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Archaeologists have discovered a vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds, thought to be up to 4,400 years old, ahead of a building development less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Stonehenge.The cemetery includes more than 20 circular mounds, known as barrows, built between 2400 B.C. and 1500 B.C. on a chalk hillside near Harnham on the outskirts of Salisbury in southwest England.Other than the site's proximity to Stonehenge, there's no evidence that the cemetery was connected with the famous monument. But the barrows were built around the same time as some of the central stages of Stonehenge, according to...

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 (King James Version) Happy Father’s Day to all the men who have been beat down by a Communist Cult which wants to take men out of the family. They need to remove the men since they are the ones who will fight back and not fall for all the emotional phraseology which is directed at women. Just like the vax which targeted their nurturing instincts, the cult has written algorithms to make them become willing dupes for...

Marine archaeologists began studying the 39-foot-long vessel—nicknamed the "Zambratija boat" because of its location in the Bay of Zambratija—after hearing reports from local fishermen in 2008. Researchers were surprised to learn the vessel dated to between the 12th and 10th centuries B.C.E, which they say makes it the oldest entirely hand-sewn boat in the Mediterranean.Workers painstakingly constructed the vessel by using flexible fibers to stitch together pieces of wood. While that technique was popular around the world both before and after the introduction of metal components, researchers say the Zambratija boat is unique because it's a rare surviving example of...

A Colorado Circle K employee is suing the company after she was fired for putting her hands on an armed thief that snatch a pack of cigarettes from behind the counter. Mary Ann Moreno, 75, claims in her lawsuit against Circle K Stores, Inc. that she was wrongfully terminated from the Westminster store she had worked at for 18 years for her brief interaction with the criminal. “I really did not think I would get fired for something like that. [Maybe] If I had chased him out the door or, you know, argued with him,” she told KDVR. On Oct....

TELEGRAMS FROM HARRISBURGH. HARRISBURGH, Tuesday, June 16, 12 o'clock, Midnight. Two reporters have just returned from in front of the rebel pickets, who are forty-seven miles from Harrisburgh, at Scotland Bridge, which they burned this morning. A party of 15 set fire to the structure. The rebels are encamped at three points around Chambersburgh, and are 3,500 strong, under Gen. JENKINS. The rebels say that a brigade under Gen. RHODES is coming, and that they have seized 200 horses, to mount their infantry. The rebels have 15 pieces of artillery. This morning a skirmish took place in the town between...

Some of us miss Humblegunner for his GOOD work here. I could take over in a gentler, kinder way, but I don't think my liver could take it.

Somehow not satisfied with the lynching of police officers who restrained violent criminal George Floyd during his drug overdose, the resulting nationwide race riots, deaths, and doubling of the murder rate in Minneapolis. Attorney General Merrick Garland, running Biden’s DOJ, has announced a crackdown on Minneapolis police officers that will prevent them from fighting crime. While announcing the latest pro-crime attack on cops, Garland claimed, “As I told George Floyd’s family this morning, his death has had an irrevocable impact on the Minneapolis community, on our country and on the world. His loss is still felt deeply by those who...

Bidenflation, as measured by the TIPP CPI using the same underlying data, reached 15.6% in May. It was 15.3% in April, 14.8% in March, 14.4% in February, and 13.7% in January. By the middle of 2022, significant inflation had already taken hold. In May 2022, CPI inflation stood at 8.6 percent. While the official BLS CPI year-over-year increases will compare prices to already inflated bases in the coming months, these statistics might mask the full impact. Americans continue to feel the effects of inflation and face challenges with their expenses. The annual CPI increase reported by BLS is 4.0% for...

The newest federal holiday, “Juneteenth,” is observed this year on the actual date of June Nineteenth — Juneteenth being the combination of those two words. As with most federal holidays, in order to give federal employees a three-day weekend, it would have been observed on Monday anyway. So, what is Juneteenth all about? When I first heard of Juneteenth, while working at a summer job during my college days, I presumed that since it had something to do with the end of slavery in the United States, it must have been the date the 13th Amendment — which ended legal...

Most of former President Trump’s rivals for the GOP nomination have taken a cautious path in responding to his indictment — but some veterans of his administration have taken a far more assertive stance. Bill Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general, said that Trump would be “toast” if “even half” of the behavior alleged in the indictment proved to be true. Barr later called the defenses mounted by Trump and his allies “farcical” and said that the former president had “engaged in an outrageous act of obstruction and deception.” John Bolton, who was national security advisor for Trump from...

From kens5.com Video:The Bexar County Commissioners have approved a program to acquire 3,800 small gun safes/lock boxes and 1,000 cable locks for guns to give away to county residents this summer. Bexar County is in Texas and includes San Antonio. The money for the program is part of ‘The American Rescue Plan Act‘ of 2021. The Act authorized a minimum of 1.9 Trillion dollars of spending, focused primarily on leftist programs.From ksat.com:The Bexar County Commissioners Court approved the distribution of 3,800 portable handgun safes and 1,000 handgun cable locks free of charge to county residents throughout the summer.(skip)According to the...

The liberal media’s echo chamber will work overtime to drown out these stories. They attempted to gaslight us on gas stoves. However, that pales compared to the Russian collusion hoax and how the Department of Justice has become the Democratic National Committee’s Stasi force. The FBI is out of control, engaging in censorship schemes with social media companies, procuring illegal wiretap warrants, and seems hell-bent on protecting the Biden family even after their sources have compiled incriminating evidence of corruption. So, it’s not far-fetched to hear federal agents raided a Montana gun store, shut it down, and seized sensitive documents...

Section 2185 from Catholic Catechism: On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are to refrain from engaging in work or activities that hinder the worship owed to God, the joy proper to the Lord's Day, the performance of the works of mercy, and the appropriate relaxation of mind and body.123 Family needs or important social service can legitimately excuse from the obligation of Sunday rest. the faithful should see to it that legitimate excuses do not lead to habits prejudicial to religion, family life, and health.

A poll for DailyMail.com lays bare the challenge facing President Joe Biden as he runs for reelection: Almost half of Democrats believe he is too old for the job, and 52 of all voters believe they are worse off since he became president. Republicans have used both as attack lines in their campaigns to unseat Biden. The president has always been gaffe-prone, but now any botched comment is seized on as evidence that the 80-year-old is no longer fit for office. And after presiding over gas prices spikes and a year of rampant inflation, Republicans believe they can beat him...

Here in New York during the past couple of weeks, we had some days where the air was rather incredibly smoky. At times, you could barely see the Empire State Building from where I live (about one mile). The smoke was said to originate from wildfires in the Canadian forests, mostly in Quebec but some farther West. Getting such a large amount of smoke around here from wildfires in Canada is quite unusual. Indeed, I can’t remember it happening previously, at least to this extent. So something must be different. Could this all be the result of — CLIMATE CHANGE????!!!!...

"My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism" (James 2:1). Your true worth is based on the value of your soul, not on external considerations. Jesus is "our glorious Lord" (James 2:1)—the Sovereign One who rules over all His creation, and the One in whom the fullness of God's glory is revealed. John said, "The Word [Jesus] became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14). Paul said, "In Him all...

Pray For The Peace of JerusalemLuke 14 The Parable of the Great Banquet 15 When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.” 16 Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. 17 At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ 18 “But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a...

The Biden administration won’t say “Iran Deal,” apparently because they fear Congress. They’re negotiating “the deal that must not be named.” In the Harry Potter books, characters call the villain “He Who Must Not Be Named,” for fear that saying “Voldemort” will conjure up the evil villain. The Biden administration won’t say “Iran Deal,” apparently because they fear Congress. They’re negotiating “the deal that must not be named.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein have called it a “small agreement,” a “mini-deal” and a “memorandum of understanding,” but the State Department...

The Talk Shows June 18th, 2023 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy; Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.); retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, former Army vice chief of staff and Pastor Louie Giglio, founder of the Passion Movement. Panel: Marc Short, former chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence; USA Today White House Correspondent Francesca Chambers; Bloomberg News White House and politics editor Mario Parker; and Elizabeth Wydra, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U....

We have seen for some time how off-the-rails the FBI has become, a danger to a free society. More and more evidence now shows it’s not just the FBI. Every federal employee with a badge and gun seems to think he’s a law unto himself. This week the spotlight is on the IRS, and the Congress has to step up and rein the agency in. While Matt Taibbi was testifying before Congress on the administration’s extensive censoring of social media content, the IRS appeared at his door, ostensibly to question him about his taxes, but obviously to intimidate him for...