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What your favourite celebs look like without makeup Gigi, Zayn blessed with baby girl a large ship in a body of water: PLA minesweepers pictured during an exercise. Photo: HandoutPLA minesweepers pictured during an exercise. Photo: Handout China's military incorporated mine-sweeping exercises into some of its latest naval drills targeting Taiwan, according to recent reports from state media. Taiwan has been investing in minelayers and developing sophisticated underwater mines in the hope of thwarting the People's Liberation Army's plan to take over the island within three days - a move that could buy time for other forces to come to...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem Lambs, Sheep, and Shepherds. Genesis 37 Joseph’s Dreams 37 Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan. 2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them. 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate[a] robe...

MSNBC guest Cheryl Dorsey, a retired LAPD sergeant on Kentucky Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron: "Let me say this as a black woman. [Daniel Cameron] does not speak for black folks. He is skin folk, but he is not kinfolk, and so just like he thinks they can't speak for Kentucky because he's up there with a black face, he does not speak for all of us. ...."

This comes to me via the NJ Board here on FR. I believe it deserves wider attention. I have been advocating voting in person because it had been my impression that votes cast on Election Day would be counted that day. Apparently this is not to be the case here in NJ. (See the link I've given about or click here.) I still believe that voting in person is best for all Trump supporters so long as they have reasonable confidence that their vote will be tallied on Election Day. But it is obviously best to find out what is...

Leftists are outing themselves as racists complicit in perpetuating systems of oppression. Maybe it's time we started believing them. Black Lives Matter is the operational arm of “critical race theory,” the postmodern philosophy of “critical theory” applied to race. Critical theory suffers an inescapable epistemological conundrum. It’s the Liar’s Paradox: If a Cretan says all Cretans are liars, is he to be believed?Or, in the case of critical theory: If a theory denies objective or universal truths, claiming that the powers-that-be subconsciously construct “reality” by projecting their will to power onto the transcendent screen of axiomatic certainty, all to perpetuate...

I recently re-watched one of the most eye-opening programs on the 20th century, The Century of the Self (BBC 2002). It looks at the development of advertising, particularly the theories and work of Edward Bernays. You’ve seen his work, but you didn’t know it. He was one of the pioneers of modern advertising as well as modern government propaganda. Particularly in the 1920’s, he played a key role in moving America from a need-based economy to desire-based consumerism. One result was a flourishing and growing wealth across the land (except for the collapse in the Great Depression). America moved past...

Black Lives Matter protesters walked onto I-94 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to obstruct highway traffic on Wednesday evening. A local Fox affiliate reported that authorities “blocked off traffic in the area” where the protesting crowd entered the interstate. “About 400 people were marching to protest the lack of more serious charges against officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s death,” according to the Star Tribune, which also reported that police and state patrol “made no move to stop or arrest protesters.”

Yesterday we identified Robin Ash Crandal was the young communist who pointed a gun at highway goers last Friday in Louisville, KY. Earlier today we reported that infamous Democrat anti-Semite Linda Sarsour was behind the scenes on Friday leading the rioters who were pointing guns at innocent drivers and damaging their vehicles. Now we are able to determine that Democrat anti-Semite Linda Sarsour was back in front of the rioters tonight in Louisville. But today she was alongside members of Portland’s ‘Three Arrows’ Antifa battalion. Who is paying these creeps? On Friday September 20, 2020, in Louisville, KY, Democrat activists...

This is downtown Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY - right in front of City Hall. One would think the busiest intersection in in the city (google it to see how many streets meet there) should caution a 'protestor' to avoid standing on the road. Of course, said protestors have probably not been informed about the patience Americans are losing over all this. And thus, behold: the next episode of the 2nd Civil War...

Trump taking out the trash

"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small" (Proverbs 24:10 KJV).

A woman at a grade-school football game in Ohio on Wednesday was reportedly tased and arrested by a police officer for not wearing a face mask in the stands. The woman was sitting in the bleachers with her mother when she got into an altercation with the cop about mask-wearing at a middle school in the town of Logan, the Marietta Times reported. Video of the incident, which was posted to YouTube, shows the woman resisting as the officer struggles to handcuff her for nearly two minutes before he deploys his Taser.

September 24, 2020 Thursday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 ECCL 1:2-11 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun? One generation passes and another comes, but the world forever stays. The sun rises and the sun goes down; then it presses on to the place where it rises. Blowing now toward the south, then toward the north, the wind turns again and again, resuming its rounds. All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea...

Amid several violent Black Lives Matter protests on Wednesday, Democrat vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (CA) seemingly encouraged the activists to continue their demonstrations. The protests broke out Wednesday evening in Louisville and later other cities across the nation after a Kentucky grand jury did not bring murder charges against the officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

Florida AG scrutinizing Bloomberg paying fines for felons to vote

. .. . BY NOW, YOU MIGHT BE GETTING THE IDEA that I must really like the book of Ruth. I LOVE the book of Ruth! If I could find 200 pictures appropriately illustrating this wonderful story, I would post every single one.Well, I didn’t find 200—I found 217, displayed here and on 6 other separate posts. If you’re not yet in love with this tale, too, my hope is you soon will be! . .. .RUTH GLEANS . .. . R U T H . . 2 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd – the complete text is in...

Although more deeply at odds than at any time since the Civil War, both sides of our fractious nation’s political divide seem to agree on this: the 2020 federal elections are the most consequential of our lifetimes. Voters are being asked to decide nothing less than whether they want to “fundamentally change” America, or to keep America fundamentally American. If the franchise is so very precious, if voting is a “sacred” right, then government must do everything it can to protect the integrity of our elections. But government has been failing in that solemn duty. Yes, the states spend a...

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey helped donate $11 million to organisations that included the Bail Project, linked to the U-Haul in Louisville earlier today. National File reported today that an employee of the Bail Project, Holly Zoller, was caught handing out shields and other equipment to potential rioters from a U-Haul truck in Louisville, Kentucky. Unloading the riot shields from the Uhaul #Louisville #BreonnaTaylor pic.twitter.com/F9KqzRB5lM— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) September 23, 2020 A group of concerned citizens managed to track down and identify Zoller: One member of the anonymous group called Zoller, posing as a U-Haul employee, noting that the company had seen “hundreds...

A whale has stunned scientists by staying submerged underwater for almost four hours. The mammal belongs to the species Curvier's beaked whale, which is known for their diving prowess. But researchers were amazed by the 222 minute dive time because it is more than seven times longer than the believed maximum duration of the animal's oxygen reserves, just 33 minutes.

Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson called out the media and Democrats threatening violence as a means to stop President Trump’s SCOTUS nominee. burn the thing down While most were calling to honor and revere Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the occasion of her passing, Carlson notes that the left was not. “Prominent progressives immediately descended into hysteria and rage – unbridled rage,” he said during Monday’s monologue. Carlson insists the commentary coming from the left shows they truly believe that RBG’s death has “imperiled this country’s freedoms.” That she had “single-handedly kept America from descending into fascism and...