he was fired for intimating that men can typically outperform women in sports. The federal lawsuit, against the leaders of Woodstock Union High School, was filed in Vermont and states that Bloch was wrongly accused of violating the school district’s harassment and bullying policy—for referencing a student “in a manner that questioned the legitimacy and appropriateness of [a] student competing on the girls’ team.” Yes, because that student is a boy. According to an Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) news release, a roughly three-minute...

One of the most quoted and controversial figures used in the debate about how effective bear spray is “98%”. The figure is sprayed about (pun intended) promiscuously and irresponsibly. From thetrek.com, quoting Tom Smith: Ninety-eight percent of people who used bear spray escaped injury (with 2% being knocked over but not killed) as opposed to only about 50% of people using guns. The number traces back to a paper authored by Tom Smith and Stephen Herrero, published in 2008. The paper is “Efficacy of Bear Deterrent Spray in Alaska“. It is the seminal paper that launched bear spray as a...

By the arrival of the steam-transports Columbia and America at this port, from Morris Island, we have dates to the 21st inst. at midnight. The bombardment still continued, and the south side of Sumter has been demolished almost to its base. Forts Wagner and Gregg and Point Cummings Battery still replied at short intervals. The batteries on James Island had greatly annoyed the Union troops, and an expedition had been fitted out to silence them. The casualties on the Union side were very small. Gen. GILLMORE and all the officers were confident of final success in reducing all the fortifications...

Here’s a who’s who of the post-World War II military veterans of the National Football League. I started writing this post back in 2010 and it is still under construction, but if you know of players who I haven’t added to the list yet, put them in a comment. Ralph Heywood: After playing only five games for USC in 1943, Heywood was drafted by the Marine Corps and sent to the South Pacific aboard the battleship USS Iowa. Despite his short season, he was selected as an All American end and punter. Following the war, he played five seasons for...

BENGALURU — After claiming to have landed near the south pole of the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) released what they claim is the first photo taken by their lunar lander. Unfortunately, several critics have called the authenticity of the photo into question as it features Bollywood dancers, an astronaut on a tiger, and a man riding a rocket narrowly escaping an explosion as he backflips onto the lunar surface.

(CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago shootings this weekend have left at least 20 people shot, one fatally, police said.) WASHINGTON (AP) — A masked white man carrying at least one weapon bearing a swastika fatally shot three Black people inside a Florida store Saturday in an attack with a clear motive of racial hatred, officials said. The shooting in a Dollar General store in a predominately Black neighborhood left two men and one woman dead and was “racially motivated,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said. In addition to carrying a firearm with a painted symbol of the genocidal Nazi regime of Germany...

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28 Maui has become the biggest coverup of a natural disaster the PA derailment. The state and federal swamps are not releasing the information on deaths or missing children as it fears the investigation of another mass killing will point to the District of Corruption not only causing the deaths and disaster...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...