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Instead of President Ronald Reagan saying ““Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” we need someone to tell President Biden and Federal Reserve Jerome Powell to “Stop driving up prices and making housing unaffordable.” Unfortunately, The Fed thinks that raising interest rates will temper price increases — it won’t. But it could tamper home price growth. So what we are left with is soaring home prices AND soaring mortgage rates, leaving this scary chart from Black Knight of monthly P&I payment to average purchase price of housing in the US. Its only going to get worse from here. Today’s jobs report...

The 26-year-old woman shot and seriously injured by Kansas City police on Friday is not pregnant, according to a local faith leader who said he is working with her family. “Leonna Hale is not, in fact, pregnant,” Rev. Timothy Hayes, pastor of the 24-hour Faith Training Center in Kansas City, said Thursday.

The cop in charge during the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre arrived without a police radio and immediately made the call to “fall back” rather than confront the gunman, a new report said.......

Last month, Bay Area counties announced that were opting not to mandate masks indoors amid the current uptick of COVID-19 cases, citing low hospitalization numbers, as well as the fact that the highly vaccinated region is well-protected against severe illness and death. On Thursday, Alameda County broke ranks by once again implementing an indoor mask mandate "to limit the impact of increasing COVID-19 cases on hospitalizations." The mandate, which takes effect June 3, applies to most indoor settings, save K-12 schools and the city of Berkeley, which sets its own health protocols. The state lifted its school mask mandate earlier...

[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit in Rome admits Francis is correcting JPII moral theology'It is fundamental to untie the knots of Veritatis Splendor'Julio Martinez, S.J.: Pope Francis “has introduced discernment in the concrete circumstances of marriage and family life."Amoris Laetitia, the apostolic exhortation published by Pope Francis in March 2016 after the two synods of bishops on the family, not only radically altered the church’s concrete pastoral approach to marriage and the family, it also opened new ways of doing moral theology in the 21st century, Julio Martinez, S.J., a Spanish priest and moral theologian, told America magazine in an exclusive interview....

Here's what to watch for.Film fans everywhere were shocked by the recent death of actor Ray Liotta, who reportedly died in his sleep on May 26 at the age of 67. This comes a few months after comedian Bob Saget, 65, died from a head injury while he was sleeping. While passing away during sleep seems peaceful and preferable to many, when it happens to people in their 60s (relatively young these days), it can seem scary. Although we don't know Liotta's cause of death, experts say 90% of sudden, unexpected deaths at night are caused by cardiac arrest. Here's...

Happy 3334th anniversary (Sunday) of G-d speaking to the Jewish people on Mt Sinai, and giving humanity the Ten Commandments. Now you know why there are so many Jewish CPAs....They just never stop counting.

911 dispatcher fired after allegedly hanging up on store employee during Buffalo shooting call The dispatcher shouted at an assistant office manager at Tops Friendly Market, asked why she was whispering and hung up, the employee said. The 911 dispatcher accused of hanging up on an employee calling for help during the supermarket shooting that killed 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, last month has been fired, officials said. The assistant office manager at Tops Friendly Market called 911 when a white gunman, 18, stormed the store on May 14 and opened fire.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is in mourning this week following the news that one of their own had lost their life at such a young age. Men’s lacrosse player Aidan Kaminska, who is just 19-years-old, has passed away. According to Kathy Reakes of Suffolk Daily Voice, Kaminska “died suddenly” on Monday at his family’s house. The cause of death is unknown. “The Massachusetts athletics department extends condolences to Aidan’s family, friends, teammates, and coaches,” the university said in a statement. “University resources are available for members of the UMass community to utilize during this challenging time.” In 2022, Kaminska...

I love to visit the desert southwest region, so I am fairly familiar with water issues in that part of the country. Two large reservoirs on the Colorado River, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, are both critically short of water after many years of high usage, mostly by the urban areas of southern Nevada from Lake Mead. As Lake Mead drops, water from Lake Powell is allowed to drain out at a relatively high rate, which also drains Lake Powell. Both are now fifty to sixty feet below their design (and former) levels, leaving a nasty "bathtub ring" of bleached...

A 61-year-old man has been charged with felony hate crimes after he allegedly both physically and verbally assaulted a female employee outside a phone store in Cupertino. Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced that a variety of charges have been filed against Clifford Stewart in the June 1st incident. Stewart faces assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, hate crimes, vandalism and threat against a police officer charges at his arraignment Friday afternoon. Authorities said Stewart removed a T-Mobile sign from the walkway leading to the store located on Stevens Creek Boulevard and tossed it into...

CISA has released an Industrial Controls Systems Advisory (ICSA) detailing vulnerabilities affecting versions of the Dominion Voting Systems Democracy Suite ImageCast X, which is an in-person voting system used to allow voters to mark their ballot. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities would require physical access to individual ImageCast X devices, access to the Election Management System (EMS), or the ability to modify files before they are uploaded to ImageCast X devices. Jurisdictions can prevent and/or detect the exploitation of these vulnerabilities by diligently applying the mitigations recommended in ICSA-22-154A, including technical, physical, and operational controls that limit unauthorized access or manipulation...

A woman was arrested on May 28 after she attacked a Starbucks customer and directed racial epithets towards a store manager, the Mountain View Police Department announced in a press release on Thursday. Daixin Neill Quan, 33, was arrested suspicion of misdemeanor battery and committing a hate crime. Mayor London Breed to march in SF Pride Parade Officers responded to a Starbucks on San Antonio Road. According to interviews with the victim and witnesses, Quan attacked a customer after noting that the customer spoke with an accent. Quan also went after a Starbucks manager, telling him to “go back to...

The unusual event unfolded last week at Temkin's Bar in Greenpoint, where video shows a crowd of horrified patrons looking on as Anchorage native Sarah Fulton picks up the possum. Inside the bar, pandemonium erupted as patrons jumped up from their tables screaming to escape the unexpected vermin. 'I mean everybody just lost their minds, we couldn't believe it was happening,' bartender Rachel Bessemer told the NBC affiliate. 'I grabbed my phone, didn't know who to call, I was like, 'this is not what people do.'' Fulton, who grew up in the Alaskan wilds but now lives in New York,...

A week has gone by but the stadium "fiasco" remains a hot issue in France, with new and harrowing accounts about the breakdown in law and order when the match had come to an end.

Explanation: With this creative astro-collaboration you can follow the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy as it bridges northern and southern hemisphere skies. To construct the expansive composite nightscape, skies over Observatorio El Sauce in Chile (top) were imaged on the same date but 6 hours later than the skies over the Saint-Veran observatory in the French Alps. The 6 hour time-lag allowed Earth's rotation to align the Milky Way above domes at the two sites. All exposures were made with similar cameras and lenses mounted on simple tripods. A faint greenish airglow is visible in the dark Chilean sky...

The great sin in what happened in Texas is that an 18-year-old with murder in his heart walked into a public school and shot to death 19 kids and two teachers. The great shock is what the police did—their incompetence on the scene and apparent lies afterward. This aspect has rocked the American people. Uvalde wasn’t an “apparent law-enforcement failure.” It is the biggest law-enforcement scandal since George Floyd, and therefore one of the biggest in U.S. history. Children, some already shot, some not, were trapped in adjoining classrooms. As many as 19 cops were gathered in the hall just...

Both of America's first two monkeypox patients had first experienced symptoms of the virus on May 4 In the coming days, cases started to appear around Europe, spurring officials to eventually test for the virus in mid-May Officials report that all but one U.S. case are among people who either had traveled internationally or were a close contact of another patient All but one case, in Northern Virginia, is among a man who has sex with other menTwo men that eventually became America's first two monkeypox cases had sought out treatment for rashes and warts multiple times before doctors finally...

Over the last two weeks, the United States has had three high-profile mass shootings, Buffalo, NY; Uvalde, TX; and Tulsa, OK. So naturally, the gun-grabbers are on the attack, and most Republican politicians are running like scalded dogs from any defense of the Second Amendment and the God-given right of free men and free women to own and carry the means to preserve their lives and the lives of others.There are reports that a bipartisan group of ten senators is working to come up with a gun-control package that will get 60 votes in the Senate. The Democrat contribution to...

The FBI on Friday arrested Trump’s advisor Dr. Peter Navarro at a DC-area airport. Navarro was on his way to Nashville when the Stasi took him into custody in a surprise ambush. According to media reports, Navarro told the judge that he doesn’t need a lawyer because he wants to represent himself. CNN reported: A federal grand jury has indicted former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate in the House January 6 committee’s investigation. During a court appearance in Washington, DC, on Friday, Navarro said that he still wants to represent...