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April 19 2020 Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday Reading 1 Acts 2:42-47 They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers. Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their property and possessions and divide them among all according to each one’s need. Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple area and to breaking bread in their homes. They...

The "Definitive" movie channel. Watched Cool Hand Luke the other day and True Grit today.

We are whipping our enemy right now! Then we are going to come back bigger and greater than ever before! We will be celebrating soon! Do not listen to traitors and try to discourage us otherwise. They are attempting to destroy our morale!

Under the umbrella of "Things You Run Across on YouTube"... Tony Clifton in a one-off 30min. pilot as Judge Clifton. This curio is shrouded in mystery but here it is for your amusement: https://youtu.be/5ueiKIb74KE

Think you want to fall in love with a princess? On this date in 1314, the French crown dissuaded the fantasy by butchering two Norman knights who had sheathed their swords where they oughtn’t. In the Tour de Nesle affair (English Wikipedia page French), French princess Isabella — then Queen of England, where she is known as Isabella of France or any number of less-flattering sobriquets — noticed that some purses she had once given her brothers’ wives as gifts were being sported by a couple of (evidently metrosexual) dudes in the court. Let their fate be a warning against...

Exclusive: Jack Cashill chronicles journalists' 'widespread suppression' of information Although the media are perversely keen on documenting every death from coronavirus, they are equally keen on shutting down all inquiry into the death of young DNC data analyst Seth Rich, murdered by unknown assailants in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 2016. As recent events have revealed, the FBI apparently shares the media's disinclination to explore the cause of this one untimely death. The Gateway Pundit reports "that the former Assistant U.S. Attorney related to the case admitted that Rich's computer was inspected by the FBI and that there would be...

President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that he would re-evaluate the United States’s relationship with China after the outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus. “Our relationship with China was good until they did this. Look, we just made a trade deal with China to buy $250 billion a year our products, $40 to $50 billion from the farmers. Then all of a sudden you heard about this,” he told the press during a White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing. “The question was asked: Would you be angry at China? The answer might be...

China and Iran have both reported a tiny number of coronavirus cases compared to other affected nations, and on Saturday President Trump asked if anyone actually believes the rosy situations both those dictatorships are describing. "You see what's going on over there," Trump said about the outbreak in Iran, gesturing at a bar graph showing different countries' affected populations. "Does anyone believe [Iran's] number? Does anyone believe [China's] number?" "We saw more bags on television than that," he added. Dr. Deborah Birx, who is on Trump's coronavirus task force, said she placed China on the graph to show how its...

FINALLY, Virginia went live with its link/site where those who are self employed or gig workers or 1099 filers can apply for Pandemic Unemployment assistance. You will first need to appy traditionally, you will then about a week later get one letter giving you a pin number and a second letter saying you have been DENIED unemployment. At that point you can click on the link and file for the $600/week- very very easy.

The coronavirus pandemic, which began in China and has sickened over 2 million people globally, is threatening to derail one of the country’s most ambitious projects yet — the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — dealing a major blow to Beijing’s aspirations to become a great power. The outbreak that has claimed more than 140,000 lives worldwide is prompting delays and disruptions at BRI projects which rely heavily on Chinese labor and supplies, as lockdowns and other sweeping measures to contain the virus prevent workers and supplies from reaching building sites. Projects worth billions have been hit in Indonesia, Cambodia,...

Here's a couple of kittens, one of whom likes ice. Video, 4 minutes & 19 seconds.

Recently, and not for the first time, the comedian’s public persona has appeared to be at odds with her private actionsEllen wants everyone to ‘be kind’ – maybe she should rethink what that means “Be kind” Ellen DeGeneres says at the end of every episode of her eponymous show. There’s a BE KIND Ellen hat. A BE KIND wine tote. A BE KIND subscription box. There are even BE KIND face masks – so you can try killing the coronavirus with kindness. Shockingly, it seems that DeGeneres might not always practice what she preaches: crew members on her talkshow are...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was absent from a national celebration dedicated to the nation’s founder and Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, on Friday, raising questions about the state of his health. According to reports from KCNA, the country’s state-run media, North Korean leaders paid tribute to Kim Il Sung’s preserved body at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun but did not mention Kim Jong Un’s presence, according to Reuters. Kim was also not present in official photos of the celebration. This was the first time in decades that the country's leader has not made an appearance during the...

A delay by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in quickly making coronavirus test kits available was the result of “a glaring scientific breakdown” at the CDA central lab, The Washington Post reported. The Post reported that CDC facilities that assembled the testing kits “violated sound manufacturing practices, resulting in contamination of one of the three test components used in the highly sensitive detection process.” James Le Duc, a virologist and former CDC officer who now heads the Galveston National Laboratory in Texas, told The Post that the situation was “really a terrible black mark on the CDC,...

"People said, 'No! We can't do this. We can't survive this long,'" added Thompson. "We are not New York City. Every policy and every regulation that Cuomo is enacting and enforcing, right now, basically has to do with New York City,"

A federal judge in South Florida has ordered a Colombia-based church to stop selling an industrial bleach marketed as a treatment for the new coronavirus and other ailments. Judge Kathleen Williams entered a temporary injunction Friday halting Genesis II Church of Health and Healing's sale of Miracle Mineral Solution in the U.S. Genesis sells MMS through its websites, according to a U.S. Justice Department civil complaint filed Thursday in the Southern District of Florida. Prosecutors say Genesis markets the solution as a treatment for COVID-19, as well as Alzheimer's, autism, brain cancer, HIV/AIDS and multiple sclerosis.

North Carolina Democrats and communist governor, Roy Cooper are clearly trying to steal the election in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. A pandemic that is barely even sweeping the state of North Carolina — the health industry is laying people off due to draconian restrictions on healthcare — is causing widespread unsubstantiated panic in North Carolina. On Monday, April 20, the State Board of Elections is holding a public hearing for proposed changes to the election laws in North Carolina which will be permanent that will allow unsubstantiated voter registrations online and ballot harvesting.

A Florida man encased himself in concrete outside the Governor’s Mansion in the state capital apparently to protest prison conditions related to the coronavirus. A Tallahassee police spokesman says 28-year-old Jordan Mazurek put PVC pipes horizontally into two 55-gallon plastic drums filled with concrete, with some sort of mechanism that locked his arms in place.

Hello welcome aboard as we consider the "Dictatorship of Covid 19" and some protests like the one in the key battleground political state of Michigan last Wednesday and the one planned in another key battleground political state of Pennsylvania set for Monday. They aim at the Democrats who govern the states President Trump won in 2016 and needs to win this year. But where are the protests against the Republican governors and their house arrest, shut down the economy orders in the battleground states of Florida and Ohio? Ohio's Republican Governor Mike DeWine an early imposer of house arrest and...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama has been given a show by PBS starting next week, the taxpayer funded network announced Friday. The timing of the announcement comes after Democrats marked $75 million for PBS’s parent the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the coronavirus relief bill that passed at the end of March. Newsbusters reported the $75 million is on top of the $465 million given CPB in the current year’s federal budget, which is an increase of $20 million over the previous year.