An animal is considered “exotic” if it is not indigenous to the area it is in. At Cobb’s Exotic Animal Rescue in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, they are currently raising several kangaroo joeys. They live in pouches hung along a wall, which simulates their mother’s pouch. One day recently, one of the joey pouches got a bit “jumpier” than usual when the baby kangaroo had the hiccups. @roodady Have you ever seen a kangaroo with hiccups before? #cobbsadventurepark #foryou #fyp #animalsoftiktok #adorable #babyanimals #kangaroo #hiccups ♬ original sound – Cobb’s Exotic Animal Rescue At Cobb’s, they rescue and rehabilitate many different types of animals. They offer rehabilitative efforts and provide natural environments where possible. However, some animals become inside guests, like these little Joeys. Image from TikTok. The little roos are hoppy, and this one has mastered stairs. Bedtime routines with kangaroos in the house are the same as with toddlers or puppies. There might be zoomies happening. Not all of their rescue animals can go back into the wild. Those who aren’t suitable for release are the ones they keep in the house. After acclimating the animals to humans, they move to a permanent residence on the farm, where they remain for the rest of their lives. Image from TikTok. Getting back to our little Joey with the hiccups: Almost all animals can suffer from hiccups. You can tell by his expression that he is not amused. While they are sometimes the result of stress, they may also have physical causes. Eating too fast is a leading cause of hiccups in dogs and cats. Even porcupines can have hiccups, so these little kangaroo joeys are in good company. To learn more about Cobb’s Exotic Animal Rescue, please visit their website. If you’re just here for the silly antics of these critters, be sure to follow the rescue on Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Have You Ever Seen A Kangaroo With Hiccups Before? appeared first on InspireMore.

Sam Cooke, raised in Chicago, Illinois, began his iconic music career singing gospel with the renowned group the Soul Stirrers, where his emotive vocal style gained widespread attention. Transitioning to secular music, Cooke achieved immediate success with his debut solo single “You Send Me” in 1957, topping both pop and R&B charts. He quickly became recognized for his smooth, soulful voice, effortlessly blending gospel, pop, and R&B. Throughout his career, Cooke released fourteen studio albums, earning him widespread acclaim and significant commercial success. He produced numerous timeless hits including “Chain Gang,” “Twistin’ the Night Away,” “Cupid,” “Another Saturday Night,” and The post Complete List Of Sam Cooke Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

A groundbreaking preprint study from astronomers Beatriz Villarroel and colleagues has uncovered a strange and potentially historic link between unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and humanity’s most destructive technological moments: nuclear bomb testing. Using decades-old astronomical data from the POSS-I sky survey and the VASCO project, the team scanned hundreds of thousands of photographic plates for transient light events—bright flashes in the sky that appear once and vanish, with no apparent natural or known technological cause. On most nights, these events were sparse. But on days aligned with known above-ground nuclear tests, the numbers skyrocketed. “One particular day saw an incredible 4,528 transient detections across the night sky,” the researchers note in the preprint report. While no definitive claim of “extraterrestrial craft” is made, the statistical anomaly is striking—and has fueled speculation in the UFO community that advanced, unknown observers may be monitoring humanity’s nuclear experimentation. UFOs and Nukes: A Pattern Decades in the Making This new finding adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting a mysterious connection between nuclear weapons and UFO activity: Malmstrom AFB Incident (1967): U.S. Air Force personnel reported glowing objects hovering near a missile silo in Montana. Minutes later, ten nuclear missiles went offline simultaneously. Soviet Test Site Reports: Declassified Russian documents describe strange disc-shaped craft observing atomic detonations during the height of the Cold War. Modern-Day UAP Briefings: Multiple whistleblowers, including former Pentagon insiders, claim that nuclear weapons systems remain a focus of unexplained aerial phenomena interactions even in recent decades. Researcher Robert Hastings has compiled decades of testimony from military personnel suggesting UFO activity spikes near nuclear weapons facilities and test sites worldwide. The new VASCO data could be the first large-scale quantitative evidence supporting these long-held suspicions. What Could These Anomalies Be? Scientists remain cautious about drawing conclusions. Potential explanations include: Atmospheric effects from high-altitude nuclear blasts causing reflections or optical distortions on photographic plates. Sensor errors from early 20th-century astronomical equipment. Unknown high-energy astrophysical events coincidentally occurring on the same dates. Yet, the sheer number of anomalies detected on specific nuclear test days—thousands compared to near-zero on control days—makes coincidence harder to accept. “If even a fraction of these transients are real physical events, we’re missing something important in our understanding of the night sky,” Villarroel stated in a follow-up discussion of the results. Why This Story Could Change the UFO Debate For decades, government UFO disclosures have focused on military pilot sightings and modern radar returns. This study adds a cosmic-scaleThe post UFO Anomalies Spike on Nuclear Test Days, Study Finds appeared first on Anomalien.com.

The entertainment press found it very important to report that Hollywood thinks Trump is an authoritarian. This is still somehow considered “news.” Over 2,300 members of the Writers Guild (including Spike Lee) felt compelled to speak out in an open letter because they believe in their “role in a healthy democracy.” In 2024, democracy was healthy, and Hollywood’s candidate lost. “Writers Guild of America West PAC Endorses Kamala Harris for President,” they announced. So sad. They can’t get over it. When the Left’s feverishly spinning propaganda machines don’t work, “now we face an unprecedented, authoritarian assault.” The Democrats are about as popular right now as measles, so democracy is somehow endangered. “We are members of the Writers Guild of America who speak with one voice to decry the dangerous and escalating attacks on the First Amendment, independent media, and the free press,” the letter read in part. “He has retaliated against publications reporting factually on the White House and threatened broadcasters’ licenses.  He regularly calls for the cancellation of news and entertainment television shows that criticize him in late-night and, most recently, The View.” They complained “We don’t have a king, we have a president. And the president doesn’t get to pick what’s on television, in movie theaters, on stage, on our bookshelves, or in the news.” Of course not. The kings and queens of Hollywood insist they get to pick what people see, and the “healthy democracy” librarians get to dictate what’s on the public bookshelves. The leftists think “democracy” is healthiest when they are in charge of all “mainstream” messaging. When it comes to Trump, Hollywood rushed to make hostile movies – for the cineplex and for TV – asserting the rudest things, like Trump raped his first wife (The Apprentice movie). Nobody made a Hunter Biden movie, despite all the wild crack-and-hookers narratives, not to mention Hunter sleeping with his brother’s widow, and getting her on drugs. The fundamental fallacy of these “attacks on the First Amendment” arguments is that the First Amendment includes the freedom to attack the “free press” – like asserting liberals lie when they call themselves the “independent media.” They’re partisan operatives. Trump suing news organizations and spurring settlements isn’t authoritarian. This is where you underline the silly claim of these scriptwriters that leftist “news” outlets are being attacked for “reporting factually.” They don’t lead with facts. They lead with their angry opinions and often unproven accusations. News outlets are sometimes sued because they say things that are untrue, like George Stephanopoulos claiming Trump was found “liable for rape” in the utterly unsubstantiated E. Jean Carroll case. Trump sued 60 Minutes for deceptive editing, which they clearly do on a regular basis. But calling them out for that? You hate the First Amendment, they say. Another fallacy is that the Left is a beacon for free expression. They’ve made it quite plain that they can’t stand an opposing view. It must be categorized as “misinformation” and shut down. For example, say something “anti-trans” and you’re banned. Spike Lee & Co. never issued angry statements about anti-woke comedy routines getting banned on Instagram – because they’re at the center of wokeness. The Writers Guild-West issued statements lashing out against the “racist” murder of George Floyd and “institutional white supremacy” as well as the need for more sensitive script treatments of blacks and “indigenous people.” Hollywood writ large is an airless, double-reinforced leftist bubble. It can’t engage with the outside world that sees them as hopelessly snobby and patronizing scolds. They dash off an “open letter” and they aren’t open to rebuke. That would be too much free speech. 

The Department of Labor reported on August 1 that the U.S. unemployment rate ticked up slightly in July to 4.2%. Employers added just 73,000 jobs — well below the 110,000 economists had projected.Democrats pounced immediately.This isn’t economic chaos. It’s called a comeback.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) claimed the report showed Americans are “paying the price” for “Donald Trump’s destructive trade war.” He called the data an illustration of “economic chaos.”California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) — already positioning himself for a 2028 presidential run — declared that Trump is “crashing our economy” and insisted, “We haven’t seen conditions like these since 2020.”Sen. Chris Murphy (D) of Connecticut said the economy was “chaotic and full of corruption.” He later wrote on X: “Companies don’t want to create jobs in Trump’s chaos economy with weakening rule of law and rampant corruption.”But the reality is far less dramatic than the rhetoric.Numbers in contextYes, the July jobs report was underwhelming. But it was far from catastrophic.The 4.2% unemployment rate in July 2025 is the same as it was in July 2024 — and in March, April, May, August, and November of last year. The rate has held steady for months. In what way is that “crashing our economy”? That’s called consistency.By contrast, unemployment rose significantly during President Biden’s final year in office. In July 2023, the rate was 3.5%. A year later, just before Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, it had climbed to 4.2%.The fact is, Trump didn’t inherit a strong economy. He got Biden’s inflation, stagnation, and policy uncertainty. So what we’re seeing now is more of a course correction, not a crash.Signs of progressAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, full-time employment has grown by 1.1 million over the past 12 months. Layoffs in July were down 15% year over year.Gross domestic product also rebounded. The Commerce Department reports that U.S. economic output rose 3% in the second quarter of 2025, reversing a 0.5% contraction in the first.None of this suggests economic free fall. It suggests recovery.Meanwhile, the Trump administration has brokered major trade agreements with key global players and secured historic investment deals — moves that will pay off in the years ahead.Japan pledged to invest $550 billion in U.S. industries, and Saudi Arabia agreed to $600 billion in new investments. In May, the United Arab Emirates agreed to more than $200 billion in commercial deals, on top of a $1.4 trillion commitment earlier this year to back emerging technologies.Domestic investment is ramping upAmerican companies are also stepping up in response to Trump’s pro-business regulatory agenda.Apple this week reached an agreement with the White House to commit another $100 million to domestic manufacturing. This follows the tech giant’s announcement in February of plans to spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over four years, focusing on operations in Arizona, California, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, and North Carolina.IBM pledged $150 billion over five years.RELATED: Powell’s tight money policy is strangling the US economy Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesEli Lilly in February committed $27 billion for new domestic manufacturing, including four new plants. That initiative alone will create more than 3,000 permanent jobs and 10,000 construction jobs.These investments are not instant, but they are real — and they will reshape America’s economy.The real panic is politicalThe Democrats’ sudden alarm over a flat unemployment rate reveals more about their political fears than economic facts. A strengthening Trump economy threatens their narrative — and their electoral strategy.They’re hoping manufactured panic can drown out progress. But Americans can see what’s really happening.The July jobs report may have missed expectations, but the broader trend is unmistakable. Trump is rebuilding what Biden’s policies eroded. Jobs are returning. Investment is growing. Stability is taking root.This isn’t economic chaos. It’s called a comeback.

You are what what you eat eats. Try saying that in a hurry.It’s a simple maxim, but one that guides me in my nutritional choices and in the advice I give to other people about improving their diet. If the meat and animal products you eat come from animals that live unhealthy, unhappy lives — if they’re stuffed full of poor-quality food they shouldn’t even be eating and housed in an unnatural environment — then you’re not going to derive as much benefit from those products as you should.If you feed animals badly, you get a bad product. It’s that simple.And why would you want that?Animal welfare mattersAnimal welfare matters not only because it determines the quality of the food you eat, but also because animals are sentient, feeling creatures who deserve moral consideration.This doesn’t get said enough, actually, and there’s been a rather depressing tendency for so-called conservatives to pay little heed to the suffering of livestock or animals. This is part of a broader Philistine tendency on the right, I think, that reduces everything to economics and lines on a graph.But of course it’s more economical to immobilize 10,000 chickens in a strip-lit warehouse instead of pasturing them on grass, in rather the same way it might seem economical to import your nation’s birth rates and undercut native labour with cheap foreigners at half the price — and of course they don’t unionize either!A two-way pactDomestication, which created cows and chickens and sheep and pigs as we know them, was a two-way pact, and we shouldn’t forget it. We got reliable, high-quality nutrition that didn’t have to be hunted on the plains and in the forests, at great risk to ourselves, and the animals got care and protection — including from other animals like wolves and bears and big cats.The terms of this pact, and of man’s proper relation to nature more broadly, were given their most solemn expression in the book of Genesis, when God granted man “dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”By “dominion,” God didn’t mean, “You can do anything you want to these animals.” He meant, “You are the lord of these animals, and like every lord and his subjects, you have obligations to them. They are in your care. They are not to be abused or misused.”I didn’t really intend this piece to be a bit of Biblical exegesis, but oh well — here we are.But as I was saying, if you feed animals badly, you get a bad product. It’s that simple.Farmed salmon 'toxic'Take farmed salmon, for example. I think we all know we’re supposed to eat more oily fish to get those important omega-3s in our diet, but the truth is, farmed salmon may be one of the most toxic foods on the planet, and it’s all to do with how the fish are raised and in particular what they’re fed.RELATED: Cattle rancher’s STARK warning: You'll only have meat 'as a treat' Blaze MediaResearch has linked regular consumption of farmed salmon to diabetes and obesity. Mice fed farmed salmon gain twice as much weight as mice fed other foods. Farmed salmon has been shown to carry an enormous payload of harmful chemicals, which probably explains its obesogenic effects. A 2004 study showed at least 13 different persistent organic pollutants in the flesh of farmed salmon and that levels of polychlorinated biphenyls — chemicals known to be carcinogenic and to cause hormonal disruption — were eight times higher in farmed salmon than wild. Two other kinds of carcinogenic chemicals — dioxins and polybrominated diphenyl ethers — have also been found in high concentrations in farmed salmon.One of the main foods given to farmed salmon is eel and other fatty fish, which are chosen because of their high protein and fat content. The problem is that fatty fish readily accumulate harmful substances, many of which are lipophilic (attracted to fat) and get stuck in their fat stores. A lot of the fatty fish that go into fish feed are taken from the Baltic, one of the most heavily polluted seas on the planet, concentrating the waste of nine industrial nations. (In Sweden, fishmongers are legally required to warn customers of the health risks of consuming fish caught in the Baltic. I bet you didn’t know that.)Pigs under pressureThe same is true of pigs and pork. Apart from chickens, pigs bear the greatest burden of suffering in the modern industrial farming system. If you want any further reason to pray for the Three Gorges Dam to fail, look up China’s multi-story pig farms, which have the capacity to house and slaughter millions of pigs a year.We in the West aren’t much better, though. For the most part, pigs here are just as unhappy: cramped, stressed, stuffed full of cheap corn and soy to fatten them up for slaughter as quickly and economically — there it is, that word again — as possible.That means atrocious misery and poor-quality pork and lard to boot. There’s been a lot of talk of putting away seed and vegetable oils and returning to healthy traditional animal fats like butter and tallow and lard, but lard from industrially raised pigs is anything but healthy or traditional. Because pigs don’t have a rumen — those magical multiple stomachs possessed by cows and sheep — if they’re fed trash like soybean oil, they can’t convert the fats in it to saturated fat. As a result, the fat content of the pork comes to resemble soybean oil, and you’ve got seed oil but it’s called lard. So it goes.Meet Acorn BluffThank God, then, for Acorn Bluff Farms, a family farm in the rolling bluff country of Louisa County, Iowa. The farm has been in continuous use for nearly 200 years, but in the last five years its owners have converted the farm to focus on producing the highest quality pasture-raised pork, using one of the world’s most prestigious heritage breeds: the Hungarian Mangalitsa.Mangalitsa pigs were originally bred for the Habsburgs, the royal family of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. You can recognize them by their absurdly cute curly hair. Since they were bred for European royalty, you can bet Mangalitsa pigs taste good. Some call Mangalitsa the “Kobe beef” of pork, Kobe beef being one of the priciest and most prized kinds of beef in the world. The cows are fed beer and given massages. (Really: Look it up.) Acorn Bluff FarmsThe other red meatAt Acorn Bluff Farms, the pigs and piglets are allowed to roam and forage and wallow in the mud and chase one another through the fields and forest like pigs and piglets should. Follow the farm’s Twitter account (@acornblufffarms) for regular heartwarming videos.In the middle of the 20th century, pork began to be marketed as “the other white meat,” but this was only really possible because modern farming methods were turning pork into an insipid, watered-down, pale shadow of the meat it really is.If you buy some pork chops or a side of spare ribs from Acorn Bluff Farms, you’ll see pork in its true form: the other red meat. And what’s more, you can enjoy every single mouthful, without guilt — which is how it should be, because God said so.

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