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So Team (W)USA's quest for their 8th straight Gold Medal started off on the right foot yesterday with a 102-76 victory over Japan. That result is not the point of this blog, seeing as the team has not even lost a GAME in Olympic play since 1992. My eyebrows didn't raise a millimeter when I saw they won big. However one stat from yesterday's game that did suprise me was to hear that of all the games played thus far, Team USA's was the least attended by a mile. Look I'm not saying that their cranky head coach Cheryl Reeve...

Former President Donald Trump’s appeal in the “Blue Wall” states might be too strong for Vice President Kamala Harris to overcome, Democrats indicated this week in fear of losing the presidential election. Seven states — Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina — will decide the president, political experts believe. If Trump wins one or more of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Harris’s chances of obtaining 270 electoral votes become narrower. She’s done an amazing job not only uniting the base but exciting the base,

On Thursday on MSNBC’s “Monring Joe,” network contributor Molly Jong-Fast argued that Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the GOP vice presidential nominee, wanted “more white children” and that this is why he made his comment about policy directed by “childless cat ladies” in 2021. Vance and his wife Usha are the parents of three biracial children. “Well, so what’s interesting is this is this natalism that comes from an authoritarian playbook, right?” Jong-Fast said. “That there there need to be more white children, right? That’s the idea that there’s, you know, this is about Great Replacement Theory racism, right? This is...

The Russian Foreign Ministry has reacted to the Israeli regime's latest strike on Lebanese soil that led to the killing and injury of several people. Israel’s strikes on Lebanon constitute a flagrant violation of international law, the Russian foreign ministry told TASS. "This is a blatant violation of international law," the ministry said. Local sources in Lebanon reported that several people were killed and injured following an attack conducted by the regime of Tel Aviv on Beirut on Tuesday night.

Do you have your VMware ESXi hypervisor joined to Active Directory? Well, the latest news from Microsoft serves as a reminder that you might not want to do that given the recently patched vulnerability that has security experts deeply concerned.CVE-2024-37085 only carries a 6.8 CVSS rating, but has been used as a post-compromise technique by many of the world's most high-profile ransomware groups and their affiliates, including Black Basta, Akira, Medusa, and Octo Tempest/Scattered Spider.The vulnerability allows attackers who have the necessary privileges to create AD groups – which isn't necessarily an AD admin – to gain full control of...

Archaeologists discovered 63 graves Tel-El-Dir - a burial complex in the city of Damietta - that were filled with figurines, pottery, coins and a mirror...A total of 38 coins found at the site dated back to the Ptolemaic period, (304 to 30BC), when one of Alexander the Great's general's descendants ruled Egypt.The ancient currency featured images of both ancient Greek and Egyptian gods.The artifacts and tombs are believed to date back to Egypt's Late Period from 664 BC to 332 BC when Damietta served as the center of foreign trade with cities in the Mediterranean.The pottery was likely exchanged with...

Kamala Harris's search for a running mate has hit yet another snag. Previously, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) took herself out of consideration, and two others have followed suit since dirt dug up on them made them a lot less likely to be picked. Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) has been accused of covering up sexual harassment in his office, and then Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) has been exposed as the co-founder of a spy balloon company that was partially funded by China. This may not preclude Kamala from selecting either, but it likely hurts both of their chances. Now, another top...

At least four statues of Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013, were toppled across the country as citizens took to the streets on July 29 to protest the result of the election

Less than three weeks ago, President Donald Trump barely survived an assassination attempt at his political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The incident, which resulted in the injury of President Trump and two of his supporters, and the tragic death of Trump supporter Corey Comperatore, has received surprisingly little media attention. Despite the gravity of the situation, the mainstream media has largely ignored this historic event. The lack of coverage has sparked concerns and criticisms from various quarters, including Trump himself, who recently highlighted the issue on his Truth Social platform. Newly surfaced evidence reveals significant lapses in the security measures...

Post See new posts Conversation Roger Sollenberger @SollenbergerRC NEWS: Project 2025 director Paul Dans has stepped down at Heritage Foundation after pressure from Trump campaign leadership, ongoing power rift over staffing control for potential second Trump admin, per internal email. This suggests Project 2025 will likely shut down. Story TK. DEVELOPING....................

Andy Stanley is one of the largest and most influential gay-affirming pastors in the world. Yet, evidently, Andy Stanley would attempt to draw the line on the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony which celebrated blasphemy, homosexuality, and transgenderism. Image (on link which Andy has since deleted) On Saturday, Andy Stanley would post a ballsy denouncement of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. In this, he highlighted the sacrifice Americans made for France invoking John 15:13. The hypocrisy is that Andy Stanley, in that he affirms homosexuality has no standard for which to call out the degeneracy on display. His...

Reports name target of strike as Fuad Shukr, who heads the Lebanese terror group’s precision missile project and is wanted by US for his role in 1983 Marines barracks bombing.

She loved disco dancing to Michael Jackson and even started an all-girls dance troupe. She was well-liked, known for her laugh and bubbly personality. But as Kamala Harris amps up her presidential campaign it’s unlikely voters will hear much from her about how she spent her formative years in Canada, a DailyMail.com investigation has learned. Harris was crushed when her divorced mother told her they were moving from California to Montreal – and she remained homesick for the duration of their five-year stay in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. There is no mention of her Canadian education in Harris’s...

A Rasmussen survey of over 8,000 likely voters found that 62% of them are concerned that cheating will skew the 2024 election results. Twenty percent of those surveyed reported that they either received more than one official ballot in the mail or received a ballot for someone who does not live at their address in 2020. One percent of the likely voters said they are not US citizens and 0.85% said they are not sure if they are US citizens. While it is illegal for non-citizens to vote, federal voter registration forms require no proof of citizenship. All the individuals...

A temperature spike of nearly 20 degrees occurred in western Nebraska early Tuesday morning from a relatively rare phenomenon called a heat burst. The temperature rose from 73.9 degrees to 92.3 degrees in about 2 hours. That temperature rise happened at a weather station early Tuesday morning in Ogallala, Nebraska, from 12:15 a.m. MDT to approximately 2:00 a.m. MDT. T​he temperature then fell back down into the 70s shortly thereafter. Several other weather stations in the area also saw brief, notable overnight temperature increases, including one that jumped to 94 degrees. (15-min details: For even more granular weath

The race for the White House is heating up and somehow a soda brand has found itself in the middle of rips between candidates and potential candidates. It all started when Ohio Sen. and Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance made a comment during his hometown rally that involved Diet Mountain Dew "It is the weirdest thing to me, Democrats say it's racist to believe, well they say it's racist to believe anything. I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday, and one today, I'm sure they're gonna call that racist too,” Vance said during a rally in Middletown. "It's good." J.D....

Concern for public safety and raw emotion are running high after a mass stabbing of young children in the United Kingdom, with the Prime Minister being heckled by the public over knife crime as he laid a wreath for the dead. Three children were killed and a dozen other children and adults were seriously injured in a mass stabbing attack at a youngster’s summer holiday dance party in Southport, Merseyside, England, on Monday. The Home Secretary visited Southport on Tuesday morning, and hours later she was followed by Britain’s new Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, who met first responders and...

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Once upon a time, the vulture was an abundant and ubiquitous bird in India. The scavenging birds hovered over sprawling landfills, looking for cattle carcasses. Sometimes they would alarm pilots by getting sucked into jet engines during airport take-offs. But more than two decades ago, India’s vultures began dying because of a drug used to treat sick cows. By the mid-1990s, the 50 million-strong vulture population had plummeted to near zero because of diclofenac, a cheap non-steroidal painkiller for cattle that is fatal to vultures. Birds that fed on carcasses of livestock treated with the drug suffered from kidney failure...

VIDEOMinnesota Governor Tim Walz has a new buzzword toy that he loves to play with because he thinks it could get him a spot on the Democrat presidential ticket as the running mate of Kamala Harris. And that magic buzzword is "WEIRD." He is trying to stamp that word on President Trump and running mate JD Vance. However, Walz does not have to look far because his own party is chock full of ...WEIRD. One new example of weird is North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper's silly fascination about the way his name is pronounced. This could be one reason why...