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“I used to think when people cut me off it was because I was in a fancy car. These days when someone cuts me off, I wonder if it’s because of Elon.”

NATIONAL OATMEAL MUFFIN DAY Enjoy a delicious breakfast or snack on National Oatmeal Muffin Day. It’s an excellent way to celebrate on December 19th annually. #OatmealMuffinDay Known for its health benefits, millions of people start each day with an oatmeal muffin. Oatmeal includes health benefits for our hearts. Finding ways to incorporate it into our diets increases the opportunities to reap those benefits. Oatmeal muffins are another way to enjoy oatmeal. The American muffin is similar in size and shape to a cupcake. Recipes for oatmeal muffins began to appear in American cookbooks in the mid-1800s. Raisins, bananas, blueberries and...

Ed Baiden, who heads PPG’s traffic solution business, calls it “the beauty of our system in the U.S.” that each state has its own shade of yellow paint for road markings. “There’s a Kentucky yellow, a Pennsylvania yellow, an Iowa yellow,” Mr. Baiden said. And while the federal highway administration has spent years mulling a change in the width of those yellow stripes from a minimum of 4 inches to 6 inches, 24 states have already adopted the wider standard. And the rest are headed in that direction. And that means PPG gets to sell a lot more insert-state-here yellow...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMatthew 20Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time 17 Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, 18 “We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death 19 and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!” _______________________________________________________ New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International...

​President Biden, accompanied by family members, visited the gravesites of his first wife and infant daughter who were killed in a car crash 50 years ago Sunday.​ The president, first lady Jill Biden, daughter Ashley, son Hunter Biden and several grandchildren carrying a wreath attended Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church near the family’s Wilmington, Del., home. Following the “private family memorial Mass,” according to the White House, they walked over to the church graveyard where Neilia Biden and Naomi, who was 13 months old at the time of the accident, are buried. The president, 80,...

In the first Emmy Awards ceremony aimed at children, many of the speeches and award wins overwhelmingly promoted pro-LGBTQ content and other far-left concepts. Fox News reports that the Children’s and Family Emmy Awards, created by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and hosted over the course of two nights, is intended for children ranging from “infancy to age 15.” Of all the programs that received an award, one out of four featured characters or stories that involved sexual preference or gender identity. The host of the first night was TikTok influencer JoJo Siwa, who identifies as “pansexual;”...

We don’t even know every result of 2022 yet, but the 2024 election has already begun. On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump announced that he would seek a second nonconsecutive term as president. While it’s too early to predict Trump’s chances of going all the way, the former president is the current favorite to win the Republican primary again. But nothing is assured.

The first openly transgender woman set to be executed is pleading with Missouri Gov. Mike Parson for mercy because “she” claims to be “mentally ill.” Amber McLaughlin, now 49, was convicted of raping and murdering an ex-girlfriend in St. Louis County in 2003. At that time, “Amber” was Scott McLaughlin. The inmate “transitioned” in prison. McLaughlin says it’s a “sad thing” to be executed because of mental illness. “I don’t agree with it,” the inmate said. “People should know I’m mentally ill.” The anti-death penalty advocates want “her” life spared because McLaughlin is so brave.

Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International (MD4CE International) is grateful to His Excellency, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, for speaking to us and sharing his thoughts on the current global crisis, which began with the fraudulent concocted Covid-19 pandemic emergency, supported by and maintained by an evil military grade psychological operation, complete with the unashamed use of fear and shame propaganda, which was unleashed in a coordinated manner on the unsuspecting people of the entire world by their own governments in early 2020, with predictably cataclysmic results.

Colorado has a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage by: Gabrielle Franklin Posted: Dec 18, 2022 DENVER (KDVR) — President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law this week. The measure solidifies the federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriage, but the constitutional right to those marriages still relies on Supreme Court precedent. Before Coloradans were given the right to same-sex marriages in late 2014, just before the marriages became legal nationwide in 2015 , voters added language to ban the recognition of those marriages through a 2006 amendment in the state’s constitution. Now advocates are looking to...

Yes, there is a way. But is there the will? Most Americans know something has gone terribly wrong—and very abruptly—with the United States. They are certain that our wounds are almost all self-inflicted. The current pathologies are not a result of a natural disaster, an exhaustion of natural resources, plagues, or an existential war. Crushing national debt and annual deficits, spiraling food and fuel costs amid “normal” seven-percent-plus annual inflation, bread-and-circuses entitlements, a nonexistent border, a resurgence of racial tribalism, pandemic violent criminality, and humiliation abroad—all these pathologies are easily cited as symptoms of a sick patient. Our crises are...

Elon Musk should step down as head of Twitter, according to a poll conducted by the platform's billionaire owner on Twitter. In the poll, 57.5% said they believe Musk should step down, while 42.5% believe he should remain as head of the social media giant. More than 17.5 million users voted in the poll, which Musk ran from his own account. Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022 Shortly after posting the poll, Musk tweeted that "as the saying goes, be careful what...

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been linked to blood clotting in older individuals, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). FDA researchers, crunching data from a database of elderly persons in the United States, found that pulmonary embolism—blood clotting in the lungs—met the initial threshold for a statistical signal and continued meeting the criteria after a more in-depth evaluation. Three other outcomes of interest—a lack of oxygen to the heart, a blood platelet disorder called immune thrombocytopenia, and another type of clotting called intravascular coagulation—initially raised red flags, researchers said. More in-depth evaluations, such as comparisons with populations who...

Their vocabulary choices leave little to the imagination. The buzzwords read: major killing force, devastating impact, extremism, and aggression. That’s wartime language — so who’s the enemy? Well, the unvaccinated. According to Frank Bergman at Slay News: The World Health Organization (WHO) has labeled unvaccinated people a ‘major killing force globally’ in a new campaign being promoted on social media. The… new video… targets ‘anti-vaccine activism’ by blasting those who choose not to be vaccinated for supporting ‘anti-science aggression.’ The video features pediatrician and vaccine advocate Dr. Peter Hotez who laments the ‘devastating impact of misinformation and disinformation’ regarding Big...

Beijing accuses Japan’s ‘right-wing forces of colluding with certain countries to create tensions’ in South China Sea Strongly opposing what it called “military buildup” by Japan, China has said Tokyo has no justification for “creating hype on so-called China threat.” “Japan’s new defense policy documents disregard facts, deviate from its commitments on relations with China and the common understandings between the two countries, and smear China’s defense and normal military activities. China firmly rejects this,” Wang Wenbin, spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, has said on Friday. He was responding to Japan’s move to adopt an updated version of its national...

DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, NEW-ORLEANS, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1862. Our city, just at this time, presents a scene of no little excitement. It has been a matter of intense curiosity for nearly ten weeks to hear what Gen. BUTLER would do with the "registered enemies" in our midst, some two thousand or less. So long a time had elapsed since the memorable 23d of September, that a sort of notion prevailed that friends stood no better chance than enemies, but the delusion was dissipated a few days since by the following rather sugtive "Order": OFFICE OF PROVOST-MARSHAL GENERAL, NEW-ORLEANS, Dec....

The UK, the biggest supporter of Ukraine after the US is reconsidering its support for Ukraine. The same country which has given unwavering support to Ukraine till today is backing off from Ukraine. And, this step is being taken by Rishi Sunak. Let’s find out the crux of the move.According to BBC Newsnight, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has requested a data-driven assessment of the war’s development in Ukraine.Critics say that it makes little sense why is UK sending its military weapons to Ukraine when the war directly doesn’t concern it. According to information provided to BBC Newsnight, Volodymyr Zelensky, the...

Failing to faithfully execute and enforce the laws of the land does not take much energy. By the time you read this, the U.S. is on course to be trampled by at least 15,000 illegal entries every day. At half that rate, by November, 14 Customs and Border Protection agents had committed suicide this year. The fentanyl flowing past beleaguered officers is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 49. Declaring a state of emergency in a city where as many as 30 people at a time are popping out of manholes, El Paso mayor Oscar...

Monday 19 December 202219 December St. Anthony Church, Korets, Ukraine Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingJudges 13:2-7,24-25 ©'You will conceive and bear a son'There was a man of Zorah of the tribe of Dan, called Manoah. His wife was barren, she had borne no children. The angel of the Lord appeared to this woman and said to her, ‘You are barren and have had no child. But from now on take great care. Take no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean. For you will conceive and bear a son. No razor is to touch his...