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If your first question is, what the heck is a Guardian Cap don’t feel bad because I asked the same question - it’s a padded outer shell worn over a normal helmet and is meant to cut down on concussions. In practice this might be a good idea but in games it makes the player’s head look enormous and also makes them look ridiculous IMO. Football is a violent contract sport that a lot of people love, making the players look ridiculous is going to be bad for the sport. Since this is voluntary this year it will be interesting...

Not trying to sell anything to anyone, I am looking for anyone who has this radio and what their thoughts are. From all the articles and videos, I've seen, it's a Baofeng UV-5R modernized to 2024, which is easily hackable to expand the frequencies you can listen to. There is a ton of free public domain firmware available for download. I have one coming for $30 and I'm looking forward to finding out what this device is capable of, it seems like a cheap way to expand my knowledge and to throw into my emergency communications kit.

We could wake up tomorrow in a totally different world, reports are breaking of Israel is preparing an imminent attack on Iran, Here a are on some of the highlights I've seen posted. Middle East braces for Israeli 'retaliation' attack on Iran after Israel War Cabinet meets Israeli Air Force says it has completed 'preparation' and that an attack is 'imminent' US officials tell WSJ they believe Israel will launch an anti-Iran operation today IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi: Iranian missile and drone attack on Israel “will be met with a response.” Netanyahu orders military: draw up...

Probably nothing to worry about but something to keep your eyes on, we've been told by a number of people to expect a major cyber-attack inside the USA. The interesting about this report is the outages have hit AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile and their discount brands like Cricket, etc.

As if NASCAR didn't already have major issues, this article comes out that NASCAR and the France Family are at an impasse with the Owners and Drivers of the Sport to the point the owners have hired a top Anti-Trust Lawyer to advise them. Since Dale Earnhardt Sr. died, my interest in NASCAR has steadily faded, however, I will be watching later today as the weather has cleared and the race should start on time. You had to think sooner or later that the iron fist rule of the France Family over NASCAR would be challenged, and it appears that...

This was a hot topic on FR a few weeks ago but had died down, it appears the Biden Administration could be facing another bad situation in South America, if a war breaks out in South America the flood of illegals at the Southern border could escalate to even higher levels

A number of us on FreeRepublic have been talking about this situation recently as something to keep your eye on. It appears Venezuela and Maduro are serious about annexing a large portion of Guyana, the territory is home to huge oil deposits. Haven't seen much if anything in the MSM about this new conflict, which could cause a spike in oil prices and send a huge number of refugees toward our open border.

Frank Gaffney was on Steve Bannon's War Room last week talking about this issue. In the last few years a huge oil discovery was made in Guyana who is allied with the USA, China, Russia, and Iran have become allies of Venezuela, Brazil is now being run by a Socialist in Lula De Silva. Why should anyone care about a potential conflict in South American, the contention of Gaffney and Bannon is China, Russia, and Iran are stoking conflicts around the world, in places like Ukraine, Gaza, Red Sea, potentially in South America to bog down the USA and it's...

Yesterday I happened to catch a short segment of Megyn Kelly's podcast, the guests were Teryn Gregson, the director and producer of a new movie called SHOT DEAD, the other guest was a father who had lost his teenage son due to the vaccine. If you are like me and won't let go of the idea Covid and the Vaccines were one of the biggest crimes ever committed against mankind, then you might be interested in spending an hour watching this movie. My emotions while watching the movie ranged from real sorrow for the victims to anger that this criminal...

I was watching Bloomberg’s Business Show this morning when a headline got my attention. Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk have begun clinical trials of their weight loss drugs Mounjaro and Ozempic on children as young as 6-years old. Certainly a small percentage of children might need these drugs but I can’t help feeling the vast majority of overweight children would be much better served by more physical exercise and a better diet and far less internet game playing and cell phone usage

Sage Steele the former ESPN anchor tweeted this information a short time ago, I thought she had been pranked until I looked it up. Quite a few hotels booked for the upcoming Army Navy Game in Foxboro, MA have been cancelled in order to house Illegal Immigrants, under the State's Right to Shelter Law. This is utterly disgraceful.

Was the F-35 hacked, as someone that spent his entire working career in the IT industry, perhaps I'm more attuned to this type of story. Supposedly after the pilot ejected, the plane continued flying for some time before crashing, that immediately caught my attention, I figured if the situation was bad enough for the pilot to eject, the plane would have crashed in the same area, not miles away and why was the Pentagon unable to know immediately where the plane was. I did some digging into the history of the F-35 and found plenty of old articles about the...

I've read all of William Forstchen's books, the first book of this series "One Second After" was a classic in my opinion, especially if you like the end of the world, apocalypse genre. His latest book is titled "Five Years After". I finished the book a couple of days, I don't want to give away any spoilers for anyone who hasn't read the book, I would say the book is worth the time and money, especially if you liked the other book in the series. The term DEEP STATE is certainly prevalent in this book. Those of you who have...

The nonprofit group working with the American Families to send back Japanese Flags taken from dead Japanese soldiers during WW II is the Obon Society, I would urge you to watch some of their videos on YouTube. Here is a couple of videos worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjn6-M6ZtSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvHTtR8NID4

For those of you interested in gambling, specifically sports gambling, this book is written by Billy Walters alleged to be the greatest sports gambler of all time, he was engaged in a sports gambling partnership with Phil Mickelson for a number of years. Billy Walters and Phil Mickelson got into trouble over allegations of insider trading, Mickelson according to Walters threw him under the bus, Walters ended up in prison and Mickelson walked away. If you have ever been interested in sprots gambling which I am then listening to interviews with Billy Walters are fascinating.

In 1932 Aldous Huxley wrote, "Brave New World", where humans embryos were developed and raised until the fetus was a living breathing human baby independent of a human female. Little did he know that in less than 100 years his work of fiction could become reality. If haven't read Brave New World and a recent book titled "The Evil Twins" of Technocracy and Transhumanism written by Patrick M. Wood which goes into detail of the concept of Transhumanism, it's a frightening prospect. In the not-too-distant future AI combined with advanced computer technology and potentially Quantum Computing, humans will be replicating...

To me this is a totally insane idea, it seems this is how insane ideas in Washington get started, some "expert" at a think tank writes a column advocating a position, that column gets picked up and spreads around Washington, other "experts" start to agree with the premise, the Biden Administration initially says this will never happen only to agree to implement the idea at some point in the future. Nearly every advanced weapons system we've provided Ukraine was initially denied by the Biden Administration only to later agree to provide it, HIMARS, Abrams Tanks, F-16 fighter jets, Patriot Air...

I know some think the concept of AI is fool's gold and will amount to nothing, I might be crazy, I think AI's potential for good and evil is astronomical and if left unchecked will usher in incredible changes in our daily lives. My fear is, despite this potential pause of AI development, nothing will change because there will always be some group or government that will go forward with AI development and who knows what the outcome will be.

No wonder so many people are moving to Florida, some say it's an Urban Legend others say it's the real thing, my first reaction was LOOFAHS, really ?? For years I've heard the Villages in Florida is a retirement community where anything goes for those inclined to partake, evidently now the swingers have a system to indicate who and what they are into. Personally, I may never buy a loofah again.

If this has been posted previously excuse the post, this video only shows James O'Keefe describing his exit from Project Veritas and the events leading up to his departure, many of the things he talks about I've never heard before and James gets very emotional talking about his departure. The video is over 40 minutes long but is quite eye opening.