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Finnish Christians were not allowed inside the church this year unless they had taken the mRNA vaccination for the coronavirus.So they stood outside and sang their own Christmas songs.What a sad but lovely moment. How awful for the priests and pastors to be so hateful on this blessed holiday. Several churches this year designated sections for vaccinated and unvaccinated. That was a better answer.According to Henna Maria this church is in Oulu, Finland.Commenter Rita added: it was never about an outer temple or figure anyway… the living temple is within our hearts – the greatest light, music and warmth are...

WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 27. REPORTED ADJUSTMENT OF THE TRENT AFFAIR. It is reported and generally credited that the Trent affair has been adjusted. Mr. SEWARD gave a large dinner party this evening, at which were present Lord LYONS and other eminent diplomatists, and members of the Senate and House Committees on Federal Relations. This is a significant reunion, and needs no comment. Mr. CORWIN has made no treaty with Mexico' and therefore there is nothing of the kind before the Senate. At the time the English Minister in Mexico' Sir CHARLES WYCK, was endeavoring to negotiate a treaty with the...

Masks failed. They do not stop covid, masks never stopped covid, could not stop covid, and were known for 100 years not to stop respiratory viruses. the data from schools is outlandishly strong. Sorry to all the talismanic adherents out there who want to feel like they “did something” and visibly show tribal affinity and signal virtue, but you have all been had. The studies supporting this pseudoscience are all junk (mass gen, Kansas, Bangladesh, 200 silly droplet models) and the high quality studies all show inefficacy and have for generations. . . . . . . . . ....

Since the start of the pandemic, many 16- and 17-year-old Americans have proven that they possess the social responsibility and political maturity to help elect better leaders.

College football bowl games canceled by COVID-19 There have been a number of bowl games canceled due to COVID-19. Here's a rundown of the ones that have been called off so far in the 2021-22 bowl season. Dec. 24: Hawai'i Bowl — Hawai'i vs. Memphis Dec. 27: Military Bowl — Boston College vs. East Carolina Dec. 29: Fenway Bowl — Virginia vs. SMU Dec. 31: Arizona Bowl — Boise State vs. Central Michigan MORE: Hawai'i withdraws from its own bowl game amid COVID concerns So far, four bowl games have already been outright canceled. Central Michigan will now play Washington...

Feast of the Holy Innocents, Martyrs Matthew 2:13-18 Friends, today’s Gospel tells the story of Herod’s massacre of the innocents, which mimics, of course, Pharoah’s murder of the male children of the Hebrews at the time of Moses’ birth. John Courtney Murray commented that a major motif of the Gospels is the ever-increasing agon (struggle) that characterizes Jesus’ life. From the very beginning, he is opposed: Herod trembles in fear at his birth and then tries in the most brutal manner possible to stamp him out, forcing him and his family into exile. And from the first moments of his...

I just stepped outside to do some work, and I heard an enormously loud and enveloping "WHOOSH" with a slight low frequency hum that quickly subsided. It continued for about ten-15 minutes. It was so loud that my wife and I could not communicate without yelling at each other at 20 feet apart. It was clearly miles away. And the only thing I can think of is that in that exact direction, about ten miles away, is a large natural gas facility. Here it is: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4138666,-85.3956611,855m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0 It literally sounded like a rocket taking off (but never leaving the ground). Anyone...

Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the country’s best-known human rights group on Tuesday to be liquidated for breaking a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents, capping a year of crackdowns on Kremlin critics unseen since the Soviet days. The shuttering of the group Memorial closes a year in which the top Kremlin critic was jailed, his political movement banned and many of his allies forced to flee. Moscow says it is simply enforcing laws to thwart extremism and shield the country from foreign influence. “This is a bad signal showing that our society and our country are moving in...

A producer for MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” called China’s human rights abuses an “alleged” occurrence, despite the U.S. government declaring that China’s actions in Xinjiang amounted to a genocide.-snip- “It’s truly pathetic that a U.S. media outlet who pushed the Russian collusion hoax for 4 years, the phony Russian bounty story and believes Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation doesn’t believe Tiananmen Square was real.”

The surprising polling results come from a poll in which just over 800 randomly sampled adults were interviewed by telephone between December 1st and the 16th. The purpose of the poll was to ascertain approval and disapproval for U.S Leaders.

NYPD kicks family out of restaurant for no vaccine card as child cries

Comrades, many American citizens stood jaw agape as they watched Australian metropolitan police departments begin cracking skulls and making arrests for violating COVID rules and restrictions. Yes, it always seemed like Australia, New Zealand and Europe were the beta testing ground to see if police would comply with jackboot arrests of their own community. Well, now we can see those same tactics being deployed in the U.S. New York City was the first large metropolitan area to require vaccination identification cards to enter restaurants, bars, dining establishments and various public and private venues. Now comes the enforcement part. Watch this...

For all the talk about institutional integrity, protecting our constitutional republic, and a return to norms, the far-left sure likes to disregard that when they lose. You all know this. The institutional rot never came from Trump. It was always the left-winger in the Democratic Party. The call was coming from inside the house—and the latest blow to Build Back Better is the latest example. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) killed the trillion-dollar-plus spending bill that Biden and the Democrats desperately want to pass. The Biden administration needs to clinch a signature legislative win. And the Democrats need something to run...

NBC NASCAR reporter Kelli Stavast is either hard of hearing, or a very, very quick thinker. While interviewing driver Brandon Brown on Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama after he won his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race, Stavast had to deal with an unruly crowd. The racing fans, sensing the live cameras, broke into what’s fast becoming a popular chant at college football games in the south and midwest. The populist commentary involves President Joe Biden. Stavast bravely soldiered on despite the obvious disruption. As an emotional Brown struggled to be heard above the crowd’s din, she interjected. “As you...

My idea-SECEDE IMMEDIATELY. Just do it if the US can still leave a GOP majority behind. Let the 'diluted' 48 grow their own backbone. It would be legal. It is written. Fast forward and undo all the things the rats built in the rest of the US. Build the wall. DEPORT all illegals to relatives throughout the US. Lefties in Austin can grin and bear it or leave. I'd even empty the jails that way. Privatize SSI into Roth IRA's. Military bases stay with a working agreement. Eliminate welfare and unemployment compensation. Last, offer to return to the US under...

The NFL has been among the most aggressive and draconian proponents of Covid-19 “vaccines” since the season began. They boast having over 95% of their players “fully vaccinated” and have been heralded by corporate media as doing the “right thing” by treating their unvaxxed players as lepers who must be segregated based solely on their embrace of medical freedom. News Monday of a flood of Covid-positive tests makes lucid Americans question the efficacy of their policies, though media outlets have completely sidestepped the contradictions between the segregation narrative and the real-world results. According to NBC Sports: The NFL saw 106...

U.S. flu season has arrived on schedule after taking a year off, with flu hospitalizations rising and two child deaths reported. Last year's flu season was the lowest on record, likely because COVID-19 measures — school closures, distancing, masks and canceled travel — prevented the spread of influenza, or because the coronavirus somehow pushed aside other viruses. During last year's unusually light flu season, one child died. In contrast, 199 children died from flu two years ago, and 144 the year before

With lithium-ion batteries serving as the engine room for so much of the modern world, from phones and laptops, to electric cars and planes, every scientific breakthrough that improves their performance is an important one. Some of these come from incremental advances that experiment with alternative materials, for example, while some come from re-imagining the whole device and the way they work from the ground up. 2021 produced a stellar crop of discoveries that resulted from researchers thinking outside the box in this way. Let's take a look at the most creative and interesting examples. Opening up to faster charging...

VIDEOABC's "The View" is now searching for a woman to permanently fill the "conservative" slot on the show. Here are five of the top candidates for that position. See if you can figure out what they all have in common. Hint: It is a position a "conservative" MUST have in order to qualify for that slot. My guess is that the last woman in this video has the best chance to be selected since she seems to be the most desperate to ingratiate herself with liberals for a job.Of course, the one person who would NOT ever be considered for...

The U.S. Department of Justice received an unwelcome Christmas gift from defense attorneys representing five men charged with conspiring to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020: a motion to dismiss the case. The Christmas Day filing is the latest blow to the government’s scandal-ridden prosecution; defense counsel is building a convincing argument that the FBI used undercover agents and informants to entrap their clients in a wide-ranging scheme that resulted in bad press for Donald Trump as early voting was underway in the key swing state last year. What began as random social media chatter to oppose lockdown policies...