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ILLINOIS (WMBD) — EYM Chicken Operations and its parent company, Yum, shut down multiple Illinois KFC fast-food locations earlier this week, implementing mass layoffs of its employees statewide. According to a former maintenance employee who worked at several central Illinois KFC restaurants, his director of operations called him on Aug. 6 to notify him of his termination. The employee said he was vacationing in Tennessee when he received the call. He requested a formal notification via email from his director and received an email that outlined the circumstances surrounding the sudden departure shortly after. He said the company eliminated his...

“Someone who told me - who knows about these things - said ‘Far Right’ prisoners can expect a very ‘cold’ reception in jail” Legacy Sky News basically implying, that if you go to prison for a Facebook meme, there’s a good chance you’re not coming out. This is terrifying.

Deseret News U.S. births declined in 2023, more women skipping prenatal care Birth rate down 2% from the past 2 years Aug 20, 2024 Lois M. Collins The number of births in the U.S. and the fertility rate both declined from 2022 to 2023. And for the second year in a row, so did prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy, including a growing share of mothers who got no prenatal care at all. That’s according to the final count for 2023 from the National Center on Health Statistics within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released Tuesday....

Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of Code Pink, a radical anti-war group, told Breitbart News on Monday that she would not tell people to vote for, or against, Vice President Kamala Harris over her Israel policies.Benjamin led about two dozen Code Pink activists in the pro-Palestinian march from Union Park to the United Center, the venue for the Democratic National Convention. Some carried anti-Israel (and antisemitic) signs, such as "Democrats are bought by Zionism," playing on classic antisemitic themes of Jews and money. (Benjamin is Jewish.)Benjamin and Code Pink tend to focus their attacks on conservatives, but are giving vent to...

20 August 2024 Saint Bernard, Abbot, Doctor on Tuesday of week 20 in Ordinary Time St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Scottsdale, AZ Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingEzekiel 28:1-10Against the arrogance of the king of TyreThe word of the Lord was addressed to me as follows, ‘Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre, “The Lord says this:Being swollen with pride,you have said: I am a god;I am sitting on the throne of God,surrounded by the seas.Though you are a man and not a god,you consider...

Earlier on Tuesday we covered how Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) expressed a desire for a family member of Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the running mate for former and potentially future President Donald Trump, to get raped and become pregnant as a result. He made such comments during "Morning Joe," and was then asked again on Tuesday by Andrea Mitchell, during which he continued to attack Vance. "Make him go through this," Beshear had insisted to "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski as he ranted against pro-life laws at the state level. The governor made such a declaration about Vance and his...

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska - The chief of the National Guard Bureau, Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, awarded the Alaska National Guard the National Guard Excellence in Diversity Award for its diversity and inclusion efforts. The award, bestowed July 31, began in 2019 and has five categories. It’s presented annually to states and territories, units and individuals who consistently and significantly contribute to diversity and inclusion initiatives and build measurable milestones to achieve success. Alaska won in the “Exemplary States and Territories” category. In a letter to AKNG leadership announcing the award before he retired, Hokanson said: “The dedication of the...

Yes, a poisonous hammerhead worm. This is the stuff of nightmares, y'all. Not only is it disgusting, toxic and more than a foot long, it's also nearly impossible to kill — because if you cut it in half, it just regenerates itself! Actually, it turns out that all flatworms have the ability to become two different, genetically identical flatworms if they are cut in half. And that's terrifying. Also, why are we calling this a worm? I think once it reaches a foot long, it should officially be classified as a snake. Then again, those things in Dune are like...

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Linux Desktop Market Share Climbs to 4.45% The Linux operating system has reached a notable milestone in desktop market share, according to the latest data from StatCounter. As of July 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.45% market share for desktop operating systems worldwide.Desktop Operating System Market Share WorldwideWhile this percentage might seem small to those unfamiliar with the operating system landscape, it represents a significant milestone for Linux and its dedicated community. What makes this achievement even more thrilling is the upward trajectory of Linux's adoption rate.Table of ContentsLinux Desktop Market Share Between July 2023 and July 2024Why more People...

On Friday, a longtime friend of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent candidate for president, delivered boxes carrying 110,000 signatures to election officials in Arizona, to secure ballot access in a critical battleground state.A vast majority of those signatures, according to two people closely involved with the campaign’s operations, were not gathered by local volunteers, or even by paid canvassers working for the campaign. Instead, the people said, they came from a super PAC backing Mr. Kennedy that gathered signatures in Arizona months ago but set them aside after their efforts prompted legal challenges.The issue of who collected the signatures...

WOW! I didn't know he was involved with that! 3:01 Video at link!........................

It's been a little over 2 years since the Supreme Court sent abortion back to the states, and now I'm even more convinced the SC was wrong in their ruling. Yes, after 2 years we see state after state allowing voters to decide if it should be allowed. In every state controlled by Democrats, abortion has been legalized to the extreme, while states controlled by Republicans either tempered it down or outright outlawed the procedure. The states that allow for ballot measures, the citizens have been voting to allow abortion at some level. What have we learned? well, the hearts...

Did you hear about the free abortions and sterilizations on offer at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week? Incredibly, the news is real. Abortion-inducing drugs (mifepristone and Plan B) will be doled out from the back of a Planned Parenthood RV, along with vasectomies, just a few blocks from a convention that will embrace a radical abortion-until-birth policy that would have been unthinkable, even for Democrats, just a decade ago. Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance was savaged by the corporate press for repeatedly describing Democrats as “anti-family” in media appearances last week. Now, as if to prove...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were cooking the books the whole time and lying to the American people. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will downward revise jobs AGAIN on Wednesday by up to 1 MILLION! On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will downward revise jobs for the April 2023-March 2024 period by up to 1 million. This means that all "beats" recorded in the past year will have been misses and the US job market is in far worse shape than the admin would admit. — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 18, 2024 According to Bloomberg, payrolls growth between April 2023...

The Nevada Supreme Court has dealt a major blow to the Democrats’ attempts to force the certification of potentially fraudulent election results. The court dismissed a petition from the Nevada Secretary of State, Francisco Aguilar, that sought to compel the Washoe County Board of County Commissioners to immediately certify the results of a June primary election recount. The case revolved around a recount in Washoe County, where discrepancies were reported. According to the far-left Democracy Docket: Washoe County Commissioners voted to certify the recount for primary election races on Tuesday after facing legal action for refusing to do so last...

Women voters told former CNN host Don Lemon why they don’t like Vice President Kamala Harris and why they are backing former President Donald Trump in a video posted Tuesday. CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten on Friday said that women are largely driving Harris’ momentum as she leads Trump by an 11-point margin among female voters nationally, while President Joe Biden only had a four-point lead with them prior to dropping out of the race on July 21. The women told Lemon their lives were better under Trump and they don’t like Harris’ personality or want to vote for...

Palestinian Arabs report several terrorists injured after explosive device goes off as they tried to plant it in the town of Tammun. Video

Planned Parenthood expected to perform 25 free medication abortions through its mobile “health” clinic stationed near the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Monday and Tuesday. Dr. Colleen McNicholas, the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, told the New York Post outside of the abortion van on Monday that it had planned for “about” ten vasectomies and 25 medication abortions. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers announced in a post to X on August 14 that it would be offering free vasectomies and abortions during the DNC in Chicago. Organizers said the stunt was “not political” although they said the mobile...

It was one of the opening night’s most dramatic and sober moments. Three women emerged on the main stage, each in a spotlight against the darkness. Amanda Zurawski, standing beside her husband, told of how she nearly died when her baby would not survive and she could not get abortion care in Texas. Kaitlyn Joshua spoke of bleeding, miscarrying and being turned away from two emergency rooms in Louisiana. And Hadley Duvall of Kentucky told a harrowing story of being impregnated by her stepfather at age 12. “He calls it ‘a beautiful thing,’” she said, quoting former President Donald J....