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resident Biden has been forced to stop auctioning off materials used for the border wall after the Texas Attorney General stepped in to block the sales. The unused material was put up for grabs by Congress who put a plan in place on how to dispose of the excess product after ending wall construction in 2021. Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Friday that he had stopped the administration from getting rid of any more before president-elect Trump takes office in January. The Biden administration agreed with the court order, according to Fox News, allowing President Trump to use the...

Costco’s board of directors adamantly urged shareholders to vote against efforts to limit the company’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) after receiving a proposal included in their annual notice to shareholders from the National Center for Public Policy Research to strike “discriminatory practices.” The conservative think tank requested that Costco evaluate and publish a report on the risks of the company maintaining its current DEI roles, policies and goals amid a wave of corporations slashing all references to the organizational framework.

Hey US Soldiers gotta do something with all their free time sitting in the barracks

Star Trek: Deleted Scene - Space Seed - "Khan Stuns Dr. McCoy And Takes Control Of The Enterprise." In this deleted scene from Star Trek (The Original Series - TOS), from the episode, "Space Seed," Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) takes control of the U.S.S. Enterprise with his Genetically-Modified DNA ('Seed') Eugenics Super-Humans. Khan has placed Captain Kirk in the Compression Chamber, and the executive staff is in the Executive Briefing Room, where, held captive is Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. McCoy (Deforest Kelley), Commander Montgomery Scott (James Doohan), Lt. Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), and traitor, Lt. Marla McGivers (Madlyn...

Saturday 28 December 2024 The Holy Innocents, Martyrs Feast Church of St. Anthony the Hermit, Kraji, SloveniaReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Red. Year: C(I).First reading1 John 1:5-2:2The blood of Jesus Christ purifies us all from sinThis is what we have heard from Jesus Christ,and the message that we are announcing to you:God is light; there is no darkness in him at all.If we say that we are in union with Godwhile we are living in darkness,we are lying because we are not living the truth.But if we live our lives in the light,as he is in the light,we are in...

A Nebraska man is getting title to his home back, years after losing it over a $588 tax debt .... Kevin Fair of Scottsbluff has been involved in a legal dispute since 2018, when he lost title to the home he had owned for nearly three decades for failing to pay $588 in overdue property taxes. Scotts Bluff County sold the lien to a private investor, as allowed by Nebraska law at the time. When Fair couldn't repay the money along with interest and fees, the title went to the investor, though Fair was allowed to stay in the home...

Residents in Seattle, Washington, plan to stop tipping as a minimum wage hike in the Democrat-run city looms. The city’s minimum wage is supposed to go from $19.97 to $20.76 an hour on January 1, the Daily Mail reported on Friday. Tipping workers on top of the approaching hourly rate hike does not appear to be a popular idea with some residents who have said they will no longer be shelling out the extra money for workers. The Mail article continued: One user who shared a Reddit post on the wage hike, which has picked up steam in the local...

Elon Musk pledged Friday night to go to "war" to defend the H-1B visa program for foreign tech workers, branding some Republican opponents as "hateful, unrepentant racists."

The NIS had earlier confirmed reports that an injured North Korean soldier had been taken prisoner by Ukraine. The soldier later died from his injuries, the National Intelligence Service said.

Pueblo, Colorado - An arrest affidavit for a former employee of the Pueblo Rescue Mission accuses her of stealing more than $15,000 from at least 12 residents. According to court documents, Lori Arabie, the former shelter director, would regularly collect a portion of residents' earnings, paychecks, Social Security, and disability money. This was reportedly part of a policy when residents had to save 30 percent of their income. According to investigators, this policy was not documented and shelter board members were not aware of any such policy. Investigators calculated a total of $15,801.08 is missing from 12 people, though they...

Police in Northern Colorado are looking for a man they believe tried to rob a bank and failed to leave with any money. It happened on Dec. 17 in Loveland. Loveland police say a man walked in to the First National Bank, located at 750 North Lincoln Avenue, and handed the teller a note. His handwriting was allegedly almost completely illegible and the teller had a hard time reading it. While the teller was struggling to read the note, the man reportedly got frustrated and quickly left the bank. The man was wearing a brown hoodie, a green baseball cap...

Colorado’s employment counts have become so unreliable the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in an unprecedented move, has stopped issuing reports based on them. “BLS has observed data quality problems because of ongoing issues with the modernization of Colorado’s unemployment insurance system. As a result, BLS is temporarily suspending publication of Colorado employment, unemployment, and wage data,” the bureau said in a statement issued Dec. 18. The suspension was made in a program called State and Metro Area Employment, Hours & Earnings. It follows an earlier decision by the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, or QCEW program, to suspend...

I am getting a lot of people who say the answer is 9, but you can get 9 from 6/2(1+2) if you separate the 2 from the 2(1+2), which seems incorrect to me. I view the 2(1+2) as a complete phrase within the mathematical question, so I think it needs to be solved before you move left to right. 6/2(1+2) = 6/2(3) = 6/6 = 1 But there are a lot of people who want to write the question as 6/2 x (1+2), which is the only way you will get 9.

Three days after the feast of the Nativity of Jesus, the Catholic Church traditionally commemorates the massacre of the Holy Innocents – the children of Bethlehem slain by King Herod following the birth of Christ. This event is recorded in the Gospel of Saint Matthew in connection with the arrival of the Magi – the Wise Men from the East – who had followed a star to Jerusalem, and had sought out the newborn king of the Jews. According to Matthew’s account, King Herod requested that the Magi return to him after finding the child, ostensibly so that Herod could...

Pro-Luigi Mangione vandals defaced the exterior of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s former Upper East Side mansion this week with the three words the accused United Healthcare CEO murderer scratched on to the bullets he used to kill his target: “Deny, defend, depose.” Red spray paint was used to deface the East 71st Street home’s gilded façade with the phrases “Free Luigi” and “They Fear The People.” A photo showing the graffiti Friday on Jeffrey Epstein's former NYC townhouse. Across the front door, the goons scribbled the three words now synonymous with Mangione’s name: “Deny, defend, depose.” The graffiti did not last...

Trump supporter looks on with amusement at other Trump supporters, as they speak about woketards upset with the election results. (Tik-Tok compilation)People Are Not Holding Back On Woke People After The Election! [video compilation]

How stupid was 2024? Let’s start with the art world, which over the centuries has given humanity so many beautiful, timeless masterpieces. This year, the biggest story involving art, by far, was that a cryptocurrency businessman paid $6.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction for . . . A banana. Which he ate. ”It’s much better than other bananas,” he told the press. And that was not the stupidest thing that happened in 2024. It might not even crack the top ten. Because this was also a year when: —The Olympics awarded medals for breakdancing. —Fully grown adults got into fights...

Gold enthusiasts can celebrate a golden anniversary this New Year’s Eve and simultaneously mark a market manipulation milestone. Fifty years ago, President Gerald R. Ford legalized private gold ownership, allowing Americans once again to stack the regal metal as a wealth-preserving asset and safe haven against monetary inflation and dollar depreciation. Gold futures trading and market meddling also began in the United States a half-century ago. On Dec. 31, 1974, Ford issued an executive order revoking President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 decree that criminalized gold hoarding and prohibited American citizens from owning more than $100 worth (about 5 troy ounces...

WASHINGTON — The National Archives has finally released photos showing then-Vice President Biden meeting with two of first son Hunter Biden’s Chinese government-linked business partners — again proving that the president lied about not interacting with his family’s foreign patrons. The cache of photos, released long after their potential political salience and days before Biden retires on Jan. 20, also show Chinese President Xi Jinping grinning as then-Vice President Biden introduced his son during the same December 2013 trip to Beijing.

The University of Iowa has announced that it will close its department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, as well as its department of American Studies. On Dec. 17, the university announced the changes, in addition to ending the American Studies and Social Justice majors.. As Iowa colleges continue to move away from DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), the University of Iowa has announced that it will close its department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, as well as its department of American Studies. On Dec. 17, the university announced the changes, in addition to ending the American Studies and...