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The decision not to require vaccinated players to receive a booster in order to remain “fully vaccinated” appears in a memo sent Saturday by Commissioner Roger Goodell to all teams.

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The newest protocols, at their very simplest, pull back on many of the old testing rules for vaccinated players. While unvaccinated players will still be tested daily, vaccinated players will only be tested if they report symptoms.

@ChadPergram Manchin to colleague Bret Baier on BBB: I’ve had my reservations from the beginning..I’ve done everything humanly possible..I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation.. I can’t get there..this is a no Manchin on to colleague Bret Baier on BBB: “That bill is a mammoth piece of legislation.” Says the only things Dems changed in the bill was the amount of “time” for different programs. “It hasn’t shrunk. The desire is always there” Manchin to colleague Bret Baier on BBB: Just vote. If that’s what people need to show where they are, just vote..this has been strung...

Christmas at the Christiansen’s Joe walked into the living room brightly decorated for Christmas. The tree glittered with all the decorations and packages underneath. He thought it odd how the Gold Star on the tree matched the star on the window as the snow fell silently in the background. The dull pain in his chest returned as he looked at the lone gold star stuck on the window. Joe looked at his lovely wife of 27 years, wondering when he would ever see that smile light her face again. He walked into the room all decorated for Christmas, minus the...

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci on Sunday urged Americans traveling over the upcoming holidays to get booster shots and always wear masks in crowded public spaces to help slow the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The easily transmissible variant is "raging through the world," and traveling will increase the risk of infection even among vaccinated people, Fauci said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press." "We are going to see breakthrough infection - there is no doubt about that," Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,...

Fourth Sunday of Advent Luke 1:39-45 Friends, today’s Gospel tells the marvelous story of the Visitation. At the Annunciation, the angel had told Mary that the child to be conceived in her would be the new David. With that magnificent prophecy still ringing in her ears, Mary set out to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who was married to Zechariah, a temple priest. No first-century Jew would have missed the significance of their residence being in "the hill country" of Judah. That was precisely where David found the ark, the bearer of God’s presence. To that same hill country now comes...

Savoring the Servant Savior. Jesus was begotten of God, a Son and a King! Jesus humbled Himself and lay down His heavenly crown; He came down to earth in the form of a man to serve and to seek those who were oppressed by sin and suffering and in bondage to an evil taskmaster. When Jesus was a child, He was obedient to His parents, and we are told “the child grew in wisdom”. Joseph was a carpenter by trade and Jesus served His father as an apprentice. When Jesus was about thirty, He was baptized by John and the...

Chiranjeevi lives in Hyderabad, India, with his young family. He is a smiley, glass-half-full kind of guy - naturally positive and full of energy. He's smart, too, and works in an Indian tech company. He's the least likely person, you'd think, to fall victim to an online scam. Yet in October he was defrauded out of his life's savings - $4,000 (£3,000). He couldn't believe it. "I was so stressed. I was just lost. I told my wife and she said, 'I thought you were intelligent. How did you lose so much money?'" He messaged me in late October out...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 11Jesus’ Teaching on Prayer 11 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” 2 He said to them, “When you pray, say: “‘Father,[a] hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.[b] 3 Give us each day our daily bread. 4 Forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us.[c] And lead us not into temptation.[d]’” 5 Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go...

Chileans head to the polls on Sunday to vote in the Andean nation's most divisive presidential election in decades, with two candidates offering starkly different visions for the future from pensions and privatization to human rights. On one side is Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student protest leader promising social change, who has edged ahead in pre-election polls, versus ultra-conservative Jose Antonio Kast, 55, a lawyer who has won support for a hard law-and-order line.

Americans may have had their fill of turkey after gorging themselves on the birds for Thanksgiving, but a new study — with not-so-new findings — has dished out second helpings. Domesticated turkeys bred for their meat weigh up to three times more than their wild counterparts, according to a study from Brown University researchers that was funded with $1.7 million in federal grants. While the birds have increased muscle mass and breast meat, there’s little change in the length of their bones and limbs, leading to a slower-moving turkey that waddles, the study says. “The increase in body mass, relatively...

The real cause of the “supply chain problem” threatening to muck up Christmas this year has been revealed. To make matters worse Santa tested positive for the cooties and has been placed in isolation for 10 days so won’t be able to make the rounds this Christmas Eve. The powers-that-be replaced him with Brandon, who doesn’t seem quite up to the task as he can’t find his way out of a brown paper bag with a bread crumb trail leading the way. And the eight tiny reindeer? They’ve been replaced by the best team of donkeys Brandon could find for...

(Note: I left the misspelled words as I had published this article in Facebook so as not to go to Facebook jail or get caught by the Facebook Fact checkers!) (Note: When pasting this document into Free Republic, it seems that most of the special formatting is lost, such as bold, italics, underlined words and embedded links. To read the document with the formatting and embedded links go to the link of the document.) I believe that the motive of this new fabricated variant of the c0r0navirus is to move quickly to pass legislation that will lead up to force...

The lights are on for the season at Candy Cane Lane in DuBoistown. Enjoy this walking tour of the festive street taken this evening. The lights will be on daily from 5 p.m.-10 p.m. until New Years.

Admittedly, it takes quite a bit to raise my blood pressure, but this is one of those real-world issues that does it. There are a lot of really good people in upstate New York and outside the boundaries of that crazy city they are best known for. The New York state assembly passing a bill [A416 LINK HERE] to set up involuntary COVID quarantine camps needs to be stopped right now. This is nuts. The bill is obtuse in the extreme, and grants the state permission to remove and detain someone defined as “a significant threat to public health.” Those...

Each year around Christmas, an insidious tradition takes place that undermines the very nature of the holiday and biblical history, which undermines the birth of Jesus, Christianity, and Jewish tradition from which Jesus and Christianity come. Efforts to propagate anti-biblical malicious lies grow stronger and more brazen each year. It’s like Christmas in Fantasyland: a campaign of theological deception, whose goal is to erase Jewish history from Israel, and Israel from the map. Denying and trying to erase the centrality of Judaism to Israel, and the State of Israel, is bad and ridiculous enough. But doing so also undermines the...

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