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For anyone who’s experienced a quality tequila shot with a crisp, ice-cold lager, it’s clear that hops and agave are delicious partners. So, it shouldn’t be surprising that beer aged in tequila barrels can create a sophisticated brew with nuanced flavors. The process is straightforward, but the results can be profound. Freshly brewed beer is placed in casks that once held tequila and as it matures, the beer takes on a variety of flavors from the wood and transforms into something new.

A 25 minute trip down memory lane for those of us who lived thru the 70's ugly crappy car era...................... VIDEO AT LINK...................

About 150 students and supporters protested on the one-year anniversary of the start of Israel's war in Gaza Monday on the campus of UC Santa Cruz, criticizing the university's previous crackdowns on student protest.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is dodging calls from Vice President Kamala Harris about Hurricane Milton, sources close to the governor told multiple news outlets. “Kamala was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer,” an anonymous DeSantis aide told NBC News on Monday. A source close to the governor also confirmed the same to ABC News hours later. The anonymous DeSantis aide said the governor declined to take Harris’ calls because they “seemed political.” They were unsure if DeSantis had been in communication with President Joe Biden. Harris offered harsh words for the governor after reporters asked her about the...

A woman described by police as a serial killer was arrested and charged on Friday with three murders from earlier in the week in Toronto, Niagara Falls and another Canadian city. The grisly attacks spanned three days from Tuesday to Thursday. "She is a serial killer," Niagara Regional Police Chief Bill Fordy told reporters when asked if the label was fitting. Sabrina Kauldhar, 30, was arrested at a suburban Toronto hotel after police linked the killings, determining the suspect's description matched in each case. Police said detectives are also trying to identify a woman who was seen on CCTV footage...

There is some serious drama unfolding at CBS News after one of its anchors committed an act of journalism – no, definitely not at last week's vice presidential debate – and the guilty party will now face his comeuppance at the hands of the DEI judge and jury. Here's what's going on. Tony Dokoupil, anchor of CBS's morning show – aptly named "CBS Mornings" – recently interviewed radical leftist Ta Nahesi-Coates, an outspoken proponent of reparations. Nahesi-Coates was appearing on the show to promote his new book, "The Message," which The Free Press calls "a masterpiece of warped arguments and...

Japan's government admitted Monday manipulating an official photo of the new cabinet to make its members look less unkempt, after online mockery of their sagging trousers. Images taken by local media showed what appeared to be an untidy patch of white shirt under the morning suits of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Defense Minister Gen Nakatani. In the official photo issued by Ishiba's office, these blemishes had mysteriously disappeared, but not quickly enough to stop a barrage of mockery of the "untidy cabinet" on social media. "This is more hideous than a group picture of some kind of a seniors'...

Despite government subsidies, mandates and promotion, demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is still so low that car thieves don’t think they’re worth stealing — but, if they are stolen, they’ll cost more to replace than traditional, gas-powered vehicles. While the Biden-Harris Administration provides tax credits to people who buy electric vehicles, there are no such incentives for those who might steal them. A record number of vehicles were stolen in the U.S., but electric vehicles were far less likely to be stolen, a Highway Loss Data Institute analysis of insured vehicles model years 2021-23 finds. Four of the six vehicles...

It's been about a week-and-a-half since Hurricane Helene hit. At least 231 people have been killed. Homes and communities have been wiped out. More than 300,000 are without power in Georgia and the Carolinas. Private volunteers and organizations have been doing all they can to help out, and we've covered a lot of their efforts. But there have been a lot of questions raised about the government response. Joe Biden spoke at a White House briefing on Friday in a very unusual move given that they normally keep him under wraps. But what he spoke about was the jobs numbers....

The mayor of a city in southern Mexico has been murdered less than a week after taking office, authorities said Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks on politicians in the violence-plagued Latin American country. The killing of Chilpancingo mayor Alejandro Arcos "fills us with indignation," Guerrero state governor Evelyn Salgado wrote on social media, without providing further details of the circumstances. Local media reported that Arcos was decapitated, but there has been no official confirmation. Reuters reported that photos circulating on WhatsApp showed a severed head on top of what appeared to be Arcos' vehicle, but the news...

2:40 VIDEO AT LINK.............. They are terrified of a Trump victory. Reason? Epstein and Diddy..........................

A pro-Israeli demonstrator was surrounded, attacked and bloodied by a pro-Palestinian crowd Monday, as thousands mobbed the streets of Manhattan on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 terror attack on the Jewish State. Todd Richman, co-founder of Democratic Majority of Israel, was seen on social media holding an Israeli flag while a mob of protesters mock him — and try to wrest the flag away from him. Richman is seen trying desperately trying to stand his ground as the keffiyeh-draped protesters mock and accost him. “Get the f--- off the flag,” he is heard saying. “Get off it.” The...

Todd Richman, the co-chair of Democratic Majority for Israel, was beaten and had his Israeli flag stolen on Monday at a pro-terror protest in New York City to commemorate the October 7 attack. As Breitbart News reported, there were pro-Hamas demonstrators at Columbia University on Monday, as part of city-wide protests by anti-Israel activists. Video of explicitly pro-terror protesters circulated on social media as well, with one group of protesters calling for Tel Aviv — Israel’s tech-savvy, left-wing, secular

Imagine hearing a knock on your door and opening it to find actor Jane Fonda campaigning for a local election candidate. That's how the 86-year-old actor and activist is spending her time this election season. She's campaigning around the country for local candidates who support action on climate change, building on her years of climate-related protests. Fonda told CBS News that the campaigning work felt so necessary that she told her agent she wouldn't be taking any acting jobs this year, to make sure she had time to canvass. "This year I said to my agent 'I'm sorry, I can't...

As Hurricane Milton pushes toward Florida, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is running out of staff members to deploy. As of Monday morning, just 9 percent of FEMA’s personnel, or 1,217 people, were available to respond to the hurricane or other disasters, according to the agency’s daily operations briefing. To put that into context: Over the previous five years, one-quarter of the agency’s staff was available for deployment at this point in the hurricane season. Even in 2017 — arguably FEMA’s busiest year in the past decade, after Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston, Hurricane Irma plowed through Florida, and Hurricane Maria...

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: United States Coast Guard Yard, MarylandThe United States Coast Guard Yard or just Coast Guard Yard is a United States Coast Guard operated shipyard located on Curtis Bay in northern Anne Arundel County, Maryland, just south of the Baltimore city limits. It is the largest industrial facility in the Department of Homeland Security. It falls under the Coast Guard's Engineering and Logistics Command. It is the Coast Guard's sole shipbuilding and major repair facility, and part of the Coast Guard's core industrial base and fleet support operations.The Yard has designed, built, maintained and...

Riley Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, opened up to Oprah Winfrey about a deeply personal family memory — her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, instinctively sensed something was wrong the morning Elvis died. Winfrey traveled to Graceland for Keough's first major interview since her mother died last year, for "An Oprah Special: The Presleys — Elvis, Lisa Marie, and Riley" which will premiere on CBS on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, and will be available for streaming on Paramount+. In an exclusive clip previewed on "CBS Mornings Plus" on Monday, Keough shared that Lisa Marie, who was just...

Kathy Bates won an Oscar in 1991 for her magnificent performance in the Stephen King thriller "Misery" – but it wasn't until recently that she realized she'd thanked her mother in her acceptance speech. In an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning," Bates told Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz that her parents had sacrificed a lot for her to study to become an actress. But she also noted that – despite receiving a Tony Award nomination for "'Night, Mother," and then an Academy Award – her mother's reaction to her success was less than charitable. "When I won the Oscar...

It’s hard to overstate just how good recent economic numbers have been. On Friday, we learned that job growth is still solid while unemployment remains historically low. I think it’s safe to say that Donald Trump’s 2020 prediction that a Joe Biden presidency would mean a “depression” — a claim he’s now repeating by predicting a “great depression” if Kamala Harris wins — didn’t come true. A week earlier we learned that inflation has continued to decline and is now more or less at the Federal Reserve’s target of 2 percent. This success has defied the view, held by many...

SWANNANOA, North Carolina — Hundreds of special operations personnel in North Carolina have formed their own homegrown rescue and supply operation in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene after they grew tired of waiting for the federal government to get its act together. The Post found an all-volunteer operation being run out of a Harley-Davidson dealership with ruthless efficiency and military precision. “Who’s FEMA?” ex-Green Beret Adam Smith derisively responded when asked about the agency’s presence on the ground since the deadly storm ravaged the rural western part of the state. “This disaster has definitively proven without a shadow of a...