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After a long mission in Europe, a soldier returned to his Fort Stewart barracks only to discover mold had completely consumed his room. The infestation wasn't only on the walls; his bags and bed turned black and green, encrusted in mold. Most of his belongings were ruined. Broken air conditioners in the sweltering, humid Georgia heat; poor ventilation; and little to no barracks maintenance have created a decades-long breeding ground for mold, which soldiers repeatedly try to clean to no avail. "This is the reason a lot of us are getting out," the soldier who found his room blanketed in...

...The debate raises the question of how long Hollywood producers and unions will keep the costly and time-consuming measures in place.... “SAG-AFTRA has continued to see a small but vocal minority spread misinformation that certainly makes it harder to do the work of the union,” said one board member, who declined to be identified because they were not authorized to comment. “That has been a challenge for the union overall. The National Board has been consistent. The union has continued to keep people safe and get people back to work.” However, Drescher, by opening the topic to debate, is giving...

President Joe Biden attempted to put historic levels of inflation "in perspective" on Sunday, arguing that last week's inflation number was up "hardly at all" from the previous month. When asked by CBS's Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes Sunday what he could do "better and faster" to bring down price increases, Biden said that the 8.3% annual inflation rate revealed last Tuesday was "just an inch" higher than the previous report and that people shouldn't act shocked at the number. "Mr. President, as you know, last Tuesday the annual inflation rate came in at 8.3%. The stock market nosedived. People...

Joe Biden declared the Covid pandemic is over in a sit-down interview with “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday evening. (snip) So will all the unvaccinated federal workers and healthcare workers get their jobs back?

The latest endlessly recurring mantra of Democratic politicians and press is that some position articulated by the opposition is a threat to “our Democracy.” I suppose that those words must resonate with some people, or otherwise they would not be so endlessly repeated. Of course the statement is fundamentally wrong, because we don’t actually have a “Democracy,” but rather a Constitutional Republic. Having a Democracy would mean that a 50.1% voting majority can do whatever it wants to the hated 49.9%, including locking the 49.9% permanently out of power. The whole idea of the Constitutional Republic is to keep that...

How do you know an interview went very, very wrong? When the people who support the person being interviewed go silent on social media, which is what has been happening since Joe Biden’s 60-Minutes interview that aired Sunday night. Here are the six biggest takeaways: Biden Thinks His Disapproval Rating Is So High Because the People Have Mental Issues The Gateway Pundit – “Your approval rating in the country is well below 50% and I wonder why you think that is,” Scott Pelley said. “It’s a really difficult time,” Biden said. “We’re in an inflection point in the history of...

Many have noted the suspicious and very convenient timing regarding Azerbaijan-Armenia hostilities which serve as an additional distraction for Russia amid its special military operation in Ukraine and its ongoing operations in Syria. In addition to a recent visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Armenia, anti-CSTO protests promoted by US government-funded media organizations in Armenia point toward events being much more than convenient timing and instead similar to US-engineered unrest seen in Ukraine in 2014.

If dystopia becomes reality, does it cease becoming dystopia? And who makes the decision? Throughout our long American history, we citizens have been blessed with the right to think anything we wanted about anything and anyone we wanted. We were even allowed to hot wire our thoughts to our larynxes and give voice to those beliefs in public venues. Granted, our openness always came at a price, and while it was generally a small price that took the form of polite criticism, the freedom was protected by everyone and it was ours. Those of us who chose to base our...

Two different federal courts, in two different Circuit Courts of appeal, have refused to grant preliminary injunctions against the implementation of the ATF “Final Rule.” The Final Rule completely changes the definition of a firearm in Federal law. On August 23, in the United States Court for the Eastern District of North Dakota, in the Eighth Circuit, Judge Peter D. Welte refused to grant a preliminary injunction against the massive changes to federal law proposed in the “Final Rule” put forward by the Biden Administration, through the ATF.On August 24, 2022, the District Court for the Galveston Division of the...

CENTREVILLE, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 17. A great battle has been fought, and we are victorious. I had the honor to open it yesterday afternoon, and it continued until 10 o'clock this morning, when I was wounded, and compelled to quit the field. The battle was fought with great violence on both sides. The carnage has been awful. I only regret that I was not permitted to take part in the operations until they were concluded for I had counted on either capturing their army or driving them into the Potomac. My wound has been painful, but it is not one...

Just as Cuba did during the 1980’s Mariel boat lift, the Venezuelans are seeing our open borders as an opportunity to clean house. Last week, Monica Showalter wrote about her suspicion that Venezuela is taking a page out of Cuba’s book and emptying its prisons, with instructions to the departing prisoners to head for America. On Sunday, Sara Carter published a post confirming that a DHS intelligence report has been warning the Border Patrol to be on the lookout for violent criminals in Venezuela’s caravans (although how they’re supposed to identify them must remain a mystery). On Thursday, Monica wrote:...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 4 Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness 4 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[a] by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” 4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’[b]” 5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand...

...now control the eastern bank of the Oskil River in the Kharkiv region, while Moscow continues to launch attacks against civilian infrastructure in Ukraine following its military setbacks in the country’s east. Strategic Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces posted a video on social media on Sunday that appeared to show an armored vehicle crossing the river, along with the message, “Ukraine controls the left bank.” The claim suggests Ukraine’s push east is continuing after its forces seized about 3,500 square miles of territory in the northeastern Kharkiv region in a lightning offensive earlier this month that put Moscow on...

Perhaps MAGA Americans are denounced as "extremists" precisely because they demand real change from their government. The midterm elections are only weeks away. The Democrats are in complete control of the House, Senate, and presidency. Donald Trump's name appears nowhere near a November ballot. Yet the only things Democrats talk about are the former president and his "Make America Great Again" voters. It is as if Joe Biden's and Nancy Pelosi's political troops have no interest in touting their successes in opening the Southern border to endless illegal immigration, promoting divisive lockdowns and "vaccine" mandates, passing a Green New Deal...

Relax, Jonathan. This was liberal paranoia on steroids. On his Sunday Show on MSNBC this week, saying that the prospect of a constitutional convention, something advocated by many conservatives and Republicans, "scared the hell out of me," and really "blew my mind," Jonathan Capehart actually expressed this concern: "The one thing that folks need to understand is any rights that have been granted under the Constitution, even as an amendment, such as granting full U.S. citizenship to the former slaves, would be up for grabs in a constitutional convention! "And with the way folks [i.e., conservatives] are acting right now,...

In the left's perpetual march toward the Constitution's bonfire, the Biden administration is now asking the FBI to create crimes where none exists. In the dearth of actual "right-wing extremism," the left's January 6 narrative that the country is flooded with "semi-fascists" and "extremists" is falling apart. In order to shore it up again, to excuse his disastrous presidency, Biden needs imaginary villains. No doubt his puppeteers hope to incite violence to preclude the November election's red wave. Our Constitution prohibits any infringement of our right to own and use firearms for hunting, target practice, competitions, or self-defense. But now...

“The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; and to those who were selling the doves He said, ‘Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.’ His disciples remembered that it was...

The analysis by the Academy of Sciences shows correlation between anti-vaccine and pro-Russian views. A narrow majority of Slovaks would rather welcome the victory of Russia than Ukraine. According to the Slovak website Denník N, this is shown by data from a survey conducted in July on a sample of thousands of people by researchers from the agencies MNFORCE, Seesame and the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Respondents were asked who they would like to win the war in Ukraine on a ten-point scale, with 1 being "clear victory for Russia" and 10 being "clear victory for Ukraine". At least partially,...

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September 19th 2022 Monday of week 25 in ordinary time Church of Mary, Queen of Poland, in Zamosc, Poland / Parafia pw. Matki Bożej Królowej Polski w ZamościuReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingProverbs 3:27-34 ©The Lord blesses the home of the virtuousMy son, do not refuse a kindness to anyone who begs it, if it is in your power to perform it.Do not say to your neighbour, ‘Go away! Come another time! I will give it you tomorrow’, if you can do it now.Do not plot harm against your neighbour as he lives unsuspecting next door.Do not pick a...