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^ Good question. The often entertaining and sometimes accurate Le Wiki says Lance Solomon Reddick. Attending a private Quaker school and studying music suggests he was outside the demographic that gives their kids weird names.
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[REGNUM] YouTube leadership will remove restrictions on the channel of former US President Donald Trump on March 17 , reports the Axios portal, citing the company's vice president of public policy Leslie Miller.
"Starting today, Donald Trump's channel is no longer blocked," she said.
“We have nightmares of a giant Elon Musk doing a Twitter to us!”
Miller added that the company "carefully assessed the risk of real violence and how it correlates with the ability of voters to hear the voice of one of the main participants in the upcoming elections." Trump may be uploading new content, she concluded.
As REGNUM reported , in early 2021 YouTube, as well as Twitter and a number of other major social networks, blocked Trump's accounts amid protests after the US presidential election.
[G&G] By the time E.J. Lagasse was born, his father, Emeril Lagasse, had been a celebrity chef for more than a decade. But little E.J., quite logically, assumed dad’s fame sprang from providing the voice for a cartoon alligator in the 2009 Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. "That’s why I thought he was always getting his picture taken," he says.
Now the lens has widened to include the younger Lagasse as he takes the culinary reins at Emeril’s, the first restaurant opened by his father in New Orleans in 1990. He’s fully aware that nineteen years old is awfully young to be filling such a big toque. “It’s a long-standing family business, so there are high expectations,” he acknowledges. “But growing up with my dad, I’ve got a ten-year advantage on knowing how a restaurant works.”
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Ate at Emeril’s some years back on an R& A gift certificate. It was good, but I had to add as much as the certificate and didn’t drink and still left hungry
[American Thinker] Prior to the year 1994, O.J. Simpson would have been revered mostly as a football legend, since he first became famous for setting a record, in 1973, as the first running back to have a 2,003-yard season. But this man now sets records with his ability to reinvent himself, for better or worse.
During a recent interview with Simpson on the Full Send podcast, hosted by Kyle Forgeard and Aaron Steinberg, Simpson stated that when it comes to interviews, "I stay away from last century. Because I did a ton of interviews back then, and it made no difference. Nobody changes their mind." Simpson stated that he prefers now to focus on events from his life that have occurred in the 21st century. Presumably, Simpson means that he no longer wants to talk about the unforgettable 1994 murder trial for which he was the main suspect in the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman. Sure enough, when Forgeard and Steinberg asked Simpson about the 1994 murders, he firmly expressed that he did not want to discuss them.
And even though Simpson did recently post a Twitter video with comments on the Alex Murdaugh trial, he avoided mentioning his 1994 murder trial and only referenced his recent prison stay for trying to retrieve his own stolen property.
During the Full Send podcast interview, Simpson also lamented that while he gets plenty of invites for interviews, he now turns down most of them. He makes exceptions for interviews related to the sports world.
THE SUPERSTAR IN RENT-A-CAR BECAME A "MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN"
Simpson's desire to keep his public exposure sports-related, as he mentioned in the recent Full Send podcast interview, is fascinating to me. His goal was the complete opposite when he began his role as advertising spokesperson for Hertz car rentals back in 1975, and subsequently became known for quickly and gracefully leaping over luggage racks during Hertz commercials, with a suitcase in one hand and a trench coat in the other. Hertz executives discovered prior to launching the campaign that many businesspeople considered renting a car a "necessary evil" and wanted the transaction to be fast and easy. What's a better symbol of speed than Simpson, a Heisman trophy—winner known as one of the greatest running backs in football history?
Hertz began to see positive results from Simpson's advertisements almost immediately. In the first three quarters of 1976, the company saw net profits yield $532.6 million, which was a 47-percent increase from the year prior. Also, shortly after Simpson began the campaign, there was a 36-percent increase in the number of people who considered Hertz the best rental car company.
Tom Elliott is my grandfather, and he also happened to be vice president of public relations for Hertz during the time when Simpson came on board. "It was a marriage made in heaven" is how Elliott described the relationship between Hertz and Simpson. This quote was used by writer Randy Harvey in a 1977 Chicago Sun-Times article, "OJ.'s Hertz Commercials Like Heaven Made Marriage." Elliott's job was to go beyond the advertisements and develop an association between Simpson and Hertz on the editorial side, with television and radio broadcasts and newspapers. "One of our jobs was to try to get him off the sports pages and onto the business pages of the newspapers, and we were able to do that," says Elliott.
Same stop for me. On road from NC to TX after funeral.
Dead father-in-law's, tinted windows Cadillac, NC plates.
+-5 speed limit, cruising in the left lane east of Memphis.
Seemed like a reasonable profile stop. Good interview, no search.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Deonte Williams and Bianca Clayborne are fighting to get their five kids, aged 4-months-old to seven, back after they were taken away by child services
The couple and their kids were pulled over in Tennessee on February 17 for their tinted windows, and Williams was later arrested for possessing under five grams of marijuana
Their children have allegedly referred to Williams as 'the weed man' and showed child service agents how to roll a joint
One month later, Clayborne and Williams are still trying to get their kids back but have been delayed due to multiple drug tests that revealed the couple was positive for either marijuana, oxycodone methamphetamines and fentanyl. "Obviously from poppy seeds on my bagel, sir!"
[IsraelTimes] Most Pew poll respondents hold neutral feelings toward religious groups, but Jews have net positive rating across all surveyed, even as FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... report finds rise in antisemitism
Americans hold more favorable than unfavorable opinions on Jews, mainline Protestants and Catholics, according to a new study published this week amid a recent spike in antisemitic incidents in the United States.
The Pew survey said atheists, Moslems, and Mormons were viewed more unfavorably than favorably, but most respondents felt neutral or responded with "don’t know enough to say" when asked about each group.
The poll found 34 percent of non-Jewish US adults held positive opinions about Jews, against 7% who held unfavorable views. Fifty-eight percent of respondents didn’t know or felt neutral about Jewish people.
The study also found that Jews are the only group that received a net positive rating across all groups surveyed. For example, Protestants view Jews more favorably (45%) than unfavorably (6%).
The survey comes after an FBI report on Monday found that antisemitic incidents in the US spiked by nearly 20% in 2021 compared to 2020.
The updated FBI statistics counted 817 anti-Jewish criminal offenses reported by local law enforcement agencies in 2021, up from 683 in 2020 — a year when people largely stayed off the streets for a substantial period due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2021 numbers, however, represent a 15% decline from 2019, when the FBI reported 963 hate crimes, as well as a slight decline from 2018 when FBI statistics show 847 hate crimes.
According to Wednesday’s Pew findings, Americans are more likely to rate a group favorably if they know a person belonging to that religion.
For example, the survey found that 42% of non-Jews who know a Jewish person expressed favorable opinions of the group, compared to 21% of those who don’t personally know a Jew.
The study also found that the share of those who express a negative opinion of Jews is similar regardless if they are acquainted with one (6%) or not (7%).
Along partisan lines, both Republicans (38%) and Democrats (33%) view Jews positively, while identical shares had unfavorable views (6%).
Overall, more respondents held more favorable than unfavorable views about mainline Protestants (30%), Catholics (34%), and Evangelical Christians (28%). Mainline Protestants were viewed negatively by 10% of respondents, Catholics by 18%, and Evangelicals by 27%.
Most respondents felt neutral toward or didn’t know enough about Protestants (59%), Catholics (47%) and Evangelicals (44%). Among those viewed more unfavorably than favorably were atheists (24%), Moslems (22%), and Mormons (25%).
Only 20% of respondents viewed atheists favorably, 17% Moslems and 15% Mormons. More than half said they felt neutral about atheists (55%), Moslems (59%), and Mormons (59%).
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Americans are lukewarm about most religions. I suspect that lukewarm heaven has a Barry Manilow soundtrack.
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I suspect most Americans refuse to be open with anonymous "pollsters" cold-calling on topics that might have a backlash for unpopular unwoke opinions. I don't answer unknown numbers, and most people I know don't answer either.
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Despite attempts to compensate, a huge number of conservatives in America refuse to even respond to polling efforts. Consequently, I give little weight to those who cite polling as a basis for decision making.
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As hypocritical the religious types can be, they at least have some sort of moral code to live under. The atheists and the pseudo-religious do not. Their uncontrolled lust for power over others daily demonstrate that.
[HotAir] Wowsers. What a difference a cold, dark, expensive winter makes.
HUGE!
Chancellor Hunt unveiling Great British Nuclear during his spring budget statement now: Officially announcing funding of Sizewell C, classification of #nuclear as green in the UK, targeting 25% nuclear for the UK Grid & a new SMR competition w/ gvmt funding! #uranium
In the culmination of an effort and advocacy begun by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, U.K. chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday that nuclear energy was being reclassified as “environmentally sustainable” in Britain. That’s not just semantics, It opens nuclear up to all the financing, incentives and opportunities available to any of the so-called Green/renewable energy strategies they’ve been pursuing for the past decade or so. It’s basically the government’s official blessing to go forth and try to multiply.
In a bald statement of fact that has to be galling to the rabid renewable faction so invested in making their fellow Brits’ lives miserable, Hunt laid out the plain truth – the U.K. must have something reliable to back up all the condition-dependent renewable energy sources. “Condition” meaning something must blow or shine before any power is generated.
They’ve found out repeatedly this winter that is a truism. And it’s not only the weather that takes renewables out (as I’ve posted on before) – their reliability and maintenance issues, especially for wind, are hardly up to par for the bazillions being spent and the lives dependent upon the technology. You can’t keep lugging diesel generators to the highlands to try to keep them warm, or ferrying turbines back and forth from ocean wind farms that haven’t even become operational yet, and are already breaking down.
The country needs something humming along in the background. Unfortunately, they came to that realization a little late in the renewables game after self-righteously planning on shuttering everything.
[Voice of the Ukraine] As a signatory to the Rome State of the International Criminal Court, South Africa is legally bound to act on the arrest warrant for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin if he attends the August BIRCS summit in the country, Sky News reported on March 17.
Russian media maintain that South Africa is expecting Putin to attend the BRICS summit in Durban this August, in person.
Read also: Russia scouring Myanmar, Africa, Middle East for ammo, Ukrainian intelligence says
The report notes this would create further diplomatic difficulties for Moscow, but even if the dictator chooses to come, "the prospect of the host nation's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, ordering his forces to lead Mr Putin away in handcuffs is thought to be a hugely remote one."
In 2015, South Africa refused to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who was also under an ICC warrant.
[KhaamaPress] New Zealand has announced that TikTok will be banned on devices linked to the country’s parliament network due to cyber security concerns, becoming the latest nation to join the US and the UK.
New Zealand Parliamentary Service Chief Executive Rafael Gonzalez-Montero said the decision has been made in consultation with cyber security experts to avoid any potential threats from the Chinese company in accessing users’ location, contact, and data.
The United Kingdom banned to use of TikTok, the video-sharing platform in government institutions effective from Thursday, March 16, 2023.
Concerns have mounted globally about the potential for the Chinese government to access users’ location and contact data through ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company.
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] Before getting to the details of the Credit Suisse issue, it is worth taking a bigger geopolitical context to the dynamic. The initial backstop sought by Credit Suisse was from the Saudi National Bank; however, SNB Chairman Ammar Abdul Wahed Al Khudairy refused more lending.
This is where we need to keep the BRICS -vs- WEF dynamic in mind and consider that ideologically there is a conflict between the current agenda of the ’western financial system’ (climate change) and the traditional energy developers. This conflict has been playing out not only in the energy sector, but also the dynamic of support for Russia (an OPEC+ member) against the western sanction regime. Ultimately, supporting Russia’s battle against NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... encroachments.
Russia, Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century... and China are geopolitically aligned in interest against the western financial system. As a consequence, when western banks find themselves in need of capital and cash, there is a layered geopolitical dynamic in the background to Saudi refusal that must be considered.
With multiple western banks now in trouble, Credit Suisse is also exposed, and, like U.S. Treasury/Fed intervention in America, the Swiss central bank has stepped in to backstop the looming collapse.
In the big picture, we are seeing the ramifications of the ’Build Back Better’ agenda impacting the banking and finance sector which spearheaded it. I am not seeing this discussed anywhere, as the western governments of the collapsing banks are being forced to intervene.
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[REGNUM] SVB Financial Group, the parent company of US Silicon Valley Bank, has filed for bankruptcy, the company said in a press release.
"SVB Financial Group... has filed a voluntary reorganization petition... with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to preserve value," it said in a statement.
Economists on the background of the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) found that almost 200 US credit institutions are at risk, writes the Wall Street Journal.
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed after rising rates sapped the value of its assets and worried clients withdrew uninsured deposits. In a new study, economists said they found 186 banks that could be exposed to similar risks.
The report says that economists in a study published in the Social Science Research Network calculated the losses of banks during the Fed's rate hike campaign, and also studied the share of bank funding from uninsured depositors. "At 186 US banks, they estimate that in the event of withdrawals by uninsured depositors, insured depositors may face depreciation because the bank will not have enough assets," the report said.
In such a scenario, regulators will have to intervene, the newspaper writes.
In March, California regulators closed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the largest bank failure in the US since the 2008 financial crisis. The collapse of the SVB turned out to be associated with an increase in the Fed's key rate, which led to the depreciation of assets on the balance sheets of many financial institutions.
The US authorities announced support measures. In addition, the closure of the crypto-focused bank Silvergate and the similar New York-based Signature Bank were announced.
In Europe , one of the largest banks in Switzerland , Credit Suisse, has faced problems.
Unfortunately, this is a Gods of the Copybook Headings issue. Like in America, there soon simply won’t be enough money to keep the promises that were made and accepted in more or less good faith — not with all the other calls on the public purse.
[AlAhram] French President Emmanuel Macron's government on Friday faced no-confidence motions in parliament and intensified protests after imposing a contentious pension reform without a vote in the lower house.
The situation presents Macron, who has only made occasional public comments on the matter, with one of his biggest challenges less than one year into his second and final mandate.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on Thursday invoked article 49.3 of the constitution to impose the pension overhaul by decree, sparking angry demonstrations nationwide that saw 300 people arrested, according to the interior ministry.
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[Breitbart] Democrats have a more favorable view of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) than Republicans do, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday found.
The survey examined the likability of three Republican leaders: Former President Donald Trump, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and McConnell.
The survey showed 52 percent of likely voters with a favorable view of both Trump and McCarthy.
Of those, 31 percent view Trump "very" favorably, while 22 percent view McCarthy "very" favorably. However, McConnell struggles to see a positive favorable rating across the board, as 60 percent hold an unfavorable view, while 31 percent have unfavorable view. Just nine percent view the 81-year-old "very" favorably.
#9
do away with de3m/rep labels. register yourself as
left/right or cons/prog or labor/tory. democrat/republican are misleading. they do not tell me how you think!
[Gateway] On Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis conducted a press conference to mark three years since the U.S. promoted a "Slow the Spread" approach to COVID-19.
At the Winter Haven event, which took place at The Fire Restaurant on West Central Avenue, DeSantis was joined by Florida’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo.
In his speech, Dr. Ladapo stated that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have a "terrible safety profile" and questioned if anybody should be taking them.
"People believe that what is happening isn’t actually happening. These vaccines have a terrible safety profile... I’m not sure anyone should be taking them, that is the honest truth. I don’t think anyone probably should be taking them. They have a terrible safety profile," Ladapo said.
Ladapo criticized the FDA and the CDC for "denying the truth."
"Unfortunately, the CDC and FDA the most consistent thing they’ve done is deny the truth. Whether it was pushing mass... They did not have any substantial impact, no benefit. Pushing mass, pushing the vaccine in little kids, all these low-value divisive policies that they did," said Ladapo.
Ladapo then cited research from the Lancet journal which found that 7 months after vaccination, vaccinated individuals were at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 than unvaccinated individuals.
"There was a study published a few weeks ago in a journal called Lancet, a journal that’s well known, I should say. And what did these authors show? They showed that after seven months, the protection from infection, started around 70%, [then it goes] down down down... At seven months, it hops onto the other side of the axis."
"So it is negative, and that continues. The magnitude of that negativity increases over time. What does that mean, folks? It literally means that the people who received that vaccine were more likely to contract COVID-19 after seven months than the people who did not. That is a fact, has the CDC or FDA ever said a word about that? No."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[G&G] By the time E.J. Lagasse was born, his father, Emeril Lagasse, had been a celebrity chef for more than a decade. But little E.J., quite logically, assumed dad’s fame sprang from providing the voice for a cartoon alligator in the 2009 Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. "That’s why I thought he was always getting his picture taken," he says.
[American Thinker] Prior to the year 1994, 
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
[Voice of the Ukraine] As a signatory to the Rome State of the International Criminal Court, South Africa is legally bound to act on the arrest warrant for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin if he attends the August BIRCS summit in the country, Sky News reported on March 17.
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] Before getting to the details of the Credit Suisse issue, it is worth taking a bigger geopolitical context to the dynamic. The initial backstop sought by Credit Suisse was from the Saudi National Bank; however, SNB Chairman Ammar Abdul Wahed Al Khudairy refused more lending.
[Gateway] On Thursday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis conducted a press conference to mark three years since the U.S. promoted a "Slow the Spread" approach to COVID-19.
