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PROMISE YOURSELF Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind; ...to speak of health, happiness, and prosperity to every person that you meet; ...to make all your friends aware of the special qualities within them; ...to look at the sunny side of everything and let your optimism work to make your dreams come true; ...to think, work for, and expect only the best; to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own; ...to forget past mistakes and press on towards a greater future; ...to wear a...

NEW YORK CITY — The New York Jets have begun wondering if perhaps they should try some other sport besides football. After years of spectacularly failing at football and off to an 0-7 start this year, the Jets finally began considering if maybe they were really better suited for some other sort of competition, such as badminton. "Maybe football just isn't our thing," said Jets coach Aaron Glenn. "We gave it a good try. Well, we didn't, but that's kind of the point. What if we tried hockey? Eh, we probably don't have enough white guys. I'm sure there's something...

Melissa strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane on Saturday and was forecast to bring "life-threatening and catastrophic" flash flooding and landslides to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic early next week, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center warns. Hurricane Melissa, the 13th named storm of the Atlantic season, isn't expected to have major impacts on the mainland United States, but it could be the strongest system this season. Melissa's forecast and path As of Saturday night, Melissa's core was about 130 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and about 260 miles west-southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the hurricane center said. Maximum sustained winds...

We’re in Day 25 of the Schumer Shutdown as the Democrats keep the government hostage over their leftist demands; somehow, they expected that the Republicans would simply bend the knee and agree to every one of their pet projects. On Thursday, they showed once again how little they care about the people as they nuked a bill that would have temporarily provided pay to essential government workers. Nice.On Friday, we got some good news when President Trump announced that a mystery anonymous donor was giving $150 million to help pay the troops. Then, today (Saturday), The New York Times reported...

Hard as it is to believe, could change really be in the works for California?It may be, according to this Emerson poll, as reported by Newsweek:Republican candidate Steve Hilton is very narrowly ahead in the latest poll from Emerson College on California's gubernatorial race, pulling into the lead over former U.S. Representative Katie Porter, the Democratic front-runner.According to the details:The latest Emerson poll, conducted on October 20 and October 21, shows Hilton with a slim lead in the crowded field to replace outgoing Governor Gavin Newsom in California next year. The Republican has the support of 16 percent of California's...

President Trump late Friday pushed for several Biden-era Justice Department officials to be prosecuted over an FBI investigation into the fallout of the 2020 election. In a Truth Social post, Mr. Trump accused four high-ranking officials — former Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, special counsel Jack Smith and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco — of signing off on an FBI probe in which investigators allegedly looked at nine Republican lawmakers' phone records. "These Radical Left Lunatics should be prosecuted for their illegal and highly unethical behavior!" the president wrote. He did not specify what crimes he believes...

The crimes of illegals are not just numbers, they are grotesque in scope. If there's any doubt about the horror of Joe Biden's open border, and the righteousness of President Trump working to stop it, a look at the new innovations in crime and thuggery brought to our shores should disabuse them of that romantic notion. Here are some fresh pickings from illegal aliens who never should have been allowed within ten miles of our country: Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 🚨 BREAKING: Florida police just busted a COLOMBIA THEFT RING run by illegal aliens, disguised as "landscapers." "5 suspects now sit...

Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro issued a rare plea to Donald Trump in English, calling for peace with the United States as tensions between Caracas and Washington escalate following a series of U.S. military operations in the Caribbean and Pacific. “Yes peace, yes peace forever. Peace forever. No crazy war, please!” Maduro said in English during a meeting with pro-government labor unions in Caracas. Maduro’s comments were met with applause from the audience. Switching between Spanish and English, he repeated the appeal several times: “No war. No war. No crazy war. Yes peace. Please, peace forever.” Nearly 14% of the...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A top American cardinal celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Saturday in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, thrilling traditionalist Catholics who had felt abandoned after Pope Francis greatly restricted the ancient liturgy. A few thousand pilgrims, many of them young families with multiple children and the women covering their heads with lace veils, packed the altar area of the basilica to standing room-only capacity. Cardinal Raymond Burke, the conservative American figurehead, presided over the 2 1/2-hour liturgy, which was rich in hymn, incense and priests bowing to the altar, their...

A new study shows that waistlines are widening almost everywhereIT WAS NOT that long ago that more of the world’s people had too little to eat than ate too much. Now the scales have tipped. A study published on February 29th in the Lancet , a medical journal, shows that more than 1bn people were classified as obese in 2022, the latest year for which data are available. The researchers based their findings on the weight and height measurements of more than 220m people from roughly 190 countries. They found that obesity rates have doubled among adults since 1990 and...

There are a few reasons to doubt the American government's stated aim of wiping out these so-called "narco terrorist" gangs threatening the US from Venezuela, even after one takes out of the equation the sort of equipment the military is deploying - which isn't what they would need for effective drug smuggling interdiction. While the president acknowledges that the synthetic opioid fentanyl is a huge killer in the US (which it is) and is supplied by drug gangs (which it is), to blame Venezuela for fentanyl production is simply incorrect.Mexican cartels produce fentanyl with precursors largely supplied from China, and...

Taylor Parker | Image by Bi-State Detention Center ======================================================================== (Texas Scorecard) – A Texas woman convicted of one of the most gruesome murders in recent memory is now appealing her death sentence, arguing that prosecutors improperly introduced humiliating and prejudicial evidence against her during her trial. Taylor Rene Parker, 32, was sentenced to death in 2022 for the murder of 21‑year‑old Reagan Hancock and Hancock’s unborn daughter, Braxlynn, on October 9, 2020, in New Boston. Parker’s appeal was heard by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on September 17, 2025, where her attorney, Caitlin Halpern, argued that the State’s evidence...

Jinlin Crater A team of scientists has uncovered evidence that a massive asteroid strike created a prominent crater in southern China’s Guangdong province roughly 10,000 years ago, during a period of rapid human development. The Jinlin crater, situated near Zhaoqing city, marks only the fifth confirmed impact site in China and the very first identified in the country’s southern region. Measuring approximately 2,950 feet across, the tilted, bowl-shaped formation suggests it was formed by an extraterrestrial object roughly 100 feet in diameter, unleashing an explosion comparable to dozens of atomic bombs. Researchers believe the impact would have had a profound...

President Donald Trump met with Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani aboard Air Force One Saturday at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar during refueling on Trump’s voyage to Asia. Trump called the Emir “one of the great rulers of the world” and “beloved and respected by his country.” He called the prime minister his friend and lauded the leaders for being “a very big factor” in the Middle East peace deal he brokered several weeks ago. In fact, Al Thani signed the agreement in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt,...

Gabbard described an operation in which intelligence provided to Mexican law enforcement led to the arrest of an alleged Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) associate known as “La Diabla.” The individual is accused of leading a criminal network involved in human trafficking, illegal medical procedures, and the sale of newborns. irector of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard praised recent U.S. and Mexican law enforcement operations that she said were supported by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) through intelligence sharing. According to Gabbard, actionable intelligence from the NCTC assisted both U.S. and Mexican authorities in the arrest of a Sinaloa Cartel leader...

1:14 RING VIDEOS of PORCH PIRATES GETTING THEIR JUST DESERTS............. The second one was rough 😭😂

Eleanor Holmes Norton, a non-voting delegate representing the District of Columbia, has the “early stages of dementia,” according to a police report detailing how scammers took advantage of the oldest member of the House of Representatives. Norton, 88, was duped by multiple suspects Thursday who went to her Washington, DC, home claiming to be HVAC workers, according to an internal police report obtained by NBC News4. The swindlers charged $4,362 to the Democratic congresswoman’s credit card without performing any work. Norton’s “caretaker/power of attorney was not at residence” at the time the group showed up, which was just after 3:30...

An Irish political reporter/commentator named Eoghan MacConnell opines upon voters who stray off the reservation (won't be good house n-words) refusing to vote for slates of establishment candidates (eunuchs in the Sultan's harem), as if party discipline extended down to the voting booth. This is in "People who spoil votes shouldn't get State benefits says Laois Fine Gael Councillor" https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/laois-live/1928027/people-who-spoil-votes-shouldn-t-get-state-benefits-says-laois-fine-gael-councillor.htmlThis takes me back to the Irish Olympic team's "national anthem" when they fielded their first national team, in the 1924 Summer Olympics, having just thrown out the bloody British. This is titled "Let Erin Remember the Days of Old". A...

Bertha Weingarten about 1935 Hair was a brighter red than in pictureBertha Schmidt Weingarten 1914 - 2013Bertha was born Bertha Schmidt, in Brook Park, Minnesota, on December 21, 1914. She was an early Christmas present who arrived shortly after the start of World War I. She was the seventh child to be born in a log cabin with two little loft bedrooms. Her mother, Emma, left her abusive husband, Herman Schmidt, when Bertha was 12. At the time Bertha was one of ten children. Divorce was very rare. Her father had taken to drinking. The situation must have been very...

British Prince Andrew and UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed. Andrew may go into a gilded life in exile. As the former Duke of York is massacred daily by an unstoppable flux of scandals, he is facing the prospect of being evicted from the 30-room Royal Lodge that has been his residence for more than 20 years. Prince Andrew always maintained that he held a ‘cast iron’ lease of the mansion, until it became public that he only paid ‘one peppercorn a year’ in rent. The agreement stated that the Crown would have to pay Andrew around £558,000 ($742,000) if he gave...