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[Catholic Caucus] Francis Disaster: Serious Drop in Vocations Since 2013Milan Archdiocese (5M Catholics, 2K priests), Italy, is experiencing a serious decline in priestly vocations.Father Peter Stravinskas writes on CatholicWorldReport.com (May 5) that in 2013, there were 150 seminarians, this year 78. From 2017 to 2022, the number of new candidates for the priesthood has fallen from 24 to 6.Stravinskas notes that the decline began in 2013, the year when Francis was elected, and that even the Vatican's own statistics has acknowledge that the number of seminarians worldwide has declined every year since 2013.Francis doesn't like priests, seminarians, sisters and nuns,...

London CNN — When the US Federal Reserve embarked on an aggressive campaign to quash inflation last year, it did so with the goal of avoiding a painful repeat of the 1970s, when inflation spun out of control and economic malaise set in. Inflation has been sliding, indicating that after 10 consecutive interest rate hikes, the central bank is experiencing some success. But Gary Richardson, a Federal Reserve historian, is worried policymakers — now contemplating taking a breather — still risk repeating mistakes from that era. “The more times you pause [rate hikes], the longer the problem is going to...

Efforts to overturn vaccine mandates for both hospital patients and health care workers appear to be gaining momentum across the United States. In what is seen as a major victory for transplant patients who did not take the COVID vaccine, one of the largest transplant centers in the United States reversed its policy to require the jab in order to be eligible for an organ transplant. The University of Michigan (UM) announced its new policy on May 4 just before court proceedings were about to get underway in a lawsuit filed against it for declaring patients ineligible for an organ...

(Last Updated On: May 4, 2023) NATIONAL COCONUT CREAM PIE DAY National Coconut Cream Pie Day on May 8th celebrates its own slice of deliciousness. This delicious pie is made with a sweet coconut cream filling. Pie lovers know a thick layer of real whipped cream topped with toasted coconut make this pie irresistible. #CoconutCreamPieDay There are plenty of pie holidays on the National Day Calendar. In fact, every month includes at least one. The last pie holiday we celebrated was National Blueberry Pie Day, kicking off the blueberry season. However, unlike blueberries, coconut trees produce their fruit all year...

Customers are feeling “emotionally blackmailed” when being prompted to tip at self checkouts in restaurants and retail establishments, especially amid record-high inflation and less friendly customer service. Business owners say prompts to leave a tip at self-checkout can significantly increase gratuities for staff, but more and more customers are asking what exactly these tips are for, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Stable Diffusion is a deep learning, text-to-image model released in 2022. It is primarily used to generate detailed images conditioned on text descriptions, though it can also be applied to other tasks such as inpainting, outpainting, and generating image-to-image translations guided by a text prompt. It was developed by the start-up Stability AI in collaboration with a number of academic researchers and non-profit organizations. Stable Diffusion is a latent diffusion model, a kind of deep generative neural network. Its code and model weights have been released publicly, and it can run on most consumer hardware equipped with a modest GPU...

Jordan Neely, the homeless man strangled to death on the subway last week, was reportedly listed on a city roster of people on the streets who desperately needed help. Referred to colloquially as the “Top 50” list, the internal catalogue held by the city’s Department of Homeless Services details which people are cycling in and out of homeless shelters and mental health treatment centers, a source told The Post Monday. The agency and its non-profit service providers flag cases that need close attention, which helps them keep track of those in dire need of assistance. “There’s a group of folks...

Ray Liotta’s cause of death has been revealed one year after he passed away suddenly in the Dominican Republic. The “Goodfellas” star died from heart and respiratory issues, according to TMZ. Documents obtained by the outlet cite pulmonary edema — or fluid in the lungs — as well as respiratory insufficiency and acute heart failure as the specific causes. Medical authorities also listed atherosclerosis — a thickening of the arteries caused by a buildup of plaque in the inner lining — as an underlying issue. Liotta died in his sleep in May 2022 while filming “Dangerous Waters” on the island...

Grab your mask and light a scented Dr. Fauci halo candle, for it is time to behold one of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s biggest scandals* ever. Its stench is so thick you can smell it at the White House. You’ve been warned. People actually bought these. pic.twitter.com/5q2KaxLaqj— Victoria Taft, The Adult in the Room, FITF Squad (@VictoriaTaft) May 7, 2023Newsom so badly managed the COVID pandemic that he and his failing-up head of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, Julie Su — destined to “serve” in the Biden Administration — gave out $31 billion in COVID unemployment money to...

Cops displayed a placard next to Alvarez’s mugshot during a Monday press conference that listed his criminal history. It said Alvarez has past charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, assault against an elderly or disabled person, four counts of assault causing bodily injury to a family member, and at least 11 other charges. Alvarez pleaded guilty to a charge of assault on a public servant in 2006 for allegedly hitting a detention officer at a jail in Brownsville, according to a trial summary shared by Georgetown Law. He was sentenced to eight years in prison, but had the...

NFL legend Brett Favre called for a boycott of Fox News on Monday, following the network’s decision to cut ties with host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson. “I’m with Tucker. Time to boycott Fox until they come to their senses and let the man speak,” Favre wrote to his Twitter followers on Monday morning. The statement was joined by a montage video featuring Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly decrying Fox’s decision to cut Carlson from his show, followed by clips of Carlson from his iconic primetime show. In the clip featuring Kelly, she suggested that the reason Carlson and...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Monday that his state is deploying a new “tactical border force” to turn back migrants ahead of the expected surge when the federal government’s Title 42 policy ends on Thursday. “We’re deploying today a new Texas tactical border force made up of elite National Guard who are specifically trained for one thing,” Abbott said in an interview with Fox News on Monday. “And that is to identify areas illegal immigrants are trying to cross the border and to fill that gap and to repel them.”

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers to stop using and discard certain at-home COVID-19 tests because of "significant concerns of bacterial contamination." In a statement released Thursday, the FDA announced that the testing liquid in certain lots of SD Biosensor, Inc. Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests may be contaminated and should be disposed of immediately, without dumping the liquid down drains. Approximately 500,000 of the affected tests were distributed to CVS Health, with about 16,000 more being sent to Amazon, according to the FDA. SD Biosensor, Inc., initiated a recall of the affected tests, and the agency is...

A University of Florida African American Studies course interprets the horror genre based on “racial identity and oppression” while using materials on “whiteness,” “black feminism,” and “queering personhood.” The course, “Black Horror, White Terror,” explores “the relationship between horror and Black literary modes and traditions focusing on key moments that depict fears of Blackness and/or the terror associated with being Black in America,” according to a spring 2023 syllabus. Students in the course must read classic works by 19th-century white authors to study how they have “affected racialized discourses.” These include Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A semi-truck exploded after crashing in Louisville Monday afternoon. The crash happened sometime around noon on I-65 South near the Kennedy Bridge. TRIMARC reports all lanes of the road are blocked. It's unclear at this time if there are any injuries or how the crash occurred. Photos from a TRIMARC camera near the bridge showed the moment the semi-truck exploded. It's not known what the semi was carrying.

An earthquake with a preliminary 3.4 magnitude struck near Malibu Monday morning. The temblor hit 2.4 miles west-southwest of Malibu around 8:05 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A shake map shows the quake was intensely felt in the coastal areas and as far inland as the San Fernando Valley. There were no immediate reports of damage.

Finally.Finally, it looks as if the wholly corrupt Biden family is going to be unmasked. There's already a load of bad news for Biden even before the corruption. Most Americans think Biden is unfit to be President. Biden has lost 30 points in support from black Americans. A recent poll shows that Biden would lose the 2024 election to both Trump and DeSantis. But there is lot of good news for the country. Devon Archer, formerly a partner of Hunter Biden, is being urged to cooperate in order to avoid prison: As Hunter Biden faces a potential criminal indictment this...

Thank you dear readers for putting up with my harping on a poor business decision by a bad beer. A month ago I asked Why Did Bud Light Choose to Follow the Hershey Highway to Hell? Then about three weeks ago I pointed out that Budweiser Has a Path to Redemption – Will they Take It? My suggestion still holds. And InBev has been taking small steps I'd suggested, but not enough. Then two weeks ago I asked another question, Is Bud Light The Battle of Midway in The Culture War? Yeah, intellectually I've fallen pretty far from a decade...

A Tennessee high school teacher was pepper-sprayed twice by an unruly student who became incensed after he confiscated her phone during class, new video shows. Dramatic cellphone footage taken during class Friday at Antioch High School captured the rambunctious student confronting her teacher after her phone was taken away as a disciplinary action. The disobedient student had been “texting and Googling answers for her school work,” according to Reddit user @Lazy_Mouse3803, who shared the now-viral clip. In the minute-long video, a female student can be seen getting up from her desk and walking out of the classroom as the student...

Why, because the Mauricio Garcia being shown on twitter is 36 years old, with birthdate 10-29-1986. https://dallastx.mugshots.zone/?s=mauricio+garcia