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European Cardinals want to change the Church’s teaching on same-sex relations and get rid of celibacy for priests but TRADS are the problem!This is why the Fishwrap is also known as the National Sodomitical Reporter.Top EU cardinal calls for change in church teaching on gay relationshipsIn other news…German cardinal urges lifting celibacy rule for priestsCard. Marx didn’t specify if the bride has to be biologically female, though.But, hey! The Church has far greater problems than getting all picky about what human orifices are for, those old fashioned ideas about natural law or what priesthood is.So long as weCRUSH THE TRADS!...

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) called President Biden an "inept, geriatric despot" in a speech on the House floor Wednesday while criticizing the U.S. deployment of 3,000 troops to aid Eastern European allies as tensions heat up between Russia and Ukraine. "Madam Speaker, the sons and daughters of America are not foot soldiers for your party's inept, geriatric despot. They are not expendable pawns to be dispatched at the whims of an idiot, tossed carelessly around the world to Godforsaken caves and bloody sandboxes. They are Americans, worthy of honor and dignity. The only salute from them Joe Biden deserves involves...

Republican senators are unmoved by Tucker Carlson’s relentless warpath against support for Ukraine — even as it widens an existing rift in their party. The Fox News prime time host and others on the far-right have excused and even rationalized Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine and downplayed its relevance to U.S. national security. And while GOP senators are shrugging off his name-and-shame campaign, Carlson’s views are permeating the GOP base in a way that could undermine Republicans’ efforts to emphasize cross-party unity as they seek to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

People who live in downtown Ottawa are bracing as a nearly week-long protest against COVID-19 public health mandates looks poised to continue, with the police chief concerned that policing alone may not end the "intolerable" and "unprecedented" demonstration. The ongoing and volatile protest has spurred residents to make their own stand — at the Ottawa Police Service's headquarters on Elgin Street. Rhys McGaw, a downtown resident, and others gathered for a second night on Wednesday to object to what they view as inaction by police. "In my neighbourhood, on my street, down the street, in the stores of Centretown or...

Royal Society: Don’t Censor Misinformation; It Makes Things WorseEditor’s note: See also, “The Rise of Totalitarian Science, 2022 Edition.”A leading science organization, the Royal Society (Britain’s equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences), has put out a report discouraging social media censorship, with special reference to the COVID-19 pandemic:The Royal Society, the U.K.’s academy of sciences, published a study of online scientific and health misinformation Wednesday, investigating its root causes and brainstorming possible solutions. The scientists concluded that censoring content deemed to be misinformation is often harmful and antithetical to the principles of scientific inquiry…The report found that online censorship...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Last month, U.S. employers might have shed jobs for the first time in about a year, potentially raising alarms about the economy’s trajectory. Yet even if the January employment report coming Friday were to show a deep loss of jobs, there would be little mystery about the likely culprit: A wave of omicron infections last month that led millions of workers to stay home sick, discouraged consumers from venturing out to spend and likely froze hiring at many companies — even those that want to fill jobs. Still, most economists expect a relatively quick rebound in hiring,...

A man arrested last week for vandalizing Washington's Union Station with swastika symbols is a Mexican citizen with a 15-year criminal history who has been deported twice but still does not meet Biden administration standards for arrest or removal. Geraldo Pando, 34, was arrested on Jan. 28 and charged with the display of certain emblems and defacing private/public property for drawing the Nazi symbol on the exterior walls of the train station, just blocks from the U.S. Capitol. The incident happened one day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day and is being investigated as a possible hate crime.

VIDEOFor years the "vindictive nasty" Poison Toad at CNN known as Jeff Zucker Go Lust-ed himself upon Allison Gollust to the extent that he ruined other people's careers by promoting her ahead of them. The down side for Allison Gollust is that her current job at CNN is probably close to termination. The good news is that she no longer has to stifle her gag reflex whenever Zucker decided to Go Lust upon Gollust followed by her having to endure sleeping next to the hideous sweaty snoring Poison Toad.Don't wait any longer Allison. Now is the time to PURGE the...

At Boston University, students are no longer graded on their writing, as Marisa Milanese and Gwen Kordonowy, explain in a recent article on the school's writing program's “‘ungrading’ movement.” According to Milanese and Kordonowy in a recent column, out of 100 instructors in the Boston University program, “nearly half employed contract grading in some form this semester.” Milanese and Kordonowy, a master lecturer and senior lecture, respectively, say they still comment on students’ writing, although, they “…no longer place a letter or number on anything they write. No As and Bs. No 82s or 94s.”

Real Men Missing Emasculated conservatives calling for the restoration of America’s lost manhood are often the ones most responsible for destroying it. Conservative leadership today lacks strong men of courage who will, using solid first principles, face down the radical left. In other words, conservatism today has been emasculated. There is no better word for it. In a recent interview with Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson described the present Republican leadership: They’re weak. There’s something in them that’s weak, and they’ve decided… ‘The other side is ascended. The left is winning. I’m not gonna push any buttons that might infuriate them.’...

At a recent D.C. rally against vaccine mandates, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made himself into the latest object of acceptable public opprobrium when he said, “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did. Today the mechanisms are being put in place so none of us can run and none of us can hide.” Because of the Anne Frank comparison, Kennedy was subject to a now-predictable public castigation ritual, pilloried by everyone up to and including his own wife, and bludgeoned into an abject apology. The mass denunciation...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, Feb. 2. THE FOREIGN ADVICES. Notwithstanding the alarm and croakings of some of the foreign journals and letter-writers about the alone blockade, and other sinister reports, the dispatches received at the State Department are regarded as conclusive of a complete restoration of the entente cordiale between the United States and Great Britain, and of the best possible understanding of the Government of France, Italy, and other Continents States. The rumors which it is represented threw New-York into a panic yesterday are regarded here as inventions of the Secessionists in London and Paris. The communications which have been received...

Mayor Eric Adams said early Thursday that he will be asking President Biden for enough money to bring a “9/11 response” to the “pandemic” of gun crime on city streets. In a series of TV and radio appearances, Adams previewed what he hopes to address during his scheduled meeting with the commander-in-chief later Thursday, as the the White House also unveiled new plans to crack down on “ghost guns.”

In the next few days, the U.S. Senate is set to approve the nomination of former University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann as ambassador to Germany. It is the latest manifestation of President Joe Biden’s cozy relationship with the Ivy League school, and one that should raise ethical questions that Gutmann has yet to have to answer. After leaving office as vice president in January 2017, Biden embarked on the traditional course of major politicians from both parties: getting paid. Not two weeks after Biden’s term ended, Gutmann announced that Biden had been named the “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor”...

Mary Trump is the latest influencer to pull her podcast from Spotify following several days of controversy over the streaming platform’s support of Joe Rogan. Mary Trump is an author and psychologist, in addition to the niece of former President Donald Trump. Her podcast, called The Mary Trump Show, discusses politics and pop culture. “I'm removing my podcast from Spotify,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “I know it's not a big deal but hope it will be part of a growing avalanche.” Trump thanked Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Nils Lofgren, who were among the first people to pull their content...

The company’s new vehicle is not a sedan, but a large crossover/people carrier called XL. ======================================================================= VIDEO AT LINK........... We first heard of Fresco, a Norwegian EV startup named after the futurist and social engineer Jacque Fresco, back in 2019 when it showed off the design for a new electric sedan called the Fresco Reverie. And that was also the last time we heard of Fresco until today when the company teased a new design for a different EV with a claimed projected range of 1,000 km or about 620 miles on one charge. Called the Fresco XL, it is...

Danny De Urbina also captured video of Dr. Jill Biden leading her husband down from the podium by the hand. It’s kind of sweet. Actually, it’s not kind of sweet — watching him shuffle off like that is kind of scary.

Study finds racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Racial and ethnic minorities were more hesitant or unwilling to receive a COVID-19 vaccine compared to whites. But inequitable distribution of the vaccine in the U.S. also contributed to lower levels of vaccine uptake by minorities. People from racial and ethnic minorities in the United States and the United Kingdom were up to three times as likely to report being unsure or unwilling to get a COVID-19 vaccine during the initial vaccine rollout compared to white participants, found a study published in Nature Communications. But among those who wanted the...

Spike Lee is teaming up with ESPN for a documentary about Colin Kaepernick. Despite the fact nobody wants to watch garbage about the disgraced former 49ers quarterback, The Associated Press reported that Lee “will direct a multipart documentary for” the network that will include “extensive interviews” with Kaep.

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