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In the 1970s, the coolest job you could have was flipping burgers at McDonald’s. At least according to Paul Hendel... Still, he felt conflicted. Hendel asked his dad for advice before accepting the offer at McDonald’s. That conversation, he says, “changed the trajectory of my career.” “We were out to dinner, and I mentioned the offer from Hunt, and my dad’s first question — I’ll never forget it — was, ‘Do you like what you do?’” says Hendel. “And I said, ‘Yeah, I really love it.’ And he goes, ‘Do you think you’re good at it?’ And I said, ‘Well...

Even the fastest animal in the world can't outrun the effects of climate change, according to experts. Cheetah populations are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures because hotter days are forcing them to behave more nocturnally, putting them in greater competition with other predators such as lions and African wild dogs, according to a study published in the journal Biological Sciences on Wednesday. Researchers from the University of Washington investigated the impacts of temperature on the activity timings and overlaps between four species of large carnivores in Africa, including lions, leopards, cheetahs and African wild dogs. They found that temperature shaped...

Hate crimes against Jews in Democrat-run New York City surged 214 percent last month, the far-left New York Daily News reports. This is typical. Most of the gun violence, violent crime, pollution, sexism, racism, and hate crimes occur where Democrats are in charge. Time and time again, we see this. And yet, in rural MAGA Land, where all the supposed racists live, where we all own guns, where we supposedly don’t care about the environment, our towns and neighborhoods are clean, peaceful, safe, and tolerant. Funny how that works.

Meet Wanda- The Ballot Stuffer A primary election in CT was overturned because she was seen on surveillance allegedly stuffing absentee ballots in drop boxes around the city. We’re never going to run out of Wandas. We need cameras everywhere. video at link......................

Police and SWAT team members continued their search of a section of sprawling New Jersey woods for a man wanted on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. The search for the man, identified as Gregory Yetman, was ongoing near the Middlesex County town of Helmetta, according to the FBI. Tactical teams could be seen in the backyard of homes, as Chopper 4 showed law enforcement searching one property and a shed. The heavily armed teams set off flashbang grenades as part of the search, with the loud bangs echoing throughout the neighborhood. It...

Here is a list of the 70 House Republicans who voted to reward the FBI for targeting their voters. REPRESENTATIVE PARTY STATE VOTE Bacon Republican Nebraska Barr Republican Kentucky Bentz Republican Oregon Bice Republican Oklahoma Bost Republican Illinois Buchanan Republican Florida Buck Republican Colorado Calvert Republican California Carey Republican Ohio Carter (TX) Republican Texas Chavez-DeRemer Republican Oregon Cole Republican Oklahoma D’Esposito Republican New York Diaz-Balart Republican Florida Duarte Republican California Edwards Republican North Carolina Ellzey Republican Texas Feenstra Republican Iowa Ferguson Republican Georgia Fitzpatrick Republican Pennsylvania Flood Republican Nebraska Garbarino Republican New York Gonzales, Tony Republican Texas González-Colón Republican Puerto...

The latest ghoulish development following the slaughter of 1,400 Jews in the Oct. 7 Israeli attack on Israel is quite a shocker. The AP, CNN, Reuters, and The New York Times used footage and photos from reporters embedded with Hamas terrorists during their slaughter of hundreds of Jews. These Western media outlets then posted the photos in their coverage of this horrendous surprise attack on Israel.

Another day, another dose of bad fiscal/monetary news. Not surprising with the US Treasury being run by Janet Yellen, who doesn’t seem to know much economics. In fact, with Biden/Congress spending like drunken sailors in port, inflation and The Fed’s counterattack, we see that interest of US debt just hit $1 TRILLION! $1.027 trillion in interest is calculated by multiplying the average interest rate on marketable US Treasury debt (which according to the Treasury is 3.096% as of Oct 31) by the $26.003 trillion in marketable US debt (as of Oct 31) which nets off to $805 billion, and adding...

The ministry reported a 149% increase in interest from Jewish French citizens and and an 81% increase from North American Jews...Sofer says his ministry staff is prepared for a large wave of immigrants and a unified desire to support the State of Israel in the coming year. Ofir Sofer, the minister of Aliyah and Integration, said the Jewish state is ready to face what he called a “state of emergency” due to a 500% rise in global antisemitism, especially against Jewish youths on university campuses. “The State of Israel awaits everyone,” he added, inviting Jews around the world to move...

President Ronald Reagan rode a “Morning in America” message to a blowout re-election victory in 1984, based partly on warm feelings about his economic performance. Today’s economy is similar in many ways to Mr. Reagan’s as he entered that campaign, with one big difference: There is widespread voter angst over the incumbent’s economic stewardship. A New York Times/Siena College poll shows President Biden trailing his likely Republican opponent, former President Donald J. Trump, in key battleground states. Poll respondents rate the economy poorly and say they trust Mr. Trump more to fix it. That’s true even though the economy grew...

Former Air Force pilot and U.S. Sen. Martha McSally said she was the victim of a sexual assault Wednesday while running near Omaha Nebraska. The former Republican senator from Arizona posted about the incident on her Instagram. “I was just sexually assaulted while out running. I am safe. I am ok. It could have been much worse. I have a lot to process. For anyone else who has been assaulted, speak up. Find your power. Process it emotionally, spiritually, neurologically. I am safe,” she wrote. “I was just running while I was out running along the Missouri River on the...

Diana Walsh Pasulka never imagined that her scholarly work in the field of religion would lead her to skulking around in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, with one of the world’s top scientists and a former high NASA official. She tells the story in her riveting 2019 book American Cosmic, in which Pasulka, a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, surveyed the then-current state of knowledge of UFOs and related phenomena. Then came the shocking 2021 revelations by the U.S. government that it had been investigating UFOs—then renamed ‘unidentified aerial phenomena,’ or UAPs. In a...

Body language expert analysis on RdS. Brutal. #MAGA #Trump2024NowMorethanEver

Jonathan Oswaks, who protested alongside Paul Kessler before his death, claimed the pro-Palestinian suspect 'tried to bait' the Jewish man A pro-Israel protester who claims to have witnessed the fatal altercation that killed Jewish man Paul Kessler at dueling California rallies on Sunday told Fox News Digital that the unnamed suspect "tried to bait" the elderly man. Jonathan Oswaks, a Jewish-American, befriended Kessler at earlier "We Stand With Israel" events in Thousand Oaks. Oswaks, also 69, was pictured carrying American and Gadsen flags alongside Kessler hours before the fatal fall in footage provided to Fox News Digital. He said Tuesday...

When you played second fiddle to a revered, charismatic, transformative president who chose you as his running mate not because you dazzled him but because you dully rounded him out, not because he saw you as the party’s future but because you were a link to its past, can you ever shine as brightly as you deserve to? When you’ve been in government forever and almost everything about you smacks of tradition, can you beat back complaints that you’re out of touch and sweet-talk voters who are soured on the status quo? George H.W. Bush, running for a second term...

This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then...

The White House immediately objected on Wednesday to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) issuing subpoenas for the Bidens to testify under oath in December, calling the subpoenas “nasty personal smears.” The subpoenas represent the next step in the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The president claims he was never in business with the Biden family despite evidence otherwise. Comer subpoenaed Hunter and James Biden, along with family associate Rob Walker, to testify under oath.

Nothing changed. Trump won.— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 8, 2023

The Vatican also said that the children of gay couples, including ones who are adopted or born to surrogate mothers, may be baptized, and that such couples may serve as godparents. The statement, released on Wednesday, helps to clarify Catholic teaching with regard to transgender people, a topic the Vatican has said little about until now. “A transsexual—even one who has undergone hormonal treatment and sex reassignment surgery—can receive baptism, under the same conditions as other believers, if there are no situations in which there is a risk of generating public scandal or disorientation in the faithful,” said a statement...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Welcomes “Transgender” People as Godparents“An historic step forward.” That’s how Jimmy “Bridge to Hell” Martin praised it. Pope Francis has committed yet another “heresy of practice.”What just happened?In a document issued only in Italian (since no one in Rome seems to know the Roman language any more), two kinds of persons are put forth and “welcomed” and given roles in the Church without a clear and firm purpose of amendment. The bottom line is that this exposes children to the transgender tyranny that has already been invading our public libraries in the United States.Now this tyranny...