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On Thursday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal announcing that he won’t be voting for the Democrats’ 3.5 trillion-dollar spending plan. With the Senate being split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, Manchin’s announcement effectively ends the possibility of the bill being passed. “The nation faces an unprecedented array of challenges and will inevitably encounter additional crises in the future. Yet some in Congress have a strange belief there is an infinite supply of money to deal with any current or future crisis, and that spending trillions upon trillions will have no negative consequence for...

Has anyone gotten Covid twice with the symptoms and you tested positive each time? How soon after did you get it the second time? 6 months, 12 months? I read where they say your built up immunity should keep you from getting it again for 6-8 months but I wanted to hear about your specific situation. Thanks.

[H/T Cathi]The UK Government have released their thirty-first report highlighting adverse reactions to the Covid-19 injections that have occurred since the roll-out began on the 8th December 2020, and it proves younger adults and children are suffering severe adverse reactions to the Covid-19 injections.The U.K. Governments report (which you can find here) has collated data inputted up to the 25th August via the MHRA Yellow Card Scheme. Our earliest analysis of the data which we brought you back at the beginning of February showed that there had been 49,472 adverse reactions to the Pfizer vaccine, and 21,032 adverse reactions to...

China and the US have failed to reach a climate agreement after Biden's climate envoy John Kerry pushed Beijing to make more public pledges before a UN climate summit in November. "China already has its own plans and road map for achieving its climate goals," an official on the Chinese side was cited in South China Morning Post as saying. The source said further that Beijing wouldn't tolerate Washington telling it what it should do or not do. SCMP summarized of Kerry's proposals: During talks with Chinese leaders in Tianjin, US climate envoy John Kerry presented a list of proposals...

Poison control centers are seeing a dramatic surge in calls from people who are self-medicating with ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug for animals that some falsely claim treats COVID-19.According to the National Poison Data System (NPDS), which collects information from the nation's 55 poison control centers, there was a 245% jump in reported exposure cases from July to August — from 133 to 459.Meanwhile, emergency rooms across the country are treating more patients who have taken the drug, after being persuaded by false and misleading information spread on the internet, by talk show hosts and by political leaders. Most patients are...

Source: Regnery PublishingWhen it comes to popular culture, a lot of us ask, “Where have all the heroes gone?” It wasn’t that long ago that you could easily stock your bookshelves with admiring biographies of men like MacArthur and Patton, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, Andrew Jackson and George Washington. When it came to novels, there was no shortage of heroes either, ranging from Jack Ryan to Philip Marlowe to Rhett Butler, not to mention the almost innumerable heroes of pulp fiction. But now of course everything is “woke,” and historical heroes are toppled from their pedestals (often...

Just thought I'd throw this out there...Hochul has extended the unconstitutional eviction moratorium for New York through 1/15/22. She also stated that she would be "hiring more case workers to process ERAP funds." Well I work for a county in NY (IT dept) and I asked one of my colleagues who works specifically with the state workers/DSS if in fact they are "hiring more caseworkers to process ERAP applications" as he would be the first to know (creating active directory accounts, etc). He said he doesn't know of any expanded rental assistance caseworker hirings so this is all Lucy and...

“‘But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth’” (John 16-13). The Holy Spirit has to come alongside believers because they can’t minister by their own strength. As a Christian, you can be orthodox and correct about every detail of theology. You might even show a certain willingness and ability to minister. But unless and until you rely on the Holy Spirit for all you do, your efforts will be ineffective. Think of a new car that has the most polished exterior and the finest of accessories but no engine. It will look...

We all know the FBI infiltrates any large group that poses any kind of threat to the public or nation. This IS the reason so many millions of Americans have not organized to fight back against the stolen elections and the consequences thereof. We know that if we try to do so, those organizing it specifically will be arrested and imprisoned (If they did to the Jan. 6 protesters what they have done, what will they do to folks who ACTUALLY plan a real rebellion?). Hello FBI. I know that you read here because you have hit Jim with subpoenas...

A Florida county commissioner wrote a letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis pleading that the livestock deworming drug ivermectin become more widely available for people who are struggling with COVID-19. In the letter, Commissioner Neil Combee called ivermectin a "wonder drug," according to NBC affiliate WFLA. "We are hearing from many of our citizens that larger hospital chains and some pharmacies are refusing to prescribe safe and effective therapeutics like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin," Combee's letter said. "When a citizen is facing a potentially life-threatening case of COVID-19, he or she should receive the 'right to try' potentially life-saving therapeutics." Commissioners in...

Javanese Islamist rebel Soekarmadji Maridjan Kartosuwiryo (alternatively, Kartosuwirjo or Kartosuwirio) was executed on this date in 1962. A onetime student of the Islamic trade unionist Tjokroaminoto, who also taught Indonesia’s first president Sukarno,* Kartosuwirio abandoned medical studies to follow a path in religion and politics. By the late 1930s he led a movement within what was then still a Dutch colony aiming for an independent Indonesia under Islamic law. Japanese occupation during World War II led him to create a resistance militia, Darul Islam, and it was this force that enabled him to establish an embryonic (so he hoped) Islamic...

JESUS THE CHRIST IS CRUCIFIED. 30 A.D. Bible Timeline Resources to CLICK: To read JOHN 19 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 Mt27+Mk15+Lk23+Jn19 New International Version, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible .MATTHEW 27:33-44 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. When they had crucified him, they divided...

Hollywood celebrities are up in arms over pro-life legislation in Texas, which effectively bans most abortions after six weeks, when an unborn baby’s heartbeat can be detected. The legislation took effect Wednesday morning, after both the Supreme Court and a lower federal court of appeals refused to rule on a demand from Texas abortion providers to stay the law pending further litigation, The Daily Wire reported. The news cued Hollywood to react on social media, which included cries about a supposed lack of women’s rights and shows of support for taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion mill. Feminist actress...

Covid-19 is the most divisive issue of my lifetime—worse than abortion, “gay rights,” or Trump’s presidency. It cuts across party and ideological lines. The Left may be more inclined to favor mask mandates and vaccine passports, the Right more likely to oppose them, but those are by no means well-defined positions. I’ve been shocked to see many “conservatives” embrace tyranny—all in the name of “safety,” of course. The question is what to believe—which really comes down to whom to believe. Conflicting information abounds, in our news feeds and social media accounts. People and institutions we trust, or once trusted, tell...

An East Tennessee woman said she refused multiple opportunities to escape Afghanistan in an effort to save military contract dogs left behind during the hasty American withdrawal. Clinton, Tennessee native Charlotte Maxwell-Jones is the director and founder of Kabul Small Animal Rescue in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she has lived for 11 years. She said she’s staying behind until roughly 130 dogs, about 50 of which are military contract dogs, are safely evacuated. “They’re my responsibility and I love them and I care for them. I think there’s a less chance of recovering them if I’m not here,” said Maxwell-Jones. Maxwell-Jones...

ANALYSIS: If the goal is to prevent infection, the 95 percent vaccination rate on Cornell’s campus has not accomplished that Cornell University has aggressively pushed its students to get vaccinated, announcing a vaccine mandate for the 2021-22 academic year in April and frequently denying religious and medical exemptions. As a result, 95 percent of the campus population, both students and faculty, is vaccinated. Despite this, Cornell University has more than five times the amount of confirmed positive cases during its first week of this academic year than it did during its first week of the 2020-21 academic year, according to...

Here's a campaign ad from the GOP. I get the distinct message that Biden was wrong on Afghanistan, and Obama was right. This ad demonstrates exactly what is wrong with the GOP and what we can expect as long as Mitt Romney's niece, Ronna McDaniel is GOP Chair.I have no idea what logic they use. Couldn't they find any Republicans to make the ad? Couldn't they show Republicans being correct? Couldn't they show President Trump being right? They have people like Leon Panetta making their argument. By the way, Panetta was wrong about his Bay of Pigs quip in the...

On September 27, 1996, the State Department was very surprised when the Taliban took Kabul. All of the official reports stated that the Taliban were not likely to take the capital. A lone memo, which never reached Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, warned it could happen, but was mostly ignored until nine days later when the Taliban “unexpectedly” marched into the city. Pin on Pinterest Biden and his allies claimed that no one could have anticipated that the Taliban would take Afghanistan in 11 days. As the Washington Post recently noted, “On Sept. 27, 1996, Taliban forces captured Kabul overnight,...

Enlightenment: the moment the wave realizes it is the oceanEnlightenment: a blessing…and a curse“The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner**If you are one who prays you might pray for our Francine, who finds herself in a very dark place in need of strength and faith.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

A fascinating interview with Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin as he describes the frantic effort to help stranded Americans in Afghanistan. {Direct Rumble Link} Rep Mullin was part of a rescue mission to Afghanistan that ran into a roadblock put into place by the U.S. State Department.As more details begin to surface, it’s clear the U.S. State Department, now led by Anthony Blinken, was attempting to control chaos in Kabul and down-play events to avoid catastrophic political consequences. The story by Mullin is gripping and heartbreaking. WATCH: