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Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to asteroid 433 Eros. Orbiting the Sun once every 1.8 years, the near-Earth asteroid is named for the Greek god of love. Still, its shape more closely resembles a lumpy potato than a heart. Eros is a diminutive 40 x 14 x 14 kilometer world of undulating horizons, craters, boulders and valleys. Its unsettling scale and unromantic shape are emphasized in this mosaic of images from the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft processed to yield a stereo anaglyphic view. Along with dramatic chiaroscuro, NEAR Shoemaker's 3-D imaging provided important measurements of the asteroid's...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) tweeted on Saturday that he voted to convict former President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial “because he is guilty.” “Our Constitution and our country is more important than any one person. I voted to convict President Trump because he is guilty,” Cassidy tweeted. Cassidy is one of seven Republicans who was convinced by the House managers' arguments and voted to convict Trump in a 57-43 vote. Cassidy was joined by fellow Republican colleagues Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Ben Sasse (Neb.), Patrick Toomey (Pa.) and Richard Burr (N.C.). Cassidy’s decision was a...

The just-completed impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump in the U.S. Senate provided cover for the administration to move forward with plans to implement President Joe Biden’s open border policies. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced plans on Thursday to address the issue of migrants with active asylum claims, previously ordered to remain in Mexico under the “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP) program implemented during the Trump administration. As part of the plan, an estimated 25,000 migrants believed to still be in Mexico under MPP will be allowed to enter through three designated sites across the southern border....

White House doesn't list Israel as American allyPresident Joe Biden is the first American leader in 40 years not to contact Israel’s leaders as one of his first actions in the White House, setting up what could be four years of chilly relations between America and its top Middle East ally.Biden has already phoned multiple world leaders, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping, but during his 23 days in office has yet to speak with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu—making Biden the first president in modern history to punt on bolstering U.S.-Israel relations during his initial...

Full title:"NATURAL NEWS: RELATIVE OF SHANGHAI-BASED DOCTOR REVEALS DETAILS ABOUT CHINA’S LIVE ORGAN HARVESTING PROGRAM"He prodded his sister-in-law Zhou Yu for more details on what she knew about her elder sister’s work. She told the whistleblower that people who were not sedated “would scream with all their might in sheer agony” when Qing performed the organ removal surgery. “[Yu] said anesthesia cannot be used in every place: The area where [the organ] is needed cannot be anesthetized,” Lu remarked. “The fresher and the less anesthetized, the better. The quality is guaranteed, you can rest assured,” Lu recounted his sister-in law’s...

Pelosi: "When we recruit candidates to run for office or we see them self-recruiting, we always say, and they say, 'well, I could be president of my university or I could be the head of my hospital department, or this or that and I'd have to think about whether I'd run for congress,' I would say, 'we don't want anybody without options'. That's why we're looking to you to run. Because you have options. That shouldn't be a reason for you not to run. "But what we saw in that Senate today, was a cowardly group of Republicans, who apparently...

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. (Romans 13:8-10)I believe that in God’s providence, Love has been my theme of late. It is a serious subject...

People living in Germany are struggling with their mental health more during the current shutdown than they had during the first, according to interim research results published by Saarland University on Saturday. Researchers at the university have been monitoring 1,500 men and women for a year to measure the psychological and social consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. […] “Life satisfaction has decreased significantly — worries, stress and depressiveness have increased,” research group leader Dorota Reis told the German news agency DPA. People’s assessments of society have also “changed drastically,” Reis said. During the first lockdown, the study participants initially reported...

Former President Donald Trump made a statement after the Senate voted to acquit him in his second impeachment trial with a vote of 57-43. Read the full statement here: I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth. My deepest thanks as well to all of the United States Senators and Members of Congress who stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country. Our cherished Constitutional Republic was founded on the impartial rule of law, the...

'Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime’ – Lavrentiy Beria to Joseph Stalin New York prosecutors, led by crooked Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., are investigating loans that Donald Trump took out for his Manhattan properties. According to the Wall Street Journal, New York prosecutors are probing loans that Trump took out by Ladder Capital for four different buildings. Subsidiaries of Ladder Capital have lent Trump more than $280 million since 2012 so now prosecutors are probing to see what they can find. Via The Wall Street Journal: New York prosecutors are investigating financial dealings around...

greenfrontbrakelight Saturday, June 16, 2007 Green Front Brake Light Theoretical Analysis and Proposal for the Adoption of a Universal Green Front Brake Light for All Roadway Vehicles. It is the purpose of this document to analyze and advocate the case for the adoption of green colored front brake indicator lights, for use on all roadway vehicles. Statistically speaking It has been estimated that 1 in 4 vehicles will be involved in a collision over its lifetime. Transport Canada advises Canadians in its 2002 Annual Report on Road Safety Vision 2010, that "In 2001, 2,778 road users were killed in traffic...

I'm thinking: maybe we shouldn't put another nuclear power plant in Fukishima again???

President Joe Biden’s administration is looking into whether Israel and Saudi Arabia are important allies for the United States, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Asked Friday whether the administration considers them “important allies,” Psaki said the Biden administration is involved in “ongoing processes and internal interagency processes” to discuss Middle Eastern issues. “We’ve only been here three and a half weeks, and I think I’m going to let those policy processes see themselves through before we give, kind of, a complete laydown of what our national security approaches will be to a range of issues,” Psaki added....

Governor Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania confuses me. He does not appear outwardly to be an idiot. He seems to be able to dress himself. He is well educated. Unlike Joe Biden he does not have to hustle off camera to avoid answering any questions more consequential than what flavor of ice cream he is eating. And, yet, I can only conclude he is, in fact, an idiot. Many, many months ago the good Governor shut down the state of Pennsylvania with a series of ill-considered and poorly executed executive orders justified vaguely by the existence of a so-called pandemic. Strangely...

Total Doses Delivered: 69,883,625 Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses: 37,056,122 Number of People Receiving 2 Doses: 13,082,172

"There are 34 U.S. Senate seats up for regular election in 2022—14 seats held by Democrats and 20 held by Republicans." Four republicans are not seeking reelection. Clickable map and lots of information at the link

Members of Free Republic hereby censure Mitch McConnell over his unhinged comments and reckless hyperbole on the Senate floor after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump.

Healthy young illegal immigrants have been given preferential treatment in receiving the coronavirus vaccines ahead of elderly and vulnerable native Britons, an investigation has found. Migrants who came to the United Kingdom illegally and are now being housed at the taxpayers’ expense at the four-star Crowne Plaza Hotel in London have received free coronavirus vaccinations, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. One illegal Sudanese migrant, 20-year-old Abdul, who crossed in a boat from the safe and wealthy France seven months ago, told the newspaper: “I was given the vaccination yesterday at the hotel to stop me catching Covid. There are...

The impeachment trial is hurtling toward a conclusion, after brief drama over potentially calling witnesses. Former President Trump is almost certain to get acquitted, but it won’t be much of a vindication.His conduct in the post-election period and on January 6 will blight his reputation forevermore. He waged a dishonest and poisonous campaign to overturn the election that culminated in a mob disrupting the counting of electoral votes at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.The new videos played by the House managers at the trial brought home again the national embarrassment of that day, with top elected officials scurrying for...

McConnell did not hold back as he ripped Trump apart for a “disgraceful dereliction of duty” and attempting to “overturn the election.” He claimed that the protesters stormed the Capitol because they had been “fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth,” and that Trump was “practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day....."