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Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are trying to clarify their position and deal with the confusion caused by their announcement last week that they would create a teaching document on the Holy Eucharist or the meaning of Communion. The statement caused many to speculate that the church was looking to deny President Joe Biden and other pro-abortion Catholic politicians from receiving Communion.The speculation was misplaced, said the bishops.“There will be no national policy on withholding Communion from politicians,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a Q&A document dated June 21.“The intent is to present a...

A human rights group focused on exposing China’s slow-motion genocide of the Uyghur people and others in Xinjiang is moving videos from YouTube to another platform after YouTube repeatedly blocked some of its videos for ostensibly violating the company’s terms of service. In one case, YouTube claimed the videos promoted violent criminal organizations, echoing the Chinese Communist Party’s attacks on dissenters. “There is another excuse every day. I never trusted YouTube,” Serikzhan Bilash, one of the founders of the human rights group Atajurt, told Reuters. “But we’re not afraid anymore, because we are backing ourselves up with LBRY. The most...

US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Department of Justice will be suing the State of Georgia to block the implementation of voting reforms passed by the legislature because "it was enacted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of Black Georgians to vote on account of their race or color." While the legislation itself does not mention any racial tests or restrictions, Garland insisted that "the seemingly unbiased requirement that voters must present an ID of some form to be allowed to vote is racist. Everyone knows how hard it is for minorities to obtain an...

(President Trump's Operation Warp Speed Update) (66% of Adults have at least a first shot - Vaccination slow but steady - Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths very low with flat trends) Total Vaccine Doses Delivered: 381,282,720 (21,434,300 J&J) Administered: 323,327,328 (12,256,008 J&J) People Vaccinated, At Least One Dose: 179,261,269 Fully Vaccinated: 153,028,665

Many, if not most, colleges and universities are requiring students to be vaccinated before resuming classes in the fall. The two largest university systems in the country, California State University and the University of California, both have mandatory vaccination policies.But we have data that show this policy inflicts more harm than good on the young age cohort that attends college. Sundance at The Last Refuge explains:According to the CDC data for every 100,000 young people vaccinated 700 will require medical care and 200 will be hospitalized. Put another way, 200 young people will suffer side-effects that require hospitalization for every...

The European Parliament has formally set a goal to make the entire European Union carbon neutral by 2050. Members of the European Parliament passed the Climate Act on Thursday in a vote of 442 for, 203 against, and 51 abstentions. The Act also increased the EU’s goal to reduce carbon emissions from 44 per cent of 1990 levels to 55 per cent by 2030. Swedish Social Democrat MEP Jytte Guteland said, according to SVT: “It’s a real boost compared to today’s level. I see that it will only play a bigger and bigger role for Europe and the world.” Swedish...

Obama, Biden Get Back Together For Healthcare Push. On Saturday, June 5, President Joe Biden teamed up with his old boss, former president Barack Obama, for a joint video montage on healthcare as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a record number of participants in health coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Despite the statements from Olympics officials in Japan, that political demonstrators will be punished, the Colin Kaepernick crowd among the Olympic contenders here have gotten busy:According to the Washington Post:Gwen Berry turned away from the American flag and raised a T-shirt over her face as the national anthem played Saturday, minutes after she qualified for the Olympic team at the U.S. track and field trials in Eugene, Ore. Berry has demonstrated on the podium before, but her impromptu protest Saturday came only after what she called a “setup” by meet officials.Berry said she had no expectation to protest after she...

The move is part of the borrower defense program, which offers loan repayment forgiveness for students who feel they were misled by an institution of higher education.

Despite the lack of good evidence so far, Ivermectin has been taken up by doctors or by individuals self-medicating in countries including Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, South Africa and the US. In the US, provider SingleCare said 817 prescriptions had been filled for Ivermectin (which can also be used to treat skin conditions such as rosacea) in January and February 2021, compared with 92 in the same period last year. Dr Stephen Griffin at the University of Leeds said, "much like hydroxychloroquine before, there has been a considerable amount of off-label use of this drug," based mainly on studies of the...

Technically speaking, Donald Trump is a loser. After all, it’s Biden who’s occupying the Oval Office. But let’s not get entangled in technicalities. Forty-one percent of Americans believe that Trump actually won the election and that Biden’s ascension was result of fraud, with over half of Republicans holding that belief. And as Biden has managed, remarkably swiftly, to destroy the border, the economy, the military, education, and more, worried patriots are redoubling their support for Trump. So, when Trump, the man who didn’t win, calls a rally, thousands upon thousands of people show up. And the people who attended the...

The influx of unvetted immigrants pouring across our open southern border has become a serious crisis. Trump had the problem almost fixed, and then Biden arrived on the scene. Biden was envious of Trump’s successes and resented his unbridled popularity both of which have always eluded Joe. Biden, with a stroke of his pen, magically snatched failure from the jaws of success and offered the entire world a GET INTO AMERICA FREE card. The trickle of immigrants turned into a stream and the stream turned into a river, and then the river turned into a tsunami. Biden’s solution was simple-ignore...

The Pope Prefers Eurabia to Christian EuropeHe doesn’t like to hear talk of the continent’s “roots.”One of the loudest cheerleaders for Islamic migration to Europe is Pope Francis. His predecessors called for the revival of a historically Christian Europe, but he makes no such call. Future historians will no doubt find it perplexing that the emergence of “Eurabia” happened not in spite of the Roman pontiff but in part because of him. “Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century,” predicted the historian Bernard Lewis.Those who fear that prospect and push the project of a revived Christian Europe...

Hyser is one of the first Americans to participate in a groundbreaking COVID-19 mix-and-match study, aimed at assessing whether boosters work, and whether different COVID-19 shots are safe — and possibly more effective — when they're mixed together. For now, the study is boosting only with a single dose of Moderna's vaccine, whether participants' first shots were from Moderna, or from Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson — the other two US-authorized vaccines. Other combinations of the vaccines, and which order they're taken in, will be added in to the study later on. Study participants will get routine blood draws (Hyser...

Southeast Gassers AssociationWelcome back to the SEGA 2021 tour. Shadyside [Dragway] never fails to produce the best racing the SEGA has to offer. With New cameras and their ability to zoom in on the action with extreme clarity the 2021 season certainly continues this tradition, with all 4 classes requiring 5 rounds of eliminations due to the enormous car count. Join in for round 1 of eliminations and be sure to check out the next video showcasing 2nd round thru the finals.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIOJLHw87mc

VIDEOJoe Biden blurted out an embarrassing truth on Thursday right after he got some bipartisan support for an infrastructure bill. However, he upended that deal right after that by clearly stating that the proposed massive reconciliation pork package must also pass for him to sign the infrastructure bill or he would veto it. After that truth which was not supposed to be said out loud appeared to sink the infrastructure deal, he sent out a "clarification" on Saturday saying he didn't mean what he clearly said on Thursday.So which is correct? That he meant what he said or he didn't?...

You can’t say it’s gross if you’ve never tried it! Cats vs. dogs. Hots dogs vs. hamburgers. Love dolls vs. drowned corpses. The list of opinion-battles that humans have pitted against one another for centuries goes on and on. But none is more hotly contested than one debate: pineapple on pizza vs. oh hell no. One of our Japanese reporters, Saya Togashi, didn’t know where she stood on the issue, having never tried it before. Thankfully, Pizza Hut Japan decided to put an end to that era of her life with their new release: the Bulgogi Festa, a pizza divided...

Color is to the eye what birdsong is to the ear: a primal communion between ourselves and nature. The Middle Ages saw further expansion of available colors for artistic and decorative works. A handbook from the 1390s contained recipes for five different pigments of red, six of yellow, seven of green and a variety of blacks and whites. Another medieval writer described pigments with which to dye horses to increase their value. During the 15th century, painters began blending pigments with linseed or other oils, yielding glossier, more multitextured surfaces than their predecessors’ egg-tempera works. European easel painting into the...

Possible Relocation to Ashville, NC. for 30 yo daughter Any thoughts appreciated.

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