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24 July 202217th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Maroun Chapel - above St. Charbel's tomb, Lebanon Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(II).First readingGenesis 18:20-32 ©Abraham negotiates with the LordThe Lord said, ‘How great an outcry there is against Sodom and Gomorrah! How grievous is their sin! I propose to go down and see whether or not they have done all that is alleged in the outcry against them that has come up to me. I am determined to know.’ The men left there and went to Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the Lord. Approaching him he said, ‘Are...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is saying it has performed vaccine safety data mining and analyses since early 2021, a reversal from a recent letter. The CDC said in an operating procedures document dated Jan. 29, 2021, that it “will perform” a type of data mining analysis of vaccine safety data called Proportional Reporting Ratio (PRR). The public health agency also said it would conduct routine surveillance of the data, which is being logged into the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. The data mining and surveillance were aimed at detecting adverse events occurring at higher-than-expected rates....

“Then a scribe came and said to Him, ‘Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.’ Jesus said to him, ‘The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head’” (Matthew 8:19–20). The issue of commitment is one to be evaluated very carefully. The scribe here was an authority on Jewish law and a close ally of the Pharisees. As such he would have broken with his allies had he become one of Jesus’ true disciples. He knew a decision like that would be costly, and thus...

Former President Donald Trump highlighted the “stark” economic contrast between his administration’s “amazing success” and President Joe Biden’s “breathtaking failure” while speaking at the Save America rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona, Friday night.“You could take the five worst presidents in American history and put them together, and they would not have done the damage Joe Biden has done to our country in less than two short years,” Trump said early in his remarks, which were streamed by C-SPAN. “Less than two years ago, when I was in office, gas — gasoline — a thing called gasoline … nobody wants to...

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Paris (AFP) – Air-conditioned shops in France will be ordered to keep their doors closed or risk being fined, a minister said Sunday announcing an upcoming rule to combat energy wastage. Leaving the doors open when the air conditioning is on leads to "20 percent more consumption and... it's absurd," French Minister of Ecological Transition Agnes Pannier-Runacher told RMC radio. The minister said there were also plans to restrict the use of illuminated signs. "In the coming days, I will issue two decrees: the first will widen the ban on illuminated advertising, whatever the size of the city, between 1...

The Jan. 6 Committee began the dramatic finale of its summer series Thursday night with the announcement of a second season after its seven two-hour show trials failed to yield the desired results of partisan panel members. “We have far more evidence to share with the American people and more to gather,” said committee Vice-Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., at the onset of the hearing, which was supposed to be a final performance. The following two and a half hours, however, illustrated why lawmakers might feel their work is unfinished: The finale failed to be the summer showstopper it was made...

As a single mom with a full-time job, Wendy Ahrenkiel had little time for politics. But after the 2020 election, when Joe Biden was declared President, she felt cheated — and found the time. Ahrenkiel, 47, has heard the arguments in the mainstream media about how claims of a stolen election in 2020 are unsupported by credible evidence. But she still doesn’t buy it. “I thought that there's a lot of funny things that went on with the election,” she told CNN. “That made me just do my own research.” That research led her to talk politics with friends —...

The authors of a New York University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice report on digital identity systems warned of “severe and potentially irreversible” human rights violations and argued for open debate “with full transparency and involving all relevant stakeholders.” The authors of a new report on digital identity systems warned “the actual and potential” human rights violations arising from the digital ID model can be “severe and potentially irreversible.” The 100-page report — “Paving the Road to Hell? A Primer on the Role of the World Bank and Global Networks in Promoting Digital ID” — published by New...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s largest school district will require universal masking on school property as Jefferson County moves into the highest level of COVID-19 community spread. The change begins Monday and lasts until Jefferson County comes out of the red, media outlets reported. It comes a little more than two weeks before classes resume in Jefferson County Public Schools. Everyone, regardless of vaccination status, will be required to wear a mask on district property or on school buses.

Clearly, we the people are not in charge. Liars and deceivers are in charge. A tiny minority believe every lie. They are the true believers who have no sense of self worth beyond the blandishments of their seducers. This makes them irrational fanatics, unphased by reason, reality, or truth. They cling to lies as their only hope. They believe lies knowing they are lies but believing that only in lies can they find any truth. They are madly, wildly insane and will not tolerate any challenge to their convictions. I know women like this who will only believe the fraud...

In his previous update on Biden’s health, O’Connor said the president had an elevated temperature of 99.4 F on Thursday evening. This morning Biden’s Covid coordinator (the one that told us that Biden ate all of his food and showed him the plate) announced that Biden has mild respiratory lines due to Covid! Of course, the media weren’t interested in asking how respiratory lines could be mild!

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen conceded that the economy is 'slowing down' on Friday amid fears of a looming financial downturn - but denied the country was in the midst of a recession. She also defended the slowdown as 'necessary' in the longterm health of the economy. The senior Biden official was asked on NBC News' Meet The Press whether Americans should be 'preparing' for a recession.

...While Black voters remain overwhelmingly allied with the Democratic Party, some, especially older churchgoers, have a conservative streak when it comes to social issues like abortion. The best way to communicate to those members of her community, Ms. Smith-Pollard and other faith leaders said not long before the court ruled to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion, would be to frame the response as not just a matter of abortion, but rather as part of a broader movement to restrict individual rights, including voting, marriage and control over one’s own body. The most effective message for her community “would be...

Critical elements of one of the most cited pieces of Alzheimer’s disease research in the last two decades may have been purposely manipulated, according to a report in Science. **SNIP** The highly influential paper, which was published in Nature in 2006, has helped guide billions of dollars in US federal government research into Alzheimer’s, according to Science. The study, which looked at cognitive decline in mice, proposed that a specific amyloid protein may be responsible for cognitive decline. The hypothesis has since dominated the field, and researchers have worked for years to understand the mechanism by which such proteins may...

The public health industrial complex (PHIC) has been around longer than most folks would be willing to believe. They want to think that the local doctor is theirs and not beholden to a corporate behemoth colluding with the state or federal government, but that’s incredibly rare. The triad of hospitals, insurance companies, and big Pharma is not new. Daniel Horowitz has been exposing it for years. They have a lot of clout and influence. In a tiny state like New Hampshire, they’ve secured an effective monopoly making health care competition nearly impossible. The result has been a decline in care...

Given the news of President Biden’s case of Covid, Mr. Techno Fog cruelly excavated the videos below of Biden lecturing us that the spread of the virus represents a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” see videos My friend Kevin Roche holds down the fort at Healthy Skeptic. As I have many times before, I asked Kevin what it all means. He has graciously responded to my request for advice regarding Biden’s illness. Kevin writes (below the break): * * * * * President Biden’s Covid-19 infection should be an opportunity for widespread reconsideration of the value of a number of epidemic...

You might have noticed that the media has sort of taken a little interest in the Hunter Biden debacle. NewsweekDOJ Will Take Action Against Hunter Biden Within 2 Months: RepresentativeThe HillIs the clock finally running out on Hunter Biden?Yahoo: Secret Service Responds to Graphic Hunter Biden Photos, VideosPage SixHunter Biden’s marriage to Melissa Cohen is on the rocksCNNFederal investigation of Hunter Biden reaches critical juncture, sources sayAfter smothering the story for a few years, why is their curiosity piqued now?Because they know it's going to amount to nothing. There is a reason the DOJ is leaking, and it has specifically...

“And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:42, 43). As Jesus hung on the cross, dying for the sin of the world, two criminals hung on either side of Him. Condemned for their crimes, they too would die that day. But one of them ultimately recognized who Jesus was. It was that criminal who called Him “Lord”. The Greek word for Lord Is “Kyrios” which is a title given to God, the Messiah. And...

Three people were arrested in Boston after a group of masked white supremacists clashed with counter-protesters at a “drag queen story time” event for kids on Saturday, reports said. One of the three arrested for disturbing the peace was reportedly the leader of the Nationalist Social Club, or NSC 131, which is categorized as a New England-based neo-Nazi group by the Anti-Defamation League. The other two arrested were apparently counter-protesters who clashed with the 131 members in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood on Saturday afternoon. The protests began outside an event at Loring Greenough House, with videos showing members of NSC...