Big Changes Are Coming to McDonald’s Burgers—Here’s What We Know Some McDonald's classics are getting a new and improved makeover. Does anything say McDonald’s more than a Big Mac? I mean, seriously, there’s a reason it’s the second bestselling McDonald’s menu item, only falling behind some insanely addicting McDonald’s fries. However, the Big Mac we all know and love is about to change. That’s right, McDonald’s Big Macs—along with some other classic McDonald’s burger menu items—are due for a makeover. https://www.rd.com/article/mcdonalds-burger-changes/ Biden emails 800k student loan borrowers about forgiven debt More than 800,000 student loan borrowers are set to receive a message from President Biden Tuesday afternoon. Why it matters: The email, shared in advance with Axios, is a direct appeal from the president to beneficiaries of his administration's debt forgiveness push, as his approval rating among Democrats hit a record low last month, jeopardizing his 2024 re-election bid. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/exclusive-biden-emails-800k-student-loan-borrowers-about-forgiven-debt/ar-AA1kGgPo Biden forgives $5 billion more in student loans for over 80,000 borrowers. Who qualified? The Education Department has forgiven another $4.8 billion in student loans for roughly 80,000 borrowers. It’s the latest tranche of relief to come for Americans who already qualify for debt cancellation through programs such as income-driven repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). About half of the forgiveness, $2.2 billion for about 46,000 borrowers, announced Wednesday came from what the administration referred to as “fixes” to the federal income-driven repayment process, which the department says historically hasn’t counted progress toward forgiveness accurately, leaving borrowers who’ve been paying down their loans for more than two decades unfairly on the hook. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/12/06/biden-forgives-5b-in-student-loans/71828824007/ Voters flee blue states for red states but still want blue-state policies Increasingly, people are fleeing the high taxes of blue states to states run by Republicans or more centrist Democrats. But their voting habits aren’t changing, and so, they are turning their new states into the ones they left behind. California is the obvious example, and it’s reflected in the census. The Golden State could potentially lose a congressional seat for the first time in its history after the 2020 census. Others in line to lose seats include New York, Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan, while red states such as Texas and Florida could see their numbers rise. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/voters-flee-blue-states-for-red-states-but-still-want-blue-state-policies Democrats Fleeing Blue States, Infecting Red States With Failed Liberal Disease Several new reports find that America’s deepest blue states and cities are losing citizens by the millions as Democrats flee their failed socialist utopias for greener — or shall we say redder — pastures in the country’s successful, Republican-run states. But like rats bringing the plague everywhere they go, Democrats only bring their stupid liberal ideas and voting patterns with them setting the stage for ruining the very places they thought would be their refuge. https://lidblog.com/democrats-fleeing-blue-states/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4l6RdCg-dk

Non-Citizen Voting Reversed in College Park On Friday night, the City of College Park, Maryland reversed its city council decision that allowed non-citizens of the U.S., including illegal aliens, the right to vote. This was due to council conveniently forgetting that such massive changes to the College Park City Charter require the vote of a supermajority on council as opposed to a simple majority. Ironically, the law that mandated a supermajority to pass changes to the city charter was enacted just this summer while the proposal to allow illegals and other non-citizens to vote, and was passed 4-3, was voted on only a few months later on September 12, 2017. https://townhall.com/columnists/larryprovost/2017/09/16/breaking-noncitizen-voting-reversed-in-college-park-n2382425 French Language Police Quebec French language police take issue with ‘grilled cheese’ in restaurant name A 1960’s-style sandwich shop in Quebec City is the latest to be at the centre of a complaint made to the province’s language police. It seems the name, which includes the words “grilled cheese,” contravenes Quebec’s language laws. Emmagination Cupcakes received a not-so-sweet visit from the OQLF, Monday, September 28, 2015. Montreal West cupcake shop under the OQLF microscope OQLF - the Office québécois de la langue française You’re not a ‘foodie,’ says OQLF, you’re a ‘cuisinomane’ The Resto La Mama Grilled Cheese Gourmet has been in business in the Limoilou neighbourhood for the past two years without complaint. Thursday, the owners received a letter from the Office québécois de la langue française with two complaints about English words on their signs. https://globalnews.ca/news/2457023/french-language-police-take-issue-with-grilled-cheese-in-restaurant-name/ Justin Trudeau To Apologize For Historical Persecution Of Gay Canadians Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to make a sweeping apology on the behalf of Canada, its past governments and its citizens to all those who were imprisoned, lost jobs or were otherwise persecuted because of their sexual identities. The apology will mark the beginning of a series of reforms targeted at eradicating anti-LGBT discrimination in the country. Apologizing to all those who were convicted of “gross indecency” for homosexual acts prior to 1969, when all such acts were decriminalized. • Eliminating the discrepancy in age of consent laws, which currently legalize vaginal sex at 16 but anal sex at 18. • Distributing reparative pay for those LGBT individuals who lost jobs due to discrimination. • Doing away with laws that criminalize group sex and other activities. • Implementing laws to protect gay and transgender prisoners in jail. http://www.newnownext.com/justin-trudeau ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvVxT73R1fI

Annie Oakley Annie Oakley was the stage name of Phoebe Ann Moses, a sharpshooter whose skill at shooting led her to star in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and made her a national celebrity. She won numerous medals for her marksmanship, performed for royalty, and remains a legendary figure of the American West. She was born August 13, 1860, to Jacob and Susan (Wise) Moses, Quakers who had migrated from Pennsylvania to a rented farm in Darke County, Ohio, a rural county on the Indiana border. Called Annie by her sisters, she was the sixth of seven children born to Susan Moses. In 1866, her father died of pneumonia. Her mother, unable to support her children, sent Annie to the live at the Darke County Infirmary—the county poor house—when she was 9 years old. Annie Oakley had not been born in the West, and she had not lived there. But for many years she had certainly looked like a cowgirl, and she had ridden a horse and shot better than most any Westerner, of either sex, while performing in Wild West shows. To call her, then, a 'Western legend' does not miss the mark...even if she was too good, and too good a shot, to shoot anyone. Black is White Dave Wilson is white. But to win a seat on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees in a district that is predominantly composed of African-American voters, Wilson, a conservative Republican, led voters to believe he was black. According to CBS affiliate KHOU-TV, Wilson's direct mail campaign included a flier with smiling black faces he says he found on the Internet. "Please vote for our friend and neighbor Dave Wilson," the accompanying text read. In another flier, the text said he had been endorsed by Ron Wilson, a popular black former state representative. But the Ron Wilson who endorsed him was Dave's cousin Ron, not the ex-lawmaker. "He's a nice cousin," Wilson told the network, chuckling. "We played baseball in high school together." Nevermind his cousin lives in Bloomfield, Iowa, about 940 miles from Houston. On Tuesday, Wilson defeated Bruce Austin, the 24-year incumbent, by a margin of just 26 votes. Austin, who is African-American, called Wilson's tactics "disgusting." "I don't think it's good for both democracy and the whole concept of fair play," he said. "He never put out to voters that he was white," Austin said in a statement to the Houston Chronicle. "This is one of the few times a white guy has pretended to be a black guy and fooled black people." But Wilson, who won a six-year term on the nine-member board, is unapologetic. "Every time a politician talks, he's out there deceiving voters," Wilson said. Austin said he would seek a recount, but Bob Stein, a political scientist at Rice University, believes the vote will stand. "I suspect it's more than just race," Stein said. "The Hou ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfIJ_0UyYto

‘Total betrayal.’ Gun control activists react to Trudeau’s gun buyback scheme Gun control activists in Canada reacted with “anger and dismay” on Tuesday to the Trudeau government’s proposed legislation to toughen the country’s gun laws, accusing the Liberals of backtracking on their promise to remove all newly blacklisted firearms from circulation. In May of 2020, the Liberals announced a ban on the use, sale and importation of more than 1,500 makes and models of what the government refers to as military-grade “assault-style weapons.” Bill C-21, presented Tuesday morning, introduces a buy-back program for blacklisted firearms, allows municipalities to ban handguns and increases criminal penalties for gun smuggling and trafficking. “We will move forward with a buy-back program in the coming months and complete the prohibition to ensure these weapons cannot be legally used, transported, bequeathed, transferred, or sold,” Trudeau told a news conference in Ottawa. https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2021/02/16/total-betrayal-gun-control-activist-react-to-trudeaus-gun-buyback-scheme/ Trudeau’s Toxic Gun Ban: No Buy-in to the “Buyback” There is new evidence of problems with the implementation of the “assault weapons” ban imposed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on May 1st. Readers will recall that under the Liberal Government’s scheme, over 1,500 firearms and devices listed in a government regulation immediately became a “prohibited” firearm or “prohibited device,” as did “any variants or modified versions.” Individuals in legal possession of these newly prohibited firearms or devices on the day the regulations were announced are protected from criminal liability arising from their possession or ownership, but this “amnesty” period ends on April 30, 2022. https://gunandsurvival.com/2020/12/07/trudeaus-toxic-gun-ban-no-buy-in-to-the-buyback/ Canada's mandatory Covid-19 hotel stays are not ‘internment camps’ but they are costly forced detention Since at least October 2020, some Canadians have been concerned about rumours of Covid-19 “internment camps.” In reality, there may be no barbed wire or gun turrets, but a number of travellers have experienced detention firsthand. Last October, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked about this. His reply didn't address the specific claim at hand, instead he spoke generally of “noise and harmful misinformation on the Internet,” and bizarrely urged people to resist “people who would sow chaos within our communities and our democracy.” (I shudder to think which foreign interference he imagined.) https://www.rt.com/op-ed/515130-canada-mandatory-covid19-hotel/ Canada welcomed 184,000 new immigrants in 2020 New Canadian gove ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVbOYVMVWMc