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Alana Thompson aka “Honey Boo Boo” and her boyfriend Dralin Carswell are still going strong despite being criticized over their 4-year age gap.

Bishop David Farrer is a wonderful dialogue partner for me and has introduced me to the poetry of R S Thomas. Apologies because as I make this post I have forgotten the name of the Thomas poem which inspired my epigram.

Actor Will Smith was filmed partying on Monday morning at the Vanity Fair Oscars event in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA after he slapped stand-up comedian Chris Rock during the live award show. In the video shared by Variety editors Marc Malkin and Ramin Setoodeh on Twitter, Smith, 53, with wife J ada Pinkett, 50, nearby, joyfully sang along as the DJ played his songs “Gettin Jiggy With It” and”Miami.”

Contrary to popular belief, the wars of tomorrow won’t be fought in the trenches. They’ll be fought in labs and lecture halls around the world. Powerful minds, rather than powerful machines, will prevail. And if powerful machines are to prevail, then powerful minds will be required to create such machines. China, the United States’ biggest rival, is busy creating a new generation of individuals with powerful minds. In fact, according to the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, a think tank dedicated to examining international security and emerging technologies, based at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, China is fast...

My letter to Senator Marco Rubio, Florida: An amendment to House Resolution 5421, passed on party lines, and Senate bill S626 will amend the Lacy act to prohibit the transportation into or within the US of all live animals of all types. Exceptions are: 1 - farm animals 2 - cats and dogs 3 - any animal that was traded in very large numbers during the calendar year 2021. It should be noted that the pandemic greatly reduced animal shipments during 2021. Senator Rubio, you wrote this legislation and submitted it to the Committee on Environment and Public Works on...

Looking for talented custom artists to show off their artwork/drawings. Preferably a little metal, patriotic, and hard. Would love to hook up and see your work and maybe pay for some custom/exclusive work. There are a number of artists on deviant etc but I prefer to pay a conservative/libertarian for there skill/effort. Please link you work. Thanks!

"... This is a bright 3.5 inch LCD display that's high resolution. It charges with the USBc. It connects with your TV with a dock over HDMI and it plays a bunch of games, but specifically Game Boy games, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and with adapters Sega Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket, and Atari Lynx. It doesn't play DS games, just letting you know. ...it's really fun to revisit and if you're a collector and you love the idea of getting these games I don't think there is a nicer dedicated piece of hardware right now that can...

Baldwin said he pulled the hammer back and released it and the pistol fired without pulling the trigger. The pistol was a replica Pietta, but we don't know now if it had a transfer bar. Assume it doesn't. Has anyone here ever had that happen, or have known that it happened?

The basic need is not that of changing all file names (multi commander has that in the menu) but that of changing the case of all the characters within a text that begin with http and end with html. The situational context (take deep breath) is of html files which used to work on a Windows server, but being now on a Linux server which are case sensitive - and with a unresolvable glitch (read on), then it seems that unless one can edit a server's httpd.conf then clicking on a link that begins with a upper case letter can...

Hello Old Schoolers! I recently sat down with long-time friend and martial arts expert Jack Toufenkchian to discuss the spiritual connection in the martial arts. I think you’re really going to enjoy this one! To Contact Jack Toufenkchian ......... ......... To your Health, Success, and Freedom! Patrick

Since I was a young man, I always loved to lift weights. I remember back in high school, when I was preparing to try out for the freshman football team, training with the other guys on an old Universal weight machine. But football wasn’t my game (at least tackle football–flag was a blast in grade school!) as a 115-pound guy can get his bell rung quite easily, as I soon found out. Basketball was more my game, and I logged likely thousands of hours playing at my school or local parks–often late into the evening–until my dad would come looking...

As any mother to a child knows, you certainly are a busy woman with a lot on your to-do list. However, imagine having 21 babies of your own – that’s Kristina Ozturk’s life. The 24-year-old mom of 21, from Batumi, Georgia, and her 57-year-old husband, Galip, a millionaire businessman, have spent $195,500 on surrogacy between March last year and July this year.

Just came back from watching "HALLOWEEN KILLS" and I was disappointed. I love the franchise and have been looking forward to watching it for over a year. It was originally supposed to be released in October 2020 and, my first thought as the end credits rolled was: "I've waited a year for this?" The story picked up where the 2018 film left off - at Laurie Strode's burning home. A few 'woke' moments in the film: 1 - A male gay couple moved into Michael Myers old house. They know all about its past but don't care. The love the...

The raid on JStarks home was sparked by a confidential report by the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (it is not clear how this “confidential report” made its way into Spiegel’s hands) showed that German authorities received a message from England last December regarding “a man in Germany who is maybe manufacturing and spreading 3d printed firearms.” Investigators tracked down 28-year old Jacob D. where a special commando team raided his flat and searched the entire place. The search turned up nothing illegal nor were any firearms found at his apartment. Just two days after the raid, relatives found...

I use TMG v9 on Win 8.1 Pro. No problems other than in Win 8.1. My question is will TMG V9 work on Win 11. Related is what about the Second Site which I also use. Thank you in advance Michael Dietz, mjdietzother@gmail.com

Every day we are bombarded with more and more outrages. Our nation and world are on fire, and we’ve learned that we’ve been betrayed on just about every level imaginable, not the least coming from our own wicked hearts. So amongst this raging inferno, why am I writing essentially a movie review? For the same reason we may go to church, spend time among loved ones, and pray–because amongst the profound physical challenges in our world, feeding our spirit has never been so important. Plus sometimes–after a day of work, or on a day off–we need some R & R…...

The Project B tests were held in the Chesapeake Bay in July 1921. Airplanes of the First Brigade sank a captured German destroyer and then a an armored light cruiser. Next was the German battleship Ostfriesland, considered “unsinkable” due to its extensive compartmentalization. After a day of 230- and 600-pound bombs dropped by Marine, Navy, and Army aircraft, the battleship settled three feet by the stern with a five-degree list to port. Ostfriesland, it turned out, was not unsinkable from the air.

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- One stunning revelation in the FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2020 is that armed private citizens fatally shot more criminals during the commission of felonies than police, a fact that seems to be avoided by the establishment media.According to the FBI’s expanded homicide data for 2020, law enforcement used firearms 298 times in fatal line-of-duty shootings, while private citizens killed 343 suspected felons “during the commission of a felony.”The data, which updates figures posted for 2019 last year, shows that in 2019, police and private citizens killed the same number of felons (334) during the commission of crimes....

Have you ever wanted to have a Glock 19 and Glock 17 contained in the same gun? The Glock 19x just might have you covered. It started out as a submission for the military’s new sidearm, but it was passed on. The 19X was then made available for civilians to purchase where it’s enjoyed a favorable reception.

As the government starts encroaching and everything is pointing to a looming collapse it is important to develop new skills. One of those skills is being able to give out a location without giving an address that an outsider to the community or MORE importantly an A.I. would not be able decipher if you are forced to use the Internet you can do so without flagging your location. So In this thread I shall make it a bit of a "scavenger hunt". I will describe a place in the Continental US and you try to find it.