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TV Journalist Barbara Walters has died at the age of 93.
With a career spanning more than 50 years, her list of accomplishments is a mile long.

She joined ABC News in 1976, becoming the first female anchor on an evening news program. Three years later, she became a co-host of "20/20," and in 1997, she launched "The View."
Her final appearance as a co-host of "The View" in 2014, but remained an executive producer of the show and continued to do some interviews and specials for ABC News.

Who can forget Gilder Radner's Saturday Night Live comedy skits with her as Baba Wawa.

Pelé, who rose from a Brazilian slum to become the world’s greatest soccer player, dies at 82.

Pelé, the soccer player who rose from an impoverished Brazilian slum to become the most famous and, for a time, the best-paid athlete in the world during a spectacular career that produced more World Cup titles and more breathtaking moments than any other, has died at the age of 82, according to the Associated Press.

Never far from the game he so loved, Pelé died of complications from cancer at a hospital in São Paulo on Thursday.

Pelé, who had a tumor removed from his colon in 2021, had been hospitalized since the end of November for care related to colon cancer.

With his sharp passing, daring runs and blistering shots on goal, which he could take with either foot, Pelé utterly transformed soccer during a 21-year career in which he scored an unprecedented 1,281 goals, although more than 500 of those came in “unofficial” matches on barnstorming tours popular during Pelé's early playing days. As a result, Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo‘s 819 goals is considered the all-time record, ahead of Pelé's 757.

But numbers alone couldn’t define Pelé’s magic, which was so special that African armies on both sides of a bloody civil war in Nigeria agreed to a two-day truce so that soldiers could watch him play. The Shah of Iran once waited three hours at an airport just to speak with him, the Secret Service let him bounce a ball off President Ford’s head, and a survey in the waning days of his playing career showed that Coca-Cola was the only brand more popular than Pelé in Europe.

“Pelé is the greatest player in football history,” Ronaldo said. “And there will only be one Pelé.”

“Pelé,” said Dutch star Johan Cruyff, a legend in his own right, “was the only footballer who surpassed the boundaries of logic.”

I've heard and read about how cold things are for many on here, so here's a little warmth (for your heart, at least). Blessings!

Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud!!!!!!
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When you sell your assets grossly underestimate your sales revenue tor the IRS .
Send all the cash in luggage cases to the Cayman Islands.
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Don't know if this is true but apparently Tiktok will be banned on all USA cell phones because the government reckons its a Trojan horse for China.

Wow.

To be honest I have watched many live videos on tiktok and always found them to be interesting and fun.

Anyone know the facts about this development?

I cleared my cache file of a few hundred YouTube videos and started out fresh. From a bookmark link about Irish whistles, I found a link to a Hurdy Gurdy demonstration. Oh yeah... Hurdy Gurdy, I know the name from the 1968 Donovan song and I've seen photos, but I don't recall actually researching the instrument.

In short, it's a stringed instrument of French origin dating back to medieval times. A quick description is a few strings, a crank that turns a wheel with felt on it that rubs the strings and with keys that play the notes.

The Hurdy Gurdy makes a violin-like sound but the wheel (unlike a violin bow) is continuous and you can play several notes at the same time. It also has other strings like drones that resonate. I'm surprised with an instrument so unique there aren't a large group of players.

“We’re erring on the side of including a warning and preventing this content from being amplified,” Twitter’s safety chief Yoel Roth said of why The Post’s coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020 was censored. He attached a “generic unsafe message” to the Tweet — “not ideal,” he wrote, “but it’s the only thing we have.”

In other words — we have to stop this, reasons be damned.

Roth’s message is part of a shocking collection of inside correspondence released by new Twitter owner Elon Musk through journalist Matt Taibbi. The messages reveal a small group of busybodies — a group that didn’t even include CEO Jack Dorsey — making their own decisions on what to delete or block based on their own liberal biases.

“They just freelanced it,” an employee says. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it.”

The Post’s reporting wasn’t just blocked, it was suppressed. “They even blocked its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography,” Taibbi writes.

Even internally, the logic was seen as weak. “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?” Brandon Borrman, vice president of global communications, asked.

As the backlash grew, not just from Republicans but Democrat lawmakers worried about the implication of such censorship, “everyone knew this was f–ked,” says an employee. But it was taking a long time to “unf–k” it.

Twitter was directly involved in tilting an election. Everyone could see it, but because they were desperate for Donald Trump to lose and Joe Biden to win, that the media barely made a peep. Even after Hunter Biden’s former business partner gave a public press conference backing up exactly what The Post had reported.

After it became untenable to say the laptop wasn’t real, Twitter told us we could have our account back — we just had to delete the original Tweet. We could even put up a new Tweet linking to the Hunter Biden story, one that wouldn’t be censored, but we had to delete the original one.

The logic behind this blackmail escaped us. The Post refused. It would be 17 days before Twitter finally backed down and unfroze our account.

The bias was clear. After all, no one flagged The Times reporting on Trump’s private tax documents as “hacked materials.” The knee-jerk censorship only happened in one direction.

And, by the way, nothing really changed afterward. Twitter went right back to censoring those who didn’t toe the line on COVID and any other number of topics. As Taibbi also outlines, The Democratic National Committee and the Biden administration were in direct email contact with the Twitter content team, pointing them exactly to the Tweets they wanted destroyed.

It took a very expensive change of ownership for these details to come to light, and for the promise of less censorship in the future. That’s why the left is losing their minds.

Well, it appears that the FBI isn't satisfied with arresting and charging grannies who spent 15 mins in the Capitol and waved their flags, and conducting armed raids on Project Veritas based on a completely bogus charge - now they've charged a journalist who documented in person much of the events as they transpired on Jan 6. The charges are, of course, bogus - but this is how the American KGB (FBI) now operates. Anyone critical of the regime is fair game for targeting and persecution. I recommend watching the video for more details

You better be good, you better better not lie, you better be good, I'm telling you why, the IRS is coming to town!
There's so much excitement in the air. Holiday lights are up, snowbirds are here in Florida, traffic is snarled and the man who said he "Knows more than the IRS" is starting to sink into quicksand. Donald, don't thrash. It will only make your arms tired.

The House Ways and Means Committee voted to release former president Donald Trump’s tax returns this week.

The January 6 committee concluded and released a final report to the DOJ urging them to prosecute Trump for 17 things including inciting the insurrection.

Some of you may remember My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell's trouble with the 2020 election and false claims about the Dominion voting machines. Mike is probably up to his ears in legal troubles, but that's another story. His mouth got him banned from Twitter, but since Musk bought the losing entity, he's brought back Mike, or is that brought Mike back?
With a sense of empowerment, Mike declares they should melt down the electronic voting machines and turn them into prison bars.
For who Mike... you?


That's one more twit back on Twitter.