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According to a new poll, only 25 percent of Americans said they support President Joe Biden's handling of the situation in Afghanistan, while a vast percent disapproved. Released by NBC News Sunday, the poll was conducted from August 14 to 17, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent. Of the one thousand U.S. adults interviewed for the survey, 60 percent of individuals said they disapproved of the president's actions when it came to withdrawing troops from Afghanistan after two decades of conflict. In addition to Biden's handling of Afghanistan, the poll also highlighted the president's overall...

Explanation: Spectacular explosions keep occurring in the binary star system named RS Ophiuchi. Every 20 years or so, the red giant star dumps enough hydrogen gas onto its companion white dwarf star to set off a brilliant thermonuclear explosion on the white dwarf's surface. At about 5,000 light years distant, the resulting nova explosions cause the RS Oph system to brighten up by a huge factor and become visible to the unaided eye. The red giant star is depicted on the right of the above drawing, while the white dwarf is at the center of the bright accretion disk on...

A team of Special Air Service soldiers who were surrounded by Taliban hordes in Kandahar have been rescued in a dramatic desert operation. Around 20 elite SAS troops were left stranded in the province hundreds of miles from friendly forces when the militants took over. As enemy fighters closed in they sent an SOS request to Special Forces bosses back in Britain calling for immediate extraction. But they could not use Kandahar airfield – once home to 26,000 international troops at the height of the military campaign – because it had already been overrun by Taliban. So the SAS soldiers...

Police are painting rainbows on the side of their squad cars in a bid to beat online hate crimes and 'give confidence' to the LGBT+ community. Critics have said forces should be focusing on 'real' issues such as knife crime and that the colourful cars might seem less intimidating to the public. The cost of painting the cars, described as 'hate crime cars', is 'quite minimal' but are believed to give a 'huge impact' on the community. Deputy chief constable Julie Cooke said: 'Cars are there in the communities on normal policing patrol just to show the community that we...

50 Australian orphans and 3 staff members were shot over COVID restrictions by the order of the Bourke Shire Council. This was later determined to be a tragic error caused by miscommunication. The dogs at the Bourke Shire Dog Rescue Mission were to be shot to prevent the workers from traveling from home to the mission to care for the dogs. Unfortunately, the order received by the local constabulary was to kill all the occupants at the Bourke Shire Rescue Mission which is the local orphanage. Bourke Shire Council members apologized profusely for the misunderstanding and stated that a commission...

There is much agitation in the climatosphere about the amount of “coking coal” used in making steel. A number of allegedly smart folks are working on ways to replace that coal with hydrogen to reduce the amount of eeevil CO2 produced in steelmaking. There’s a very recent post on the subject here on WUWT, describing a “green steel” method developed in Sweden. So I thought I’d take a look at the numbers for steel for the European Union. If you know me, you know I like to run the numbers myself. From “Hydrogen In Steel Production“, I find: The steel...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spent his second-to-last day in office projecting an image that he is still in control, and still fully engaged as the state dealt with heavy rain from Tropical Storm Henri. The Democrat, who is set to resign at the end of the day Monday, appeared at a televised briefing Sunday surrounded by top state officials involved in the state’s storm response. Absent from the briefing was Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is set to become governor in the first seconds of Tuesday morning. “The lieutenant governor has been briefed on all...

Former NBA all star Andrew Bogut is speaking out about how popular influencers on social media are being paid off to shill COVID-19 submission propaganda. Bogut, who is a native of Australia where COVID-19 lockdown policies are the most Draconian, explained how he was approached with an offer to take money to encourage his followers to submit to mandates. “Whoever you are, why don’t we hear you speaking up? The silence is deafening,” Bogut asked other influencers with large social media followings. “Let me give you the reason why: Last year, about three or four months into this pandemic, I...

Two young boys steered a car into safety in Houston on Friday night after their father was shot and killed while driving. The two brothers, eight years-old and six, told Houston police that their father was driving when they heard a loud noise and thought a rock hit the car at around 11 p.m., according to NBC Houston affiliate KPRC. Upon seeing their father slump in the seat, the boys steered the SUV off the freeway and onto a service road, where they ran outside to seek help. Police said they found a woman exiting a Chili’s restaurant nearby the...

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Francis' 100 Points Question: “What Sense Can There Be In Kneeling Before A Piece of Bread?”The revelation of God in Christ's humanity can cause scandal and is not easy to accept, Francis said at the August 22 Angelus.This scandal is well represented by the sacrament of the altar, Francis added and asked the question: "What sense can there be, in the eyes of the world, in kneeling before a piece of bread?”Francis is answering this questions as he himself NEVER kneels in front of the consecrated host while he has been falling on his knees in front of politicians, homosexuals,...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has caused almost 4.5 million deaths worldwide and infected almost 211 million as of August 19, 2021. To date, millions of doses of the COVID-19 vaccines have been deployed globally, which has significantly reduced the rate of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths from COVID-19. Despite these efforts, emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants that evade neutralization by antibodies to earlier lineages have threatened the efficacy of current vaccines. A new study published on the preprint server bioRxiv* explores the mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 lambda variant has...

Secretary of State Blinken joined Face the Nation this morning to discuss the ongoing catastrophe in Afghanistan. During questioning Blinken admitted the United States must ask the Taliban for permission to evacuate Americans from Kabul, Afghanistan. What a total disgrace. These losers have NO IDEA what they are doing or who they are dealing with. This is shaping up to be the greatest disgrace in America’s history.

We shall go into the house of the Lord (Psalm 121)As a priest of the Archdiocese of Oviedo in Asturias, Spain, I have been very blessed to have been offering the Traditional Roman Mass in my home diocese since 2008. When ordained on Pentecost 1996, my hope of being able to celebrate the Vetus Ordo, even once before taking leave of this vale of tears, was rather more wishful thinking at the time.But here I am, celebrating every Sunday and preceptive Holy-day for nearly thirteen years now. And will continue to do so, though having had to switch over from...

An initial autopsy has revealed few clues in the mystery of what happened to a California family found dead on a hiking trail in the Sierra National Forest south of Yosemite. John Gerrish, Ellen Chung and their 1-year-old daughter Miju — as well as their family dog — were found dead at the Devil's Gulch Investigators said the deaths do not appear intentional, and they did not find a suicide note or any signs indicating premeditation. Last month, the Forest Service cautioned on Facebook that people should avoid drinking or swimming in the Merced River due to the presence of...

Washington — States blocking schools from imposing mask mandates on teachers and students could face federal civil rights investigations, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Sunday. He cast mask wearing as part of students’ rights, though he voiced reluctance to withhold federal funds from states that block them. “We are prepared to launch investigations with our Office for Civil Rights to ensure that all students have access to this fundamental right of education. And it’s sad that we’re talking about this now,” Cardona told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We’re going to use our Office for Civil Rights to investigate any claims...

China will now allow married couples to legally have a third kid amid concerns that its shrinking number of working-age people will threaten the country’s future prosperity and global influence. The ceremonial legislature updated the Population and Family Planning Law on Friday to address the consequences of the plummeting birthrate. China has tried for decades to control the population, beginning with a policy imposed in 1979 that strictly limited couples to one child. Couples who didn’t follow the rule faced fines or loss of jobs — and in some cases, mothers were forced to undergo abortions. A preference for sons...

Eleven people — including two teenagers — were shot in two mass shootings overnight, each including one fatality, according to Chicago police. The first mass shooting took place shortly before 9:10 p.m. Saturday in a parking lot in the Calumet Heights neighborhood. Six people were shot — one of whom died — when two men shot at them from a nearby alley, Chicago police said in a media notification. The shooting took place in the 1600 block of East 87th Place. A man, 39, suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen and was pronounced dead at Jackson Park Hospital &...

Intelli Times (@IntelliTimes) Tweeted: https://t.co/ZfDpfzZtay The childish encounter between the Taliban fighters and the gym left by the U.S. military demonstrates exactly the naïveness of the Afghans in a way they sought to capture a "ride" between parts of the U.S. military's giant aircraft...

At the center of the scramble to airlift American citizens out of Afghanistan after its fall to the Taliban is a simple question: How many Americans are waiting to be evacuated? It is a question the Biden administration has been unable to answer. “We cannot give you a precise number,” Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from The New York Times Mr. Sullivan said the United States had been in touch with a “few thousand Americans” and was working on making arrangements to get...