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Tests results released Friday showed the water quality in the River Seine was slightly below the standards needed to authorize swimming — just as the Paris Olympics start. Heavy rain during the opening ceremony revived concerns over whether the long-polluted waterway will be clean enough to host swimming competitions, since water quality is deeply linked with the weather in the French capital. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a highly publicized dip last week in a bid to ease fears. The Seine will be used for marathon swimming and triathlon. Daily water quality tests measure levels of fecal bacteria known as...

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty has secured repeal of the unconstitutional law banning possession of firearms near almost all waters in Wisconsin.In 1999, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) created a rule banning the possession of firearms near “waters, banks or shores that might be used for the purpose of fishing.” The regulation was created with virtually no oversight shortly after Wisconsin passed Section 25, Wisconsin’s constitutional protection for the right to keep and bear arms. The regulation was seldom, if ever, enforced.Due to a quirk in Wisconsin statutes, no one had to be arrested to challenge...

A new poll from The Wall Street Journal has found Vice President Kamala Harris neck and neck with Donald Trump after President Biden vacated the Democratic nomination for November’s election."Only 37% of Biden voters were enthusiastic about him in early July, and now 81% of Harris voters are enthusiastic about her," Democratic pollster Mike Bocian, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster David Lee, told the Journal. "This is an astounding change."The former president maintains a 2% lead over Harris in a two-person race, within the Journal’s 3.1% margin of error, indicating Harris has cut into the six-point lead Trump...

If Donald Trump wishes to implement his Trump 2.0 agenda, he must first win two critical battles: The Battle of the Steal and the Battle of the Deep State. Precisely because the Democrat Party successfully stole the 2020 election, they will be pulling out all stops to do it again. The Trump campaign and the Republican Party will be hard-pressed to “Stop The Steal 2024”, but stop it they must, and they are probably fully aware of the stratagems they face. The Battle of the StealTo win the Battle of the Steal, the Democrats have evolved two distinct modi operandi:...

Having opened their gates to refugees fleeing the violence in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, many European nations are now flooded with unemployed Muslims, threatening the stability of their host countries. The demographic changes taking place in capital cities and exclusively Muslim-populated areas, the rise of global Islamic radicalism, and the terrible disaster that befell Israel on October 7, have resulted in right-wing parties’ victories in European countries. In Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, and Finland the Right has significantly increased its electoral power. The increase in hatred and incitement by left-wing parties towards Jews is lending legitimacy to violent actions against...

As bad as you think the media is, it always manages to be worse.. The media routinely plays up civilian casualties in any Israeli air strike. But as the headlines show the game is played very differently when Islamic terrorist attacks kill children. After the Islamic terrorist group Hezbollah struck a soccer field in the Israeli Golan Heights killing a dozen Druze children (Druze are a non-Jewish minority group in Israel whose members often serve in the Israeli military), the media did its best to write the most ambiguous headlines possible. Rocket From Lebanon Kills at Least 12 in Israeli-Controlled...

On my cell phone it was open and free. forwarded it to my e-mail. Now there's a pay wall. So here it is from memory. Elon Musk's Tesla company is losing bucks, and Dear Leader Brandon's Inflation Reduction Act was (forcing; article said "encouraging") legacy car manufacturers to make their own EVs, causing Tesla, already in trouble (because EVs suck) to lose money to these new competitors (who are also losing money). So Musk is backing Trump solely in order to eliminate his competitors in the EV line. Nothing to do with his lost tranny son, the state of the...

29 July 2024 Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus on Monday of week 17 in Ordinary Time Sts. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, Chicago's South SideReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: B(II).Readings for the feriaReadings for the memorialThese are the readings for the feriaFirst readingJeremiah 13:1-11Let this evil people become good for nothingThe Lord said this to me, ‘Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it round your waist. But do not dip it in water.’ And so, as the Lord had ordered, I bought a loincloth and put it round my waist. A second time the word of the...

Navy SEALs, Sailors Who Refused Covid Vaccine Win Legal Victory over Biden-Harris Mandate Let’s not forget Harris’ connection to the covid and mask mandates as she takes on the mantle of the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate. When the Biden-Harris administration issued a covid vaccine mandate for all federal workers, thousands of men and women in the U.S. military were discharged in early 2022 rather than comply. They did not wish to inject something into their bodies about which they had serious health and ethical concerns. The U.S. Navy discharged over 8,000 members, who faced stiff penalties for refusing to agree...

Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem (7/29/24)[Prayer]Names and Titles of God (Faithful and True) Revelation 19:1111 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.King James Version________________________God Bless America.ML/LTOS

Knock, knock.Who’s there? Kamala.Kamala who? Whoever you need me to be. Cackle cackle.A mistress to a powerful San Francisco politician twice her age…or a vocal advocate for the “Me Too” movement. A tough-on-crime prosecutor…or a “Defund the Police” cheerleader. A likable-enough pragmatist…or “the most liberal nominee in U.S. history.” A defender of Israel…or a supporter of Hamas terrorists. A second-generation immigrant proud of her Indian and Jamaican heritage…or a staunch member of the African-American community who affects a southern accent. Joe Biden’s trusted “border tsar”…or someone who barely knows where America’s borders are. Whoever Kamala Harris needs to be in...

France is leaning towards the likelihood that far-left extremists were behind last week's sabotage of the country's SNCF rail network – which coincided with the Olympic Games opening ceremony – French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Monday. "We have identified the profiles of several people," Darmanin told France 2 TV, regarding the hunt for those saboteurs. Far-left French anarchists have a history of targeting the train network with arson attacks. The attacks were "deliberate, very precise, extremely well-targeted", Darmanin said. "This is the traditional type of action of the ultra left," he said.

(snip) At the other end of (NY) state, “Slick” Tom Tiberi has been an institution at 97 Rock (WGRF), where he’s worked on and off since 1982 as part of a Buffalo radio career ... But it wasn’t budget cutting that suddenly cost Tiberi his job in mid-July. Instead, it was an unfortunate Facebook post he made on his personal page, showing a meme of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in matching coffins. If the post looked harmless on the Thursday when Tiberi put it up, it looked like something else a few days later when a would-be assassin took...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban described the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris as “the weakness and disintegration of the West”, La Depeche reported. The politician believes that the event that sparked a fierce public backlash was the embodiment of the Western void. “They have gradually shed metaphysical ties, with God, country and family,” Orban said, adding that it has led to “the absence of public morality, as you could see if you watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics yesterday.” Orban also pointed out that the collective West denies the existence of nation states, resulting in...

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called for creating a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants on Sunday, arguing Vice President Kamala Harris is the candidate to "get it done."

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Attorneys for Hunter Biden pushed back against a federal judge’s threat to sanction them for making “false statements,” while admitting their motion to dismiss Biden’s criminal charges in California. In a filing Sunday with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Biden’s legal team said they “never tried to mislead” the court after U.S. District Judge Mark Scarcsi wrote Biden’s attorneys falsely claimed U.S. Attorney David Weiss did not bring charges against the president’s son until after he was appointed special counsel. “Defense counsel, perhaps inartfully, intended this use of the word ‘charges’ to refer to the...

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