Army Sergeant Reunited With His Military Dog Just In Time For The Holidays

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This week, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Payton May was reunited with a Belgian Malinois named Yyacob, a now-retired military dog the sergeant used to handle before being reassigned to another base in 2022.

When May found out Yyacob was retiring after seven years of service, knew he wanted to try to adopt the dog, whom he calls his “best friend.” May reached out to American Humane, an animal welfare organization known for reuniting Military Working Dogs with former handlers, for assistance – and the group came through.

After two-and-a-half years apart, the pair were reunited on Monday, just in time for the holidays.

May and, Yyacob, an explosives detection and patrol dog, served together for nine months in Iraq. They would check anyone entering the base for ammunition or explosives, and also carried out patrols and scanned vehicles together.

According to a press release from American Humane, the pair completed the elite Patrol Explosive Detection Dog – Enhanced Course, an advanced program for police patrol and explosive detection dogs that teaches them to work effectively off-leash. (Read more from “Army Sergeant Reunited With His Military Dog Just In Time For The Holidays” HERE)

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‘Not A Leader’: Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Has Uphill Climb To Earning Trust Of MAGA Voters

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Trump supporters bashed his Friday selection of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for United States Surgeon General, citing her past positions on Covid-19, though some praised her apparent evolution on the subject.

Trump announced the pick Friday, calling Nesheiwat, a medical doctor and former Fox News contributor, “a strong communicator for preventive medicine and public health.”

While the President-elect showered praise on Dr. Nesheiwat, some of his biggest supporters decried her selection and demanded that he reconsider.

Nesheiwat’s praise for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to censor certain Covid information on Facebook seemingly irked popular right-wing social media figures like former One America News Network anchor Liz Wheeler and influential meme account “I Meme Therefore I Am”

“First of all, vaccines save lives and I am so excited and I thank and I commend Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for taking action because this affects everyone,” Nesheiwat said during an appearance on Fox Business Network.

(Read more from “‘Not A Leader’: Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Has Uphill Climb To Earning Trust Of MAGA Voters” HERE)

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Transgender Athlete Steals Yet More Glory From Women

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. . .Tuesday saw the Mountain West Conference announce their volleyball awards for the regular season, and transgender player Blaire Fleming (San Jose State) was right in the mix stealing yet more glory from women.

Fleming was named to the conference’s All-Mountain West Team as an Honorable Mention, joining Spartans co-captain Brooke Slusser. Malaya Jones of Colorado State, who won the Mountain West Player of the Year, was also named an honoree.

The only two members of SJSU that received conference honors were Fleming and Slusser, most likely because they just played 12 matches on the conference schedule in the 2024 season — the other six matches they “won” due to the other teams forfeiting because they didn’t want to play against a transgender person. Fair enough.

In the Mountain West tournament, San Jose State has a bye in the first round that automatically places them in the semifinals, with their first match coming Wednesday against the winner of Utah State vs. Boise State.

What’s interesting about SJSU‘s future matchup is that both the Aggies and Broncos forfeited their squareoffs against the Spartans in the regular season. It’s not currently known whether or not the schools would forfeit again if they claim victory in their first rounder, but it’s something to pay attention to, for sure.

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4 Years Later: Rush Limbaugh’s Final Rendition of the True Story of Thanksgiving (VIDEO)

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The late conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh delivered his final annual rendition of the true story of Thanksgiving in November 2020. Thanksgiving 2024 marks the fourth year that Americans go without his beloved tradition, but many are still keeping the tradition alive, ensuring that the youngest generations know what actually happened and what Thanksgiving is truly a celebration of.

Limbaugh delivered his final rendition November 24, 2020, and during that — when he was in the midst of battling advanced-stage lung cancer — he noted that the “True Story of Thanksgiving” is spreading.

“And I couldn’t be happier about that. Bottom line: It is spreading. I’m just gonna cut to the chase here before getting into reading the text. The Real Story of Thanksgiving, going back to the very first early days of the Pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock, is that socialism failed,” Limbaugh said, setting the scene of the arduous conditions the Pilgrims faced after landing in the New World, as documented by William Bradford.

Limbaugh reminded his millions of listeners that their first winter was harsh and unforgiving, and half of them died of “starvation, of sickness, exposure to the elements.”

“Now we’re getting close to what you were taught in school. When spring finally came — and, by the way, writing that doesn’t do it justice. Spring didn’t just finally come. It was a survival. It was an act of survival that you and I cannot possibly relate to or understand,” he explained.

(Read more from “4 Years Later: Rush Limbaugh’s Final Rendition of the True Story of Thanksgiving (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Popular Thanksgiving Staple in U.S. Banned in European Countries

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A popular Thanksgiving dinner staple in the United States is banned in several European countries and Japan due to two ingredients being linked to cancer.

Stove Top Stuffing, an instant boxed stuffing mix that is popular to have with Thanksgiving dinner, contains two ingredients, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), that are “known human carcinogens and may cause other health problems,” Dr. Neha Pathak, MD, who serves on the Medical Team for WebMD explained to the New York Post.

While BHA and BHT are allowed in the U.S., they are banned in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Japan. Pathak explained that “these types of preservatives” are banned due to the “cancer risk.”

The ingredient list for the Stove Top Stuffing turkey version shows that, along with BHA and BHT, the product contains “enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), high fructose corn syrup, salt, onion” along with other ingredients:

Enrich wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate [vitamin b1], riboflavin [vitamin b2], folic acid), high fructose corn syrup, salt, onion*, contains less than 2% of hydrolyzed soy protein, cooked turkey*, yeast, interesterified soybean oil, celery*, parsley*, potassium chloride, spice, sugar, caramel color, maltodextrin, turkey broth*, disodium guanylate, disodium inosinate, silicon dioxide, natural flavor, with bha, bht, and rosemary extract as preservatives,”

(Read more from “Popular Thanksgiving Staple in U.S. Banned in European Countries” HERE)

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Report: U.S. and European Officials Discussed Giving Ukraine Nuclear Weapons

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By Anti War. According to the New York Times, US and European officials have discussed a range of options they believe will deter Russia from taking more Ukrainian territory, including providing Kiev with nuclear weapons. The outlet reports that Western officials believe the Kremlin will not significantly escalate the war before Donald Trump is sworn in as President in January.

Following the election of Trump earlier this month, the US and its NATO allies began taking steps to rush weapons to Ukraine and give Kiev the ability to strike targets inside Russian territory with long-range weapons.

American officials who were briefed on the intelligence community’s assessments told the Times that weapons will not alter the challenging situation that Kiev is currently facing. “US spy agencies have assessed that speeding up the provisions of weapons, ammunition and matériel for Ukraine will do little to change the course of the war in the short term,” the Times reports.

Desperate to bolster Ukraine’s standing in the war before the transition of power on January 20, the Biden administration is looking at a range of serious escalations. “US and European officials are discussing deterrence as a possible security guarantee for Ukraine, such as stockpiling a conventional arsenal sufficient to strike a punishing blow if Russia violates a cease-fire.” The article continues, “Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union.” (Read more from “Report: U.S. and European Officials Discussed Giving Ukraine Nuclear Weapons” HERE)

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NATO Considers Preemptive Strikes Amid Rising Tensions With Russia

By MSN News. NATO Military Committee Chairman Admiral Rob Bauer stated during a conference in Brussels that NATO leadership is contemplating the possibility of conducting precise preemptive strikes on Russian territory in the event of an armed conflict between Moscow and the Alliance.

He added that the North Atlantic Alliance must replenish its weapons stockpiles, modernise air defence systems, and precision strike systems.

Earlier, Bauer stated that the management of major Western companies should be prepared for wartime conditions and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly to become less vulnerable to blackmail from Russia and China.

At present, the Russians do not pose the same threat as they did in February 2022, so we have some time to prepare, said Rob Bauer in Brussels, referring to the state of military equipment and the level of soldier training. He added that for the West, this means the necessity of increasing investments in the arms industry.

In his opinion, deterring the opponent involves not only military capabilities, but also the use of all available tools in wartime conditions. (Read more from “NATO Considers Preemptive Strikes Amid Rising Tensions With Russia” HERE)

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‘I Was Stunned’: DNC Official Says Harris Took No ‘Responsibility’ For Blowing Billions During Campaign Donor Call

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Democratic National Committee National Finance Committee member Lindy Li said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris did not take “responsibility” for her campaign spending billions of dollars during a donor call.

The Harris campaign and the Democratic Party reportedly spent almost $1.5 billion during her short presidential run, which she launched on July 21. Li, on “NewsNation Now,” said she was shocked by the lack of accountability for the spending and loss, noting the call seemed “self-congratulatory.”

“She actually held two calls, one for her top donors and one for grassroots. I was speaking and texting with fellow attendees in the call, and we were amazed by how self-congratulatory the tone was …. The call was about 20, 30 minutes,” Li said. “I don’t recall anyone taking responsibility for the fact that we spent about $2 billion across the super PAC and the campaign and came up so significantly short. We lost seven swing states.”

“They praise Harris as a visionary leader. I believe at one moment during the call, she was talking about her Thanksgiving recipe. And I don’t say this with any malice or anything. I’m just merely conveying what happened. I think I was stunned to hear that, given just the extent and brutality of the loss and the fact that DNC staffers — at least two-thirds — have been fired summarily,” she added. “And a lot of them are at a loss as to what to do. I’m just, frankly, stunned that there was no sort of post-mortem or an analysis of how we can do better, what sort of lessons were learned. It was really just patting each other on the back, congratulating each other on I’m not sure what. And saying, ‘We’ll see you for Christmas.’” (Read more from “‘I Was Stunned’: DNC Official Says Harris Took No ‘Responsibility’ For Blowing Billions During Campaign Donor Call” HERE)

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Biden Administration Spent Nearly $400,000 Interviewing Transgender People in India

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President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services spent six figures paying Drexel University researchers to interview transgender people in India, according to federal records.

Between March 2021 and February 2024, HHS paid out $389,087 to a team of academics at Drexel to perform “quantitative” interviews with 30 transgender men across Delhi and Mumbai, India’s two largest cities. Additionally, the Biden administration provided the researchers with federal funding to distribute online surveys to 300 transgender men living in those cities. The ultimate goals of the publicly-funded research project were to “inform the development and evaluation of an intervention to promote mental health” for transgender people in India and to “impact rapidly evolving transgender health and social policies in India and beyond.”

Specifically, the study investigated the prevalence of mental health conditions, such as anxiety and suicidality, among transgender people in India. It sought to understand what variables were contributing to the occurrence of those conditions. The framework used by the team of Drexel researchers aimed to “put the gender back into transgender health,” according to the grant’s description.

The researchers argued that their work is necessary because the “transgender community is experiencing major socio-legal changes that may affect mental health” in India. One of the policy recommendations made in the final report produced by the team of researchers was to implement public funding for “gender-affirmative healthcare,” including hormone therapy and sex change surgeries.

HHS has positioned itself as a champion of the transgender community under Biden, adopting a new rule in April requiring physicians and healthcare personnel to provide transgender healthcare to patients, including minors. Critics have argued that the rule doesn’t grant sufficient exceptions for healthcare providers who have religious reasons to refuse to practice transgender medical interventions. (Read more from “Biden Administration Spent Nearly $400,000 Interviewing Transgender People in India” HERE)

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Britain’s Risky Move In Ukraine That May Make Nuclear War With Russia Scarily More Likely

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Deploying British troops to Ukraine could be like a “declaration of war against Russia” and cause a “nuclear exchange”, an expert has told the Daily Express.

French newspaper Le Monde claimed that talks between the UK and France over sending soldiers to Ukraine have been reignited and that the move is not being ruled out.

A British military source said: “Discussions are under way between the UK and France regarding defence cooperation, particularly with the aim of creating a core of allies in Europe, focused on Ukraine and broader European security.”

Security and defence expert Nicholas Drummond told the Daily Express such a plan would be disastrous and could lead to an all-out war.

He added that the British Army is not even ready for conflict with Russia and warned that Vladimir Putin’s “dangerous” mindset could result in “disastrous” consequences. (Read more from “Britain’s Risky Move In Ukraine That May Make Nuclear War With Russia Scarily More Likely” HERE)

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Lawmaker Floats Idea of State Seceding to Resist President-Elect Trump

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A plan for states to secede from the union of United States because they disagree politically with the majority is something that’s been tried before.

Unsuccessfully, as the horrendous death tolls of the Civil War and its after-war punishments, like “carpet-baggers,” document.

But Democrats in New York apparently believe it would produce a better result this time.

That’s because they are considering a plan to become, along with several nearby states, a province of Canada over President-elect Donald Trump’s coming administration.

It is the Washington Examiner that has reported that the rage from leftists is over Trump’s plans to address the catastrophic results of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris open borders agenda. . .

The report said it is New York state Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat from New York City, who proposed withholding taxes from the federal government, or leaving entirely. (Read more from “Lawmaker Floats Idea of State Seceding to Resist President-Elect Trump” HERE)

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