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Though some people may call them "cute", Javelinas are arguably rather ugly animals and possess a rather unpleasant odor which is why some people refer to them as "musk hogs". They aren't wild pigs but are actually members of the "peccary" family that originated in South America. They have become accustomed to being in close proximity to humans and will generally ignore people. If you try and approach them. they will simply leave the area, but if provoked and threatened they've been known to defend themselves with their long, sharp tusks.The colorization of the Javelina is peppered black, gray and...

Jon Stewart says Vice President Harris overseeing President-elect Trump’s electoral victory as a tally of states was read on the House floor on Monday had a funereal feeling to it. Harris presided over a joint session of Congress as the election’s certification was confirmed. “The ultimate indignity of this Jan. 6 is that Donald Trump’s opponent, Kamala Harris, because she is the vice president, serves as the master of ceremonies,” said Stewart as he hosted “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central Monday evening. “Poor baby,” Stewart whispered. “But it does suck,” the comedian added, before playing a clip of Republicans...

It was one of the most technologically advanced empires in history...But the Romans may have been battling with cognitive decline due to pollution, according to a study...Researchers suggest that widespread lead pollution - caused by mining - lowered the IQ of essentially the entire European population at the time.

Two people were found dead in the landing gear compartment of a JetBlue plane after it landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday. The bodies, which have not yet been publicly identified, were discovered Monday evening during a "routine post-flight maintenance inspection" at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the airline said. "At this time, the identities of the individuals and the circumstances surrounding how they accessed the aircraft remain under investigation," JetBlue said. "This is a heartbreaking situation, and we are committed to working closely with authorities to support their efforts to understand how this...

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”Since that quote was first published in 2017 by G. Michael Hopf in Those Who Remain, it has become one of the most oft-quoted phrases in the conservative universe. (I’ve quoted it several times.) That’s because it perfectly captures the current state of Western civilization. I’ve experienced a good bit of that Western civilization. I’ve had the good fortune to have lived over a quarter of my life outside of the United States. I’ve lived in Cuba—albeit on a rather...

Leave it to the former Twitter worker to call for more social media censorship during a Miss America contest. During Sunday night's Miss America contest, Miss Georgia, Lulu Louizaire ended up with the "Censorship" topic and couldn't wait to tell the country that MORE censorship is the answer to social media's ills. According to Lulu's LinkedIn account, she was with the company until March 2023 when she was working as a Customer Success Specialist II. Lulu's job, according to her resume was to manage "a book of 100+accounts across the different verticals with a focus on government and causes." Yeah,...

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From Our Own Correspondent. HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1864. The Tennessee campaign is at an end. The last of HOOD's army crossed the Tennessee River, near Brown's Ferry, on the 29th ult., with eight pieces of artillery and about eighteen thousand men. He left Macon with 35,000 men, and was reinforced with FORREST'S cavalry and a portion of DICK TAYLOR'S corps, swelling his force to fully 40,000 men and 110 pieces of artillery. With this force he marched upon Nashville. After the battle of Nashville both armies floundered in mud for ten days. Great exertions were made by Gen....

Ramsey added that interviews with family members and social media analysis suggest the act may have been ....... .... politically motivated, citing ........anti-colonialism.... sentiments.

It is common knowledge that the Afghanistan withdrawal was a complete disaster, but lots of people do not know that the Biden administration has been sending cash to the Taliban every week since then. When the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, our troops were ordered to leave behind $7 billion worth of military equipment which ended up in the hands of the Taliban. According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the Taliban also likely gained access to approximately $57.6 million in funds that the United States had provided to the former Afghan government. But that was just...

Donald Trump repeated his warning to Hamas: the “gates of hell” will open if they do not free the hostages they are still holding by his Inauguration on January 20, the President-elect told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday. The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group took roughly 250 hostages from Israel during the October 7, 2023 terror attack. Over 100 — mostly women and children — were freed during a truce in November 2023, which Hamas broke. Further negotiations, overseen by the Biden-Harris administration, have gone nowhere. Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted recently that pressure on Israel had encouraged Hamas...

Having spent some time drawing out the agenda within the Tech Bros as it pertains to that pesky ¹American liberty thing. We now return to our regularly scheduled anti-globalist programming where the Tech Bro alignment with MAGA is swimmingly synergistic. Elon Musk is poking and prodding against the EU control apparatus, bringing an alternative perspective to our brothers behind enemy lines. In his role as the snarky Toyko Rose of the modern social media interface, free speaking Americans -together with our comrades in Russia- can well enjoy Musk’s EU provocations. The EU powerhouses of Germany, the U.K and France, are...

Should the GOP attempt to take control of the chamber, the members of the House DFL plan to stay away from the state capitol and prevent the GOP from achieving a quorum. A pair of dueling Monday press conferences in the Minnesota House of Representatives foreshadowed what could be an extremely difficult session of the Minnesota Legislature. Earlier today, House Republicans held a press conference in which they announced their priorities for the upcoming legislative session which starts on Jan. 14. Cutting taxes, holding criminals accountable, bringing down energy costs, and forming a new committee to combat fraud were among...

The cracks are beginning to show in Britain and America’s so-called “special relationship.” According to the BBC, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer may end his country’s security partnership with the United States if Donald Trump does not distance himself from Elon Musk’s recent comments on grooming gangs. Nick Watt, a reporter for the nightly current affairs show BBC Newsnight, claims that Downing Street are going to give a “hard-headed assessment” of whether these views are held solely by Musk or by the administration as a whole. He explained: There is absolute horror at the highest levels of the government at...

North Carolina General Assembly elections were finalized Monday as officials issued certificates to the winners in three close legislative races from November that later became subject to recounts and formal protests. This ministerial action by election administrators also confirms that Republicans have lost their veto-proof control of the legislature — the result of outgoing state Rep. Frank Sossamon losing to Democrat Bryan Cohn by 228 votes.

7 January 2025 Tuesday after Epiphany Sunday Saint Raymond of Penafort Catholic Church, Springfield, VAReadings at MassThe readings shown here are for places where the Epiphany is celebrated on Sunday 5 January.If you are celebrating the Epiphany on Monday 6 January this year then these are not the right readings. To see the right readings, you need to set this web site to use your own local calendar. On this web page, find the list of dates. After the last date there is a heading which says “Calendar Used”. Click on the calendar name below this heading, and choose...

Joe Biden’s first 46 months in the White House were an exercise in political vandalism, the effects of which the world will be dealing with for years. But it wasn’t enough for him. He’s accelerated his offensive on his way out. Inauguration Day can’t arrive soon enough. The candidate who ran in 2020 on restoring dignity to the office of the president is a small and petty man. This is not a revelation but a fact known since he “served” in the U.S. Senate and was especially evident when ran for president the first time, nearly four decades ago, dropping...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) claimed that the state would have a modest budget surplus next year — though he still planned to raid the “rainy day” emergency fund, and warned of President-elect Donald Trump’s spending cuts. Last year, Newsom came under intense criticism after turning what had once been a $100 billion surplus — thanks, in part, to coronavirus relief money from the Biden-Harris administration — into a nearly $50 billion deficit. Now, due to rising revenues from wealthy taxpayers, Newsom says there will be a surplus. But he warned that the surplus could be in danger from Trump’s...

Would they do such a thing? Trust in our government has lowered to the point that some people are suggesting that the New Orleans jihad massacre was aided and abetted, or even concocted, by the feds in order to stir up unrest as Trump prepares to return to the presidency, or to create a pretext for some other action. Some of those who are making suggestions of this kind, such as Candace Owens, just want to find some plausible way to blame Jews, or to claim that it’s all in the service of trying to get the U.S. involved in...

NATIONAL TEMPURA DAY On January 7th, National Tempura Day encourages us to celebrate with a dish made with a tempura batter. This Japanese fare includes either seafood or vegetables dipped in batter and deep-fried. #NationalTempuraDay Where did tempura originate? No one really knows. What we do know is back in 1549, Portuguese sailors arrived in Japan and introduced a way of battering and frying food that is now infused into the culture. Today, chefs all over the world include tempura dishes on their menus. They use a wide variety of different batters and ingredients, including nontraditional broccoli, zucchini, and asparagus....