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Scores of angry residents of Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood gathered at an August 30 community meeting to oppose City Hall’s plans to house several hundred illegal border crossers at the Lake Shore Hotel. The hotel had been a designated shelter in the past, but residents say that the illegals brought with them a host of problems, including loitering, noise, littering, and open drug use and dealing, according to ABC 7. Many residents do not want a repeat of the past issues and spoke out against the plan to bring upwards of 300 migrants to the hotel this week. An emergency...

Matthew 24:42-51Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus praises the faithful servant who served his master in a theo-drama. We are called to serve our Master in the same way. A theo-drama is written and directed by God. On the great stage that is the created universe and according to the prototype that is Christ, we are invited to “act,” to find and play our role in God’s theater.The problem is that the vast majority of us think that we are the directors, writers, and above all, stars of our own “ego-dramas,” with other people functioning as either our supporting players or...

The new wild west of driving high… it’s a minefield out thereWhen I was a student at UCSC in 1968, my roommate and I bought a pound of Panama Red in San Diego. Afterwards, we had no money left and for two days lived in an art house movie theater that was running a round-the-clock horror movie marathon for $1 a day. In two days, we sold enough weed in the theater to head back to Santa Cruz. After two days of no sleep, and smoking Panama Red continuously, we left at midnight. On Highway One in Oxnard, a...

The 99th Burning of Zozobra is this Friday. If you’re planning on seeing Old Man Gloom burn, there are a few things to keep in mind. “This is the original Burning Man,” said Ray Sandoval, chairman of the event. “99 years we’ve been doing this. You know, it’s a great opportunity for us to come together as a community and celebrate one another.” The tradition attracts thousands to Fort Marcy Park in Santa Fe. This year, organizers expect a crowd of more than 50,000 people. “You know, unfortunately, we all know the kind of world that we live in,” Sandoval...

VIDEOThe "debate" was over before it even began. The Trump hating DNC PAID shill Harry J. Sisson vs a bleached blonde Trump hating Never Trumper Link Lauren. I'm not so much mad at Link Lauren whose bleach probably penetrated his skull to affect his screwy thought patterns as I am upset with the producers of "Breaking Points" who set up this "debate" between a couple of Gen Z Tik Tokkers. As you can see this "debate" turned into a DISASTER due to the Never Trumper also being tasked with debating the anti-Biden position. Gee, would it be too tough for...

China's largest private property developer warned on Wednesday of default risks if its financial performance continues to deteriorate, and said it "felt deeply remorseful" for its record loss in the first half. Country Garden (2007.HK) posted a net loss between January and June of 48.9 billion yuan ($6.72 billion), versus a 6.7 billion yuan net loss in the second half of 2022 and a 612 million yuan net profit in the first half of 2022. The results come as Chinese authorities take steps to revive the troubled property market, which accounts for roughly a quarter of the economy. The sector's...

Researchers have shed new light on the age-old concept of “beer goggles”, debunking the popular belief that alcohol enhances attractiveness perception. A study conducted by Stanford University and published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs has shown that alcohol does not influence how attractive people find others. The research involved 18 pairs of men who consumed roughly three standard drinks in a little over 30 minutes. The participants were asked to rate the attractiveness of individuals of the same age in photographs and videos, both while sober and under the influence of alcohol. It was found that...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and 13 other top prosecutors from around the U.S. are throwing their support behind efforts to compensate people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing. The Democratic officials sent a letter Wednesday to congressional leaders, saying “it’s time for the federal government to give back to those who sacrificed so much.” The letter refers to the estimated half a million people who lived within a 150-mile (240-kilometer) radius of the Trinity Test site in southern New Mexico, where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945. It also pointed to thousands...

Michigan authorities suspected there was a possible voter registration fraud scheme occurring across multiple states during the 2020 election and were concerned enough to bring in the FBI, according to police memos reviewed by Just the News. But what happened since remains mostly a mystery.According to the dozens of pages of police reports from the Muskegon Police Department and Michigan State Police, a firm called GBI Strategies was under scrutiny as an organization central to alleged voter registration fraud in the 2020 presidential election, which was first investigated by city and state authorities before the FBI took over. Contacts between...

Explanation: Not the James Webb Space Telescope's latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 26. The snapshot was taken about 2 minutes after the launch of of a Falcon 9 rocket on the SpaceX Crew-7 mission, the seventh commercial crew rotation mission for the International Space Station. It captures drifting plumes and exhaust from the separated first and second stage illuminated against the still dark skies. Near the center of the image, within the ragged blueish ring, are two bright points of light. The lower one...

Mask mandates re-emerge amid COVID uptick Several masking requirements have popped up around the country in recent weeks. But despite the uptick in COVID-19 cases, don’t expect another federal mandate. A few schools, hospitals and businesses scattered around the country have brought back masking requirements in response to spikes in COVID-19 cases in their regions. Morris Brown College in Atlanta issued a two-week, precautionary mask mandate for its students and employees despite no cases being detected on campus yet. The move was informed by some positive cases detected around the Atlanta University Center, a consortium of four historically Black colleges...

Communion for Muslim: Who Appointed This Archbishop?During a August 28 Eucharist in Londrina Cathedral, Brazil, the local archbishop, Geremias Steinmetz, 58, Brazil, handed Communion to Sheikh Ahmad Saleh Mahairi, founder of Londrina's Rei Faiçal mosque.Media reported that Mahairi didn’t consume the host. In an August 30 note, Steinmetz justified (sic!) his action by absurdly referring to quotes from Francis that the Last Supper was undeserved.A first communicant knows that an unbaptised person cannot be admitted to other sacraments. It is inexplicable how Benedict XVI could make Steinmetz a bishop in 2011, who has no clue about the faith he is...

The White House asserted executive privilege over 200 records housed at the National Archives (NARA) concerning Hunter Biden’s business interactions with the Office of the Vice President during the Obama administration, according to America First Legal (AFL) on Wednesday.America First Legal launched a lawsuit to obtain records from NARA encompassing communications between January 2011 and December 2013 with the name of Hunter Biden’s company, “Rosemont Seneca.”In response to AFL’s records request, NARA refused to release the records, admitting the disclosure would reveal “confidential advice” between then-Vice President Joe Biden and White House advisers. NARA did provide 861 records that apparently...

The US envoy to Japan feasted on fish from Fukushima on Thursday (Aug 31), saying that water discharged from the crippled nuclear plant was safer than that "dumped" by Chinese atomic facilities. China banned all seafood imports from its neighbour last week after Japan began releasing wastewater from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean, accusing Tokyo of treating the ocean like a "sewer". "Japan over the decade has done exactly the right things in the right way. International scientific rigour, fully transparent, and inviting the international community to monitor their progress cleaning the water," Ambassador Rahm Emanuel said as he visited...

State Representative Justin Humphrey from District 19 in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, has called for a thorough investigation into allegations of constitutional and civil rights violations by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).The allegations were brought forward by 52-year-old high school history teacher, Baptist pastor, and part-time gun dealer, Russell Fincher. Mr. Fincher claims that ATF agents employed intimidation tactics and coercion to force him into surrendering his federal firearms license. (snip) The agents’ actions resembled extortion rather than a legitimate law enforcement search. Furthermore, one agent’s statement, “Tell your firearms buddies we are coming for them,” constituted...

Cocaine use continues to be a public health problem, yet despite concerted efforts, no drugs have been approved to resolve cocaine addiction. Research suggests that the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder drug methylphenidate (MPH; Ritalin) could serve as a cocaine-replacement therapy, but clinical results have been mixed. Although several labs have produced MPH derivatives for testing, parts of the molecule remained chemically inaccessible. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have cleared that hurdle. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 5 million Americans reported actively using cocaine in 2020, and almost 25,000 Americans died of a cocaine-related overdose...

Scientists at a Pentagon medical intelligence unit wrote in a research report that evidence indicates that SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, may have been “developed in a laboratory," The Washington Times reports. Scientists from the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Center for Medical Intelligence determined, in an unclassified research paper published in 2020 and recently uncovered by The Australian, that COVID-19 was engineered. The report also rebuffed a previous research paper written by Kristian G. Andersen and four other scientists which concluded that “SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” The NCMI report, written by Robert Greg Cutlip and...

Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann called on former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines to acknowledge that she was a terrible athlete in a post that is receiving backlash on social media. “Can you just address the reality and move past it?” Olbermann wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “You sucked at swimming. That’s why you lost.” Gaines famously tied with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male and former member of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team. Olbermann was responding to a post Gaines made in defense of a “Women’s Bill of Rights,” which postulates that “males and females...

Elon Musk has spoken out about his painful estrangement from his transgender daughter, calling her a 'communist' and blaming her politics on the expensive private high school she attended. Musk's now 19-year-old child last year legally changed her gender to female and her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson, saying in court filings that she 'no longer wishes to be related' to the billionaire Tesla CEO 'in any way.' In an excerpt from his upcoming biography of Musk published on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, author Walter Isaacson wrote that Musk's rift with Vivian 'pained him more than anything in...

The brothers were playing in the front garden when the incident happenedWe use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. More info A 10-year-old boy needed hospital treatment after being bitten while saving his toddler brother from being attacked by a dog. Caio Lewis was playing with his two-year-old brother Jac in his father’s front garden in Cross Hands, Carmarthenshire, on Saturday evening. It was then that a French bulldog ran into the garden. Realising quickly...