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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 8:58:33 GMT -8
If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
Let Me Get This Straight. She Was Exposed to COVID. She Feels Sick. She Went to Court Without a Mask and Sat Down Next to a Demented 77-Year-Old Man.
Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, convinced a federal judge to postpone her client's defamation trial on Monday.
Moments after Monday's hearing started, Habba asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to adjourn because her parents had been exposed to COVID-19, according to reports.
At the same time, a juror who was on their way to the trial began to feel sick, according to reports.
"Trump won't be taking the stand today [because] everyone's going home," reporter Molly Crane-Newman wrote. "Juror No. 3 was 'on the way to the city but feeling hot and nauseous' this morning."
ALSO READ: Alina Habba is persona non grata at her Pennsylvania law school
"Alina Habba, who is beside Trump and not wearing a mask, tells the court she's had a fever. Kaplan grants a 1-day adjournment," she added.
She'll Do Anything to Delay a Trial, Even Kill Her Client
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:01:13 GMT -8
A Pastor Is Elected for Acting Like a ChristianOutrage spread Friday after the story about a pastor in Ohio who was arrested and charged for opening his church to homeless people when extreme cold weather struck his town gained national attention. Chris Avell, the pastor of an evangelical church called Dad's Place in Bryan, Ohio, pleaded not guilty last Thursday to charges that he broke 18 restrictions in zoning code when he gave shelter to people who might otherwise have frozen to death. Avell garnered the attention of the Bryan City Zoning Commission last winter, when he invited unhoused people to stay in his church to avoid the cold and snow. In November, officials told him Dad's Place could no longer house the homeless because it lacks bedrooms. The building is zoned as a central business, and Ohio law prohibits residential use, including sleeping and eating, in first-floor buildings within business districts. According to James Causey, a columnist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Avell ignored the commission's orders and again opened Dad's Place to the homeless earlier this winter, until police arrived at the church during a New Year's Eve service and issued the citations. "Many of these people have been rejected by their families and cast aside by their communities. So, if the church isn't willing to lay down its life for them, then who will? This is what we're called to do," Avell told Fox News. Dad's Place is located next to a homeless shelter, but overcrowding at the facility led Avell to begin offering space to unhoused people. "We have put in things people can use, like a shower and a small ability to do laundry," the pastor toldThe Village Reporter in Bryan. "Some who found this to be a home for them have stuck around." Ohio pastor charged for opening church to homeless people in freezing weather
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:02:35 GMT -8
His Supporters Are as Senile As He Is
A supporter of Donald Trump in New Hampshire falsely insisted that the leading Republican presidential candidate was currently president "as of now."
While waiting for Trump to speak outside an event in Rochester on Sunday, a Newsmax reporter spoke to supporters of the former president.
"What makes you so passionate to come up and see Donald Trump?" the reporter asked one man.
"Oh, of course, because since he was the president, he's also my president as of now, and will be my president, because our country, during his time, is really in a good situation," the Trump supporter replied.
A second supporter agreed.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:04:32 GMT -8
DeathSentence Ends His deSaster of a Campaign Appropriately...With a Fake
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ended his campaign for the Republican 2024 nomination with a quote he claimed was by the late UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Only, it appears to be fake.
On Sunday, DeSantis posted a five-minute video on X alongside the quote: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
But according to the International Churchill Society and Churchill scholars, there is no evidence that Churchill said those words.
"We base this on careful research in the canon of 50 million words by and about Churchill, including all of his books, articles, speeches, and papers," said the society, in response to late US Sen. Max Cleland falsely attributing the quote to Churchill in 2013.
Woke wins, Ron DeSantis loses
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:06:07 GMT -8
Something Else About Previous Guy is Small
During a panel discussion on Tuesday's New Hampshire GOP primary, MSNBC contributor John Heilemann suggested that the enthusiasm for Donald Trump's third run for the presidency, outside of his rabid base, is much less than it seems.
Speaking with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Heilemann noted that Trump rallies lack the energy of his previous runs and that his rallies are poorly attended and have been moved to smaller venues to make the former president look better.
"I mean, look, Joe, you mentioned that event," he began. "I was thinking about you on Saturday night. It's the SNHU Arena across the street from where I am now. It's a big sports arena, they do hockey games and basketball games stuff there. We were there together four years ago, Willie [Geist], you, me, [Mike] Barnicle. We were all out there, there was a huge snowstorm. It seats 10,000 people and it was packed to the gills in 2016. The other night here, there were empty seats all over the arena."
"They said there were a few thousand people there, and there probably were a few thousand, but that seats 10,000; it was way less than half filled, and even in the lower level, you could see just seat after seat after seat with no one in it," he reported. "Last night, you know, he did an event on Sunday night in Rochester: the place as a capacity of 700. I mean he filled 700 seats, but, you know, Trump used to brag about the 10,000 people, 12,000 people. 'We kept 10,000 people outside, as far as the eye can see.'"
"He is getting more people to turn out than Nikki Haley, but the phenomenon, the energy of Donald Trump that you saw on the ground here, that we saw on the ground here in 2016, to a lesser extent in 2020, partly because of the pandemic, it's ebbed a great deal in this primary," he added.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:08:17 GMT -8
I Feel Slimy Just Posting Something Written by the Koch Network
With Ron DeSantis dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, the political conversations are turning to the state of the race.
Donald Trump was always expected to be the Republican nominee, but the Iowa caucus revealed Trump could barely capture 50 percent of the vote there.
The Koch brothers' network funds Americans for Prosperity Action, the anti-tax group that has pushed Nikki Haley, and they published a memo about the raw numbers looking at Trump's chances. They're grim.
Puck News reporter Teddy Schleifer posted a screen capture of the memo sent out, touting Haley as the only chance of defeating Biden.
"We've been clear from the beginning that we disagree with former president Trump's plans for the country," the memo says. "As president, he added more to the national debt than any previous president (second only to the current president). He has consistently said he would remove core constitutional protections if elected to a second term. And his current economic plan leads with a promise to raise taxes by 10 percent on all Americans."
It continued saying that Trump has lost the last three elections and he's on track to lose again in 2024.
"Despite what some media outlets report, our polling consistently shows Donald Trump loses to Joe Biden in the states that will decide the election in November. And if he is convicted in one of his many criminal trials, polling indicates his loss will be even more severe," the memo explains.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:10:05 GMT -8
Urkaine Wasn't Fueling AroundRussian energy company Novatek said on Sunday it had been forced to suspend some operations at a huge Baltic Sea fuel export terminal due to a fire started by what Ukrainian media said was a drone attack. The giant Ust-Luga complex, located on the Gulf of Finland about 170 km (110 miles) west of St. Petersburg, is used to ship oil and gas products to international markets. It processes stable gas condensate - a type of light oil - into light and heavy naphtha, kerosene and diesel to be shipped by sea. It was not clear how long the disruption would last, how many tankers would have to idle outside the port, and what the knock-on effect would be on international energy markets. Critical infrastructure facilities in the surrounding Leningrad region were placed on high alert, with security units and law enforcement agencies ordered to destroy any drones detected, the regional administration said on Telegram. The Interfax-Ukraine news agency, citing unnamed sources, said the fire was the result of a special operation carried out by Ukraine's security services. "The Ust-Luga Oil terminal ... is an important facility for the enemy. Fuel is refined there, which, among other things, is also supplied to Russian troops," it cited one source as saying. "A successful attack on such a terminal not only causes economic damage to the enemy ... but also significantly complicates the logistics of fuel for the Russian military." Reuters could not confirm that the fire resulted from a Ukrainian drone attack. If it did, such an attack would demonstrate Kyiv's ability to conduct strikes deeper into Russia than usual using what are believed to be domestically produced drones at a time when it is on the defensive on the battlefield and struggling to secure as much Western financing as it wants.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:12:21 GMT -8
Who Gives a Ram?India’s stock market is shut for the day. Central government offices are only open for half the day. Neighbourhood watch parties have been organised across the country. And tens of millions of Indians are tuned into one event: the consecration of a temple to the Hindu god Ram in the city of Ayodhya. On Monday, just past noon local time, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join priests to inaugurate the temple, whose launch in many ways also serves as the start of his campaign to be re-elected for a third term in office in national elections due to be held between March and May. The trust in charge of the temple, whose construction is still under way, has invited an estimated 7,000 people — politicians, leading industrialists, sports stars and other public figures. But while Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has pitched the event as a national celebration, the temple’s history is grounded in what many have dubbed one of modern India’s darkest chapters — one that has shaped the country’s politics and that cracked open deep religious fault lines in its society. Here’s a look at the tortured history of the spot where the temple is being built — and the controversies surrounding it. What is the controversy behind the Ram temple?
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:15:06 GMT -8
Were They Suffering From Mad Cow Disease? Four students were arrested in connection with the dead longhorn found outside an Oklahoma State University fraternity in December. Luke Ackerley, Bennet Fady, Andrew King and Brody Shelby have been charged with misdemeanor for unlawful disposal of a carcass. The dead longhorn was found on the lawn of FarmHouse fraternity on the morning of Dec. 1, the day before the Big 12 championship football game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the University of Texas Longhorns. The animal was branded with obscenities referencing the fraternity. The four men charged were all members of Alpha Gamma Rho at Oklahoma State, a rival fraternity the Stillwater Police were investigating after rumors of an “ongoing prank war” between the two houses surfaced, according to NBC affiliate KFOR of Oklahoma City. The initial necropsy findings revealed the longhorn died after "suffering from a natural disease process" before being dumped on the lawn. An officer on scene told KFOR that tire tracks across the lawn indicated a truck or trailer was used to transport the animal to FarmHouse. All four students have been released on their own recognizance and will appear in court on March 11.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:18:09 GMT -8
The Courage of an Eggplant
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:21:07 GMT -8
This is Us
This needs to be said every time ‘Great Replacement Theory’ gets mentioned:
In1870, 14.4% of the US population was foreign born.
In1890, 14.8% of the US population was foreign born.
In1910, 14.7% of the US population was foreign born.
In2020, 13.7% of the US population was foreign born.
There is not now, there never has been and probably never will be given the historical trend, a Great Replacement. It is obvious from these numbers that the foreign born have always been assimilated. They are not replacements. They just become like us. That’s who we are, that’s who we’ve always been through every wave of immigration that has come to us.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:23:13 GMT -8
Biden and Haley Team Up
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:25:28 GMT -8
Facts About Forts Are Not His Forte
Donald Trump’s speech on Sunday took an unexpected turn when he went on a tangent about the names of U.S. military installations.
“We won world wars out of forts,” he said at an event in Rochester, New Hampshire. “Fort Benning, Fort This, Fort That, many forts. They changed the name, we won wars out of these forts, they changed the name, they changed the name of the forts. A lot of people aren’t too happy about that.”
“They changed the name of a lot of our forts. We won two world wars out of a lot of these forts and they changed the name,” he said. “It’s unbelievable.”
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:28:28 GMT -8
Measles is Spotted in the UK
U.K. health officials on Monday urged millions of parents to book their children for missed measles, mumps and rubella shots during a sharp increase in the number of measles cases and the lowest vaccination rates in a decade.
The National Health Service is launching a publicity campaign after figures showed there were about 250 confirmed measles cases in parts of England last year. Most cases were in children under 10 years old.
The combined measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine is offered in the U.K. in two doses to all children, first at 12 months and then again at 3 years. Vaccination rates have dropped to about 85% nationally, and far lower in parts of London, according to U.K. Health Security Agency chief executive Jenny Harries.
That is “too low to maintain safe population coverage — we want that at about 95%" as advised by the World Health Organization, she said.
Public health officials say more than 3.4 million children under 16 years old are unprotected and at risk of catching the preventable diseases.
Measles was declared eliminated in the U.K. in 2017, meaning the disease was no longer native to the country.
But transmissions began again when epidemics broke out in the rest of Europe. Officials said outbreaks can take place anywhere where vaccine coverage is below the 95% needed to achieve herd immunity.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 22, 2024 9:31:39 GMT -8
Speaking of Vaccinations ...
It seems hard to believe that Africa's biggest killer is a tiny insect, but almost every minute, an African child dies with malaria. The continent bears the brunt of the mosquito-borne disease, with 95% of the fatal cases recorded every year, and children under the age of 5 make up about 80% of those deaths.
The malaria parasite spreads to people bitten by infected mosquitos, and causes initial symptoms including high fever, headache and chills.
But finally, after four decades in the making, there's hope for the widespread prevention of malaria infections across Africa as a new vaccine is rolled out across the continent.
History was made Monday in Cameroon as the first routine vaccination program against the mosquito-borne illness got underway. Cameroon hoped to vaccinate roughly 250,000 children over the next two years.
"The arrival of the vaccines marks a historic step in our efforts to control malaria, which remains a major public health threat in the country," said Dr. Malachie Manaouda, Cameroon's Minister of Public Health.
"We have been waiting for a day like this," Mohammed Abdulaziz, the head of disease control and prevention at the Africa CDC, told journalists at a news conference to mark the launch. "We are not just witnessing history, but actively participating in a transformative chapter in Africa public health history. It brings more than just hope — a reduction in the mortality and morbidity associated with malaria."
The RTS,S/AS01 vaccine, also known as Mosquirix, was developed by British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline in conjunction with the Path Malaria Vaccine Initiative. It was recommended for use in such widespread fashion by the World Heath Organization in 2021, and is being rolled out in 19 countries in addition to Cameroon after having undergone successful trials in Ghana and Kenya.
The plan is for some 30 million doses of the vaccine to be administered in the coming months across all participating nations.
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