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Replacing babies with pets stifles a person’s capacity to give and receive love, as it wrongly directs our greatest earthly affections toward ourselves.In a recent Fox News piece, sociologist Andrea Laurent-Simpson writes of the emergence of “multispecies families,” explaining that in “child-free families…dogs and cats paw in to fill a longing to nurture” and would-be grandparents “readily shift over to spoiling the granddog as their daughters and sons choose instead to pursue lucrative careers.” But this is neither good nor new.The ancient historian Plutarch began his life of Pericles with an anecdote about Caesar, who, upon seeing “wealthy foreigners in...

Purified tin selenide has extraordinarily high thermoelectric performance. Perseverance, NASA’s 2020 Mars rover, is powered by something very desirable here on Earth: a thermoelectric device, which converts heat to useful electricity. On Mars, the heat source is the radioactive decay of plutonium, and the device’s conversion efficiency is 4-5%. That’s good enough to power Perseverance and its operations but not quite good enough for applications on Earth. A team of scientists from Northwestern University and Seoul National University in Korea now has demonstrated a high-performing thermoelectric material in a practical form that can be used in device development. The material...

In what is sure to be a crippling blow to Critical Race Theory advocates, a recent decision in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals tested CRT and found it unconstitutional. ...

It was Ronald Reagan who once said, the "nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" These days that might be reworded – "I'm from the government. I'm here with your vaccination." Vaccines never are guaranteed – that's why the U.S. government makes their manufacturers immune to lawsuits over the damages and death they can deliver – and they especially are suspect when they are developed and delivered while the pandemic they confront actually is continuing. The COVID vaccines now available in the United States also still are all considered...

The U.S. added 943,000 jobs in July as a summer rush of travel and recreation spending powered the economy through surging coronavirus cases, the Labor Department reported Friday. The unemployment rate fell to 5.4 percent in July from 5.9 percent last month, according to the monthly jobs report, as employment growth exceeded the 850,000 consensus job gain projected by economists. The U.S. was expected to see another strong month of job growth as consumers spent the summer enjoying activities restricted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Denver police union says cops will notabide by the mayor's order directing all cityworkers to get the Covid vaccine. Union reports 57% of officers are unvaccinatedand says, "Officers should be trusted to maketheir own [health] choices.” — CBS Denver https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1423610338881196034

When you're swimming in a large body of water, calculating its volume or discerning the locations of distant floating objects isn't easy. The same is true for our galaxy. From our position inside the Milky Way, much of its size, contents, and three-dimensional structure is really tricky to figure out. There's a lot that eludes us, or is impossible to calculate; even so, every now and again, a discovery comes along that makes you wonder, how in the heck did we miss that?! A newly discovered structure named the Cattail is just such a wonder. It's a long curl of...

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A week ago, the MT Mercer Street, a Japanese-owned tanker managed by a U.K.-based company owned by Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer, sailing in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Oman, was struck by drones. A British security guard and Romanian crew member were killed. Britain and the U.S. immediately blamed Iran, and the Israelis began to beat the war drums. Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said action against Iran should be taken "right now." Tuesday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned Israel could "act alone." "They can't sit calmly in Tehran while igniting the entire Middle East -- that's...

VIDEOWatch as Alexia Ocasio-Cortez makes sure to mask up for a group photo-op. Soon after the photo-op is over she goes maskless again.

An unvaccinated Virginia man who thought he was “invincible” to COVID-19 is rallying anti-vaxxers to get their shots from his hospital bed, where he is laid up with a dire case of the virus. Travis Campbell, 43, has been in the hospital for more than a week with COVID-19 complications, and his wife and two of their children have also fallen ill, according to NBC News. Campbell is now hooked up to multiple breathing apparatuses and fighting through his grim condition to post videos to Facebook urging people to get inoculated. “I made it through another whole night, and I’m...

MARY ANOINTS JESUS FOR BURIAL. 30 A.D. Bible Timeline Resources to CLICK: To read MARK 14 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or JohnHarmony of the Gospels Mt26 + Mk14 + Jn12 New International Version ©1984, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible .MATTHEW 26:6-13 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head...

Let me see if I’ve got this right: If you don’t take the vax against the virus, eventually it won’t work anymore:Fauci: If you don't get your shots, eventually the shots might not workBut if you do use antibiotics against bacteria, eventually antibiotics won’t work either. Sounds like we’re all going to die.And as always, don’t forget to wash your hands!This medicine stuff is far too complicated for a layman to understand. What I do understand is that viruses (and bacteria) mutate. That’s what they do, what they’ve always done, to survive. And they’re not going to stop doing that...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” host Joy Reid stated that while New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) should resign, he “did a much better job on the pandemic than Trump, even with all of the issues.” And “was a good crisis manager for what it was worth,” despite his many “issues, including nursing homes.” Reid began by stating that Cuomo should resign and would do so if he had a conscience.

After first speaking the truth, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was quick to correct his temporary lapse two days later to tow the national Democrat Party line by backing the impeachment of President Donald Trump in 2019. A couple of years later, it’s Cuomo facing impeachment by the New York Assembly. Cuomo had been used to dictating the state party line, often bullying fellow Democrat legislators while ignoring Republicans, and now finds himself far less likely to survive an impeachment than Trump. As noted in “Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump,” the ultimate political outsider...

Earlier this week, New York State Attorney General Letitia James, a partisan Democrat, released a bombshell 165-page report that another partisan Democrat, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, previously sexually harassed at least 11 women in the workplace. According to the report, Cuomo engaged in nonconsensual touching, groping and kissing, in addition to making generally inappropriate comments toward numerous women. What's more, in James' words from a press conference earlier this week, "in doing so," Cuomo "violated federal and state law" and created a "toxic workplace environment." Cuomo has nonetheless denied the allegations and thus far refused to resign. He has...

For town officials, though, Harwood’s extensive alterations to the landscape behind his Pondview Drive home, including hardening stream banks with stones, removing vegetation along the riverfront and filling in wetlands, is a violation of both the Massachusetts Wetlands Act and the town’s wetlands bylaw. Harwood has been warned that, without bringing his property into compliance, he could be subject, under state law, to a fine of $25,000 and a prison sentence of up to two years, a potential infraction that has prompted him to create a change.org petition calling for residents to rally on his behalf.

source JANIFESTThe "mainstream media" love to pretend that they represent the sensible middle ground of the ideological spectrum, but any extended look at their coverage reveals that they are incapable of finding an unsuitable extreme on the left. For example, some leftists openly advocate for the end of prisons. Are they questioned for their sanity? No. They're given platforms for their "poetry." On the Aug. 4 episode of "PBS NewsHour," they celebrated a man named Jorge Antonio Renaud. On the "Latino Rebels" website last year, Renaud explicitly declared, "I'm going to speak about prison abolition, which is the idea that...

oe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bill to award four Congressional Gold Medals — the highest civilian honor given by Congress — to United States Capitol Police and other law enforcement personnel who were working during the January 6th. Biden was briefly upstaged Thursday by the 7-year-old daughter of a US Capitol Police officer who died in April after he was struck by a car at a barricade. Shortly before Biden signed a bill awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to all law enforcement officers who responded to the Jan. 6 protest at the US Capitol, he pointed to...

I’m on vacation with family and a heated discussion ensued about North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba etc. Of course it was about the wonders of their healthcare and general lifestyle. Can anyone please either point me in the right direction to a web site or ping me with a synopsis of North Koreas history? I’d greatly appreciate it.