Democratic Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick could be removed from several House committees after being charged by federal prosecutors Wednesday night with funneling federal disaster funds into her campaign account. Republican Rep. Greg Steube, said he would file a motion to censure Cherfilus-McCormick on Thursday morning following the Department of Justice’s indictment that could land her […]

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Warbringer has carried the torch for modern thrash metal with an intensity and authenticity that has made them one of the most respected bands of their generation. Formed in 2004 in Ventura, California, the group was founded by vocalist John Kevill, guitarists Adam Carroll and John Laux, bassist Andy Laux, and drummer Nic Ritter. From the start, Warbringer sought to capture the spirit of classic thrash while injecting it with their own relentless energy and technical precision. Their music channeled the aggression and urgency of the 1980s scene while delivering it with contemporary firepower, instantly connecting with fans around the The post Complete List Of Warbringer Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Hailing from British Columbia, Krall’s early fascination with the piano set the course for one of the most accomplished jazz careers of the past several decades. She studied music seriously from a young age and earned a scholarship to Berklee College of Music, a period that became foundational, strengthening her technical command and sharpening her artistic direction. After finishing her studies, she worked tirelessly as a jazz pianist and vocalist and eventually released her debut album Stepping Out in the early nineteen nineties. That first record featured collaborations with established musicians who recognized her talent long before the rest of The post Complete List Of Diana Krall Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

People have said for years that the only two things that you can count on are death and taxes. However, I’m going to argue that taxes aren’t necessarily a certainty in the same way as death. What if there is an all-out SHTF, for example, there may not be taxes, but there will certainly be death.   In this slow-burning SHTF, I’m looking around my life and fixing what I can fix. I’m preparing how I can prepare, but I’m looking at things close by AND this one certainty that I can’t avoid: I will definitely die someday. Now I know that death isn’t a very popular topic in this culture. That’s why we should talk about it now all the more! This all came to the forefront when I visited my elderly great-uncle in his new care home. Seeing his condition and his surroundings struck a chord of fear in me, a fear greater than my fear of any nuclear attack, which I probably wouldn’t survive anyhow.  I realized that, while I have an impressive array of batteries and solar-powered lights, and I have more off-grid knowledge than you can shake a stick at, I am woefully unprepared for death. I have no living will. I have no proper legal will. I have stuff that I would like the people I love to get, but right now, they may in the courts for the rest of their lives trying to get it. I saw this recently when an elderly aunt left only an improper handwritten will. This ate up thousands of her estate as it went through the courts, with her assets frozen for more than a year. Am I alone in my lack of preparations? Heck no! In fact, according to a recent 2023 survey conducted by AARP, only 1 in 3 older Americans has a living will in place.  So, although I’m in good company, I’ve realized that this is something that I need to do, for my own peace of mind, and for those of my close family members.  Why a Living Will? I saw my great uncle’s condition. He sadly didn’t recognize me, asking if I was a new employee at the home. He didn’t appear to know where he was much of the time. Sometimes he was afraid, and he was uncomfortable and in pain. I worry that the time may come soon when he is unable to make decisions for himself about his own health care. What might happen then? When I talked later in the week with my mother and sister, I let them know that I did not want any extreme measures to extend my life. My sister quite rightly said, “Well, that’s nice to know, but what you have told us will not likely carry a lot of weight, so you had better get yourself a living will.”  Now, keep in mind, everyone will have to decide for themselves in what context they would like “extreme measures” taken and in what context they do not. For myself, I want medical professionals to know that I do not want to be on life support indefinitely, should I be brain-dead. In my own life, I have sat by the bedside in the Critical Care ward, where my beloved lay fighting for his life on a ventilator with no less than 10 IV bags attached to his body, and at that time, I would have supported and did support the use of every extreme measure available! Context is everything. He was young, otherwise very healthy and the doctors said he was a fighter. Fight he did, and came back to me for another precious year of life together. What these experiences taught me is that it is important to make your wishes known.  What is a Living Will? Depending on what state you live in, these documents have different names. For example, you may be more familiar with the name “Health Care Power of Attorney.” This is the form that legally designates who is your decision maker in case you are unable to make decisions. A separate form you might have heard of is “Living Will,” which is the instructions about what treatments you wish to receive and any that you wish to refuse. There are strict legal criteria for when this comes into effect. You must be unable to communicate your wishes yourself.  In some states, these two forms are legally combined into one document, sometimes called an Advanced Directive. Are you wondering what is legal in your own state, like I was? Well, there’s a website for that, created by the AARP. Using this website, you can locate your state and download the required documents.  What Does it Cover? According to the AARP, there are a number of areas of information that you can include in your advance directive. It is up to you. If you wish to prolong your life in every case, you can ask for it. If there are certain situations in which you don’t want that, you can specify those. Questions you might ask yourself as you are preparing one include: *Do I wish for my life to be prolonged using life support if there is no hope for my survival? *Are there any treatments that I do not wish to receive to extend my life? (e.g., a ventilator) *Do I wish to give any or all of my organs? For all or just certain purposes? (e.g., to save someone’s life and/or for research) *Do I wish to die at home? Do I choose to forgo certain treatments in order to achieve this? *Are there any requirements, requests, or preferences that I have, based on my faith? (e.g., receiving the Last Rites) How Do I Make a Living Will? While you can have this done with your lawyer, it is possible to make it out yourself with some careful planning. Personally, I will be doing mine with my lawyer, just to be sure. If you choose to do it yourself, be careful to ensure that all of the signatures are completed as directed on the form. For example, certain signatures cannot be from immediate family members and your spouse, and must be from “disinterested” people who are not directly involved.   Is this the Same as a DNR? No, a living will or advance directive is not the same thing. A DNR, or do not resuscitate order, is written by a doctor. This document only covers one situation: that you go into cardiac arrest. The DNR tells all medical professionals not to attempt CPR or try to restart your heart. This is most often in place when an illness is terminal and someone is very near the end of life. As you have seen above, an Advance Directive covers many more situations in which you can make your wishes known. Make Your Wishes Known, Before You Can’t Once you are unable to communicate, a living will can make your wishes known. What are your thoughts on living wills or advance directives? Do you have any experience with these in your home state? Please tell us in the comments section. About Rowan Rowan O’Malley is a fourth-generation Irish American who loves all things green: plants (especially shamrocks), trees, herbs, and weeds! She challenges herself daily to live her best life and to be as fit, healthy, and prepared as possible. The post The One Certainty: Are You Prepared? appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

When one of the most famous black women in America starts scolding the “white people,” you can feel the double standard marching to center stage. Imagine, for one second, President Donald Trump lecturing the “black people” about being unreasonable. You only need one second to imagine the reaction. Michelle Obama sat down in front of an audience in Brooklyn recently with actress Tracee Ellis Ross—whose ABC sitcom “Black-ish” had a mushy Michelle Obama cameo in 2022—and launched into a tirade on black hair. “Let me explain something to white people,” Michelle lectured the crowd. “Our hair comes out of our head naturally, in a curly pattern. So when we’re straightening it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped! By the straightness.” White people are hair oppressors. Then she made jokes that blacks can’t swim because they’re trying to keep their hair straight—for white people. She called it exhausting and expensive. Braids are also for white people, “so we can focus on the work.” Black activists have pushed legislation to prevent hair discrimination, which Michelle also lamented: “Why do we need an act—an act of law—to tell white folks to get outta our hair? Don’t tell me how to wear my hair, don’t wonder about it, don’t touch it. Just don’t!” The audience cheered. If you took a poll, most Americans would say they don’t really care about black hair, they don’t object to it, they don’t need to touch it. But they certainly don’t need a lecture from a megawealthy former first lady about how their curiosity and expectations are “exhausting.” Then Ross wondered about how our expectations for first ladies are hampering the notion of a female president. Michelle lectured the white people again: “As we saw in this last election, sadly, we ain’t ready! That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, ‘cuz you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not. You know? So don’t waste my time. You know? We got a lot of growing up to do.” There she goes again. If you don’t vote for Democrats like Kamala Harris, you need to “grow up.” You can’t complain about open borders, hyperinflation, or actual issues. You’re supposed to vote defensively, to prove you’re not racist and sexist. Anyone who voted for Obama-Biden in 2008 voted against a female vice president, but if it’s Republicans, it doesn’t count. If Democrats didn’t just vote for the first black female governor in Virginia, it wasn’t racism. It’s against the icky Republicans. Mrs. Obama underlined her point: “There’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman. And we saw it.” All the Democrats grouse that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were oodles more qualified than Trump “the reality TV host.” They say that even after Trump had been president for four years. It’s not just about qualifications; it’s about issue positions. The Obama-loving media haven’t exactly pushed these remarks, these fancy fingernails on a chalkboard. CNN’s Jake Tapper put Michelle’s sexism lament up on Nov. 17, and his Republican and Democrat analysts agreed with her. “That’s so depressing,” he replied. Mrs. Obama complained in an interview with Stephen Colbert that the country carried this false impression that she was an “angry, bitter black woman.” Fact-check: She often sounds angry and bitter, and like she’s making a face at the white people. We are always disappointing her by not worshipping her, like her carefully selected interviewers do. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Michelle Obama, Like Fancy Fingernails on a Chalkboard appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The Department of Health and Human Services delivered what could prove to be a lethal blow this week to the profitable and predatory child sex-change industry that has been on the defensive since President Donald Trump's Jan. 28 executive order directing all federal agencies to ensure that medical institutions receiving federal funding "end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children."HHS published an exhaustive peer-reviewed report on Wednesday that should make abundantly clear to those still clinging to LGBT activists' preferred narrative about so-called "gender-affirming care" that "the harms from sex-rejecting procedures — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operations — are significant, long term, and too often ignored or inadequately tracked.""This is a new day in the Department of Health and Human Services. It's a new day in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, a new day for the country," Admiral Brian Christine, assistant secretary for HHS, told Blaze News. "It is because of President Trump and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that this information has come out."'The HHS report should put an end to the scourge of child mutilation masquerading as health care.'The 410-page report, titled "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices," reads as the weightier American counterpart to Britain's damning Cass Review, detailing:the often glossed-over risks and medical uncertainties involved with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and sex-change genital mutilations; the unscientific nature and strategic omissions of fact in the World Professional Association of Transgender Health guidelines; the manipulation of medical definitions undertaken in service of gender ideologues' medical agendas; ethical concerns regarding consent for sex-change procedures as well as the regret often experienced by victims of such procedures; andthe "international retreat" from the "gender-affirming" model of care.The report — which National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya indicated "marks a turning point for American medicine" — notes that the overall quality of evidence concerning the effects of sex-change medical interventions on long-term health, psychological outcomes, quality of life, and regret was found to be "very low."Accordingly, the beneficial effects alleged in the literature and often cited by gender ideologues are likely to differ substantially from the actual effects of the sex-change procedures.'It's literally a billion-dollar industry. It creates lifelong customers.'What's more, the report noted that while the risks of child sex changes are many and unmistakable — including infertility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, surgical complications, and heart, metabolic, and psychiatric disorders — publication bias, a failure of existing studies to adequately track and report harms, and other factors may have obfuscated the true fallout of so-called "gender-affirming care."The report minces no words in its conclusion, stating:Many U.S. medical professionals and associations have fallen short of their duty to prioritize the health interests of young patients. First, there was a rapid expansion and implementation of a clinical protocol that lacked sufficient scientific and ethical justification. Second, when confronted with compelling evidence that this protocol did not deliver the health benefits it promised, and that other countries were changing their policies appropriately, U.S. medical professionals and associations failed to reconsider the "gender-affirming" approach. Third, conflicting evidence — evidence that challenged the foundational assumptions of the protocol and the professional standing of its advocates — was mischaracterized or insufficiently acknowledged. Finally, dissenting perspectives were marginalized, and those who voiced them were disparaged."The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures could be good for children," HHS Secretary Kennedy said in a statement."They betrayed their oath to first do no harm, and their so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people," continued Kennedy. "That is not medicine — it’s malpractice."RELATED: Sacrificing body parts and informed consent to the sex-change regime Photo by Bob Riha Jr./Getty Images When other Western nations, Britain in particular, began to re-evaluate their barbaric medical approaches to gender dysphoria, the Biden administration and the U.S. medical establishment dug in their heels and pushed the child sex-change regime to new extremes.For instance, Biden's transvestic Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine, formerly Richard Levine, successfully pressured WPATH to drop its recommended minimum age requirements for sex-change mutilations. His reasoning for lowering the recommended age minimums — 17 for genital mutilations, 15 for healthy breast removals, 16 for breast implants, and 14 for hormone treatments — was apparently not based on scientific evidence but on politics.Levine's successor, Trump HHS Assistant Secretary Brian Christine, told Blaze News, "There was absolutely an effort by the prior administration and, very specifically, an absolute effort by the individual who was the prior assistant secretary for health, Rachel Levine," to continue politicizing children's health.He added that both ideology and profit prompted medical professionals and associations to similarly dig in their heels."It's literally a billion-dollar industry. It creates lifelong customers," said Christine. "You bring a little boy or a little girl in and you have them either get hormones or they get a mutilating surgery — you've created a lifelong customer. You've created someone who's going to come back again and again and again because of surgical complications or other things going on."Gender dysphoria is an "emotional and mental condition," he explained. "There's no question about that. These individuals who truly have gender dysphoria, they suffer terribly. They deserve compassion. They deserve mental health care. What they don't need are sex-rejecting surgeries."Christine said that treating gender dysphoria as a mental health condition is especially important with kids. "You should treat them with mental health care because we know that if you do, the majority of these kids, by the time they're in their late teens, are very comfortable in their own skin," he said.Neeraja Deshpande, policy analyst for the Independent Women's Forum, said that the report, "in addition to creating a more transparent system, confirms once and for all what never should have been up for debate to begin with: that so-called surgical and chemical body alteration in the name of ‘gender transition’ is a medical danger to children."Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, said in a statement to Blaze News, "The HHS report should put an end to the scourge of child mutilation masquerading as health care."RELATED: 'They'll create second sets of genitals': WPATH Files author tells Glenn Beck about 'gender-affirming care' mutilations Luis Soto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images "The peer-reviewed study only confirms what the American Principles Project and anyone with common sense has known all along: The gender industrial complex relies on bad faith, bad science, and a radical ideology that places the financial interest of drug companies over those of children," said Schilling.Schilling suggested to Blaze News that elements within the child sex-change regime are now more likely to reap the whirlwind in court."This is, at a minimum, some type of consumer fraud. I do think that because of how horrific the harm that they did was that it does cross into serious criminal areas."While Schilling noted that the industry presently enjoys robust protection from trial attorneys and left-wing institutions, once major legal actions break through, prompting big payouts, "then you'll have blood in the water, and the sharks will start circling."Schilling alluded to Chloe Cole's lawsuit as one such potential breakthrough action.Cole, a detransitioner who has raised awareness across the country about the horrors and fallout of sex-change medical interventions, has sued Kaiser Permanente for alleged medical negligence in connection with the sex-rejecting procedures the health system performed on her as a minor.Schilling commended the numerous experts who put their names to the report — including doctors and scientists from the Baylor College of Medicine, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Duke University — stating, "They're very courageous for doing this. This is a very powerful and embedded industry that's been doing really big and terrible things in the country ... and for these guys to put their names behind it is a very big deal."When asked whether this report ultimately amounts to a lethal blow against the sex-change regime, HHS Assistant Secretary Christine told Blaze News, "Yeah, we certainly hope so. We certainly believe it will be. Listen, our job in the administration is to protect our children, protect our citizens. Our job is to produce gold-standard science. That's exactly what we have done. It's exactly what we're doing."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!