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TWENTY-NINTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME LUKE 12:49-53 Friends, the statement of Jesus that we have in the Gospel for today is frightening: “I have come to cast a fire upon the earth; how I wish it were already kindled.” He’s throwing fire down, much like the God who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Okay, so how do we make sense of all this? I thought the angels on Christmas morning said that he had come as the Prince of Peace? Jesus is the Incarnation of the God who is nothing but love, but this enfleshment takes place in the midst of...

KEY POINTS The stock price of SPAC company Digital World Acquisition Corp. rocketed up more than 100% in trading after news of a merger that would launch former President Donald Trump's planned social media platform. Trump said he would roll out the platform called "TRUTH Social," which he claimed will "stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech." DWAC was incorporated as a special purpose acquisition company shortly after Trump lost a re-election bid against President Joe Biden. DWAC was among the top 10 most popular names on Reddit's WallStreetBets chatroom, even exceeding meme stock GameStop's mentions. The stock price...

A new challenge has taken off on TikTok where users perform skits to a song born out of a gaffe-turned-meme with the phrase “Let’s go Brandon” serving as a euphemism for “F-ck Joe Biden.” The song, titled, “Let’s Go Brandon,” was released by singer Loza Alexander on the video-sharing platform and based on an NBC Sports reporter’s mistake at an Oct. 2 NASCAR race. While fans chanted “F-ck Joe Biden” from the stands, the reporter, interviewing Xfinity Series driver Brandon Brown, congratulated him on his first win with a reference to the crowd’s post-race chant she repeated as, “Let’s go...

This is a link to an archive.org page with a working emulator based on DosBox that will run in your browser just by clicking on the "Emulate it!" picture at the top of the page. It takes a minute or two to load everything up and then the screen goes blank for a little bit when you make your selection. Hit the speaker icon and then the full screen button and you will be transported back to computing in 1992. This has worked in every browser that I have tried it in including Brave, Chrome, and Edge, but your mileage...

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticised proponents of Critical Race Theory Wednesday, declaring that “this is a conversation that has gone in the wrong direction.” Appearing on The View, Rice, now the Director of the Hoover Institution, addressed CRT following the Biden administration’s apparent desire to punish parents who stand up against it being taught to their children in schools. “If I could take a moment to talk about the whole issue of Critical Race Theory and what is, and is not being taught, I come out of an academic institution, and this is something that academics debate. What...

Speaking during a Wuhan coronavirus press briefing Wednesday morning, Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky said young children ages 5-11 will still need to wear masks even if they are vaccinated against the disease. "After we have authorization from FDA and recommendations from CDC, we will be working to scale up pediatric vaccination. That said, it will take some time. And as I just noted, as we head into these winter months, we know we cannot be complacent," Walensky said. "We are going to continue to recommend masks in all schools for all people in those schools, and we...

A woman in West Park, Florida let some bullets fly during an alleged robbery attempt.

At what point will more people start to realize that the Biden-Harris regime are intentionally tanking this nation? The writing is on the wall, and it’s so crystal clear we do not need a prophet like Daniel to tell us what it means. Whoever is controlling Joe Biden is having him steer the country towards oblivion and it’s time for more patriots to ask why. Stop blaming incompetence. This regime is many things, but they are not so absolutely stupid that they do not recognize extremely easy fixes to the problems our nation faces. To paraphrase Senator Marco Rubio in...

Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) got into an argument during a House Oversight committee meeting Thursday over giving notice to show a video featuring parents at school board hearings during a hearing that featured testimony by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Nadler objected to Jordan showing the footage on the grounds that the Ohio Republican did not provide 48 hours notice to the committee before showing the video. When Jordan tried to respond to the decision, Nadler, who is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said "that's out of order, this is not debatable" then later said...

The strain of influenza virus H3M2 strain. This 3D illustration shows surface glycoprotein spikes hemagglutinin (orange) and neuraminidase (green). (Image: Shutterstock) Scientists have known for decades that a flu virus in a human body can be a lot different than viruses grown in a lab. As opposed to the uniform, spherical, textbook-style viruses in a petri dish, in humans they vary in shape and composition — particularly the abundance of certain proteins — even if they are genetically very similar. It has been difficult however, to study the exact number and location of these proteins on any individual virus. The...

There’s this iconic scene in the 1984 “Footloose” where Kevin Bacon’s city-boy character Ren McCormack goes head-to-head with his macho antagonist Chuck Cranston to show who’s the bigger man in a game of “chicken.”The two young men mount tractors on opposite ends of a single-lane road facing each other and drive full speed ahead to see who flinches first. In this hazardous game, one of them must swerve off the path, or both could die in the head-on collision — but the first one to swerve will be dubbed the “chicken” for his cowardice. After Ren’s shoelace gets caught on...

Upon taking office in January, Joe Biden’s administration promised to “bring transparency and truth back to the government.” No one seems to have told Attorney General Merrick Garland.Two weeks ago, the attorney general decided to weaponize the FBI against parents speaking out at school board meetings when he issued a memorandum directing an investigation of a “disturbing spike” in alleged harassment and threats. Neither the memo nor any Department of Justice spokesperson cited any examples or evidence of this alleged spike to justify treating parents speaking to their school boards like terrorists.Now, according to reporting from The American Prospect, Garland...

I am not an anti-vaxxer, and plenty of my friends and colleagues have been vaccinated. And, from the perspective of those who believe that the Covid vaccinations are safe and effective and even life-saving, I can understand the desire to see everyone vaccinated. But what I cannot possibly understand is the threatening, vindictive, heavy-handed bullying in conjunction with the mandates. Not only are these unfair and even cruel, but they give fuel to the fire of those who view the mandates as nothing less than dangerous governmental overreach. Consider this October 18 story on The Hill which states that, “Chicago...

Life reconstruction of herbivorous dinosaurs based on 220-million-year-old fossil footprints from Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Credit: Anthony Romilio ========================================================================================= “Raptor-like” dinosaur discovered in an Australian mine, actually uncovered as a timid vegetarian. 50-year-old findings of the Triassic period’s “largest meat-eating dinosaur” reanalyzed as the long-necked herbivore Prosauropod. Fossil footprints found in an Australian coal mine around 50 years ago have long been thought to be that of a large ‘raptor-like’ predatory dinosaur, but scientists have in fact discovered they were instead left by a timid long-necked herbivore. University of Queensland paleontologist Dr. Anthony Romilio recently led an international team to re-analyze...

A new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by “la Caixa” Foundation, provides robust evidence that COVID-19 is a seasonal infection linked to low temperatures and humidity, much like seasonal influenza. The results, published in Nature Computational Science, also support the considerable contribution of airborne SARS-CoV-2 transmission and the need to shift to measures that promote “air hygiene.” A key question regarding SARS-CoV-2 is whether it is behaving, or will behave, as a seasonal virus like influenza, or whether it will be equally transmitted during any time of the year. A first theoretical...

On Monday, Steve Bannon warned of what’s coming to American and warned that we are all next. “The first tenet of psychological warfare is to break you to become compliant to make sure all your actions and human agency will be futile.” But he didn’t stop there. Next, he warned of what’s to come and it appears that America is on a fast track to this. Bannon continued with his warning of psychological warfare saying, ” With information, you can be armed to take action in a world gone awry and that you will never succumb to psychological warfare which...

A new coronavirus descendant related to Delta, called AY.4.2, is being closely monitored by scientists in the US, UK, and Israel. AY.4.2 is still "very rare" in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "It is well below 0.05 percent of all our sequenced viruses, with less than 10 reported in our database so far," the CDC said in a statement sent to Insider on Wednesday. Meanwhile, AY.4, the parent lineage of the new variant, "represents around 11 percent of the Delta viruses in the United States," the CDC said. While many different AY lineages...

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo is blasting mask mandates for children in schools and argues the data to "support" the measures is "very weak.""In terms of the data that supports mask use in kids and mandates for masking kids, it is very weak and that's a fact," Ladapo told reporters this week. "There is a substantial gap between the quality of data out there supporting masking kids yielding any benefit for kids, whatsoever. Factual.""In Florida we are going to stay close to the data and we're going to let you know how we feel about the data. The data...

From the very beginning of his tenure at the White House, questions about how resident Biden’s Catholic faith square with most of his policy and personnel choices have been met with the response: “the President is a devout Catholic.” To paraphrase Inigo Montoya in the classic movie The Princess Bride: “You keep using that phrase, I do not think it means what you think it means.” Few personnel choices stand out for their record of hostility towards the Catholics more than Beth Robinson, Joe Biden’s nominee to be a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second...

Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R), who serves on the special committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, said on Thursday that issuing a subpoena for former President Trump was not off the table with regard to his committee's investigations. "I think we can get to all the information we need without him, but I think we are certainly willing to do it. That's something I want to make clear is he's not off-limits," Kinzinger said in an appearance on MSNBC. "But I also think if we can get that information prior to him and obviously you recognize the second he's subpoenaed...