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(Last Updated On: August 30, 2023) NATIONAL HOT CROSS BUN DAY | SEPTEMBER 11 National Hot Cross Bun Day on September 11th encourages us to rise and shine to this tasty treat! #NationalHotCrossBunsDay Currants or raisins baked into the bun add a sweet flavor. As noted in the name of this baked good, it’s marked with a cross. To make the cross, bakers use a doughy paste baked into the bread. Sometimes, icing is used to make the cross instead. Hot cross buns are traditionally eaten at the end of Lent in many historically Christian countries. Lent begins the evening...

Chinese hackers broke into a Microsoft engineer’s corporate account, leading to the unauthorized access of email accounts belonging to senior U.S. officials, casting a shadow over the tech giant’s cybersecurity measures. The hack occurred in June, but the company just completed an internal investigation that pointed the finger at its own sloppy security practices. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft has disclosed that China-linked hackers compromised the corporate account of one of its engineers, then used this unauthorized access to steal a digital key in order to forge authentication tokens. These tokens granted them access to email accounts on Microsoft’s cloud servers,...

I ain’t never been to Spain, but the US under Biden is like Spain in terms of default risk. Actually, I have to Spain numerous times and love visiting Barcelona. But the US debt fiasco under Biden and Congressional spending sprees has led to … US credit default swap being priced worse than Spain’s CDS. With Biden/Congress orgy of spending (and a declining economy in many important respects), the US is seeing Federal debt near $33 TRILLION and even worse, unfunded Federal liabilities (promises, promises) are at $193 TRILLION, almost 6 times the current Federal debt load. If you are...

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Democrats accidentally let their master plan to utterly destroy the United States Constitution slip out into public slightly ahead of schedule. "Welp, this is embarrassing," said Governor Grisham of New Mexico. "Really jumped the gun on announcing how we would do away with the Bill of Rights. Get it - jumped the gun?? Ha! Anyhow, yeah, that's how we're going to blow the Constitution to pieces. Cat's out of the bag!" According to sources within the party, the Democrats had planned on giving it another five to ten years before destroying the remains of the Constitution.

[A kindly reminder to where we were back in 2001, days after 9/11] Two hundred and twenty-five years ago, the signers of the Declaration of Independence declared that "all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." Throughout the course of American history, courageous men and women have taken up arms to secure, defend, and maintain these core principles upon which our Nation's freedoms depend. On September 11, 2001, terrorists ruthlessly attacked our land and these freedoms. The terrorists' deluded attempt to...

* US President Joe Biden said China's economic problems could keep Beijing from invading Taiwan. * Biden said Chinese President Xi Jinping has his "hands full" with China's economic issues. * Beijing claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory and has been stepping up military drills around the island. China's probably too busy with its economic crisis to bother about invading Taiwan, US President Joe Biden said on Sunday. China's "difficult economic problem" currently is unlikely to cause the country to invade Taiwan, Biden said at a press conference during his state visit to Hanoi in Vietnam, according to a recording...

A lithium deposit discovered in a volcanic crater along the Nevada-Oregon border may hold up to 40 million metric tons of the rare metal — possibly the largest ever in the world, which could have a massive impact on the electric vehicle industry, according to a new study. The deposit hidden within the McDermitt Caldera is estimated to hold between 20 million and 40 million metric tons, which would be nearly double the current record of about 23 million metric tons found over the summer beneath a Bolivian salt flat, researchers reported in Science Advances. It would also greatly boost...

On this date in 1764, Pierre-Paul Sirven and his wife — who lay beyond the reach of the law, in Switzerland — were burned in effigy at Mazamet, France, for murdering their daughter. The Sirvens actually had three daughters; the purported victim, Elisabeth, was mentally unbalanced. The Protestant Pierre-Paul Sirven had had a recent run-in with the Catholic hierarchy in his native Castres, when Elisabeth was shanghaied to a convent for Catholic indoctrination under a lettre de cachet. The Sirvens moved away to Saint Alby, near Mazamet, but when Elisabeth turned up dead in a well there early in 1762,...

Bible Only is dumb ANSWERS TO 25 QUESTIONS ON THEHISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENTWHICH COMPLETELY REFUTE THE "BIBLE ONLY" THEORYONEDid Our Lord write any part of the New Testament or command His Apostles to do so? Our Lord Himself never wrote a line, nor is there any record that He ordered his Apostles to write; He did command them to teach and to preach. Also He to Whom all power was given in Heaven and on earth (Matt. 28-18) promised to give them the Holy Spirit (John 14-26) and to be with them Himself till the end of the world...

We’ve now had six months worth of statistics on overdose deaths in British Columbia following the move to decriminalize simple possession of all drugs. The results aren’t just less than encouraging, they should be sending people screaming in the other direction... Right now, according to the latest figures from the British Columbia Coroners Service, the province is on track for their worst year ever for drug overdose deaths — even after bringing in their decriminalization of possession on Jan. 31... This despite the fact that B.C. has implemented every harm-reduction program that has been proposed, from safe-injection sites to safe...

Supporters of former President Donald Trump dropped an absolutely massive “Trump of DEATH” banner during the 7th inning of the New York Yankees versus Detroit Tigers game on Wednesday.The banner was dropped from the stands during the National Anthem.Freedom News captured a video of the unveiling and posted it to X, the platform formerly known as “Twitter.”#HappeningNow HUGE “Trump or DEATH” Flag dropped at Yankees stadium during National Anthem ‘God Bless America’ as Detroit Tigers play New York Yankees pic.twitter.com/f0J3c0MfHo— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) September 7, 2023The Big Lead reports, “Something about this railing must make it the ideal display...

The Big Lie, as it quickly became known, was that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election. He’s still out there peddling this nonsense, and a lot of people still believe it, though thankfully, they constitute a clear minority of voters. But now there’s a new lie being peddled. Call it Big Lie Two. Trump has been hawking this one for a while too, but it has been, to my mind, oddly little remarked-upon. That needs to change: Big Lie Two is more (Excerpt) ...

VIDEOJoe Biden in Hanoi suffered the extreme HUMILIATION of his own staff publicly treating him like a senile old fool by shutting him down in the middle of a press conference. In this video we see the results of what would have happened if Biden's staff similarly shut down other presidents of the past in the middle of their own speeches.

Biden kissed John McCain's memorial in Vietnam

Former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile said Sunday that Democrats should be “concerned” ahead of the 2024 election in the wake of recent polling showing worries over President Biden’s age. “I’m not sleeping at night thinking all is well, OK?” Brazile said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “I have nieces and nephews who say, ‘Well why should I vote for this guy? He’s a little old.’ I say, ‘Your papa was old too, and look what he did to help you.’ So I think the Democrats have to continue to make the case. Democrats should be concerned.”

[snip] ...In the suit, however, shareholders claim that Amazon "acted in bad faith" and made no effort to properly discharge their fiduciary duties when picking the launch providers. They primarily claim that SpaceX, the leader within the industry was glossed over and not even considered when making the decision. If that were the case, they would have a valid point considering the cost per launch and timeline these satellites are meant to launch by... [/snip]Amazon Shareholders Think SpaceX Should Have Been Picked For Kuiper Launches | 8:06TheSpaceBucket | 23.3K subscribers | 17,895 views | September 1, 2023

Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is coming under fire from members of her own party after temporarily suspending open and concealed carry across Albuquerque under an emergency health order. "I support gun safety laws. However, this order from the Governor of New Mexico violates the U.S. Constitution. No state in the union can suspend the federal Constitution. There is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the U.S. Constitution," California Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu tweeted. Lujan Grisham temporarily suspended open and concealed carry laws in Bernalillo County for at least 30 days, starting Sept....

The Biden administration‘s efforts to promote electric vehicles hit a roadblock during Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm‘s summer trip through the southeast United States.Granholm and her entourage used a fleet of electric vehicles to journey from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Memphis, Tennessee, with town hall events along the way, NPR’s Camila Domonoske wrote in a report published on Sunday.The purpose of the trip was to “draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars,” but Domonoske, who joined the caravan for the ride, shared how the four-day venture was not a smooth...

(Toroidal Propellers)Why is this Propeller Getting So Much Attention? | 12:28Undecided with Matt Ferrell | 1.27M subscribers | 1,356,396 views | May 2, 2023

"Feminism is about giving men the right to pretend to be women, take their accomplishments, and invade their spaces!"