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WHO WILL BE FIRST TO ASK JOE BIDEN THE TARA READE QUESTION? It's more than a little amazing that it hasn't happened yet. There is growing corroboration behind Reade's accusation that then-Sen. Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, when Reade worked in Biden's office. We now have accounts that by the mid-1990s, Reade told her brother, her mother, a friend, a next-door neighbor, and another friend about the incident. We also have the tape of the 1993 Larry King program in which a woman, whom Reade says was her mother, called to talk about her daughter's issues with a...

Posted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 by Msgr. Charles Pope A Call to Humility in the Mystery of the Seven Thunders In the Office of Readings this week, we examine some of the more terrifying passages from the Book of Revelation, related to the seven trumpets, seals, and bowls of wrath. There is also a reference to the underreported “seven thunders,” reminding us that there are some things that are not for us to know.Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face...

Q is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but,...

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus declares that he is the bread of life and promises eternal life to all who believe in him. Many of the Church Fathers characterized the Eucharist as food that immortalizes those who consume it. They understood that if Christ is really present in the Eucharistic elements, the one who eats and drinks the Lord’s Body and Blood becomes configured to Christ in a far more than metaphorical way. The Eucharist, they concluded, Christifies and hence eternalizes. If the Eucharist were no more than a symbol, this kind of language would be so much nonsense. But...

Where’s the Beef?As we approach a long weekend (China shuts for the May Day holiday on Friday, and most of the rest of the world celebrates the following Monday), the prevailing sentiment is still moderately risk on – or at least that is what one would assume when looking at USD, which has been on the back foot the last few days. This is presumably because of the ‘victories’ being seen in various places against the virus. Unfortunately, in market terms we once again have to reiterate that this is a case of finding the potatoes but missing all the...

Earlier this month, I wrote a column asking what Democrats should do about sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden, the party's presumptive nominee for president. My answer? Not much. The accusation made by Tara Reade, a former Biden staffer from his days in the Senate during the early 1990s, didn't strike me as especially convincing, so Democrats, I suggested, could move forward without much concern. Though toward the end of the column I included two caveats: If Reade offered further corroboration of her claims or if evidence emerged of a larger pattern of abusive actions toward women on Biden's part,...

A biotech company said Wednesday its experimental drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study that put it to a strict test. Gilead Sciences’s remdesivir would be the first treatment to pass such a test against the virus, which has killed more than 218,000 people since it emerged late last year in China. Having a treatment could have a profound effect on the global pandemic, especially because health officials say any vaccine is likely a year or more away. The study, run by the National Institutes of Health, tested remdesivir versus usual care in...

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Bexar County is investigating after nearly 50 residents were locked out of their apartments at a San Antonio complex. They say they found their doorknobs bolted when they returned home on Monday. That’s despite a local moratorium on evictions that’s currently in effect due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is sad. It is sad when somebody put a key on the door, even though they don’t have money for two or three months. Right now, we don’t need that,” says Luis Falcon, who son was locked out of his apartment. “This is the first flagrant...

On Tuesday night, Mayor Bill de Blasio declared war on New York’s Jewish community. The very same mayor who went to the gym the day after closing New York City’s schools, restaurants, and bars and who took a stroll in Prospect Park on Saturday, as news was breaking that 28 New York City schoolteachers had died from the virus, has ventured out yet again into a crowd. This time, he went to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where a large number of Satmar Hasidim had gathered. The mayor went to personally “ensure the crowd was dispersed,” the mayor explained in a tweet. And...

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Restaurants have changed in more than a few ways over the past 50 years. But the biggest shift, the one that has fundamentally changed what it’s like to eat in a restaurant or spend time in a bar, might be the switch to smoke-free dining rooms — These days, being asked to choose “smoking or non smoking” is something of a novelty. The transition to smoke-free bars and restaurants began with the rise of the anti-smoking movement in the 1960s as the dangers of cigarettes became clear and advocates argued on behalf of restaurant and bar employees, who had no...

The spread of the pandemic disease COVID-19 caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has now reached almost every country of the world, with over 3.11 million cases and over 217,000 deaths as of April 29, 2020. Clinical features of severe COVID-19 Most patients have mild or asymptomatic disease, but 20% or so of patients have more severe disease. Overall, critical or very severe disease occurs in about 5% of patients. These patients have cardiac arrhythmias, acute kidney disease, pulmonary edema, septic shock, and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Other vital organs are also affected in some...

President Trump’s reelection campaign recently took aim at Hillary Clinton and her recent endorsement of Joe Biden’s White House bid. While taking to Twitter Tuesday, the Trump campaign posted a 2015 video of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sending a message to sexual assault survivors. This came as more developments have continued to unfold in recent days regarding Reade’s sexual assault allegations while he was serving in the U.S. Senate. Clinton joined Biden for a virtual Town Hall event on Tuesday, but neither of the Democrat leaders spoke about Reade’s claims.

The term of the day for the NCAA: “modernize.” Or maybe it was “change.” Then again, “unprecedented steps” also got plenty of time. All were true. After decades of digging in, battling in court, launching advertising campaigns or just shaking their collective head “no,” the NCAA’s Board of Governors has agreed to provide its athletes the same economic freedom as any other student on campus, starting in January 2021 at the latest. It still must clear a vote at the NCAA Convention, but board approval makes it all but inevitable. “We approved legislation for student athletes to receive compensation for...

How about a quick break from The Kung Flu Virus and the Boogie Wuhan Flu? A few weeks ago in the Sunday Washington Post Adam Cohen dropped an opinion piece about the Supreme Court (SC) over the last half century. Apparently, because the SC has been making rulings based on the Constitution instead of some bizarre Marxist agenda, it's hurt average Americans. As much as I'd love to go piece by piece through every bit of the stupidity of this post, things are still busy in Bobworld and I'll keep this to the most insane assertions. First up (emphasis mine, link...

As the saying goes these days, the Atlantic is saying the quiet parts out loud… "As surprising as it may sound, digital surveillance and speech control in the United States already show many similarities to what one finds in authoritarian states such as China. Constitutional and cultural differences mean that the private sector, rather than the federal and state governments, currently takes the lead in these practices, which further values and address threats different from those in China. But the trend toward greater surveillance and speech control here, and toward the growing involvement of government, is undeniable and likely inexorable....

This is a short thread I was involved in today. Notice how one poster tries to steer the language of the discussion, which literally started with the weather. Slight changes were made to remove mild vulgarisms, and to remove screen names, as NextDoor has region restrictions on access. Rachel: WTH??? It seems mother nature is angry again and taking it out on us, she has decided to fry us like chicken. Dr. Sivana:She must really be mad at the folks in Georgia, then, it routinely gets to be 100 and EXTREMELY HUMID in the summer. I moved to Phoenix in...

Mitt Romney made a series of digs at President Trump's leadership amid the pandemic when speaking on the Georgetown Politics Forum Tuesday Romney said Trump should realize he's 'not the smartest guy in the room' The former Massachusetts governor also said the initial response to the crisis 'will not stand out as being a great moment of American leadership' A more centralized approach from the federal government would have been 'more effective' in tackling the pandemic, he continued Romney then criticized Trump's move to suspend WHO funding His comments are likely to reignite his long-running feud with Trump The Senator...

From my anecdotal experience (just my own relatives), care-provider theft from the dying and recently deceased is endemic and has been for a long, long time. Usually, the value seems to be low enough that families don’t want to make an issue of it at a time when they are grieving. We can only guess how many elderly Covid-19 victims have been damaged by these so-called”frontline” workers. A caregiver allegedly stole and pawned the engagement ring of an 86-year-old woman with dementia as she lay dying from coronavirus. As Denver Channel reported 29-year-old Aurora woman who was working as a...