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Laughable: For the Synod, Homosexuals and Roman Rite Catholics Are "Marginalised"The seven continental meetings convened to prepare for the Synod on Synodality presented their final documents by 15 April. Homosexualism plays a key role in them.The North American meeting speaks of the need for "greater inclusivity", citing homosexual sinners and Roman Rite Catholics as examples.It wants to welcome "marginalised people" into the Church, "especially when it comes to our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters". This is pure sarcasm, since the "marginalised" are not the homosexuals backed by the oligarchs, but those who are critical of the vice.The document exaggerates a "...

Mauser also told CNN he had been told by Monahan there were mulitple vehicles which pulled into his driveway, including a motorcycle, and that they were “revving engines [and] coming up the driveway at a high rate of speed.” He claimed this “created an atmosphere and a fear that there was menace going on,” for Monahan. Mauser said he was informed of Gillis’ death and the charge his client was facing after he made contact with authorities. It was then he made arrangements for Monahan to surrender, the attorney said. Monahan is accused of firing from his porch after the...

WOOD RIVER, Neb. (KSNB/Gray News) - One employee is dead, while another employee, along with three contractors, were sent to the hospital on Monday after an explosion at the Green Plains Ethanol Plant in Wood River. The employee was fatally injured at the facility “during routine maintenance and repairs on a whole stillage tank,” said a Green Plains spokesperson. The spokesperson said the plant was not operational at the time of the explosion. Hall County Emergency Manager Jon Rosenlund told KSNB that just before 2:45 p.m., a 911 came into the dispatch center about the explosion Rosenlund said Wood River...

The number of housing starts tumbled in March, an indication that the housing market is taking a hit and may be falling into a recession. Housing starts measure the change in the number of new residential buildings that began construction. Starts fell 17.2% from March 2022 to this past month, according to a Tuesday report from the Census Bureau. They are now at 1.42 million. From February to March, they fell 0.8%. Additionally, permits to build, which are seen as a proxy for future construction, decreased by 8.8% in March. “We expect choppiness for single-family construction in the months ahead,...

Colorado’s election chief was shot down by her own party leaders after demanding the Democrat-controlled legislature adopt a measure to chill future recount efforts. Adding insult to injury, the Democrats added what we like to call the “shut up and sit down” provision telling Secretary of State Jena Griswold to stop using taxpayer dollars to promote her own vain self for reelection. We’re giving Colorado Senate President Steve Fenberg a rare standing ovation on this one. PeakNation will recall that Griswold blew more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars to fund a blatantly political reelection TV commercial last year featuring...

The Rev. Charles F. Stanley, a past president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination and a noted evangelical TV and radio broadcaster, died Tuesday at age 90, In Touch Ministries announced. No cause of death was given, but the group said Mr. Stanley passed away at 7:30 a.m. He served 50 years as senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta starting in 1971, having joined as associate pastor two years earlier. He was elected to successive one-year terms as Southern Baptist Convention president, in 1984 and 1985. Mr. Stanley’s broadcast ministry began with a 30-minute TV program called...

Okay, I have to warn you that this is really disturbing. I don't care what anyone says, it is both morally and legally wrong to assault someone based on what they say. But Allie Beth Stuckey commented on this video, noting how people are laughing at the women getting beaten, and I wanted to share it with you: ******************************** Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen · Follow Here’s a woman getting horrifically beaten and everyone commenting on it is laughing. This is not at all uncommon. Make of that what you will ******************************** VIDEO AT LINK...................... Yeah, that's bad. Criminal assault, actually....

officials The final suspect wanted in a string of nearly 20 roofie robbings at nightclubs across the city — which led to two deaths — has been arrested, police sources said Tuesday. Jayqwan Hamilton, the alleged ringleader of the crew, is expected to face felony murder charges as well as multiple counts of grand larceny, robbery and conspiracy in connection to 17 drugging incidents in the Big Apple between September 2021 and August 2022. The alleged nefarious scheme to drug and rob their victims caused the deaths of two Hells Kitchen clubgoers, John Umberger, 33, and Julio Ramirez, 25, last...

Disgraced fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried — the notorious SBF — just may be a digital hoarder. According to a recent Business Insider report, the laptop of the former FTX CEO is flooded with so much data that FBI officials are working overtime to analyze the content. But SBF is far from alone in his apparent reluctance to depart with copious amounts of data. In fact, digital hoarding — a subtype of hoarding disorder that involves the collection of, and difficulty parting with, excessive amounts of digital material — is a growing problem in the US and beyond. The Diagnostic and Statistical...

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee spent Monday’s Manhattan field hearing blaming guns, not people, for crime. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee spent Monday’s Manhattan field hearing blaming guns, not the criminals behind them, for the nation’s crime epidemic. The committee held a field hearing in Manhattan as New York City deteriorates from an American centerpiece of capital ingenuity into a treacherous urban jungle where far-left prosecutors allow criminals to control the streets. “Today’s hearing is about the administration of justice, and keeping communities safe, something that has always been a central focus of the House Judiciary Committee,” opened...

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been medically cleared to play football again after experiencing cardiac arrest during a game last season, the NFL team announced. Brandon Beane, the team’s general manager, made the announcement on Tuesday, saying the second-year player met with three specialists during the offseason, and they came to an agreement he cleared the necessary protocols. “They’re all in lockstep of what this was and that he has cleared to resume full activities, just like anyone else who was coming back from an injury or whatever,” Beane said during a press conference. “So he’s … he’s fully...

Explanation: Would you like to see a total eclipse of the Sun? If so, do any friends or relatives live near the path of next April's eclipse? If yes again, then you might want to arrange a well-timed visit. Next April 8, the path of a total solar eclipse will cross North America from western Mexico to eastern Canada, entering the USA in southern Texas and exiting in northern Maine. All of North America will experience the least a partial solar eclipse. Featured here is a map of the path of totality. Many people who have seen a total solar...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis On German Schism, "Dialogue Is Very Important"Bishop Michael Gerber of Fulda, Germany, wrote on Diocese-Fulda.de after a April 17 meeting with Francis that the conversation, which lasted more than thirty minutes, was marked by "understanding, dialogue and trusting exchange" and "without time pressure".Given the tensions with the bishops of the German Synod Church, "dialogue" was very important to Francis, he said. The topics discussed were Fulda diocese, the German Synod Church and the universal Church.The audience was granted at short notice. Gerber is in Rome for talks on priestly formation. Francis only engages in "dialogue" with enemies...

Just heard on the local Boston news that DJT will hold a rally in New Hampshire on Thursday. It's gonna be at a Double Tree Hotel but I didn't catch the name of the town. Unless it's an "invitation only" event I'll be there...even if it's right up at the Canadian border!

https://www.wmtw.com/article/ongoing-investigation-bowdoin-sagadahoc-county-deputies/43634065 scroll to keep up with the ongoing story four cars gunfire and they are expanding the search to Freeport Yarmouth, North Yarmouth

Scientists at Stanford University's Advanced Energy Systems Laboratory have developed what appears to be a miracle generator that can run on pretty much any fuel source. Called a linear generator, this ultimate flexi-fuel generator might be the "holy grail" of generators for many industries. The product of 14 years of development, this generator is a genuine breakthrough as it can handle and switch between different fuel sources on the fly without losing power. While that might sound like science fiction, it is, in fact, very much a reality. It also has few moving parts, doesn't require lubrication, and produces very...

OPINION: This article may contain commentary which reflects the author's opinion.House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan believes there’s been a seismic shift regarding allegations against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.Jordan suggested “something is up” with the probe because of a new interest in the story by many of the same media outlets that initially dismissed reports of corruption evidence stemming from materials and emails obtained from a laptop he reportedly abandoned at a computer repair store in Delaware in 2019.“Well, what happened to that is you had 51 intelligence officers sign a letter saying that this Hunter...

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated the Hatch Act after he advocated for the election of a Democrat, a new investigation found. Special Counsel Henry J. Kerner said in a letter to President Joe Biden that Becerra spoke “in his official capacity” at an awards gala in September of 2022, breaking the law. “As explained in the accompanying report, OSC concluded that Secretary Becerra violated the Hatch Act by expressing support for Senator Alex Padilla’s reelection while speaking in his official capacity at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Annual Awards Gala on September 15, 2022,” Kerner wrote. “In...

A federal appeals court on Monday overturned Berkeley, California's first-in-the-nation ban on natural gas in new construction, agreeing with restaurant owners who argued the city bypassed federal energy regulations when it approved the ordinance. The measure, which took effect in 2020 to cheers from environmentalists, was intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming. With some exceptions, it banned new residential and commercial buildings from installing natural gas piping in favor of electrical lines. Thelawsuit by the California Restaurant Association claimed the regulation violated federal law that gives the U.S. government authority to set energy-efficiency standards...

President Donald Trump is widely regarded as the Grand Canyon State’s top presidential candidate, having easily won the top spot in a recent hypothetical Republican primary poll.President Trump was leading possible competitor Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., by a margin of 47 percent to 24 percent, according to a J.L. Partners poll shared by The Hill and conducted between April 10 to April 12 with 550 Republican and undeclared Arizonan voters.The gap widened even more as President Trump led former Vice President Mike Pence and former Rep. Liz Cheney by a stunning 43 percent, MAGA War Room shared on Twitter. Arizonans...