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13 March 2026 Friday of the 3rd week of LentSt. Leander Church, San Leandro, CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(II).First readingHosea 14:2-10A call to conversion and promise of safetyThe Lord says this:Israel, come back to the Lord your God;your iniquity was the cause of your downfall.Provide yourself with wordsand come back to the Lord.Say to him, ‘Take all iniquity awayso that we may have happiness againand offer you our words of praise.Assyria cannot save us,we will not ride horses any more,or say, “Our God!” to what our own hands have made,for you are the one in whom...

A Quiet Coastal Revolution “Why only two?” The question, posed six years ago by J.T. Scott, a member of the city council of Somerville, Massachusetts, is at the heart of the debate concerning government recognition of polyamory. Scott and his colleague on the city council were considering a domestic partnership ordinance. The original language of the draft specified a domestic partnership as being “between two people,” according to The Harvard Crimson. Councilor Lance L. Davis paused, saying “something didn’t feel quite right,” reports The Crimson. Scott asked the question: “Why only two?” Davis, in his words, executed a “few simple...

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israel strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said. Iranian state television confirmed that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in Tehran on the first day of strikes. His son Mojtaba Khamenei was chosen on Sunday to succeed him. Iran is responding to the operation with missile and drone attacks targeting Israel, regional U.S. bases and multiple Gulf nations. Israel is also intensifying its long-running strike campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.

Canada sheds 83,900 jobs in February, after January decline Jobless rate up to 6.7% led by losses in full-time jobs Average hourly wage of permanent employees grows 4.2% Analysts predicted 10,000 job gains, jobless rate 6.6% SNIP

Us Hunter Biden now the sacrifiacl lamb for the Democrats to use?

The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) and Firebird Motorsports Park officials announced time changes for the upcoming FMP NHRA Arizona Nationals presented by NGK Spark Plugs, which takes place March 20-22. Taking an abundance of caution for the expected heat in the weekend forecast, racing in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series will shift to earlier in the morning on each day, setting up a Coffee and Nitro weekend at the Duel in the Desert. Friday qualifying will begin at 9:30 a.m. local time on Friday with Pro Stock, followed by Funny Car and Top Fuel. The second session...

Now a system called UVeye is designed to bring that transparency to the process. “We’re like an MRI for your car,” said Matt Small of UVeye. The drive-through system uses multiple cameras to capture hundreds of high-resolution images and video of a vehicle in just seconds. “We’re going to detect anything down to 2 millimeters,” Small said. It also uses infrared technology to detect rust and issues underneath the car. “[It was] originally developed for military use so we were scanning the undercarriage of vehicles looking for bombs and different threats like that,” Small explained. In under a minute, the...

TAMPA, Fla. – All six crew members aboard a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq are now confirmed deceased. The aircraft was lost while flying over friendly airspace March 12 during Operation Epic Fury. The circumstances of the incident are under investigation. However, the loss of the aircraft was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire. The identities of the service members are being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.

A George Soros-backed District Attorney sparked backlash after blaming the mass shooting at Virginia's Old Dominion University (ODU) on firearms advocates. Norfolk Commonwealth's Attorney Ramin Fatehi told a press conference that the attack, in which two people, including the gunman, died and two more were injured, was the fault of the 'pro-gun lobby.' 'This is not an ODU problem. This is a national sickness,' he said. 'We live in a country where people care more about guns than they care about six-year-old children. 'They care more about guns than they care about synagogue worshipers,' he added, apparently referencing yesterday's shooting...

Full disclosure: I would have preferred to have led off with something else today. I went through every other story available, but realized that this was unavoidable. On Wednesday morning, we kicked things off with a discussion about the relentlessly violent ways of the practitioners of Islam. Before noon here in my time zone on Thursday, two more devotees of the Religion of Peace were in the news for acting on murderous impulses. I really do hate being right about the worst people on Earth. They are nothing if not predictable, though. Catherine covered both of the stories. Here are...

Pink Floyd singer/guitarist David Gilmour’s iconic “Black Strat” electric guitar set an all-time record on Thursday (March 12) during a Christie’s auction in New York when it became the most expensive guitar ever sold. According to The New York Times, the guitar that was a key part of such classic Floyd albums as 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon, 1975’s Wish You Were Here and 1979’s The Wall sold for $14.55 million to an online bidder in a 21-minute bidding war, more than doubling the previous record-holder, late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s Martin D-18E acoustic guitar which he played...

An Islamic studies scholar told students to “be a threat” and praised the assassination of two “Zionists” during an online event Wednesday hosted by a student group at Union Theological Seminary, according to video clips of the talk. Professor Muhammad Abdou spoke at the event “Death to the Akademy: How to be a thorn in their throat amidst snakes in the grass” co-hosted by the seminary chapter of Students for a Liberated Palestine and the group Queer Muslims of New York City, the Washington Free Beacon reports. Abdou taught at Columbia University until recently when the institution banned him for...

🚨 BREAKING: Florida's Attorney General just told Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias "BRING IT ON" after he threatened to sue against Florida's SAVE AMERICA ACT The soon-to-be-law: - Fortifies citizenship requirement and verification - Ensures valid photo ID to vote - Marks paper ballots as the primary method of voting - Bans student IDs as valid form of voter ID AG JAMES UTHMEIER: "This is what you said the last 3 times, and how did that work out? Bring it on." 🔥🔥 LFG, Florida does it right again! Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the bill. It has passed...

We need to wakeup Senator John Thune. The Save America Act is America's last Chance. If he could get it passed he would become a hero. This bill is common sense. If the democrats win again, Filibuster is gone. If he loves America, he needs to make this his number one passion. Any ideas to wakeup him up. I mean not to say how bad he is but how to change his mind. Maybe a march for Thune. Real ideas, please. Please pray that God would change his mind.

“The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.” – Proverbs 21:1 One of the oldest themes in the Bible is God putting his will into the hearts of rulers to do what he wants them to do. In fact, he not only chooses the rulers, raises them up or takes them out, but he decides what they will do during their administration, or during the period of their rule, even though they think they are in charge. Fox News, Reuters, and Axios are all reporting that Ali...

Monday marked the 32nd anniversary of the passing of Charles Bukowski from leukemia at age 73. Considering the life he lived, it is remarkable he lived as long as he did. Bukowski, whose rough but strangely captivating visage was best described by Paul Ciotti as “a sandblasted face, warts on his eyelids and a dominating nose that looks as if it was assembled in a junkyard,” was an author who defined outsider American literature in the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike his wholesome contemporaries, Ray Bradbury and E. B. White, Bukowski was a notorious womanizer with an aura of stale aftershave,...

(LOS ANGELES) – Over 100 Amazon drivers at the DAX7 facility in Los Angeles marched on their bosses today, demanding the employer recognize them as members of Teamsters Local 396 and bargain a union contract. The drivers are organizing to address Amazon’s low pay, punishing delivery quotas, and dangerous working conditions. “The movement to unionize Amazon grows stronger every day because of courageous workers like the drivers at DAX7,” said Randy Korgan, Director of the Teamsters Amazon Division. “Amazon will claim that these drivers don’t work for them, but that is a lie. Amazon Teamsters will not rest until they...

Canadian Economic Downturn Structural, Not Cyclical The BoC delivered an unusually political message this week: The country’s downturn isn’t cyclical, but structural. Cyclical issues are related to the business cycle, rising and falling with the natural booms and busts we’ve all come to love and hate. Structural changes are permanent and require drastic changes for the economy to operate. The Governor attributes this shift to three forces: slowing population growth, a breakdown in US trade relations, and artificial intelligence. “The impact of these forces on the Canadian economy will not be a temporary cyclical fluctuation. These are deep structural changes…”...

Today I am happy to announce the release of the very short audio for Thomas Jefferson's interesting letter "A Dialog between the Head and Heart", which reaches just past 30 minutes long. Yes, it is a very short recording, but this one is a little different than most others I work on. This recording is a compilation; that is, there are three voices present that are seemingly talking to each other in a way. One of the recordings in this I recorded. This does not signal my triumphant return to the microphone though. I wish. I still have a very...

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