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And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. Matthew 27:23 Being part Black and American Indian makes me only needing homosexual grandparents to be the liberal oppressed trifecta. In reality it makes me and my family the American melting pot. After researching my ancestry, it appears when my family’s first Bray, Peter Bray came across from England in 1735 he married a woman whose father Abraham Scott was a freed slave from England and her mother was half Cherokee and half German. The black man bought a...

the data on the Wuhan virus in no way matched the hysteria ... Whether "cases," hospitalizations, deaths, masks, lockdowns ... actual data reveal that our efforts to "slow the spread" have been largely useless and thus unnecessary. In other words, time has revealed the truth on the Wuhan virus. ... each of us is going to get exposed to the Wuhan virus, and our health outcome will be determined by how our Creator made us and what treatments are given to us. The rise in hospitalizations and deaths over the holidays, and the subsequent steep decline we've seen over the...

Establishment news network MSNBC falsely reported that the suspect of the deadly car attack at the U.S. Capitol was a "White male." NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams reported on the death of the suspect, who was still at the time unidentified. Williams told MSNBC anchor Katy Tur:

No Test Sailings Yet and No Clear Dates from CDC The new technical instructions released by the CDC don't include test sailings and no clear dates for resuming operations. Are the technical guidelines the CDC released the guidelines we’ve all been waiting for, and a pathway for the cruise lines to resume service? Or is it just another empty shell? So far, the guidelines seem to be nothing more than additional requirements and some clarification on existing requirements. The CDC has not given any precise dates for when cruising can resume, neither has it given the green light for test...

For about an hour on Good Friday afternoon, 25-year-old Noah Green, the perpetrator of a lethal attack on the nation's Capitol, found himself the day's designated white supremacist. Once the truth emerged that Green was, in fact, not only black, but also an ardent supporter of Nation of Islam honcho Louis Farrakhan, one could all but hear the sound of tweets being deleted across America. The late Mr. Green was in good company. Perhaps the most celebrated FOF, Friend of Farrakhan, was that guy who lived in Calypso Louie's Chicago neighborhood, Barack Obama. The fact that Obama participated in Farrakhan's...

April 03 2021 Holy SaturdayBasilica Altar | St. Peter's Basilica Vatican City RomeReadings at MassLiturgical colour: White.There is no Mass on Holy Saturday itself. Here are the readings for the evening Easter Vigil.First readingGenesis 1:1-2:2 ©God saw all that he had made, and indeed it was very goodIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, and God’s spirit hovered over the water. God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light. God saw that light was good, and God divided light from darkness. God...

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DannyTN’s DARPA-like contest to develop Computer Assisted Learning Software for Special Needs Students and Pandemic Remote Learning.ConceptI’ve been troubled by the failure of online learning during the pandemic as that failure is completely contrary to my own experience. The problem I believe is in implementation. We need Computer Assisted learning (CAL), not just Remote Online Traditional Education (ROTE). And I envision a DARPA type contest to encourage development of appropriate CAL software applications. To avoid confusion, when I use the term “program”, I’m referring to the contest and it’s evaluations. I use the term “software” to refer to the CAL...

Georgia passed a law that greatly expands people’s opportunities to vote. However, because it mandates Voter ID for absentee ballot requests, Democrats, led by Joe Biden, have announced that the bill is the Second Coming of Jim Crow. Joe went further and sought to destroy parts of Georgia’s economy by calling for Major League Baseball to move its All-Star Game out of Georgia. And the MLB franchise heeded that call. One of the highlights of the baseball season is the All-Star Game, which was set to be played on July 13 in Atlanta. Since 1933, midway through the MLB season,...

This past weekend, China and Iran signed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, a 25-year strategic agreement that is the fruition of discussions that began in 2015 when Chinese president Xi Jinping’s visited Tehran and met supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Following this visit, Khamenei sent a private message to Jinping asking to hold talks about an agreement. Majid Reza Hariri, the head of the Iran-China Chamber of Commerce, later said, that any opinions came from the regime, as represented by Larijani. The Iranian regime has not released the full text of the agreement. It is an entirely “behind the scenes” document. A...

The first article I ever wrote for the Thinker was last spring. It was all about how I so missed baseball. I've been a fan all my life. I was a Braves fan first in Milwaukee and then in Atlanta, where I lived for over forty years. The COVID pandemic had taken away my favorite sport, and I hated this loss of my favorite entertainment. I was thrilled when it returned even in a shortened form and was ecstatic when my Braves came within one game of going to the World Series. This year was destined to be even better,...

Donald Trump Jr. blasted Delta Airlines and “woke corporate culture” after Delta CEO Ed Bastian attacked Georgia’s voter integrity laws. In a video posted Friday, Don Jr. said Delta “is learning the hard way not to bite the hand that feeds it” after Georgia State Republicans voted to cancel a tax break plan for the airline. He added, Bastian’s comments were a stark contrast from Delta’s prior statement on the matter. In its previous statement, Delta admitted the legislation “improved” considerably during the process and was “committed to listening to communities and engaging with leaders from both parties.”

Holy Saturday MARK 16:1–7 Friends, on this Holy Saturday in our Gospel we hear St. Mark’s account of the Resurrection. The Resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the be-all and end-all of the Christian faith. If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, all bishops, priests, and Christian ministers should go home and get honest jobs, and all the Christian faithful should leave their churches immediately. As Paul himself put it: “If Christ has not been raised, then empty is our preaching; empty, too, your faith. . . . If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

At least three people are dead and four are injured following an overnight shooting in Wilmington, North Carolina. Conditions of the injured were not immediately available, Lt. Leslie Irving, a watch commander with the Wilmington Police Department, told ABC. Just after midnight Saturday, officers were dispatched to the 700 block of Kidder St after reports of shots fired. Once they arrived, police said they discovered a gunfight had erupted inside the home during a house party.News.

A Dallas woman was sentenced to five years in prison for causing a nightclub dancer's death by performing an illegal cosmetic butt injection on her in Missouri. Nitica Deonte Lee, 49, was sentenced Thursday for involuntary manslaughter in the 2015 death of Daysha Phillips, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

First column at Revolver. Hugely important. Crucial information about C19 is being systematically censored by bit-tech & the media. You have no idea what you don't know. And, in this case, what you don't know might literally kill you.

In the excerpt, Boehner didn't hold back when assessing his new colleagues, saying that when he tried to offer the freshmen lawmakers guidance about being in Congress, his advice "went straight through the ears of most of them, especially the ones who didn't have brains that got in the way." Boehner also assigned some blame to conservative media outlets, especially Fox News, in incentivizing flashiness and outrage over substance, which he said made it harder for him to govern his caucus effectively. By 2013, Boehner wrote, "the chaos caucus in the House had built up their own power base thanks...

On March 11, the Civics Secures Democracy Act, which supposedly will serve to improve the understanding of civics in elementary, middle, and high schools, was introduced into the present session of Congress, both House and Senate. However, its bloated language, fatuous assumptions, and mind-drugging pomposity alone show that this bill is not only not helpful, but destructive of the republic. Furthermore, this bill will clearly feed the aspirations of the left wing of American politics, which already carries far too much weight in public education. This is not only this writer's viewpoint, but that of Stanley Kurtz in National Review...

Lego larceny may be on the rise. French police have been investigating an international ring of toy thieves with a particular affinity for the colorful, interlocking bricks, according to a recent report from The Guardian. In this case, three suspects were caught taking boxes of Legos from a toy shop near Paris, with the goal of selling them in Poland, according to Le Parisien. And it's not just Europe. Lego robberies have happened in the United States as well. Last month, a man in Oregon was arrested after local police suspected he stole $7,500 worth of Lego toy sets.