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Went to gun range this morn for practice. Two orientals (Chinese?) in the two ranges next to us. They shot many times at many different bulls eye targets at about 10 feet. Very accurate target shooting. Reminded me of military type target practice.

Maxim Kuzminov, a Russian pilot who dramatically defected to Ukraine by flying his helicopter across the border, is dead, according to Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR). The news comes after the Spanish Civil Guard in Alicante province told CNN that a man had been shot to death on February 13 inside the parking garage of an apartment building in Villajoyosa, a seaside resort on the Mediterranean Sea. Initially, the Civil Guard said the victim was a 33-year-old Ukrainian but later said the identity of the body was still to be determined and part of an investigation, which had been sealed...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a state judge to shut down a nonprofit organization that operates a network of shelters in Texas, alleging that the organization appears to be facilitating illegal border crossings and human smuggling. The Republican attorney general began investigating the Catholic nonprofit Annunciation House earlier this month over potential violations of state law. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) issued a Feb. 7 “request to examine” the nonprofit’s records, including documents detailing what services it provides to immigrants who are in the country legally or illegally. According to Mr. Paxton, Annunciation House refused to...

Boeing Co. fired the head of its 737 Max aircraft program Wednesday, shaking its leadership amid the fallout of a midair blowout of an Alaska Airlines door plug in January. Ed Clark, who headed the 737 Max division, will leave Boeing immediately, according to a memo from CEO Stan Deal. Deal said the leadership changes are emblematic of the company’s “enhanced focus on ensuring that every airplane we deliver meets or exceeds all quality and safety requirements. Our customers demand, and deserve, nothing less.” The Alaska Airlines incident resulted in an Federal Aviation Administration-mandated grounding of the 737 Max 9...

Scientists are sounding the alarm over the spread of “zombie deer disease” amid fears it may evolve to infect humans. Late last year, experts confirmed Yellowstone National Park’s first case of the infection — officially known as chronic wasting disease — after a deer carcass found in the Wyoming area of the park tested positive for the highly contagious disease. Now, cases have been reported in deer, elk and moose in 33 states across the US, as well as in Canada, Norway and South Korea. The disease “damages portions of the brain and typically causes progressive loss of body condition,...

Two former workers sued ABC in June 2022, accusing the network of religious discriminationABC is set to head to court over a lawsuit filed by two former “General Hospital” crew members who accuse the network of religious discrimination, saying they were fired for refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. In an order issued on Tuesday a Los Angeles judge stated that plaintiffs James and Timothy Wahl — who are father and son — may have “sincerely held” religious beliefs that ABC should have been accommodated by ABC by providing them with other options outside of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, which...

COVID-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest: A multinational Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN) cohort study of 99 million vaccinated individuals Author links open overlay panelK. Faksova a, D. Walsh b c, Y. Jiang b c, J. Griffin c, A. Phillips d, A. Gentile e, J.C. Kwong f g h, K. Macartney d i, M. Naus j n, Z. Grange k, S. Escolano l, G. Sepulveda m, A. Shetty m, A. Pillsbury d, C. Sullivan k, Z. Naveed j n, N.Z. Janjua j n, N. Giglio e, J. Perälä o, S. Nasreen f p x…A. Hviid a w https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.01.100...

[H/T mewzilla]The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a final rule on “Institutional Review Board Waiver or Alteration of Informed Consent for Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations,” which permits an exception from the requirement to obtain informed consent when a clinical investigation poses no more than minimal risk to the human subject and includes appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of human subjects. We have summarized this rulemaking below, which mostly mirrors the proposed form of the rule, with the notable exception of codifying the “identifiable private information or identifiable biospecimens” criterion previously laid out in...

A new California bill would require K-12 schools statewide to have at least one armed officer, also known as a school resource officer or SRO, on campus during regular school hours and other times students are present. The American Civil Liberties Union has previously spoken out against having permanent police officers on public school campuses after a 2021 study detailed the dangers of having more police officers at public schools. The report found that Black students’ arrest rates are 7.4 times higher, Latino students’ arrest rates are 6.9 times higher, and students with disabilities’ arrest rates are 4.6 times higher...

It's one of the most popular AI chatbots around the world. But Google's Gemini has been accused of being racist towards white people. The tool uses artificial intelligence to create images from prompts within seconds. But users claim the AI bot refuses to create images of Caucasian people, after testing it with requests for Popes, Vikings, and country music fans. 'New game: Try to get Google Gemini to make an image of a Caucasian male. I have not been successful so far,' one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Google launched its 'next-generation model', Gemini 1.5, last week, featuring the...

Tucker Carlson once again leaped to the defense of Russian President Vladimir Putin and claimed that anyone who thinks the brutal strongman was responsible for the untimely death of his main political opponent Alexie Navalny 'are idiots.' Carlson, 54, was speaking with fellow former Fox News host Glenn Beck on the latter's BlazeTV network when he made his remarks. 'Navalny’s death during the Munich Security Conference, in the midst of disputes about aid to Ukraine, is definitely not beneficial for Russia. People who say Putin killed him are idiots,' Carlson said. -snip- Speaking about having been asked to comment about...

Every now and then, an appalling act of male violence against a woman hits the headlines. Sarah Everard, Sabina Nessa, Julia James, Zara Aleena. Women murdered by strangers in unprovoked attacks. They shatter families, make us all shudder and occasionally they prompt politicians to act. But statistically such attacks, mercifully, are relatively rare. Extreme male violence against women is much more likely to happen in the place they should feel safest: their own homes. And the perpetrators are likely to be a current or former partner. Every week - stop and think about this - every single week, two women...

Chicago has a problem with retailers closing their doors, pulling up stakes, and getting the hell out of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods. Without warning last week, a KFC franchisee "abruptly" shuttered three South Side locations. One outlet, located in Chatham, had been "undergoing renovations for months" when the franchise owner apparently just gave up and boarded up the windows instead. According to the same Fox 32 Chicago report, the Great KFC Vanishing came "less than one month after Cinema Chatham, a local movie theater, shut down." That closure also came without warning. Sixth Ward Alderman William Hall said, "A...

The “climate change” panic is predicated on computer models, which are useful for finite projects, such as calculating metal stress, designing a chair, or building dental prosthetics. However, for something as complex as the Earth’s climate, with its infinite variables, the only constant for computer models is GIGO (“garbage in, garbage out”). A new report about a major failure in these models—misunderstanding water vapor input—proves this point. The report was published just as Richard Levine, the sexual fetishist at HHS, put out a video using “climate change” to stir up racial division, thereby highlighting what “climate change” is really about:...

All those obnoxious pharmaceutical commercials that get laced into just about every television and cable “news” program that airs in the United States these days might seem like they are simply about selling more drugs and getting people hooked, but Big Pharma’s true agenda is actually much more sinister than that. Former pharmaceutical industry insider Calley Means spoke to Tucker Carlson recently about what he described as an “open secret” within the pharmaceutical industry. In essence, Means says that Big Pharma is buying the media with all those ads, which allows the drug industry to control what gets broadcasted on...

On this date in 1942, poet Olena Teliha and her husband Mykhailo were shot by the Nazis at Babi Yar for their Ukrainian nationalist activism. Having lived in Czechoslovakia (where they met and married) and then Poland during the interwar period, the Telihas weren’t present for the worst of Soviet depredations in Ukraine. Mykhailo, a bandurist, might have been in an especially bad way, since his musical genre of choice harkened to subversive themes of Cossack insurrection, and was therefore heavily persecuted. Instead, they moved to Kiev as the German invasion opened the prospect of returning to their ancestral homeland....

This is the unbelievable moment an Amazon delivery truck was sliced in half by a train as the driver miraculously survived the destructive accident.

President Biden is showing off his seemingly surprising selfie skills. The commander in chief proved proficient in taking selfies while appearing Wednesday at CJ’s Cafe in Los Angeles to highlight his administration’s student loan relief efforts. He’s in California for a three-day campaign fundraising swing. Biden was eyed shaking hands and smiling for photos at the LA eatery before showing he’s adept at switching camera modes. While posing for a selfie with a customer at CJ’s, Biden switched their phone to selfie mode, according to reporters traveling with him. The customer expressed surprise that the president knew how to do...

Mena ‘doubts the constitutionality’ of his employer, the IRS, using AI to access everybody’s bank accounts nationwide. Mena recalls IRS agents stating “…the first person you shoot you’re gonna remember, but after that you’re gonna shoot like a hundred people, you’re not gonna remember any of them.” He says IRS agents “are assholes...they are the definition of an asshole, all of them.” This video was obtained by an O’Keefe Media citizen journalist who is a part of our American Swiper Program.

Very contemplative message to start off the Lenten journey with...Picking up on Jesus' 40 days of Temptation, the sermon analyzes body and soul, intertwined, and how they are in constant struggle. And that one purpose of the Lenten season is to learn how to discipline the right relationship between them. That sin enters us to "disentregrate" that union of Body and Soul.13 min. YouTube Video Link below:Are Your Soul and Body At War?