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October 18th, 2021Saint Francis Xavier church, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA By MamaGeek at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17971316Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingRomans 6:19-23 ©Now you are set free from sin, and slaves to GodIf I may use human terms to help your natural weakness: as once you put your bodies at the service of vice and immorality, so now you must put them at the service of righteousness for your sanctification. When you were slaves of sin, you felt no obligation to righteousness, and what did you get from this? Nothing but experiences that now make you blush, since...

NOVA takes a tasty look at insect foods that could benefit our health and our warming planet.

"China building Bio Weapon that can target people based on race. China has been amassing a disturbing amount of genetic data from the rest of the world, and it's been doing it for something nightmarish." China’s Nightmarish New Bio Weapon Targets Race and Ethnicity (16 min video)

'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host examines why drugs are flowing through the southern border.

“It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house” (Proverbs 21:9).

"We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government," the burger chain said The West Coast-based burger chain In-N-Out was widely praised on social media after it was reported that the company refused to enforce a San Francisco, California vaccine mandate for customers that resulted in the city temporarily closing one of its locations. The fast-food chain trended on Twitter Tuesday after the company told the city of San Francisco "we refuse to become the vaccination police for any government" and was closed temporarily by the city’s health department for not demanding customers show proof of vaccination against the...

Duly elected representatives and staff will not be allowed to work inside the nation’s center of democracy.. Canada’s federal government will ban democratically elected Members of Parliament and staff who have not had COVID jabs from accessing the nation’s center of democracy, the House of Commons. In a statement sent yesterday, the Board of Internal Economy, which is the body responsible for regulating House rules, announced the new draconian mandate. “Effective Monday, November 22, 2021, individuals must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be allowed within the House of Commons Precinct,” the board said in its statement. “This requirement will...

The Chromium team has finally done it – File Transfer Protocol (FTP) support is not just deprecated, but stripped from the codebase in the latest stable build of the Chrome browser, version 95. It has been a while coming. A lack of support for encrypted connections in Chrome's FTP implementation, coupled with a general disinterest from the majority of the browser's users, and more capable third-party alternatives being available has meant that the code has moved from deprecated to gone entirely. Support for fetching document resources over FTP was stripped from Chrome 72, proxy support for FTP was removed in...

Vice President Kamala Harris accepted flowers from the president and was serenaded by a roomful of staffers as she celebrated her birthday from the White House on Wednesday. President Joe Biden held a bouquet and a frame as he walked into the vice president's office in a 34-second video posted on Twitter Wednesday night. Harris, 57, wore a grey blazer and matching pants and stood behind her desk, laughing at the sight of the commander-in-chief bearing gifts. 'Really? Aw Joe, I’m very touched. Thank you,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. Biden turned the frame to reveal a photo...

Cross-border truck drivers will need to prove they’re fully vaccinated against Covid-19 beginning in early January, under a series of measures that will also see more non-essential travelers return to land and ferry crossings. “This approach will provide ample time for essential travelers such as truckers, students, and healthcare workers to get vaccinated,” U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said in a related statement. “This new travel system will create consistent, stringent protocols for all foreign nationals traveling to the United States – whether by air, land or ferry – and accounts for the wide availability of Covid-19 vaccinations.”...

TALLAHASSEE — A Democratic research and political advocacy group wants some of America’s most powerful companies to stop donating to Florida abortion opponents. But local television markets won’t air the group’s ad. Last week, American Bridge 21st Century planned to launch a six-figure ad blitz — the group wouldn’t specify the exact size — in three Florida media markets to call out AT&T, Disney, and NBCUniversal for donating money to anti-abortion politicians. The commercial accused the corporations of backing politicians who plan to pass an abortion law like Texas’ “heartbeat bill,” which bans nearly all abortions after six weeks of...

A Maryland congressman who is a practicing anesthesiologist said on a radio show that he prescribed a medication typically used to treat parasites in livestock and humans as a treatment for COVID-19. Republican Rep. Andy Harris, who represents Maryland’s 1st District, made the comments during a call-in radio program that he and his wife, Nicole, co-hosted last month on WCBM, an AM radio station in the Baltimore area, The Washington Post reported. However, Harris said on the program that he couldn’t find a pharmacist who would fill it. “It’s gotten bad. … The pharmacists are just refusing to fill it,”...

Something shocking happened on NPR on Friday. NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviewed a pro-life activist in Texas, Rebecca Parma of Texas Right to Life. It was less shocking that it was hostile throughout. He tossed questions like "Wasn't your strategy actually to stop abortions in a way that is unconstitutional at the moment?" And: "There's a supremacy clause in the Constitution. Federal law applies to the state of Texas. Texas lost the civil war. I mean, this is - it's very clearly in contravention of federal law." But where it obviously broke for the NPR host is when...

Townhall tipsheet Julio Rosas Indiana Senator Has an Offer for Chicago Police Officers Who Are Punished Over Vaccine Mandate Julio Rosas Julio Rosas | @Julio_Rosas11 | Posted: Oct 20, 2021 2:10 PM Indiana Senator Has an Offer for Chicago Police Officers Who Are Punished Over Vaccine Mandate Source: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) told Fox News the state of Indiana is more than ready to hire any Chicago police officers who are punished or fired for refusing to comply with the vaccine mandate. "Our police do the hardest job in the world, and they deserve respect —...

"She said the teachers were wearing the masking tape around their wrists like bracelets and whenever someone’s mask would fall down, they would tape them," Tori Skeldum, another parent at the school, told FOX21. "It’s sad that our world is coming to this and teachers would think it is OK."

Hunter Biden boasted he could provide intelligence on the shady Russian oligarch whose Greenwich Village townhouse was raided by the FBI on Tuesday. The president’s son said he could provide Alcoa, a giant US aluminium firm, with knowledge about the “elite networks” connected to Oleg Deripaska in a proposal from his company Rosemont Seneca, emails on Hunter’s laptop show. Federal agents carried out “law enforcement activity” on Tuesday at the Gay Street townhouse and a Washington mansion tied to Deripaska, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Deripaska was investigated for money laundering and extortion and sanctioned by the...

"Alta, we wanted you the way you were. You were important, precious and sweet...we will not forget you." Alta Fixsler was brought to Israel to be laid to rest Wednesday in Jerusalem. The two-and-a-half-year-old Alta was disconnected from the ventilator at a UK hospital and passed away after a lengthy legal battle. "The plan was to bring her to Israel and take care of her here," her father Avraham Fixsler, said at the funeral at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery. "She came to Israel in another way. She is here and this is her place. Now it will be good for her....

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his country's employers on Wednesday that they would have to shut down again for a week from the end of October — the most dramatic step by his government in months aimed at stemming the country's surging coronavirus epidemic. During a meeting with senior officials, Putin backed a proposal to mandate "non-working" days from October 30 until November 7. ... The halting uptake of vaccines in Russia has kept hospitalization and death rates high. Russia reported 34,073 new COVID-19 infections on Wednesday and set a grim new record with 1,028 fatalities. The United Kingdom, in...

This week marked the anniversary of one of the greatest political tricks in history: the disappearance of Hunter Biden scandal. New emails were released that added new details to what was a raw influence peddling operation that netted millions from foreign sources. A new tranche of emails connecting President Joe Biden to key accounts proves just how this political sleight of hand was worthy of Houdini. After all, Houdini only made an elephant disappear. The Bidens made the equivalent to an entire circus disappear in front of an audience of millions.How Houdini made his 10,000 pound elephant Jennie disappear every...

Joe Biden on Wednesday traveled to his ‘hometown’ of Scranton, Pennsylvania to push his garbage “Built Back Broke Better” agenda.Biden loves to brag that he’s old ‘blue collar Joe’ from Scranton but he didn’t receive a warm welcome when he arrived to his old stomping grounds on Wednesday.Today, I’m heading back home to Scranton. It’s where my values — of hard work and treating others with dignity — were set. Those values are at the core of my agenda.See you soon, Scranton.pic.twitter.com/exvps4LhJk— President Biden (@POTUS) October 20, 2021Joe Biden’s motorcade was booed as he arrived in Scranton on his way...