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August 5, 2021 Thursday of week 18 in Ordinary Time St. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Abbey, Augsburg, Germany Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green.First readingNumbers 20:1-13 ©Moses makes water flow from the rock at MeribahThe sons of Israel, the whole community, arrived in the first month at the desert of Zin. The people settled at Kadesh. It was there that Miriam died and was buried. There was no water for the community, and they were all united against Moses and Aaron. The people challenged Moses: ‘We would rather have died,’ they said ‘as our brothers died before the Lord! Why did...

Source: Townhall Media/Julio RosasDo you know how many people have come across the border illegally so far this year? According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP), it’s 1.1 million people, and the numbers are rising every month. According to the USCBP’s website, more than 75,000 people crossed the border illegally in January of this year. In February, that number climbed to more than 97,000. In March, it was more than 169,000. In April, 173,000. More than 180,000 people crossed the southern border in May. In June, it was almost 189,000. The June number was a 450% increase over...

A failure of the Republican caucus in the US House to offer up such articles would signal acquiescence to what can only be termed a post-Constitutional political order. The outrageous and facially unconstitutional imposition of an extension of the ban on eviction for non-payment of rent merits impeachment. In fact, a failure of the Republican caucus in the US House to offer up such articles against President Joseph Biden, who admitted that the action was unconstitutional according to most scholars, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky of the CDC, who signed the order, would signal acquiescence to what can only be termed...

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPsalm 125 A song of ascents. 1 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forevermore. 3 The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might use their hands to do evil. 4 Lord, do good to those who are good, to those who are upright in heart. 5 But those who turn to crooked ways the Lord will banish...

The man who shot and killed Zachary Brian Arnold on 15 May of 2021, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Wallace A. West, was justified in the shooting, according to Sebastian County Prosecutor Dan Shue. The incident was covered by AmmoLand previously. More facts about the incident have been revealed. Wallace fired two shots, not one, as previously assumed. He missed the first shot. It was revealed Arnold had fired 93 shots when he was shot and killed by West. From nwaonline.com:West, identified in the Police Department news release Wednesday as an off-duty employee of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, woke...

Espionage has been called the world's second oldest profession. Its practitioners are familiar in the book of Joshua, Sun Tzu's Art of War, the Roman spies who used carrier pigeons, and notorious figures throughout history — Casanova, the great lover but Venetian spy; Francis Walsingham, spy master to Queen Elizabeth I; Mata Hari, exotic Dutch dancer. Then there are those of the World War II and Cold War periods: Alger Hiss, Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby, and George Blake. During World War II, an unexpected array of diverse individuals of different talents and backgrounds engaged in some form of espionage for...

My first experience with a handgun was firing my dad’s Smith & Wesson 45 ACP M1917 U.S. Army service revolver. I was a young girl in a sporting family growing up on a hobby farm in central Minnesota. Even so, when I decided to purchase my first handgun I was intimidated. Not only can the perceived legal process be daunting, so can winnowing through the colossal assortment of styles and calibers to find the perfect fit. As a child of the 1960s and 1970s, I grew up watching shows like “Bonanza,” “Gunsmoke,” and “The Wild, Wild, West,” perched on...

Reuters reported on Monday that Anthony Fauci has made a declaration: Enough Americans have now been vaccinated to avoid lockdowns. Fauci made his pronouncement on ABC’s “This Week.” But who with even a modest faculty for critical thinking believes Anthony Fauci? That’s Anthony Fauci, MD, who famously told us that masks don’t work, and then told us, by God, wearing them is imperative. Fauci, a flip-flopper? Perish the thought. So, make no mistake, if Fauci, a decades-long D.C. player, says that lockdowns are off the table, they’re on the table -- at the White House and among congressional Democrats. Lockdowns...

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped President Biden Wednesday, accusing the White House of trying to implement a “biomedical security state” and warning that “I don’t want to hear a blip about COVID” until the administration’s border policy changes. DeSantis was scheduled to deliver remarks on Florida’s economy at an event in Panama City, but instead unleashed a four-and-a-half-minute diatribe against the president, accusing him of trying to “single out” Florida over its rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. “This is a guy who ran for president saying he was gonna ‘shut down the virus’. And what has he done?”...

VIDEOWell-known writer Anne Applebaum wrote a hit piece on Mike Lindell in a recent Atlantic Magazine article. In this video I show just what a smear job it was because she also lied about MyPillow due to her extreme animosity towards Lindell and his upcoming Cyber Symposium at FrankSpeech.Com that liberals fear so much that they are laughably pretending that it "could destroy democracy."

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Given Santayana's warning to those who forget the past, there yet remains the problem of what to remember. Events during the summer of 1932 have frequently been remembered to promote some political cause. What follows is an outline of the incontrovertible facts that create their own perspective. The context for these events begins with the demobilization of the WWI veterans and the problems of their re-integration into civilian society. In 1924, Congress overrode the veto of President Coolidge to enact the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, which included an insurance policy that could be redeemed for cash in 1945. President...

It appears that the Chinese vaccine was made months before the virus was set loose on the world. Recently, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aggressively rejected the call of the World Health Organization (WHO) for a fresh investigation into the deadly global virus. But a closer look raises more questions and serious problems for the CCP. Anyone who watches the television series Forensic Files knows that the criminal hides his crimes in order to escape punishment. Such actions as hammering of phones, destroying emails, scrubbing the online archives, forcing medical experts to change or delete publications all make coverups possible....

A man seemingly identified as LGBT activist Clint Alan Goss was captured on video during a child predator sting operation by a YouTuber named Ghost Change who streamed the interaction. Goss claimed in the video and allegedly in explicit text messages to work for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other high profile Democrats, and appears to have been photographed alongside prominent Democrats including Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee and Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Biden administration Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. In the video, it is revealed that Goss allegedly solicited sexual favors from an individual he believed to be a 14-year-old boy...

Washington -- "The Woke Folk" are not finished. As I said last week, they are tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Frederick Douglass. It is only a matter of time before they expand their attacks on other historic irritants that have gotten under their skin, say, Santa Claus or perhaps Uncle Sam -- he should have been gone long ago. But now according to "The Good Times" -- also known as The Washington Times -- the Woke Folk want to change the names of "1,000 rivers, mountains and other places because they consider the names to be...

Retired Marine Col. Jeffrey A. Powers letter to the NFL Commissioner. I had never seen this before, but even if it has been posted on here before, it deserves a replay for sure.

Recalling his experience as an attorney in St. Louis, Mark McCloskey said he hopes to represent all Missourians if he wins his U.S. Senate bid. “As a United States Senator, I’ll represent the people of this state,” McCloskey said. “I’ll represent their opportunity through self-reliance and hard work to make something of themselves and to not ask for favors but to ask for an opportunity to succeed regardless of their background.” McCloskey is one of several hopefuls vying for U.S. Senator Roy Blunt’s seat. Thus far, he is up against former Gov. Eric Greitens, Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler, and Attorney General...

A tiny bit of searching can lead you to the numbers these scary charts are based upon. It's clear that the Propaganda Media and the Big Tech giants are working with the current administration to generate as much panic as possible. But Americans with simple common sense realize that a vaccine that is worse than the disease it's supposed to cure are not rolling over and rolling up their sleeves. So it's all panic all the time, most of it fueled by out-and-out lies. "Ninety-nine point five percent of the people dying from the delta variant are unvaccinated." Not true....

With both Houses full of former lawyers, prosecutors, LEO's, D.A.'s and the like,Why has there never been guilty democrats brought up on legitimate, provable charges ?A simple, brand new on the job, rookie cop can file charges against me for J walking .. (I know, a little extreme), but no one ever brings charges against a criminal politician.According to Cornell Law Institute:article 1 section 7 clause 1 of The Constitution translates as'Privilege From Arrest This clause is practically obsolete. It applies only to arrests in civil suits, which were still common in this country at the time the Constitution was...

Hey ladies, Governor Cuomo is single and ready to mingle… It was big news on Tuesday, but it’s not Tuesday anymore. It’s Thursday, and by the weekend, any push to remove grabby, groping Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York will be completely memory-holed by the left. So if you were thinking that grabbing subordinates' butts or boobs was a surefire way to exile in the Democrat Party…you haven’t been paying attention. There really isn’t anything for which they’ll hold their own accountable, unless it ultimately benefits them in the immediate, and holding Cuomo answerable for his actions does not. Former...