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There’s nothing more fun than going through the entire Blue Oyster Cult catalog and picking out our favorite song from each album. Blue Oyster Cult released 16 Studio albums, starting in 1972 with the new record and then the most recent 2024 release, Ghost. There have been many lineup changes over the years, but they have continued to release new music for over 50 years. Blue Öyster Cult – “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll” We open up our Blue Öyster Cult’s Best Song On Each Of Their Studio Albums with one of the band’s most classic songs. This one The post Blue Öyster Cult’s Best Song On Each Of Their Studio Albums appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

In Empires of the Undergrowth, your formicarium has an ant limit of 100, which is pretty limiting when trying to conquer those formicarium challenges. Can you increase it? Can you increase the max ant population in Empires of the Undergrowth? When starting Empires of the Undergrowth, you’ll only be able to have a maximum of 100 ants. It doesn’t matter what ants you field, you can only have 100 of them running around at a time. Thankfully, it does increase, but only at certain intervals. 100 ants may seem like a lot, but when you take on your first formicarium challenge, you may find it difficult to keep up. If you want any more ants to help defend your Queen, then you’ll need more ants. Screenshot: PC Invasion Unfortunately, the only way to increase your maximum ant capacity is by completing the gateway missions. This means that only through progression will you be able to field more ants, so you can’t increase the max ant capacity by doing an...

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—North Carolina election officials were perplexed about how to follow President Joe Biden’s directive to expand voting among convicted felons, according to emails obtained by The Daily Signal.  Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which put the power of federal agencies behind mobilizing voters, calls for the Justice Department to ensure that convicted felons know how to restore their voting rights. Those rules vary by state.  State election officials were set to have a Zoom conference June 25, 2021, with White House officials on implementing the president’s order, including questions and suggestions.  A day before the conference, Karen Bell, executive director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, emailed staff about what points they wanted to address.  “The main one I can think of ideas for is about felons and voting,” Katelyn Love, general counsel for the Board of Elections replied via email, before citing the U.S. Department of Justice. “We don’t get notice from DOJ when a felon completes their sentence. This would be helpful information for us to have, so we know that the person is eligible to register again.” Love continued: “If they don’t already, DOJ could provide information to NC felons when they start probation or when they are placed on supervised release (it’s not called parole anymore) that they are not eligible to register and vote until they complete their sentence.” Kelly Tornow, associate counsel for North Carolina’s election board, responded: “Those are great felon ideas.” Tornow said she was primarily concerned with enlisted U.S. service members and the Defense Department, and wrote that “the military should provide information to the service member about registering to vote.” The Daily Signal obtained 159 pages of documents from the North Carolina State Board of Elections regarding Biden’s order on voter mobilization through a public records request.  Critics use the term “Bidenbucks” to refer to the president’s controversial executive order, which they say is meant to use the force of government to tip the scales in elections.  Federal agencies have coordinated with transparently left-leaning advocacy groups to implement Biden’s order.  Further, several Republicans in Congress contend that Biden’s order on turning out the vote could violate the Antideficiency Act, a law that prohibits federal employees from obligating tax dollars not authorized by Congress.  The lawmakers also express concern about federal agencies’ engaging in partisan political activity in violation of laws such as the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from using work time or resources for partisan political activities. Last year, on March 13, Sarah Bolton, former policy director for North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, forwarded an email to Bell, the executive director of the state election board, who at the time was secretary-treasurer of the National Association of State Election Directors.  The email forwarded by Bolton was about paying college students to register voters. Students are viewed as a key constituency for Democrats. Bolton told Bell to “let me know if this might be of interest. If it is, I can connect you directly.”  She forwarded a message from Michael Dannenberg, senior fellow for the College Promise and a consultant with the Foundation for Civic Leadership, in which he wrote: We’re hoping Karen in her new role with the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) might consider joining, maybe even leading, a non-partisan effort to get state and local officials to urge [U.S. Education Secretary Miguel] Cardona to make clear that government entities, notably offices that NASED members lead, and non party-affiliated, non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations like the League of Women Voters can pay work study students with Federal Work Study funds for non-partisan voter registration work just as colleges now can for identical work. Mitchell D. Brown, equal justice work fellow for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, sent an email Aug. 17, 2021, to Damon Circosta, then chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Elections, about the need to “target federal agencies and programs that we think would be good opportunities for voter registration.” Copied on the email was Laura Williamson, then associate director of democracy at Demos, a liberal think tank that drafted Biden’s executive order. Demos also is working with several federal agencies to implement the order.  Brown’s email included an attachment with recommendations for using federal agencies to get out the vote. They included using U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services through its naturalization ceremonies; signing up voters on Healthcare.gov; and registering voters through the interagency Transition Assistance Program and the Labor Department’s Pathways Home program. The documents released to The Daily Signal include a May 24, 2023, email from Doug R. Hess, a political scientist and consultant with the Institute for Responsive Governing. That organization is fiscally sponsored by the liberal Arabella Advisors’ New Venture Fund, which financially backs multiple left-leaning organizations. Hess’ email, with a memo attached, isn’t addressed directly to North Carolina, but notes that targeting Medicaid recipients for voter registration could advance the goals of Biden’s executive order. Hess wrote: Consider this concrete example: Six states and D.C. recently adopted automatic voter registration for Medicaid. Based on my exploratory analysis, I believe these reforms may result in an impressive number of voter registration applications, perhaps far more than social service agencies have produced in the past. Federal health and program participation surveys could advance our understanding of this reform in ways that state administrative data alone cannot. Data from these surveys would also substantially benefit the growing political science literature on policy feedback and health policy. Regarding the feasibility of this proposal, this expansion would further the goals of President Biden’s Executive Order 14019—Promoting Access to Voting. NC-Board-of-Elections-24_44_Lucas_EO14019_FINALDownload The post ‘Great Felon Ideas’: Battleground State Struggles to Apply Biden’s Election Order appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Does Time magazine really matter anymore? It still has a circulation of more than 1 million, but that is one-third of what it was in 2012. Does anything it reports still resonate, or is it like a tree that collapses unheard in the solitude of the woods? Time just secured an interview with President Joe Biden, when Biden has granted very few interviews to print news outlets. Time gained access to Donald Trump in April, and the first thing you notice when you compare the two interviews is the length. At the top of the transcripts, Time claims the Biden transcript is a “28 minute read,” while Trump’s is listed as 83 minutes. Time’s “fact check” of the Trump interviews (“21 minute read”) is almost as long as the Biden interview. Another noticeable tilt is the agenda of questions. Biden’s questions were overwhelmingly about foreign policy. There are three on inflation, three on immigration, and three on Biden’s age. There were zero questions on Hunter Biden and the Biden scandals. There were zero questions on the Trump trial or the Trump prosecutions. Did Team Biden put any conditions on which questions could be asked? It’s a fair question, considering how selective they’ve been in handing out interviews. By contrast, by my count, Time asked Trump 11 questions about the Trump prosecutions (and “revenge” for them), five questions about Jan. 6, two about potential political violence in 2025, four on fighting the “Deep State,” three on his “dictator for a day” joke, and four on whether he’d seek to overturn the 22nd Amendment and seek a third term. On top of that, Trump drew 14 questions on abortion policy and six on crime. It’s obvious from the Time transcripts that they consider Trump’s opinions on domestic issues to be much more controversial—and even extremist—than anything Biden advocates. The rest of the media picked up on Trump’s abortion answers, and Biden didn’t have to provide any abortion answers. Even the age questions to Biden were timid softballs, and Biden’s answer—suggesting he could take his interviewer Massimo Calabresi in a fight—was taken as a joke. Calabresi told CNN’s Jake Tapper it was “lighthearted” and “quite funny.” Biden responded to a follow-up about voter concerns with his usual spin: “Watch me.” Calabresi confessed it might be a “stock answer.” So, why not push through it? Why not ask, “Everyone’s been watching you, that’s your problem”? Time could have asked Biden why his team refuses to release audio of his interview with stolen-documents Special Counsel Robert Hur, with the fear Republicans will exploit the audio in advertising. But Time pretends Hur is a nobody and that Biden’s stolen documents should already be forgotten. Hur refused to prosecute Biden, and Jack Smith just keeps prosecuting Trump. It looks a bit rigged. By contrast, Trump’s interviewer Eric Cortellessa lectured him: “I just want to say for the record, there’s no evidence that President Biden directed this prosecution against you.” Trump rejected that: “I always hate the way a reporter will make those statements. They know it’s so wrong.” Time, like other slavishly pro-Biden outlets, refuses to acknowledge that Biden’s No. 3 Justice Department official Matthew Colangelo resigning to join Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s team of Trump prosecutors shreds the “no evidence” lie. The Democrats running Time are hyperbolically raising fear that a president using the Justice Department might go after his political opponents, while somehow being blind and deaf enough to ignore that Biden is using the Justice Department to go after his political opponents. They can’t believe anyone would object to their shamelessness. Distributed by Creators Syndicate. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Time Magazine Betrays Its Tilt in Biden, Trump Interviews appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host of ABC’s The View, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) was at it again; spewing her hate on Friday’s show and claiming that black Republicans didn’t exist at all, just like “unicorns.” She was joined by the liberal white ladies who lectured black Republican Congressman Byron Donalds (FL), who they suggested was ignorant of black history and should go back to school. What had them triggered was Donalds talking to a group of black Republicans about black families and how liberal government policies work against them. They took an out-of-context, 27-second clip pushed by the Biden campaign and claimed he was romanticizing Jim Crow. Hostin, who once scoffed that black Republicans was an “oxymoron” term, proclaimed that black Republicans simply didn’t exist and were mythical creatures. She also suggested that the black vote belonged to the Democratic Party: I thought it was interesting that the framing was a room of black Republicans. Where are they? Where are they? Because if you look at the stats, 77 percent of – 81 percent, I'm sorry, of black men are part of the Democratic Party. Black voters consistently align with the Democratic Party.  Ninety -- Over 95 percent of black women are part of the Democratic Party so these black men that he was speaking with, I'd love to see them. It would be like looking at unicorns. It makes sense that Hostin would think black people belonged to the Democrats since they and her family kept them as property for a long time.     Her rant was teed up by Friday moderator and white liberal woman, Joy Behar, who condescendingly questioned Donalds’ intelligence. “So, my question to you, Sunny, is it stupidity like she says or is it something else?” she asked. Casting doubt on a black man’s intelligence was a recurring theme for Behar during the segment. “So, my question is, does Byron Donalds, does he not know the history, or is he just wanting to pander?” she asked pretend-independent and fellow white liberal woman Sara Haines. Just over a year ago, Behar scolded Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and suggested they didn’t know what it was like to be black in America. In her response, Haines argued that Donalds and the other black people in the audience needed to go back to school to be more educated like her: What’s scary is when you hear the audio there are a lot of people going, “uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.” So, it feels like a class needs to be taught to everyone in that room, segregation left you with no choice. Like, you weren't picking the family. They were literally making you go to different places. They didn't allow for -- so, talking about a black person choosing to be with your family and then looking at the greater social scheme and the injustice of that, he must not know what it is? I mean, that seems like a far leap not to understand Jim Crow, segregation, and the separation of the race. I don't understand. Of course, faux-conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin (who flip-flops between being white or Middle Eastern, depending on what role she needs to play) was useless in explaining that the clip was out of context. Instead, she took part in the Donalds bashing because he supported former President Trump. “Byron Donalds is one of many jockeying to be Donald Trump's running mate…I consider him to be kind of in the second tier,” she chided. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View June 7, 2024 11:03:54 a.m. Eastern JOY BEHAR: So, my question is, does Byron Donalds, does he not know the history, or is he just wanting to pander? SARA HAINES: Nor did anyone else in the room know – What’s scary is when you hear the audio there are a lot of people going, “uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.” So, it feels like a class needs to be taught to everyone in that room, segregation left you with no choice. Like, you weren't picking the family. They were literally making you go to different places. They didn't allow for -- so, talking about a black person choosing to be with your family and then looking at the greater social scheme and the injustice of that, he must not know what it is? I mean, that seems like a far leap not to understand Jim crow, segregation and the separation of the race. I don't understand. ANA NAVARRO: If he doesn't know, shame on him, because there is nothing worse, I think, that when people achieve certain status and certain rights and don't appreciate, take for granted the struggles, the death, the fights, the marches, everything it took to be able to give Byron Donalds the opportunity he has now. Because under Jim crow he couldn't vote, he wouldn't have been in Congress, he couldn't have married his wife. He's married to a lovely woman named Erica, who’s white. Interracial marriage was illegal in Florida until 1969. He could have not gone to Florida State University for over 100 years black students were not admitted to that university. Over 250 blacks were lynched in Florida under Jim crow. HAINES: That we know of. NAVARRO: For him to be waxing nostalgic about that era that elicits so much pain that was such a dark period in the history of the United States is offensive, and for him to be doing it as a black man, as a person of color is even more offensive. What really drives me crazy, though is that it's like every three months a Republican says something more stupid about black history and slavery, right? [Applause] I mean, last year we had Ron DeSantis saying -- defending that there was good things about slavery, skills that were learned that could be put to good use, then we had Nikki Haley who couldn't admit that slavery was the cause of the Civil War – BEHAR: So, my question to you, Sunny, is it stupidity like she says or is it something else? HAINES: I think it's pandering. I don't think it's stupidity. BEHAR: To whom? HOSTIN: It’s pandering to Donald Trump. I thought it was interesting that the framing was a room of black Republicans. Where are they? Where are they? Because if you look at the stats, 77 percent of – 81 percent, I'm sorry, of black men are part of the Democratic Party. Black voters consistently align with the Democratic Party.  Ninety -- Over 95 percent of black women are part of the Democratic Party so these black men that he was speaking with, I'd love to see them. It would be like looking at unicorns. And so I think that the sad thing is, you know, I agree with you, Ana, is that this came from the mouth of a black man, right? And so, if you're pandering yourself and your community and your history to a man like Donald Trump who is a disgraced, one-term, twice impeached, convicted felon, we get to say now, is even more despicable in this country. BEHAR: Alyssa. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And well, in the broader context here, Byron Donalds is one of many jockeying to be Donald Trump's running mate. He’s among the names that reportedly Donald Trump has requested materials from and is wanting to look seriously into. I consider him to be kind of in the second tier. I don't think he's one of the top contenders. (…)