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While growing up around Burbank, one of many suburbs butting up against Los Angeles proper, Melissa Perez and her friends would spend their summers riding around their neighborhood on horseback. “We were like the little brats on our horses,” Perez laughs. From early morning until sundown, the pack of young equestrians would sneakily traipse through the hills and horse trails tucked into Griffith Park, where they technically weren’t allowed to go. Perez would have such a blast that she’d sometimes forget to eat lunch, snacking on her horse’s carrots whenever she got peckish. The Burbank Rancho Equestrian District sits just...

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. -- Rep. Matt Gaetz defeated Republican challengerAaron Dimmock in Tuesday's Florida primary election. Gaetz earned 70% of the vote to Dimmock's 30%. Gaetz and Dimmock -- a Navy veteran -- took part in contentious election campaigns, where each attacked their opponent's background. Gaetz is eyeing his fifth term in Congress with a win in November.

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The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, revealed during an interview on the Impact Theory platform that they are seriously considering dropping out of the race and endorsing former President Donald Trump. During her interview, Shanahan outlined two potential paths for their campaign: continuing to form a new party or joining forces with Trump to prevent a possible Kamala Harris and Tim Walz presidency. “If we draw votes away from Trump, it could spell disaster,” she warned. Shanahan detailed the relentless challenges faced by the Kennedy campaign, claiming they were “banned, shadow-banned, kept...

"they're suing me all over the country" Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...numerous lawsuits against him from Democrats... In Chicago this evening a confrontation between Pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention and police near the Israeli consulate... Joe Biden approving a new US nuclear weapons strategy that takes threats from China, North Korea and Russia into consideration... Three African nations aligned with Russia appealing to the UN Security Council over Ukrainian support for terrorism against their countries... Five Israeli airstrikes deep into Lebanon tonight... Hezbollah announcing the deaths of four of its members in an...

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...