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The good news for Stacey Abrams is that despite being implicated in massive corruption she is still not in prison (although she is under investigation). The bad news is that this Democrat favorite has completely lost whatever served her as a mind: (Video on link) The lunatic views moonbats express are not merely divorced from reality; they are the diametric opposite of reality. To call Trump an ayatollah goes beyond absurd because not only is he nothing like an ayatollah, he is the one who clipped the ayatollahs’ wings by setting back their nuclear weapons program. She bleats that elections...

Burning Man is being torn apart by sand storms just one day into the iconic festival, with 50mph winds tearing up tents and trashing art. Thousands of attendees have been weathering apocalyptic scenes, with some wearing ski goggles and surgical masks to brace against the storm. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned that a 'wall of blowing dust' from Smoke Creek and Black Rock Desert would move over the site on Saturday and Sunday. Campsites which were erected on the eve of the celebration were damaged by the dust storm as it tore through the Nevada desert before the festival...

The section of the U.S. Air Force that oversees the military branch’s bases is putting the Sig Sauer M18 handgun back in use, the USAF announced Sunday. It had paused the M18’s use for a month after the July shooting death of a Wyoming-based airman. The section of the Air Force that oversees the military branch’s bases is un-grounding the Sig Sauer M18 handgun after pausing its use for a month over the July 20 shooting death of a Wyoming-based airman. The Air Force Global Strike Command announced in a Sunday statement that it has completed a “comprehensive inspection” of...

Four ICE agents were injured as protesters punched, pepper-sprayed and ambushed them outside the courthouse A mob of up to 20 anti-ICE protesters swarmed and attacked immigration agents outside a San Francisco courthouse on Wednesday, with one keffiyeh-clad agitator allegedly armed with a knife threatening to stab an officer and go after his family, officials said. Adrian Guerrero, a U.S. citizen, slashed the tire of a government vehicle during the clash at the immigration courthouse at 100 Montgomery Street, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The incident unfolded as ICE agents carried out a removal operation, when protesters...

When a car hits a deer or antelope, it can mean expensive repairs. Hitting a cow is much worse, it will likely destroy your car and you as well. Wyomingites would be wise not to underestimate how devastating hitting a 1,000-pound cow can be, assuming they don't become hamburger in the impact. ============================================================== Nobody wants to hit an animal with a vehicle, but there are certain animals you definitely don’t want to hit. A mule deer will bend a bumper, but a cow could literally cost you an arm and a leg — or even your life. The Nature Conservancy...

Divorce is a misery, and so too is The Roses. This second cinematic version of Warren Adler’s 1981 novel The War of the Roses, like its 1989 predecessor starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, fails to find anything funny about a couple whose union devolves into all-out war. This time around, it’s Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as the husband and wife who increasingly want to wring each other’s necks (among other violent fantasies). While both are game for this comedy of hostility, director Jay Roach and screenwriter Tony McNamara strand them in a battle marked by mirthless one-liners and...

While the transformation may be anathema to the average customer, it will surely be well received by the largest investors. According to the latest financial reports, two of the three largest shareholders of Cracker Barrel stock are Blackrock, Inc. and the Vanguard Group, Inc., the champions of woke capitalism, who obviously control this iconic restaurant chain lock, stock and barrel. ============================================================= Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from Noon until 1 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-9 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. CT...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday he and U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg had held a good meeting and discussed exerting pressure on Russia to hold "real talks" on ending more than three years of war, APA reports citing Reuters. "A good meeting with the special U.S. presidential envoy Keith Kellogg," Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app. "We discussed how to exert influence on Russia, oblige them to hold real talks on ending the war ... We are ready to talk in a format with leaders. This is needed to resolve key issues." Zelenskyy said Ukraine valued the "readiness...

Explanation: Sometimes even the sky surprises you. To see more stars and faint nebulosity in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), long exposures are made. Many times, less interesting items appear on the exposures that were not intended -- but later edited out. These include stuck pixels, cosmic ray hits, frames with bright clouds or Earth's Moon, airplane trails, lens flares, faint satellite trails, and even insect trails. Sometimes, though, something really interesting is caught by chance. That was just the case a few weeks ago in al-Ula, Saudi Arabia when a bright meteor streaked across during an hour-long exposure of...

Uprisings in major Iranian cities, protests, lots of footage via phone cameras, some not even covering faces, supporters of regime not helping much, because they don't have food and haven't been paid. Hizbollah is FUBAR, so can't come in and do the Thug (new dance; must become GIF like Happy Dance), people daring to wave original Iranian flag, sing original anthem, both of which are capital offenses, previously bringing summary execution. Parallels with UK are remarkable. Transcript linked below video.

Cracker Barrel has issued a new statement in response to the outrage over the sterile new branding, as its stock continues to free fall. The statement, titled, “A Promise to Our Guests,” was posted to Facebook on Monday morning. The restaurant chain, long beloved for its traditional American charm, faced a storm of criticism after unveiling a modernized logo that ditched iconic elements like the barrel and the “Old Country Store” tagline. Fans, including former President Donald Trump, slammed the change as a “woke” erasure of heritage, leading to a $94 million drop in stock value in just one day....

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🚨🚨🚨#BREAKING and EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Service’s chief counsel Richard Giuditta, who also served as a senior adviser to Director Sean Curran, resigned abruptly late last week after @RCPolitics inquired about an alleged “road rage” incident he was involved in with a USSS-issued government vehicle in New Jersey in late July, according to multiple sources familiar with the incident and his departure. Giuditta, who sources say had no formal training on the use of a government vehicle, inappropriately used lights and sirens on the vehicle, which are supposed to be reserved for law enforcement purposes, the sources allege. The incident involved...

The shine may be coming off AI, a tech charlatan that has brought no major benefits for organizations including telcos and has had some worrying effects. Offloading cognitive effort to ChatGPT or a similar application is extremely bad for the brain. Who knew? It should have been obvious to anyone who's realized that lounging around all day is bad for the body, or that no one became good at anything by not doing it. But it took two separate research projects, one by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University and the other by MIT, to establish that overreliance on generative artificial...

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite new world screwworm has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services said early Monday. The case, related to a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador, was confirmed to be screwworm by the CDC on Aug. 4, HHS spokesman Andrew G. Nixon confirmed to Reuters, who first reported the story. "The risk to public health in the United States from this introduction is very low," he said. Reuters reported last week, citing U.S. beef industry sources, that a person in Maryland contracted the parasite after...

3 days ago I would never leave my door open while pumping gas in this part of DC. Video:

President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are allegedly planning to ban the COVID vaccine “within months,” years after Trump labeled the vaccine’s development during the pandemic as a “monumental achievement,” according to an associate of Kennedy’s.Newsweek reached out to HHS via email for comment. Why It MattersTrump said in December 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, that the development of a vaccine as part of Operation Warp Speed was a “historic” success.He commended doctors, scientists, industry executives, and state and local leaders for expediting the process and mass distributing an initiative...

President Donald Trump proposed on Aug. 25 that his administration rename the Department of Defense to its previous name, the Department of War. “Pete, you started off by saying ’the Department of Defense.' And somehow it didn’t sound good to me,” Trump said in the Oval Office, speaking to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, after signing executive orders on fighting crime, including in Washington. “Defense. What are we, defense? Why are we defense? It used to be called the Department of War, and it had a stronger sound. And, as you know, we won World War I, we won World War...

Whelp maybe those DEI rollbacks weren’t a great idea. Target has officially announced a major leadership shake-up, confirming that CEO Brian Cornell will step down from his position and transition into the role of executive chair of the Board of Directors. His successor will be the company’s current chief operating officer, Michael Fiddelke, who will take over as chief executive by February 2026. The decision was revealed in a company statement on Wednesday, August 20, with the Board of Directors unanimously backing Fiddelke. Before becoming COO, he served as chief financial officer and is seen by the Board as the...

European leaders presented a united front at their White House summit last week with President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, agreeing on the need for security guarantees for Ukraine to eventually end its war with Russia. But within days, the "coalition of the willing" began to fray over the issue of sending troops into the war region. The discord came into full view Friday when Matteo Salvini, a chief lieutenant in the government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, mocked French President Emmanuel Macron for suggesting European soldiers could be deployed on the ground in Ukraine as part...