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Discussion of recent controversy concerning gay men's chorus singing they are after children. As they say here, when the evil side tells you who they are, believe them.

Meet the Americans who are celebrating Independence Day, but aren't sure why.

In a move that bites the hand that feeds it, Atlanta recommends moving to abolish the suburbs ahead of the Biden administration requiring the city to do so. Buckhead is not what is traditionally considered a suburb. Residents there provide about 20% of the city’s budget, and their children attend Atlanta Public Schools. However, it is an area of the city primarily made up of neighborhoods with single-family homes. Atlanta would like to change that. According to the Saporta Report, single-family zoning comprises 63% of Atlanta’s land area. In 2018, Mayor Bottoms said her vision was One Atlanta, a more...

Asian Americans are beginning to realize that their values are no longer aligned with the shifting Democratic Party. A recent spike in Asian hate crimes has led to leftist and corporate media that deliberately refuse to talk about the perpetrators and their motives. They insinuate the hate crimes are due to either structural imbalances in society or a direct result of white supremacy rhetoric. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bizarrely blamed the rise in attacks on Asians on former President Trump. The New York Times also attributed it to Trump’s alleged xenophobia with the term “Chinese virus.” NBC News even went further,...

THE Taliban have seized control of a THIRD of Afghanistan as they continue to accelerate their blitz offensive while the US continues to withdraw their forces. The US has wasted nearly $1trillion on the "pointless" 20-year battle trying to stave off the terror group who are fighting to gain ultimate control over the war-torn country. The Taliban have been on tenterhooks to forge ahead with their scheme since President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of troops back in April and have since continued at "lightning speed". Jihadist forces have now advanced across rural areas, putting them in reaching distance of...

Touching video. Herman the pigeon looks after puppies. It's your daily dose of cute. :-)

TOKYO — Japanese soccer player Kumi Yokoyama said they are transgender — a revelation praised in the U.S. where they play in the National Women's Soccer League but an identity not legally recognized in Japan. The 27-year-old forward for the Washington Spirit said they felt more comfortable with their own gender identity while living in the United States, where teammates and friends are more open to gender and sexual diversity. "I'm coming out now," Yokoyama said in a video talk on former teammate Yuki Nagasato's YouTube channel. "In the future, I want to quit soccer and live as a man."...

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — An angry Florida man pulled a gun on a drive-thru worker because they forgot the cream cheese with his bagel, according to Miami Gardens Police. The employee just happened to be the daughter of the police chief. Police said the man became angry at a Starbucks drive-thru when they messed up his order earlier this week. He returned to the window, screaming at the employee. She asked whether he had paid for the cream cheese, at which point he became enraged and pulled out a gun, according to an arrest report. Chief Delma Noel-Pratt told...

Jericho Green's take on Juneteenth and politicians. Also, white guilt and "be a slave for a day".

It seems natural to expect that, as the market conditions affecting the semiconductor industry continue to deteriorate while the demand for critical components needed to maintain vital infrastructure systems around the world continues unabated, China will be able to exert a disproportionate influence on the availability of these components. It is quite foreseeable that the Chinese Communist Party will see the semiconductor industry as strategically important and nationalize key parts of it, fashioning it into a tool of foreign policy. The United States will, of course, pretend to be doing something about this state of affairs, making for a noisy...

One of the earliest (of many) bizarre symptoms of COVID-19 was blood clotting in the lungs. These clots could easily be seen when an endotracheal tube was removed from a ventilated patient. The tube was coated with a whole lot of mucus with red streaks. Not so pleasant to look at. Naturally, heparin, an anticoagulant, was tried. A modest positive effect on survival was seen in a large retrospective study reported in BMJ in February. But heparin is tricky to use. It is considered to be a high-risk drug because both over-and underuse can be fatal. Aspirin, another blood thinner,...

This is so cool! It's an old video, but this is the first time I have heard of this device.

WESTLEY (CBS13) – The woman who was gunned down during an attempted carjacking outside an Executive Inn in rural Stanislaus County was a mother of three and grandmother of eight, her family told CBS13 on Monday. The family identified the woman killed as 60-year-old Elizabeth Mann of Tracy. They called Mann generous enough to give a person the last dollar out of her pocket. Cherri Booth ​was a guest at the inn and saw the aftermath of the violence as the Mann’s son rushed outside. “It just breaks my heart because that trickled down to all of her children, grandchildren....

In the current study, the researchers followed 228 convalescence plasma donors between April and February 2021. They were assessed for levels of neutralizing antibodies and the total and immunoglobulin G (IgG)-specific S protein antibodies using a lab-developed fluorescent reduction neutralization assay (FRNA) and the VITROS anti-SARS-CoV-2 Total. The team analyzed the data to determine the link between antibody levels and clinical characteristics, presenting a comprehensive view of SARS-CoV-2 antibody changes over 11 months after being infected with SARS-CoV-2. The purpose of the study was to better understand COVID-19 responses in individuals who obtained the virus in the community. Before August...

Is Biogen's Alzheimer's drug a historic achievement or red herring? There are plenty of opinions on both sides. Nonetheless, it received FDA approval despite an unanimous downvote from its own expert panel. What is going on here? No one knows, but to me, it just doesn't smell right. The subject of an email from Rick Berke, the executive editor of STAT, reads: 'A landmark day in Alzheimer's disease." Berke then linked to an article by Adam Feuerstein and Damian Garde, which, if it's less enthusiastic, it's not by much: "FDA grants historic approval to Alzheimer’s drug designed to slow cognitive...

Author Ed Husain visited places of worship across UK for Among the Mosques Would turn up unannounced to the largest weekly gathering, Friday prayers Spoke to taxi drivers, business owners, Imams and worshipers about religion Islam in Britain is dominated by ultra-orthodox sect promoted by the Deobandis Control over half of Britain's mosques, and gave birth to Taliban in Afghanistan One person described 'Bolton, Dewsbury and Blackburn' as 'different universe' Books for sale detail how women should be banned from leaving the house Mosque in Didsbury, in converted church, has a sign for the 'Sharia Department' White men revealed 'no-go...

Suppose you lent someone $100, and when they paid you back they only handed you, say, $99 or $80. Would you consider the borrower to have kept his promise and contractual obligation? Or would you think that he had cheated you out of a part of the money you had lent him in good faith? Well, there are those who say that doing so is just fine, if it’s done through price inflation so the borrower repays the lender in depreciated dollars. Binyamin Appelbaum, who makes this argument, is the lead writer for The New York Times on financial and...

Yet another study finds that “whole of life” carbon footprint of electric cars is little different to conventional cars: April 14th 2021, Jefferies published a research note entitled “Are EVs as ‘Green’ as They Appear?” in which they conclude an electric vehicle must be driven 200,000 km (or 124,000 miles) before its “whole of life” carbon emissions equals that of an internal combustion engine. Their analysis is very similar to ours and details the tremendous amount of energy (and by extension CO2) needed to manufacture a lithium-ion battery. Moreover, they point out that a typical EV is on average 50%...

Earlier this week, at the age of 67, he became a homicide victim, gunned down behind his St. Clair County home. It appears two men tried to steal his beloved Chevy Camaro, affectionately named “Babe.” “Brian was a pacifist. He didn’t believe in violence, so this is hard to comprehend,’' said his sister, Carole Tatum. “He was my baby brother. It’s hard.” The shooting happened at Shaw’s Ladonna Drive home in Odenville. According to friends and family, Shaw was in the three-bay, industrial-style garage behind his home working on one of his cars. He loved to buy and sell cars,...

The sick plot to overturn morality. Big corporations participating in this crap, except they scrub their "pride" virtue signaling from their ads in Muslim countries.