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President Joe Biden said that he's been too busy to visit East Palestine after the Ohio train disaster as criticism mounts over president's ability to handle moments of crisis. Biden has spent the past two weeks reeling from criticism over his handling of the Maui wildfires, while Saturday he was snubbed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on a visit after Hurricane Idalia. Sunday will mark exactly seven months since the February 3 catastrophe. The commander-in-chief was ripped back in February for waiting to visit, eventually promising on March 2 that he would.

"Be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil" (Eph. 6:10-11). Adequate preparation is the key to spiritual victory. The Gulf War introduced some highly sophisticated weapons that had never been proven under live battle conditions. Most of the troops hadn't experienced war either. Yet troops and machinery combined in a display of military conquest unparalleled in history. Thorough preparation proved to be an indispensible element in that overwhelming victory. That included developing and testing high-tech...

Dr. Anthony Fauci flip-flopped once again on masking as a means to tamp down COVID-19 as he admitted that a wide-ranging study found that face masks made no difference in the course of the pandemic. “I am concerned that people will not abide by recommendations,” Fauci told CNN’s Michael Smerconish Saturday in a segment flagging a rise in COVID cases nationwide. Federal agencies and state and local governments decreed onerous mask mandates for airplanes, schools, public transit, restaurants, workplaces and more starting in 2020 — thanks largely to Fauci, the public face of the nation’s official COVID response. As the...

A District Court judge has denied Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) request to halt the First Amendment lawsuit filed against her administration by Maine healthcare workers concerning the State’s enforcement of the COVID-19 vaccine mandates. In a ruling last week, Judge Jon D. Levy of the Maine District Court denied a motion to stay filed on behalf of Mills and several other officials in her cabinet. The lawsuit in question — Alicia Lowe, et al., v. Janet Mills, et al. — alleges that the State of Maine violated healthcare workers’ First Amendment rights by refusing to allow a religious exemption to...

DAX and Tom McDonald. I'm a country, bluegrass, old school rocknroll guitar player. Never in my life.. . https://youtube.com/watch?v=OmaqK8GwTcI&si=zoW1Q71PKbAdxH9y

(RNS) — LGBTQ students at Brigham Young University celebrated three years ago when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ flagship school quietly deleted from the honor code a ban on “homosexual behavior.” For the first time, many students began holding hands or kissing in public. Others took the moment to come out as queer. Then, a month later, the Church Educational System administrators who oversee BYU’s campuses issued a statement clarifying that despite the deleted language, “same-sex romantic behavior” wasn’t compatible with the honor code. Last week, the Church Educational System restored language to the code explicitly prohibiting...

Universities in Florida and Texas were excluded from a national list of LGBTQ-friendly schools put together annually by Campus Pride. In presenting the 2023-2024 list this week, the nonprofit group said the exclusions were a result of new state laws that “endanger and harm LGBTQ people.” Every year, Campus Pride, a nonprofit group that advocates for safer and more LGBTQ-friendly colleges, issues a compilation of the “Best of the Best LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities’’ and the “Absolute Worst Campuses for LGBTQ Youth.” The organization announced it had omitted the University of North Florida, the University of Central Florida, the University...

Bombshell investigation uncovers Fulton County DA Fani Willis has been involved in a multi-state network of illicit operations involving wire fraud, evasion of campaign finance limits, structuring of financial transactions, tax fraud, non profit fraud, identity theft, and elder abuse. In a shocking turn of events, a bombshell investigation has uncovered jaw-dropping connections between Fani Willis and a sprawling web of election fraud and money laundering activities.

A newly described fossil suggests that the ancestor of humans and apes arose in Europe, not in Africa...In the new study, the researchers analyzed a newly identified ape fossil from the 8.7 million-year-old site of Çorakyerler in central Anatolia. They dubbed the species Anadoluvius turkae. "Anadolu" is the modern Turkish word for Anatolia, and "turk" refers to Turkey.The fossil suggests that A. turkae likely weighed about 110 to 130 pounds (50 to 60 kilograms), or about the weight of a large male chimpanzee.Based on the fossils of other animals found alongside it — such as giraffes, warthogs, rhinos, antelope, zebras,...

Preterm babies given a supplement with a combination of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids have better visual function by the age of two and a half. This has been shown by a study. The study covers 178 extremely preterm babies at the neonatal units of the university hospitals in Gothenburg, Lund, and Stockholm between 2016 and 2019. Extremely preterm babies are those born before the 28th week of pregnancy. Around half of the children were given preventive oral nutritional supplements containing the omega-6 fatty acid AA (arachidonic acid) and the omega-3 fatty acid DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). Neither AA nor DHA...

@elonmusk Perhaps we should run a poll on this? RE: @EvaVlaar The fact that #BanTheADL is trending shows how done people are with the “we’re labeling everything we don’t like as hateful/racist/dangerous/far-right” BS. People aren’t afraid of your intimidation tactics anymore, @JGreenblattADL. Your labels have lost their power. [THREAD ...]@WallStreetSilv Yes. The ADL, ACLU and SPLC are radical left wing hate groups. @elonmusk It would be difficult to describe them as centrist @krassenstein You really have to make the option to only allow for blue checkmarks to participate in polls. I’ve noticed that the bot activity around polls are pretty...

2024 GOP Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy join Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss his presidential campaign. ...

Yvonne De Carlo was born on the 1st of September, 1922, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Universal Pictures producer Walter Wanger described her as "the most beautiful girl in the world." In the New York times, Bosley Crowther wrote of her performance in "Salome, Where She Danced" (1945): "Miss De Carlo has an agreeable mezzo-soprano singing voice, all the 'looks' one girl could ask for, and, moreover, she dances with a sensuousness which must have caused the Hays office some anguish." De Carlo said: “I’m all for men and I think they ought to stay up there and be the bosses,...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business; End to Sex Slavery; Healthcare, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. ~ 1 Timothy 2:1-2 Religion Forum Threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. - Several local politicians have publicly expressed concern over San Jose Councilman Bien Doan's affiliation with an anti-LGBTQ group. In an open letter to Doan, Assemblyman Alex Lee formed a coalition with LGBTQ+ officials expressing their concern with Doan's association with "Informed Parents of Silicon Valley" and asked Doan to publicly condemn the organization, which they are calling a "hate group."

A new dementia risk score, which draws on 11 mostly modifiable risk factors, identifies people at risk—from midlife onward—of developing the disease within the next 14 years, suggests a large long term study. The UK Biobank Dementia Risk Score, or UKBDRS for short, outperformed three other widely used risk scores originally developed in Australia (ANU-ADRI), Finland (CAIDE), and the U.K. (DRS), the findings show. In all, 220,762 (average age just under 60) people from the UK Biobank study and 2,934 (average age 57) from the Whitehall II study were included in the final analysis. The researchers compiled a list of...

2023 Streamy Awards winners, nominees, & categories Winners in each category are highlighted. CREATOR OF THE YEAR Airrack Alix Earle Charli D’Amelio Jay Shetty JiDion Logan Paul Mikayla Nogueira MrBeast Ryan Trahan Zach King SHOW OF THE YEAR AMP BRYCE – Brandon Rogers Challenge Accepted – Michelle Khare Chicken Shop Date – Amelia Dimoldenberg Good Mythical Morning Hot Ones – First We Feast I spent a day with – Anthony Padilla RDCWorld Sam and Colby UNHhhh – WOWPresents STREAMER OF THE YEAR Emiru HasanAbi Ironmouse IShowSpeed Kai Cenat Ludwig Quackity tarik Valkyrae xQc INTERNATIONAL Enaldinho (Brazil) Gaules (Brazil) ibai (Spain)...

On the second of September in 1914, the mayor of Senlis, France, was shot by the occupying Germans in the opening weeks of World War I. The beautiful ancient town, where the Carolingian dynasty met its end (King Louis V was killed in a hunting accident there in 987, enabling Hugh Capet to take the throne), unhappily found right in the path of the German army smashing its way towards Paris as France and her allies gave way. German troops reached Senlis by the first of September, and overwhelmed the city in a minor battle. On guard from the experience...

The Centrist Movement of President Emmanuel Macron's slavish devotion to banking-business priorities for France like a higher retirement age and a lower corporate tax burden doesn't excite grass roots voters. In fact, they caught on when fuel taxes were imposed back in the fall of 2018 in the name of "Climate" and millions came out into the streets to launch the Yellow Vests protests that were massive in scale until the government backed down on the fuel taxation. Also in the mix incidents of violence in the center of Paris and allegations of Anti-Semitism among the protesters. Last Sunday's move...