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In this episode of You Can't Make It Up... According to a whistleblower report sent to Congress on Friday, the chief medical officer for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pressured his staff to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in September. When the top doc was caught, his excuse was even more idiotic than his desperate effort to get his hands on the deadly drug — disguised as lollipops, no less. Dr. Alexander Eastman’s staff raised questions about why he would need to fentanyl lollipops to take to the...

Plastic producers should ‘pay for the damage they’ve caused’ after decades of deception, the report's authors say. Recycling has been promoted as a solution to plastic waste management for more than 50 years. But big oil companies and the plastics industry have known for decades that it’s not a technically or economically viable solution, a new report reveals. Combining existing research and recently revealed internal documents, the report by the Center for Climate Integrity Research (CCI) could form the foundation for legal action, its authors say. “When corporations and trade groups know that their products pose grave risks to society,...

When the going gets tough, the tough grab a good knife1. CRKT Karen Hood Chopper - Editor's Pick The Chopper is part machete, part knife, part axe and more. Designed by renowned survivalist Karen Hood, the CRKT Chopper has a 9.125-inch blade made from 1025 high carbon steel. It has a resin-infused handle that is sturdy and non-slip. The blade is slightly curved with a thick spine weighted at the grip. This gives this knife extended chopping power, making it good for cutting small trees, as well as brush and other stuff you might run into in the wilds. The...

A Houston college student sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 breach at the U.S. Capitol is one of the alleged victims of a FBI agent who was indicted for theft. Alexander Fan was sentenced to 12 months probation for trespassing during a sentencing hearing on Friday. His attorney, Mark Thering, said he pleaded guilty and expressed genuine remorse in a statement to the court. Fan's home was searched after his arrest in June 2023. Court records filed ahead of the hearing state, "the next day, Fan reported to the FBI that some items--including cash and silver bars--had...

Several hundred protesters converged on Parliament Hill Saturday morning, two years after thousands gridlocked downtown Ottawa. — Last month, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley said the invoking the Emergencies Act was unreasonable and violated the constitutional right of free expression. The federal government has already pledged to appeal that decision to the Supreme Court.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is feeling the heat from a demographic crunch. He's calling on Russians to have more babies to preserve their ethnicity, Reuters reported on Thursday. "If we want to survive as an ethnic group — well, or as ethnic groups inhabiting Russia — there must be at least two children," Putin said at a tank factory, according to the news agency. It's not enough just for each family to have one kid — because Russia's population would contract, Putin said, while issuing conflicting statements on how many kids families need to have. "In order to expand and...

One aggravating peculiarity of baby boomers – one of many, to be sure – was to imagine their parents and every preceding generation afflicted with a lack of self-awareness. From farm hand to Harvard man, they were all benighted rubes, overwhelmed by the speed of change and in thrall to authority and received wisdom. Irony was born out of thin air, in the smoky funk of a dorm room when someone put on a Lenny Bruce record after Rubber Soul. While it's far from the most egregious error their cohort ever forced upon the world (Earth Day and the music...

On February 14, 2024, a significant development unfolded in the financial regulatory landscape as four leading financial associations—the Bank Policy Institute (BPI), the American Bankers Association (ABA), the Financial Services Forum (the Forum), and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)—jointly addressed a letter to Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This letter represents a unified request from these influential bodies for the SEC to consider targeted modifications to Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 (SAB 121), a directive that has significantly impacted U.S. banking organizations’ ability to engage with digital assets since its issuance...

The White House is ripping comments by UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Martin Griffiths that Hamas is not a terrorist group. "Hamas is a terrorist organization," White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby insisted on Thursday, according to The Jerusalem Post. "And you don't have to look any further than what they did on the 7th of October to see it in stark terms," he said. Kirby's remarks referenced the Hamas-led attack against southern Israel in which over 1,200 people were killed and another 253 seized as hostages. "My goodness, take a look at their...

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions This smear: “[Trump] did not move on making sure that we dealt with vaccinating the American public. We ended up losing over a million people dead.” — President Biden, Monday We say: What a vile lie. Under Trump, COVID vaccines became available in record time. By his last month as prez, January 2021, enough were ready for some groups to take them. Without the vax, 440,000 Americans (not “over a million”) died of COVID under Trump. Yet even with it, nearly 800,000 more succumbed under Biden.

From an opera concert with Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Opera in Olavshallen, Trondheim, 11 March 2021. Conductor: James Gaffigan Valkyries: Helmwige – Sigrid Vetleseter Bøe, Gerhilde – Camilla Stenhoff Vist, Schwertleite – Siv Oda Hagerupsen, Waltraute – Åse Krystad, Ortlinde – Tonje Eero Hove, Rossweisse – Maria Nohr, Grimgerde – Nina Sætherhaug.Richard Wagner: The Valkyrie - Ride of the Valkyries

President Joe Biden is insisting that he made the right decisions on the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, despite the deaths of 13 service members during a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport as the evacuations were taking place, according to a new book. "No one offered to resign, in large part because the president didn't believe anyone had made a mistake," Politico's Alexander Ward wrote in "The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore Foreign Policy After Trump," reported Axios. "Ending the war was always going to be messy." After the withdrawal, Biden told his top aides, including national security adviser...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has downgraded a staggering 60 percent of felony cases to lesser charges in the last year, data from his office shows. The progressive DA reduced 938 of the most serious charged in 2023, 834 of which were brought down to misdemeanors. Under Bragg, the percentage of felonies downgraded has increased to 60 - up from 53% percent under his predecessor. Bragg's team defended the figures stating the office's performance is on a par with other New York boroughs and higher when it comes to felony convictions.

New York Attorney General Letitia James said Donald Trump and his organization owe $463.9 million, which includes the interest on top of the $355 million. He also owes the “rape” victim with a crazy story and no evidence, E Jean Carroll, $88 million, which he has to pay for defaming her already tarnished reputation. He has to find the money or part of it, depending on what the court determines, and put it in escrow quickly. Interest accrues daily for this bogus lawsuit. Not only that, the interest accrues while the appeals take place. Letitia James is the top lawmaker...

[Catholic Caucus] Jordan Peterson slams Pope Francis’ fixation on ‘climate change’: ‘He should be saving souls’Saving souls is ‘how you save the planet, not by worshipping Gaia,’ Jordan Peterson said, criticizing ‘contemptible’ efforts to make the Church ‘more relevant’ since the ‘60s and Vatican II. Prominent Canadian anti-woke psychologist Jordan Peterson blasted Pope Francis for neglecting the salvation of souls and focusing on “climate change” and criticized attempts to make the Catholic Church “relevant” since the 1960s and the Second Vatican Council. On February 11, Peterson joined Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) reporter Colm Flynn to discuss a sundry of...

Charles "Lefty" Driesell, the Hall of Fame coach whose folksy drawl belied a fiery on-court demeanor that put Maryland on the college basketball map and enabled him to rebuild several struggling programs, died Saturday. He was 92. Maryland announced Driesell's death. His grandson, Ty Anderson, an assistant coach at Wofford, told The Washington Post that Driesell died at his home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Driesell finished with 786 victories over parts of five decades and was the first coach to win more than 100 games at four NCAA Division I schools. He started at Davidson in 1960 before bringing Maryland...

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"Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: "Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee. And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him." "So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses." ☰ Matthew 18 1 At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus,...

In 2020, Robin DiAngelo was the queen of DEI, raking in a healthy six-figure salary to scold other white people about their privilege. But now her diversity empire has withered — leaving her spewing nonsense in obscure crevices of the internet. On a recent episode of the “Not Your Ordinary Parts” podcast, the “White Fragility” author slammed Michelangelo’s depiction of God creating man as “white supremacist” — and repeatedly misidentified the Old Testament’s Adam as David in the process. DiAngelo told host Jalon Johnson that the iconic painting “The Creation of Adam” is “the single image I use to capture...