To Protest Russia, Ivan Drago Blurred Out Of Rocky IV
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Babylon Bee ^
| March 5, 2022
CULVER CITY, CA—Sony Pictures Studios has added its voice to those of corporations all around the world protesting Russia's incursion into Ukraine. Studio execs announced this week that for all digital streaming and physical copies of Rocky IV, they will blur out all depictions of the character Captian Ivan Drago, a boxing
champion from Soviet Russia. "We stand with Ukraine here at Sony," said VP Stacy Green. "We understand that depictions of the villainous Russian Drago may be seen as insensitive to many viewers during these difficult times. While we will not cut any scenes from the beloved film, all...
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Rare Rocky Mountain insects will need snowfields to survive
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The Associated Press ^
| December 17, 2021
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials say two species of rare insects in the Rocky Mountains will need several thousand acres of glaciers and snowfields if they are to survive a warming world that’s threatening them with extinction. The
western glacier stonefly and the meltwater lednian stonefly live in streams that flow from melting glaciers and snowfields. Scientists say the insects are not doing well and face continued declines as they lose a projected 80% of their habitat in Glacier National Park by 2030. They are mostly found in steep, remote areas that are hard to reach and away...
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Urban Meyer fired as Jacksonville Jaguars' head coach amid rocky first year
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https://www.espn.com ^
| 12-15-21 | Michael DiRocco
"After deliberation over many weeks and a thorough analysis of the entirety of Urban's tenure with our team, I am bitterly disappointed to arrive at the conclusion that an immediate change is imperative for everyone," owner Shad Khan said in a statement. "I
informed Urban of the change this evening. As I stated in October, regaining our trust and respect was essential. Regrettably, it did not happen.(Snip)Meyer's only season with the Jaguars wasn't very good on the field -- the team went 2-11, its 10th season with double-digit losses in the past 11 years -- but issues off the field...
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Nine Countries Reject Global Minimum Tax Deal, Sending It Down Rocky Road to Completion
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Epoch Times ^
| 07/06/2021 | Tom Ozimek
Nine countries have refused to sign onto an international tax reform framework that includes a 15 percent global minimum corporate tax pushed by the Biden administration as a way to reduce international tax arbitrage by U.S. multinationals and blunt the impact of President Joe Biden’s proposed domestic corporate tax hike. While
officials from 130 out of 139 countries in the so-called OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting agreed last week to establish the new framework, Ireland, Estonia, Hungary, Peru, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Kenya did not sign the agreement. Irish Finance...
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‘Traitor!’: Pence’s bid to unite MAGA, traditional conservatives off to rocky start
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The Washington Times ^
| Friday, June 18, 2021 | Seth McLaughlin
Former Vice President Mike Pence has his work cut out for him when it comes to fusing former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement with a more traditional brand of conservatism.“I think that is a really tough spot for him to be in,” Craig Robinson, an Iowa-based GOP strategist, said before Mr. Pence
visited Florida. “You already see some of the most fervent activists don’t want anything to do with him - almost like he is a traitor.”“So you are going to have that drumbeat, and on the other hand he is going to be competing with newer fresher people,” he...
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Tito Ortiz resigns from the Huntington Beach council after a rocky 6-month tenure
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OC Register ^
Huntington Beach Mayor Pro Tem Tito Ortiz announced his resignation from the City Council effective immediately Tuesday night, June 1, saying “character assassination” by the media and leaks from City Hall prompted the decision. “This
job isn’t working for me,” Ortiz said during the first in-person council meeting of the year. Ortiz said he made the decision on behalf of his family. His two sons recently made national news when they were sent home from school after arriving without face masks, as required of all students and teachers at Ocean View School District schools. In public appearances and on social...
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Salmon Anglers in Santa Cruz Starting to See Success After Rocky Start
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KSBW ^
| May 25, 2021
New fishing restrictions and windy weather got the salmon season off to a rocky start, but local fishermen say their recent catch has been really good. For
the last couple of days, they've been busy off-loading their catch at the Santa Cruz Harbor. Commercial king salmon fishermen coming in with their catch and lining up to unload it all. Getting them in ice ready to be shipped off to market after a pretty good haul these last few days. "Anywhere from 20-to-60 somewhere in that range. It seems to be slowing down now," said Scott Edson, Commercial Fisherman. Catching salmon...
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Amazon buys MGM for $8.45 billion ... Characters like James Bond and Rocky are now owned by Amazon.
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https://justthenews.com ^
| By Nicholas Sherman | Updated: May 26, 2021 - 10:30am
Amazon announced Wednesday that the company has reached a deal to buy MGM Holdings for $8.45 billion. The
deal is Amazon's second biggest, following the company's $13.7 billion purchase of the Whole Foods grocery chain in 2017. "The real financial value behind this deal is the treasure trove of [intellectual property] in the deep catalog that we plan to reimagine and develop together with MGM's talented team," said Mike Hopkins, head of Prime Video and Amazon Studios Mike Hopkins, according to CNN. Some of those brands include James Bond and Rocky.
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Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Shooting Gallery
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American Thinker.com ^
| March 26, 2021 | Brian C. Joondeph M.D
Another mass shooting occurred this past week in Colorado, a state that had more than its share of similar shootings over the past few decades. 13
people were shot at Columbine High School in 1999. The Denver Post found that Colorado has had more mass shootings per capita than all but four other states. Metro Denver leads the nation in school shootings per capita since 1999, more than any other large American metropolitan areas. More recent events were the Aurora theater shooting in 2012, killing 12 and injuring 70 others, followed by a shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood...
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Rocky Nelson TV Show With Dean Martin
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Myself | 02-22-2021 | Captain Peter Blood
Now for a little comic relief. Over
the weekend while trapped in my home from the snow here in Arkansas I read a wonderful book by Dean Martin's late son Ricci. It was great and showed a side of Dean most don't even know about. From from being the party guy he was the exact opposite. He would rather be home with his family and left alone than anything else, he was basically a recluse when he wasn't working. Anyway his son made mention of the TV show I don't remember called "Half Nelson", starring Joe Pesci. It didn't last...
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The Rocky Shoals of “Unity”… 2021-style
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Townhall. ^
| January 23, 2021 | Tom Tradeup
Well, that didn’t take long: the applause from the few socially-distanced attendees for Joe Biden’s repeated call for “unity” in his Inaugural Address had barely died down before the 46th president had already eliminated his first 1,000 jobs.Seated at the Resolute Desk Office, one of Biden’s first acts was to sign an
Executive Order killing the Keystone XL Pipeline…a much-needed project that would have carried over 830,000 barrels of oil from Canada to the United States. Calgary-based TC Energy announced that due to Biden’s order, it was immediately eliminating over 1,000 construction jobs; industry analysts predict the shutdown will strike...
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Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth
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National Geographic ^
| 7/1/2020 | Nadia Drake
The bulky object—possibly the core of a failed gas giant—challenges what astronomers think about how planets form. About
730 light-years away, not far on the scale of our galaxy, an utterly bizarre planet orbits a sun-like star. Big, dense, and tightly tethered to its home star, the planet is unlike anything astronomers have yet seen—either in our own solar system or afar. The roasted world known as TOI-849b is the most massive rocky planet ever observed, with as much as 40 Earths’ worth of material crammed inside. Perplexingly, TOI-849b’s tremendous bulk suggests that it should be a giant, gassy world...
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Treasure chest hidden in Rocky Mountains finally found
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AP via Fox40 ^
| June 8 2020 | AP
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A bronze chest filled with gold, jewels, and other valuables worth more than $1 million and hidden a decade ago somewhere in the Rocky Mountain wilderness has been found, according to a famed art and antiquities collector who created the treasure hunt. Forrest
Fenn, 89, told the Santa Fe New Mexican on Sunday that a man who did not want his name released — but was from “back East” — located the chest a few days ago and the discovery was confirmed by a photograph the man sent him. “It was under a canopy of...
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Rapper A$AP Rocky JUST DESTROYED THE LIBERAL NARRATIVE [liberals don't care about black on black murder - 12 minute video from February 22, 2020]
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YouTube ^
| February 22, 2020 | The Officer Tatum
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Baltimore’s mail-in primary got off to a rocky start. What problems might lie ahead?
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Baltimore Sun ^
| 6/04/20 | Tim Prudente
Election results vanished from the state website. Officials
discovered ballots misprinted. One candidate for mayor sent in his lawyer. Wednesday brought a rocky start to the canvass that should reveal Baltimore’s next mayor. By the afternoon, state lawmakers and the governor demanded elections administrators explain themselves. Maryland’s first statewide vote-by-mail election already meant that complete results would take longer than voters were used to, as ballots trickle in by mail and elections officials “quarantine" documents before opening them because of the new coronavirus. But add errors on ballots and problems in tabulating returns and the primary’s close races may well...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Steyn Online ^
| 21 Mar 2020 | Kathy Shaidle
The death of industrial music pioneer and perpetual provocateur Genesis P-Orridge got me thinking. Not
that I liked his "music." (I decline to use his preferred pronoun, "s/he.") But because P-Orridge died at age 70, I enjoyed picturing bummed out young "trans" poseurs learning through these obituaries that body modification and "gender fluidity" weren't their ideas. I also thought — not for the first time since the advent of what Steve Sailer calls "World War T" — about The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975.) The enduring cult film started out as a campy London stage musical that spoofed science fiction...
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: Sights and sounds from the festive crowd at the TRUMP RALLY in Colorado Springs
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DeepClips ^
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are hosting a "Keep America Great Rally" Thursday evening at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs. Doors open to the general public 2:00 p.m. Thursday and the rally begins at 5:00 p.m. All times are local. Check
back for live updates throughout the day and evening!
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Rocky Johnson, famed wrestler and father of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, dead at 75
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NBC News ^
| 1/15/20 | Doha Madani and Diana Dasrath
Rocky "Soul Man" Johnson, former professional wrestler and father of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, has died at the age of 75. The
death of Rocky Johnson, whose real name was Wayde Bowles, was announced in a statement by World Wrestling Entertainment on Wednesday. His manager confirmed the death to NBC News, but did not share details on the cause of death. Rocky Johnson began his career in the 1960s with the National Wrestling Alliance before becoming an athlete with WWE in 1983, according to the wrestling league's statement. He teamed up with fellow WWE wrestler Tony Atlas to form the...
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‘Rocky’ shock for China makes Trump Hong Kong hero
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NY Post ^
| November 28 2019 | Gabrielle Fonrouge
President Trump is Hong Kong’s sudden hero. Hours
after he signed two bills to support human rights in Hong Kong, angering Chinese government officials, pro-democracy protesters in the beleaguered city held a “Thanksgiving Rally” Thursday night to commend him for taking the action. And front and center at the rally were printouts of the president’s Wednesday tweet showing his head on Rocky Balboa’s chiseled body.
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Daily Clips for Nov 27: Sandy testimony; Fake ICE Univ; Trump 'Rocky' tweet; Chick-fil-A donations
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DeepClips ^
Clips tagged #Swamp Nolte: Adam Schiff Rigged Impeachment Hearings by Hiding Exculpatory EvidenceIn an obvious attempt to rig the impeachment process, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) hid exculpatory testimony from Mark Sandy, an official at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Mark Sandy is as close to the … Another
Blow to Impeachment: Mark Sandy Testimony Released, Blows Away Schiff Narrative for Aid FreezeRep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) has been agitating for House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) to release the transcript of the closed door testimony of White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) official Mark...
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