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✈️ Welcome aboard Flight #2025. We are preparing for an on-time departure into the New Year. Please make sure your Attitude and Actions are secured and locked in an upbeat and upright position. All self-destructive thoughts should be turned off at this time and remain off forever. Any negativity, hate, and discouragement must remain completely stowed. In the unlikely event we lose Altitude while under pressure, simply reach up and pull down a Prayer. Prayers will automatically activate if you have Faith. With Faith, you will be able to assist other passengers. There will be NO BAGGAGE allowed on this...

On January 5, 2021, the suspect placed pipe bombs near the offices of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee. As part of our renewed call for tips, FBI posted previously unreleased video of the suspect placing a bomb near the DNC

New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick spoke with the press on Thursday in the hours before the Sugar Bowl kickoff in an effort to reassure citizens. Instead, her remarks only raised more questions and concerns about how those in charge are handling the aftermath of the terror attack. While describing the safety measures in place, Kirkpatrick bizarrely admitted she didn’t know about the city’s sidewalk barriers meant to prevent terror attacks. ..... Snip..... A perplexed reporter asked, “Chief, where did those ‘archers’ come from….the yellow archers, where did they come from?” Kirkpatrick, “Actually, we have them. I didn’t know about...

DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics 🇰🇷 South Korean Authorities Move to Arrest Impeached President Yoon South Korean authorities moved on Friday to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, Yonhap News reported, as protesters clashed with police outside his residence. Yoon faces a criminal investigation over a Dec. 3 martial law attempt, with an arrest marking an unprecedented move against a sitting president. The Corruption Investigation Office, leading a joint team of police and prosecutors, began executing the warrant amid reports of resistance from Yoon’s Presidential Security Service. Around 2,800 police were deployed, while 100 protesters gathered early Friday to block the arrest...

Video of cache. Officers from the Rehovot Police Station and a police explosives expert arrived on Thursday at a home in the city after receiving a report from an individual who, while renovating his parents' house, found a large number of weapons in the attic which were apparently collected by his grandfather and father over the years. Among the items that were found: Dozens of rifles and pistols of various types, 17 old Mills bomb grenades without caps/detonators (one without gunpowder), a defense grenade without gunpowder, 16 cap/detonators (separate), 30 explosives detonators of various types, 20 flares, an explosive 30mm...

Someone posted a thread about a 'Dinosaur superhighway.' It got me thinking, and that's never going to turn out well. Imagine if dinosaurs drove cars and had those Burma Shave signs. ================================= No matter how hard You sweat and toil See, in the end You’ll become oil. BURMA SHAVE ================================= When it comes to rocks Don’t be annoyed Just watch out for That asteroid. BURMA SHAVE ================================= You may think yourself An apex creature, But no matter what, T.Rex will eat’chya. BURMA SHAVE =================================Your turn. 😂😮😁😉🤣😁😮😂😊😍

As you deck the halls and traverse afar this holiday season, taking precautions to protect yourself from a quartet of infectious diseases can lessen your odds of bringing an illness into the new year. Flu, COVID, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and norovirus are making their winter rounds nationwide, and you may have heard the term “quad-demic” pop up online or in conversation (the first three are sometimes called a “triple-demic”). While the unofficial term for the four maladies circulating in tandem evokes a sense of impending doom, the quadruple threat isn’t so different from respiratory virus seasons past. “All of...

When Jimmy Carter was president from 1977 to 1981, gays and lesbians were unable to obtain government security clearance, same-sex intimacy was illegal in at least two dozen states, and gay marriage was no more than a radical pipe dream. Moreover, political support for LGBTQ causes was still largely taboo for politicians on both sides of the aisle. But Carter, a Southern Democrat and devout Baptist, stood out for his early support for pro-gay legislation and his embrace of LGBTQ advocates. ... In 1976, when Carter, a former Georgia governor, was running for president, he voiced his support for legislation...

Election Wizard @ElectionWiz BREAKING: Parts of I-85 closed due to b*mb threat involving 18-wheeler in Greenville County, South Carolina

Less than a week into 2025, the need for rapid Senate confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s national security team could not be more apparent.On New Year’s Day, Americans across the country were subjected to multiple suspected terrorist attacks, capping off a devastating end to Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency.In New Orleans, ISIS-inspired Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a rented vehicle into a crowd, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more in the process. Meanwhile, authorities are investigating a potential act of terrorism in Las Vegas, where active-duty Army soldier Matthew Livelsberger blew himself up while inside a rented Tesla...

President-elect Donald Trump will hold a rally in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, January 19 — one day before he is sworn into office for his second term.Trump’s inauguration committee announced on Wednesday that the “Make America Great Again Victory Rally” will be held at Capital One Arena, which can seat around 20,000 people, beginning at 3:00 p.m. ET, CBS News reported. The incoming president is slated to speak at the event along with a list of other speakers who have not been revealed, according to The Hill. Trump hasn’t held a rally in D.C. since January 6, 2021, when he...

Thursday 2 January 2025 Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Doctors on 2 January St. Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church, MiamiReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst reading1 John 2:22-28The anointing he gave you teaches you everythingThe man who denies that Jesus is the Christ –he is the liar,he is Antichrist;and he is denying the Father as well as the Son,because no one who has the Father can deny the Son,and to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father as well.Keep alive in...

In a major victory for cable companies and telcos that raises concerns about the Federal Communications Commission's regulatory authority in the wake of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the agency’s net neutrality rules. The rules require broadband operators to treat all internet traffic equally and banned them from giving preferential treatment to some sites by speeding up or slowing down consumer access. The FCC had implemented net neutrality rules under former President Barack Obama, which were then dropped during the Trump administration. Last April the FCC voted 3-2, along party...

Twenty councillors at a local authority in Nottinghamshire have quit Labour, saying the party has “abandoned traditional Labour values” under Keir Starmer’s leadership. The move means Labour has lost overall control of Broxtowe borough council, which it gained in 2023, and those defecting include the council leader, Milan Radulovic, who had been a party member for 42 years. In a statement, the councillors – who will now sit as part of a new Broxtowe Independents party – said: “It is with a heavy heart that we can no longer be in a party that has abandoned traditional Labour values under...

Haven't heard anything at all about drones since the Las Vegas and New Orleans fiascos.....

Elon Musk has reignited his feud with the Prime Minister in a social media rant where he called for a new UK election and the release of far-right activist Tommy Robinson from prison. The world’s richest man, who is a close ally of incoming US President Donald Trump, posted a series of tweets on Thursday stating “free Tommy Robinson” and in another said “a new election should be called in Britain”. He added that “only” Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party could “save” Britain.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) detractors are falling in line after President-elect Donald Trump put his thumb on the scale. Johnson ended the 118th Congress by bungling through a government funding battle – angering conservatives, moderates, and even Trump himself – and his chances at retaining the gavel into the next Congress appeared dire. Trump, with a single Truth Social post, appears to have saved Johnson. The once and future president left Johnson twisting in the wind for over a week after Johnson failed to deliver Trump’s ask of raising the debt ceiling through a government funding bill. With no word...

Civil war has broken out within the MAGA Republicans. On the one side are the traditional MAGAs, who tend to be White, anti-immigrant, and less educated than the rest of the United States. They believe that the modern government’s protection of equal rights for women and minorities has ruined America, and they tend to want to isolate the U.S. from the rest of the world. They make up Trump’s voting base

Biden and Thomas on the Natural LawRecently, I watched an excellent documentary called Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. That movie includes the 1991 Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings where Clarence Thomas had to defend himself against the false-accusations of Anita Hill in regards to verbal sexual harassment. Most people in the 1990s were fascinated by the racy language surrounding things like “Long Dong Silver” and other odd statements from Hill. But what I found most interesting in the movie was that the then-Senator Joe Biden tried to hang Clarence Thomas on these false-accusations mainly because the Democrats were...