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Explanation: Still bright in planet Earth's night skies, good telescopic views of Saturn and its beautiful rings often make it a star at star parties. But this stunning view of Saturn's rings and night side just isn't possible from telescopes closer to the Sun than the outer planet. They can only bring Saturn's day into view. In fact, this image of Saturn's slender sunlit crescent with night's shadow cast across its broad and complex ring system was captured by the Cassini spacecraft. A robot spacecraft from planet Earth, Cassini called Saturn orbit home for 13 years before it was directed...

At the awards ceremony after a hard-fought women's final on Saturday, runner-up Leylah Fernandez took a moment to address the resilience of New York on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. "I know on this day it's especially hard for New York and everyone around the US," Fernandez said. "I just want to say that I hope I can be as strong and resilient as New York has been the last 20 years." Editor's Picks Both the teenagers in the 2021 US Open women's singles finals were born after 9/11; Fernandez on September 6, 2002, and Emma Raducanu on November 13,...

September 11, 2021 Jeb Bush RetweetedToday is a day where a certain former President not being on social media is truly a service to society.— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) September 11, 2021

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemProverbs 1313 A wise son heeds his father’s instruction, but a mocker does not respond to rebukes. 2 From the fruit of their lips people enjoy good things, but the unfaithful have an appetite for violence. 3 Those who guard their lips preserve their lives, but those who speak rashly will come to ruin. 4 A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied. 5 The righteous hate what is false, but the wicked make themselves a stench and bring shame on themselves. 6 Righteousness guards the person of...

<p>While President Joe Biden is using a legally questionable statute to enforce what is essentially a vaccine mandate on the American workforce, members of Congress, their staffs, and anyone who works in Congress will reportedly be exempt from the mandate. What is the background?</p>

What do you think of this idea? Can it happen? Should it happen?

Francis Discovers “Alarming Sign” in Novus Ordo LiturgyThe “sad experience” of 2020's "liturgical 'fasting" has highlighted a “goodness” of the “long liturgical journey” that has been made since Vatican II, Francis wrote in a message for the Italian Liturgical Week (August 23-26), although there is no direct link between the Novus Ordo and Covid.But already in the next paragraph, he contradicts this accolade when stressing the difficulties of the resumption of the liturgy which he calls “an alarming sign of the advanced stage of the change of epoch.”The euphemism “change of epoch” shows that Francis fears facing the extent of...

Junked-car auctioneer Copart, Inc., or simply Copart, reported earnings this week and said given the stellar growth in new and used car prices this year, wrecked car prices are getting a lot more expensive. On Thursday, Copart’s CEO Jeffrey Liaw told investors on an earnings call that strong used car prices are a driving force behind “the record average selling prices” for wrecked cars. Copart specializes in auctioning wrecked cars that insurers have totaled. The vehicles go to auction and are frequently bought by companies who part out vehicles. Selling prices for wrecked cars surged 20.7% in the most recent...

"Today I’m joined by Dennis Prager and Adam Carolla to discuss their documentary “No Safe Spaces”. We got into the issues that arose regarding the distribution of the film, as well as other matters such as free speech, controversy, religion, and more." Duh!, it's a video w/o a text script. [Bummer]

JUST IN - PM Boris Johnson will announce this week that he is scrapping plans that would have required vaccine passports for entry to nightclubs, cinemas, and sports grounds (Sunday Times)

The great song "I want to talk about you" with lyric - John Coltrane did an instrumental version.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America installed its first openly transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Saturday.The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church's 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada.“My call is ... to be up to the same messy, loving things I was up to before,” Rohrer told worshippers. “But mostly, if you'll let me, and I think you will, my hope is to love you and beyond that, to love what you love.”

Here we are twenty years after the Savage attack on innocent people, by Islamic Terrorists on 9/11, 2001, and the western world seems to be even blinder then before that fateful day. After all, how is that we spent 2 trillion dollars, 4000 lives, and twenty years avenging the attack on the country which hosted those terror groups which assaulted us, only to turn that entire country back to the Savages who facilitated the terror training camps which attacked us? The Taliban, now runs Afghanistan! Let that sink in... . In fact a vastly better equipped Taliban now rules the...

President Biden on Saturday again defended the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, arguing that the vast majority of Americans wanted to get out -- and asking "How else could you get out?" Biden was speaking to reporters in Shanksville, Pa., on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and was asked about whether the withdrawal of the U.S. forces at the end of August marks a new phase for the country. "If you had told anybody that we were going to spend $300 million a day for 20 years to try to unite the country after we got [Usama] bin Laden,...

Good evening. Thanks to all who commented on my previous thread about the vaccine mandate at the local installation I work at, but I wanted to ask a question in a separate thread. What constitutes an unlawful order, and where can I find a good definition? If I'm going to be forced out of my job because of the dictator in the White House, I want to be able to express my views on this whole matter in an intelligent manner, and I need help formulating my thoughts on the matter. Thanks for your help.

Seattle, WA — Alaska Airlines’ slogan is “Fly smart. Land happy.” It may want to change that the “Fly dumb. Land angry.” Lacey Smith appears to be the latest victim of woke corporate America. The flight attendant was fired by Alaska Airlines, allegedly for her Christian beliefs. This follows as Alaska Airlines has used one of the heaviest hands in the air travel business in enforcing mask mandates, and it has also barred Republican lawmakers from going to work. As for Smith, First Liberty announced on Friday that it’s legal team will be filing charges against Alaska Airlines with the...

Dave Cullen is one the best Internet commentators I've had the pleasure of listening to. He should be the next Rush Limbaugh IMHO. But anyway, give a listen to this video. It's bone chilling and eye opening at the same time.

The labor movement in the United States is split over the sweeping new vaccine requirements brought in by President Joe Biden. The movement wants to both support its political ally in Biden and protect its members against coronavirus, but it also wants to ensure that workers’ rights are not trampled. The vaccine mandate that Biden announced on Thursday could affect as many as 100 million people in the US, including all workers in businesses with 100 or more employees. Meanwhile, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy said President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is “ill-conceived, divisive, and un-American.” …

Former President Donald Trump visited with police officers and firefighters in New York City on Saturday and questioned why President Joe Biden decided not to deliver a speech to recognize the 20th anniversary of 9/11. “Biden didn’t even speak today! He went to all three places and he didn’t speak,” Trump said. “I wonder why he didn’t speak”: The former president visited the precinct to thank officers for their service, spending much time criticizing Biden’s disastrous exit from Afghanistan. “He turned victory into a total embarrassment; I say the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country,” Trump said....

For the majority of most of our lives, a vaccine was defined as an “injection of a killed or weakened infectious organism in order to prevent the disease.” As Representative Thomas Massie noted on Twitter yesterday, the definition has evolved. Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie Check out @CDCgov’s evolving definition of “vaccination.” They’ve been busy at the Ministry of Truth: Vaccination (pre-2015): Injection of a killed or weakened infectious organism in order to prevent the disease. Vaccination (2015-2021): The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease. Vaccination (Sept 2021): The act of introducing a...