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At a press briefing, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) roasted President Biden's response to his sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

“God Desires All People to Be Saved” (1 Timothy 2:1-15)From time to time the Pew Research Center, an organization that tracks religious trends in America, comes out with a new study. This past week they issued their latest report, called “Modeling the Future of Religion in America: How the U.S Religious Landscape Could Change over the Next 50 Years.” Based on findings from recent decades, they are projecting how things could look in the future if current trends continue. The main question in this study is what percentage of Americans will identify as Christians in the future. Going back to...

As Oregon election officials are busy preparing for a November election with pivotal races for Congress and the Legislature, they’ve found themselves buried in a wave of records requests and letters threatening lawsuits. The flurry of paperwork is part of a national campaign by right-wing election deniers to complicate or undermine their work, they say. The Oregon Secretary of State’s office received more than 200 records requests in July and August, more than triple the usual amount, said Ben Morris, a spokesperson for the office. Some county election clerks report they also have been hit with a barrage of records...

It is the final rocket of its kind expected to launch from the base The launch window is scheduled to open at 1:50 p.m. on Sept. 24. Col. Bryan Titus, Space Launch Delta 30 vice commander, will be the launch decision authority. The Delta IV Heavy rocket is one of the world's most powerful rockets, Space Launch Delta 30 officials said. The NROL would be the tenth Delta IV from Vandenberg.

Chinese engineers have conducted a successful hot fire test of a new, powerful engine for the nation's planned super heavy-lift rocket for moon missions. The closed-cycle rocket engine uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for propellant and can generate 25 tons of thrust, making it one of the most powerful such engines ever made, according to the engine’s developer. The engine was developed(opens in new tab) by an institute specializing in liquid propulsion under the ownership of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), China’s state-owned main space contractor. The engine is believed to be designed to power the...

Two years ago, as violent protests shook Asheville and other cities after George Floyd was murdered while in Minneapolis police custody, the Asheville City Council and the Buncombe County Commission passed resolutions in support of reparations for Black residents, to make amends for historic discrimination. Acting at the same time, California established a task force to study and develop a plan for reparations in that state. Last week, the task force overseeing California’s reparations effort released the first part of its work: a landmark 500-page report documenting nearly two centuries of systemic discrimination imposed by the state, the harm it...

The meltdown over the 50 illegals flown to Martha’s Vineyard is fun to watch. On Wednesday, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two planes carrying illegal immigrants to the island of Martha’s Vineyard. The racist white limousine liberals on Martha’s Vineyard are not happy about their new poor, brown neighbors. Martha’s Vineyard Homeless Shelter Coordinator Lisa Belcastro melted down over the 50 illegals during an interview with the Cape Cod Times. “The difficult challenges are — we have to, at some point in time they [illegals] have to move from here to somewhere else – we cannot, we don’t have...

Giving an entirely new meaning to the term “collaboration,” Oracle has become a paying customer of Amazon Web Services as part of Larry Ellison’s strategy to make Oracle’s databases available on as many cloud platforms as possible. Ellison opened his remarks on this week’s earnings call by describing the availability of Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave database on AWS and emphasized repeatedly the imperative of customer choice. Declaring that “the multi-cloud era has begun,” Ellison said, “Our job is to give our customers the ability to choose application and infrastructure technology from multiple cloud providers, and then have those different clouds coexist...

First lady Jill Biden plans to host an event for Hispanic Heritage Month but has not made any comments on the celebration just three months after being mocked for comparing Latinos to "breakfast tacos." "Yes, the first lady will host a Hispanic Heritage Month reception at the White House and continue to engage the community as she travels the country," Elizabeth Alexander, communications director for the first lady, told Fox News Digital Friday. The date and further details of the reception have not been announced. Despite plans to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Jill Biden is yet to make any public...

A man who appeared on a food reality show screened by Oprah's network has been convicted of taking out a hit on his nephew for a $450,000 life insurance policy. James Norman, 43, appeared on Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s next to his mother Robbie Montgomery, which was aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) for nine seasons. And on Friday, he was convicted of murder. After deliberating for three days, a jury convicted him of arranging the shooting murder of his nephew Andre Montgomery in March 2016. The reality star was charged with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, murder-for-hire and conspiracy...

On Thursday morning two busloads of over 100 illegal aliens were dropped off at Border Czar Kamala Harris’s residence in Washington DC. Since Kamala won’t visit the border, the border was brought to her doorstep

Explanation: The Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured images to create this mosaic on August 4, 2022. The car-sized robot was continuing its exploration of the fan-shaped delta of a river that, billions of years ago, flowed into Jezero Crater on Mars. Sedimentary rocks preserved in Jezero's delta are considered one of the best places on Mars to search for potential signs of ancient microbial life and sites recently sampled by the rover, dubbed Wildcat Ridge and Skinner Ridge, are at lower left and upper right in the frame. The samples taken from these areas were sealed inside ultra-clean sample tubes, ultimately...

Bishop Schneider rebukes Pope Francis’ remarks at ecumenical meeting: Catholicism is ‘the one true religion’The auxiliary bishop of Astana made numerous, clear comments to the media on the primacy of the Catholic Church.NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Athanasius Schneider has hit back at the ecumenical Congress Pope Francis recently attended, saying that Catholicism is “the only one true religion which God commanded to all people to believe.”Speaking to EWTN’s Alexey Gotovskiy outside the Archdiocese of Astana’s Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the auxiliary bishop awaited the arrival of Pope Francis to a meeting with Kazakhstan’s Catholic clergy. “We’re...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked war against Ukraine nearly seven months ago, he significantly underestimated the willingness of Western governments to become involved in the conflict between two Soviet neighbors, an expert on Russia told Insider. ... Experts told Insider's John Haltiwanger that Russia's strategic defeat throughout the war thus far has "dramatically" altered perceptions of Russia's military strength and may ultimately put Putin's regime in jeopardy. "All of this is pretty humiliating for Putin, as it should be," Miles said. "This is legitimate humiliation on the world stage."

One of the biggest social media platforms in the world has allegedly been spying on the private messages and personal data of users who believe that voter fraud took place in the 2020 election, and has subsequently been handing this information over to the FBI. According to the New York Post, the alleged surveillance operation by Facebook and its coordination with the government was confirmed by several anonymous sources in the Department of Justice (DOJ). The sources allege that employees at Facebook have been red-flagging any suspicious private messages over the last 19 months, sending the information directly to the...

"But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." "What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion." "Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For...

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is eyeing a laundry list of tasks as it seeks to pull together a legislative package to prevent future insurrections. The committee for months has touted the legislative purpose to its investigation — a key detail as various subpoena recipients have sought to skirt compliance with the panel.

A civilian military contractor, Craig Benson (Audie Murphy), returns to the Philippines during World War II to search for his wife, Ruth (Dolores Michaels), who went missing two years earlier when the Japanese invaded the country. Benson braves treachery, Japanese forces and the hellish jungle as he tries to bring his wife back alive. In his search, Benson meets Filipino rebel fighter Julio (Alejandro Rey), who knows where Ruth is. The only problem is that https://thane62.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/audie-murphy-and-dolores-michaels-in-battle-at-bloody-beach-1961-large-picture.jpg?w=1024&h=773

[Catholic Caucus] Astana: Rigid Francis Is Still Obsessed with RigidityFrancis who is a nostalgic of the failed Vatican II, delivered another rigidity rant on September 15 when telling the local clergy at Astana Cathedral, not to be "nostalgic," not "to be stuck in the past” and not to be "paralysed and immobile.”In a complaining, rigid, ideological and moralising attitude, Francis insisted on a Church that is “uncomplaining, rejecting rigidity, dogmatism and moralising.”He insisted on giving more room to the laity “lest our communities become rigid or clerical” - but did not say where the money should come from to pay...

New research from University College London (now formally known as London’s Global University) warns that so-called “green energy” and the political push behind it is driving a shortage of sulfuric acid, a fertilizer component also found in lithium-ion batteries. Published in Geographic Journal, the study reveals that upwards of 80 percent of the global supply of sulfur comes from the desulfurization of fossil fuels, which the climate brigade has pronounced as evil because they are supposedly heavy polluters.The push to “decarbonize” the planet in order to cool it and prevent global warming and climate change is making sulfur much harder...