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WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Ilhan Omar has cancelled a planned rally to support the victims of the East Palestine chemical spill after learning East Palestine is actually in America.

US inflation is causing The Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, and mortgage applications are suffering. Mortgage applications decreased 7.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending February 10, 2023. The Refinance Index decreased 13 percent from the previous week and was 76 percent lower than the same week one year ago. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 6 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index decreased 5 percent compared with the previous week and was 43 percent lower than the same week...

A group-wide IT system failure at Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) stranded thousands of passengers on Wednesday, which the German airline blamed on underground engineering works at a railway station in Frankfurt cutting several fibre optic cables. Repairs would take until Wednesday afternoon according to Lufthansa, citing information it had received from Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) . It expects flight operations to stabilise by early evening. Photos and videos from several German airports showed thousands of passengers waiting to be checked in.

TheBible InPaintings ~ Encouragement for Appreciating and Applying God's Word ~ •Drawings•Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Statues•Tapestries•Windows• JESUS’ AGONY IN THE GARDEN ֎ Featuring 28 Paintings ֎ L U K E Chapter 22 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and his disciples followed him. On reaching the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.” He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him....

Cockpit audio of pilots trying to figure out what the unidentified object over Lake Huron has been released. The audio was authenticated by the US Airforce. The US military decommissioned another “object” over Lake Huron on Sunday. The Pentagon said the ‘octagon-shaped’ object shot down on Sunday likely fell into Canadian waters on Lake Huron. No debris has been recovered. “I wouldn’t really call it a balloon… I don’t know what… I can see it outside with my eyes,” one pilot said. “It’s so slow and so small you can’t see it.” “It’s just some kind of dark object. You...

Almost exactly two years ago today, the New York Times ran an article headlined: “Biden and Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind.” That story has not aged well. Neither have the troika of ideologues and imbeciles behind the rebirth of ‘70s-era inflation. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that prices climbed 0.5% in January, which is up from December’s 0.1% hike. Prices were up 6.4% over the year before, which is higher than economists had been predicting and comes amid warnings that inflationary pressures are building again. This all comes one week after President Biden reassured the nation...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A rock that serves as a point of reference and billboard on Michigan State University's campus was repainted with a new message in the early hours of Feb. 15, 2023, hours after a mass shooting on the university's East Lansing campus. 'Allow Us to Defend Ourselves and Carry On Campus' is the message now spray-painted across 'The Rock' at MSU, with the paint appearing around 24 hours after a message asking 'How Many More?' was painted on.

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemMark 4A Lamp on a Stand21 He said to them, “Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? 22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. 23 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”24 “Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. 25 Whoever has will be given more; whoever does...

Ushi and Jacob were good children, full of giving, doing mitzvot [good deeds] with a full sack of mitzvot in heaven. Angel children. They received an education that the best thing to do is acts-of-kindness, mitzvot and Torah study. It was deep and rooted in them. They had an amazing character... these children are holy in the way that God decided to gather them to Him. Our message is to be united under faith, that everything is for the best and under Divine providence. The shatter is great, but the judgment is accepted with love.

Alternatives to terms like “male” and “female” and “mother” and “father” should be sought in science because they assume that sex is binary and heterosexuality is the norm, a group of researchers from the US and Canada suggests. Male and female should instead be referred to as “sperm-producing” and “egg-producing,” the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Language Project said, according to the Times of London. Meanwhile, father and mother should be labeled “parent,” “egg donor” and “sperm donor” in the scientific field. The group has called on the scientific field to use words that are more “inclusive and precise,” according...

A new study published in Nature Geoscience by geophysicists Yi Yang and Xiadong Song of Peking University in Beijing explored the nature of movement of Earth’s inner core, largely made up of iron and molten liquids. They found the inner core’s movement recently reduced enough they consider it “paused,” all part of what “seems to be associated with a gradual turning back of the inner core as a part of an approximately seven-decade oscillation.” The last turning point was in the early 1970s. The new study further tracked seismic waves through the core to see how they played out on...

Support among the American public for providing Ukraine weaponry and direct economic assistance has softened as the Russian invasion nears a grim one-year milestone, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Forty-eight percent say they favor the U.S. providing weapons to Ukraine, with 29% opposed and 22% saying they’re neither in favor nor opposed. In May 2022, less than three months into the war, 60% of U.S. adults said they were in favor of sending Ukraine weapons. Americans are about evenly divided on sending government funds directly to Ukraine, with 37% in favor...

China claims that corona virus came from an old bat, but Nancy Pelosi denies being involved. "Payday" candy bar is changing its name because it's offensive to those who don't work If the current power grid can't handle a night of 20 degrees temperatures without rolling blackouts, how are we going to plug-in 100 million electric cars at night? Are there any countries that tax their citizens and send some of it to Americans? Imagine, if you will, a world where every tweet and meme must be fact checked but not a ballot. How to stop drunk drivers from killing...

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Earlier today, we wrote about Anthony McRae’s history with weapons charges and were incorrect when we called him a convicted felon … Not because we didn’t do our homework (and not because the newspaper we received the info from didn’t do THEIR homework), but because then George Soros-backed prosecutor Carol Siemon dismissed the felony charge. No, really. He did indeed serve time but on a misdemeanor charge THANKS to Siemon. Anthony McRae, the Michigan State shooter, was charged in June 2019 with illegally carrying a concealed handgun without a permit, but later had those charges dismissed by George Soros-backed prosecutor...

15 February 2023 Wednesday of week 6 in Ordinary Time Saint Claude la Colombière chapel in Paray-le-Monial, Saône-et-Loire, France Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First readingGenesis 8:6-13,20-22 ©The dove returnsAt the end of forty days Noah opened the porthole he had made in the ark and he sent out the raven. This went off, and flew back and forth until the waters dried up from the earth. Then he sent out the dove, to see whether the waters were receding from the surface of the earth. The dove, finding nowhere to perch, returned to him in the ark, for...

We continue our extracts from the latest Southern papers which have come to hand: THE ENGAGEMENT OFF CHARLESTON. The Charleston Courier, of Feb. 2, has a full account of the recent affair off that port. The Courier says "the countenances of the dwellers in our ancient city have not beamed with so bright a light as they did on Saturday morning, since the joyous news was passed from mouth to mouth that Maj. ANDERSON had struck his flag, and Fort Sumter had yielded to Gen. BEAUREGARD." We annex the account of an eye witness: At 11 o'clock, Friday night, the...

It is gratifying to see a few other commentators starting to notice the dramatic contrasts between New York and Florida in government spending and policy outcomes. Here at Manhattan Contrarian, I first covered the subject in December 2020, with a post titled “Contrast Between New York And Florida.” I followed that up with reviews of the respective state budgets in April 2021 (“State Budget Time In New York And Florida”). And now others are weighing in. The Wall Street Journal had a lead editorial on the subject on February 9, with the headline “New York vs. Florida, By the Numbers.”...

If you thought prices were rising faster than the BLS said, you were right. Let's discuss revisions.Each year with the release of the January CPI, seasonal adjustment factors are recalculated to reflect price movements from the just-completed calendar year. This routine annual recalculation may result in revisions to seasonally adjusted indexes for the previous 5 years. [And it did in spades] Recalculated seasonally adjusted indexes as well as recalculated seasonal adjustment factors for the period January 2018 through December 2022 were made available on Friday, February 10, 2023.All Items as Reported and RevisedDecember as Reported -0.1, As Revised +0.1 November...

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