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Bishops’ differing approaches to Traditionis custodesThe heat and fallout from the nuke that fell on the anniversary of the detonation of the first atomic bomb, a date chosen perhaps to add insult to injury by the fact that it was the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, are beginning to clear.A few tradition despising (can one conclude otherwise?) bishops rushed immediately to issue harsh edicts in the wake of the confused and confusing Motu Proprio Traditionis custodes (the Church’s Plessy v. Ferguson following Benedict XVI’s Emancipation Proclamation), generally viewed by good canonists to be, at best, a mess. Most...

Last Friday, the Department of Education announced another extension of COVID-19 emergency student loan forbearance, which allows the 92 percent of student debtors whose loans are backed by the federal government an additional six months without making any payments. Loan forgiveness is often packaged as a benefit for those on the lower half of the income spectrum. Senator Elizabeth Warren, for example, tweeted her two cents on Monday, calling for “#CancelStudentDebt.” During her failed run for the presidency, her campaign website justified total cancellation as a benefit to the working and middle classes. Avowed class warrior Bernie Sanders has also...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Wednesday that local authorities who attempt to undermine his executive order prohibiting government entities from mandating face coverings “will be taken to court.”“Any school district, public university, or local government official that decides to defy GA-38 — which prohibits gov’t entities from mandating masks — will be taken to court,” Abbott wrote in a tweet:https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1425590094786965505“The path forward relies on personal responsibility—not government mandates,” he added.Abbott’s tweet, which included statements from him and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, came in response to an executive order Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins signed, which mandates face masks...

It’s not only getting more expensive to buy a home. It’s also getting much costlier to furnish a home. The price of household furniture jumped 1.2 percent in July, according to Producer Price Index data released Thursday. Compared with a year ago, the index for home furniture is up nine percent. A broader category that includes furniture and other household durable goods is up 7.2 percent, the largest gain since 1980. This is not a category showing big annual gains due to a dip in prices last year. Prices for household durables actually rose last summer. But over the last...

China coronavirus infection closes shipping terminal at massive Ningbo-Zhoushan Port as container rates soarOperations suspended indefinitely at critical terminal servicing North America and Europe, but rest of Ningbo shipping port remains operational ‘Significant problems’ for container movement in critical shipping region may be seen ahead of peak holiday season, analyst warnsThe world’s largest shipping port by cargo tonnage has shut down one of its key terminals following a confirmed case of Covid-19, putting further strain on the global shipping industry and disrupting supply chains. The news came as container shipping rates from China and Southeast Asia to the east coast...

In a leaked report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a surprising claim about the delta variant of the coronavirus: It "is as transmissible as: - Chicken Pox," the agency wrote in a slideshow presentation leaked to The Washington Post on July 26. Chickenpox is one of the most contagious viruses known. Each individual can spread the virus to as many as "90% of the people close to that person," the CDC reports. Is the delta variant that contagious as well? The short answer is no, says evolutionary biologist and biostatistician Tom Wenseleers at the University of Leuven...

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A New Jersey inmate who was freed early because of the COVID-19 pandemic has been charged with murdering a teenager just two days after his release. Jerry Crawford, 25, was serving time for burglary when he was let out on “public health emergency credits” to parole supervision on Nov. 4, prison officials confirmed to NJ.com Wednesday. He has since been charged with the murder of Davion Scarbrough, 18, who was gunned down in Bridgeton on Nov. 6 — just two days after Crawford got out of South Woods State Prison, the outlet said. He was charged alongside Yusuf Waites —...

The Delta variant has changed the equation for achieving herd immunity, the developer of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has said. Speaking at a UK parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, Sir Andrew Pollard, a professor of pediatric infection and immunity at the University of Oxford, said that achieving herd immunity is "not a possibility" now that the Delta variant is circulating. "We know very clearly with coronavirus that this current variant, the Delta variant, will still infect people who have been vaccinated, and that does mean that anyone who's still unvaccinated, at some point, will meet the virus," Pollard said. He said it...

Anyone caught with a fake COVID vaccine card should be prosecuted for attempted homicide.We need to quickly move to non-removable tattoos of QR codes on wrists. Very small and not noticeable.I am not going to continue to watch my nation die because of misinformation.— Billie Veline, RN (@NursePrada2) August 10, 2021

Last night Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) spoke at an event in Chicago. During questions and answers Crenshaw told supporters there was no voter fraud in the 2020 election adding, “Don’t kid yourself into believing that’s why we lost. It’s not. I’ll tell you openly.” At that point conservative activist Bobby Piton jumped in to challenge Crenshaw. “You’re wrong. Dan Crenshaw: “I’m not wrong.” Bobby Piton: “There is plenty of proof. I have proof in Arizona…” Dan Crenshaw: Yeah, yeah. You told me you did the Maricopa. How did that turn out?” Crenshaw obviously does not know or care that the...

The growth in the American population over the last decade was driven entirely by minority communities, according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, as the number of white Americans declined for the first time since the nation's founding. Non-Hispanic whites make up just under 58 percent of the American population, the first time since the Census was first conducted that they have fallen under the 60 percent mark. By contrast, the 2000 Census showed non-Hispanic whites made up just over 69 percent of the population, and 63.7 percent in 2010. Hispanic or Latino Americans have grown...

Scriptural law teaches that a thing shall be established by two or more witnesses; thus, often we find many things reoccurring throughout the Bible to establish the truth, though often in different ways. Pharaoh was given two different dreams foretelling of one event as a conformation that the thing was certain and surely going to come to pass. Wherefore, we also are given a cloud many of witnesses whereby we can be sure and have confidence in our faith of those things which are to be believed. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of...

Disturbing new video shows a gunman open fire in broad daylight while running in the middle of a Harlem street. The video, released by the NYPD Thursday, shows the triggerman blasting off multiple rounds at an unknown target just before 1:45 p.m. Aug. 1 on 7th Avenue near West 148th Street, according to police. No one was injured, police said. The shooter took off on a scooter heading south on the avenue, cops said.

Abrien Aguirre worked in Oahu's biggest Rehab and Skilled Nursing Facilities in three separate covid units and he shares what he witnessed which is shocking to say the least.Occupational therapists are health care professionals who work with people of all ages with various health issues. They work to adapt surroundings and tasks to help people live better with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses. They work in many different settings such as clinics, hospitals, and nursing facilities.Puppet Governor Ige’s dictatorial vaccine mandates have backfired on the covid narrative as state and federal employees, healthcare workers, hotel industry workers, and other folks risk...

I ask this question "Who owns the source code?" Typically a state government agency contracts non-governmental companies to write specific software based on need. For instance, Dominion. From my experience, that state would own the source code since the state is paying for it, and can with their technical staff modify if needed. Why don't any states own the Dominion software?

Well, it appears that those who promoted lockdowns rather than early outpatient treatment as the solution for COVID are once against benefiting from a phenomenon that they likely caused, now using it to falsely instill more panic about children being in danger from COVID. Isn't it too convenient? Right when schools are slated to start again, the proponents of lockdowns and masks seem to have finally gotten traction on a narrative of children filling up the hospitals with COVID — a phenomenon not seen in any other country. As Alasdair Munro, a pediatric infectious disease doctor in the U.K. observed...

Rumble — From Mike Lindell's Symposium, Dr. Shiva gives shocking testimony about how big tech and big Government censored him while running for U.S. Senate. MUST WATCH!

Earlier this year, MSNBC host Joy Reid connected — without any evidence — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to (Joy Reid Accuses Ron DeSantis of ‘Killing Children’)

Anthony Fauci the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said on Thursday that “inevitably” everyone will need booster shots for the COVID-19 vaccine eventually because like any vaccine, its protection won’t be “indefinite.” NBC News’ Craig Melvin asked Fauci on “Today” whether it’s “inevitable” that “in the not too distant future everyone is going to need a booster shot,” as the debate over the necessity of third shots has ramped up. President Biden’s chief medical adviser at first emphasized that immunocompromised people “never really got a good response” from the vaccine to more robustly protect them from COVID-19.