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Meteorologists say they’ve been getting death threats for debunking wild conspiracy theories that they and the government are somehow behind the devastating hurricanes ravaging the US. “Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes,” Katie Nickolaou, a Michigan-based meteorologist, wrote on X earlier this week alongside a screenshot of one threat she’d received. “I can’t believe I just had to type that.” The post aimed at Nickolaou, who works at the WLNS TV station, had called for others to “stop the breathing of those that made them and their affiliates.” Meanwhile, Washington, DC-based meteorologist Matthew Cappucci said he has received hundreds of messages...

We were warned by the late, great historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis. For the Islamic Republic, mutual assured destruction is less a deterrent than “an inducement.” The Iranian theocracy will gladly sleep with virgins for eternity in exchange for Israel’s destruction, from the river to the sea, as the filthy ditty goes. But not until Obama did the wish become an imminent reality. October 7 is meaningless without a look back at how we got here. From the overthrow of the Shah in 1979 onward, it was grasped by all, Democrats and Republicans, that the Iranian mantra of Death to...

Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance opened up about converting to Catholicism in 2019 Saturday — and revealed he “feels bad” for dragging his Hindu wife to Mass every Sunday. She “didn’t sign up to marry a weekly churchgoer” but she’s “more than OK with it,” the Ohio senator said of wife, Usha, during an oft-contentious interview with the New York Times. The “Hillbilly Elegy” author said he started asking himself “big questions” around 2017 to 2019 when he became a father and had achieved career and financial success but found the “values of meritocracy … deeply lacking.” “And when...

The Talk Shows October 13th, 2024 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan (‘promise no fact checker’ fact checker) anchors: DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas; Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson; Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.); CBS News' Pollster Anthony Salvanto. FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: ?): Vice-presidential Republican candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio); Vice-presidential democrat candidate Minnesota Gov. Timpon Walz; FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell. Panel: Richard Fowler, Mary Katharine Ham, Cal Thomas and Bob Cusack. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Speaker of the House of...

Perhaps there’s a reason that, despite its myriad bloody attacks directly against America, Iran keeps going and going. One of the things that our intel agencies do to push lies into the public is to use the magic word “earmarks.” For example, the infamous 51 spies who lied about Hunter’s laptop—even though the FBI and the CIA knew it was real—used the weasel phrase that the laptop had “the classic earmarks” of a Russian operation. That was a lie. But here’s an “earmark” sentence that may be true: Iran has all the earmarks of a USA-intel client state. Much like...

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Former President Donald Trump is gaining in swing-state polls — and you can bet one group is secretly pleased: New York’s elected officials. The city’s Democrats use big, bad Trump as a cartoon foil to district the public from their own failures. Last week, Trump announced a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 27, two weekends before Election Day. State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, whose Manhattan district includes MSG, immediately lodged a complaint via Trump supporter Elon Musk’s X. “Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on...

I’m so old I remember when we learned about advertising fakery by ordering stuff like sea horses and x-ray vision glasses from the back of comic books. Younger generations caught on when they compared what they’d seen in the TV ads with the actual products. For voters this time around all they have to do is scan X online. The sea horse ads were better fakes than the Harris-Walz team is churning out. Of course, there is the candidates’ utter failure in public appearances -- such as they are -- to show Harris-Walz viewers that they are phony, unserious contenders...

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On the Saturday edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele -- a former RNC chairman turned member of the disgraced Lincoln Project -- took the occasion of Kamala Harris's release of health records to mock Donald Trump. Steele slammed Trump for not releasing medical records, saying he has doctors lie about his weight when he's fat like "Wally the Walrus." He added: "The man is old as dirt. He's the oldest man to ever run for president."We certainly hope that Steele, who turns 66 one week from today, is not experiencing any short-term memory loss. He apparently forgot that...

Volunteers at Squantanoa helping get aid to mountain people in wake of Helene, after it became apparent that FEMA sucks.

Alex Salmond has died at the age of 69. Love or loathe Mr Salmond - who was described as a "Marmite man" during his high-profile court case - few would dispute his skill and achievements as a politician. Under the leadership of the keen golfer and horse racing fan, the SNP rose to power and became a titan party north of the border. Some would argue if it were not for the political talent of Mr Salmond, there would have been no Scottish independence referendum at all in 2014. As the tributes flood in following his death, we take a...

...The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Sunday unanimously approved Illouz's bill, which would bar Israeli officials from having "any contact" with UNRWA or anyone acting on its behalf. All the committee members also voted to advance a related bill that would revoke UNRWA's authorization to conduct "any activity, either directly or indirectly," on Israeli territory.Lawmakers from both coalition and opposition parties cosponsored the bills, combining a slate of previous proposals...Last week, Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz barred Guterres from the country, citing the U.N. chief's failure to "unequivocally condemn" Iran's missile attack on Israel a day earlier. Guterres...

Scientists have solved the 500-year-old mystery surrounding Christopher Columbus' final resting place.The team spent 20 years performing a DNA analysis on human bones found buried in Spain's Seville Cathedral, confirming with 'absolute certainty' they belonged to the explorer who died in 1506.For the past two decades, they have been comparing DNA taken from the samples with that of relatives and descendants.The findings come just ahead of the U.S. holiday in his name, this Monday, timed to the second Monday in October each year to commemorate the Italian voyager's Oct. 12, 1492 discovery of the 'New World' for Spain...Columbus' body had...

Dennis Quaid spoke at a rally for Republican nominee Donald Trump in Coachella, California on Saturday, during which the actor compared Trump to President Ronald Reagan, whom Quaid portrays in the new film “Reagan.” “Hello, everybody. God bless you. God bless America,” Quaid said. “I’m here today to tell you that it’s time to pick a side.” The actor then specified what the choice is between. “Are we going to be a nation that stands for the Constitution or for TikTok?” “Are we going to be a nation of law and order, or wide open borders?” he continued. “Which is...

The first song one that is a "Sanity Test Song" and when I first heard it... An "Escaping Reality Update" The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever" is the theme song... "What is most irresistible is the image-ingestion aspect of our relation to photos. Eye-candy. They taste so good! They feed an appetite. They feed the appetite they create. Both the appetite and food are pseudo. Have we become more prone to ingest image reality than experience real reality (whatever that is)?..."... The Late Ron J (Roy Kuljian) Writes Of Image Junkies Decades Ago In His Book "Lust Virus" Considering Mere Photographs......

Masks are coming back to the Bay Area — for a limited time.... The orders are aimed at reducing the spread of flu, COVID and other respiratory viruses in medical settings during the winter virus season that typically spans late fall to early spring. For the most part, the orders apply to health care workers only and echo similar local health orders announced last year for the 2023-24 winter virus season. But two local jurisdictions, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, are also extending the requirement to visitors — and Santa Clara County is also asking patients to mask up....

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New research showing the association between greater bean and pulse consumption and improved shortfall nutrient intakes and a higher diet quality in American adults is published. Pulses are the edible seeds of plants in the legume family. Pulses grow in pods and come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors and include beans, peas, chickpeas, and lentils. Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001-2018, the analyses modeled the addition of one and two servings of beans in adults. Results show that greater consumption of beans is associated with significant increases in several shortfall nutrients, including...

...For several nights, military personnel had reported a mysterious breach of restricted airspace over a stretch of land that has one of the largest concentrations of national-security facilities in the U.S. The first drone arrived shortly. Kelly, a career fighter pilot, estimated it was roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers. The drones headed south, across Chesapeake Bay, toward Norfolk, Va., and over an area that includes the home...