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4 September 2023 Monday of week 22 in Ordinary Time Saint Rose of Viterbo Church and Convent, Santiago de Queretaro, MexicoReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First reading1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ©Do not grieve about those who have died in JesusWe want you to be quite certain, brothers, about those who have died, to make sure that you do not grieve about them, like the other people who have no hope. We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and that it will be the same for those who have died in Jesus: God will bring them with him. We...

Color coded global ocean temperature map - Scroll down right side of WUWT website for ENSO-SST map and many other charts and maps - Please note that almost 100% of the unusually warm ocean water is north of the Equator, where 90% of Earth's population lives - The warm water on the northwest coast of South America is El Nino, which streams straight east across the Pacific Ocean from the Indonesian Islands. It looks like El Nino is coming to an end, but I am not an expert, so possibly the warm water current is sub-surface for the first half...

The Texas Senate will convene as a high court Tuesday to consider the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican firebrand accused by his own party of taking bribes and abusing his office. Paxton, 60, has spent the past decade as the right's chief legal attack dog, fighting many of President Donald Trump’s battles from Austin. Lawsuits to overturn the Affordable Care Act, legal protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children — commonly known as “Dreamers” — and the results of the 2020 election made him a popular force for the right, even after he was...

New Zealand PM on People Harmed by the Jabs: "They Ultimately Made Their Own Choices"

Working well within legal parameters, we can counter their revolution with both short- and long-term plans. Americans are awash in creative opportunities to evade reality: social media, motion pictures, computer games, recreational drugs, alcohol, sports, etc. We call it “escapism,” meaning escape from reality. But, of course, that’s a misnomer. We cannot really escape from reality. We can only escape from the knowledge of or the consciousness of reality. When we are done with our episode of “escape,” reality is right there before us, just as it always was. Whatever reality is, it never takes a holiday, and we can...

The University of Central Florida had to apologize for a social media post deemed insensitive during the team’s 56-6 blowout win in its season opener against Kent State on Thursday. The post featured UCF quarterback John Rhys Plumlee on the phone on the sidelines at FBC Mortgage Stadium, captioned, “Somebody call the National Guard.” While the post was supposed to reference a famous Shannon Sharpe moment in which he pretended to use the sideline phone to speak to the President to call the National Guard during a 1996 Broncos game against the Patriots, it instead reminded people about a tragic...

After a heart attack it might be worth it to treat constrictions in blood vessels not involved in the heart attack during the first intervention to treat the heart attack. In a large study, cardiologists were able to show this treatment strategy has advantages over a delayed procedure. A heart attack is caused by the acute blockage of a coronary artery. The affected blood vessels are reopened with an immediate minimally invasive intervention. Half of these patients also have additional blood vessels that are constricted by plaques. The researchers investigated whether the treatment of constrictions in blood vessels not involved...

Former President Donald Trump is running about dead-even with President Joe Biden among voters, according to a poll published Saturday.The Wall Street Journal poll showed that Trump garnered 40 percent support versus Biden’s 39 percent support in a hypothetical rematch of 2020. While third-party candidates drew three percent, a large portion — 17 percent — were undecided.If other candidates were excluded, Trump and Biden were tied at 46 percent each with eight percent undecided.The poll was conducted August 24-30, with a sample of 1,500 American voters and a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.Republican pollster Tony...

A calculated corporate deal propelled these radical rockers all the way to the Hall of Fame.This November, rock's most successful and pugnacious communists will be inducted, six years after they became eligible, to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Rage Against the Machine, a band that kicked the doors down on the 1990s with a then-novel mix of brutally heavy guitars and hip-hop vocals, also blended in unlikely tandem two other disparate traditions of American life. The first, obviously, is rock music: the rhythmically buoyant and harmonically uncomplicated sound of post–World War II popular song that, however corny it...

As liberal media blares headlines about the use of the 14th Amendment to bar a president from running in an election, former President Donald Trump struck back at President Joe Biden's abuse of power and "election interference.""The Fake Indictments and lawsuits against me, 8 of them all come out of the Biden Campaign for purposes of Election Interference," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This is their new way of Rigging the Election, and it won't hold up."The Fascists & Marxists are destroying our once great Country but, WE WILL WIN & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"Trump railed on Biden's abuse of...

"I knew they were scumbags," a former Bureau of Prisons officer tells Reason.Ron Berman agonizes over how to tell this story, where even to start, because the short version doesn't capture the full travesty and the long version is overwhelming. But here's the crux of it: A group of federal prison guards raped his daughter and got away with it. Not only did they get away with it, but they got away with it even after they admitted they did it. Berman's daughter, Carleane, was one of at least a dozen women who were abused by corrupt correctional officers at...

In a potential signal of shifting attitudes on how the war in Ukraine is covered in the legacy media, the New York Times is starting to slowly acknowledge the endemic corruption that has been a defining feature of the former Soviet state as officials have admitted that money for military contracts has “vanished”. Following the dismissal of Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov amid a slew of corruption scandals surrounding the war effort against Russia, the New York Times acknowledged that the “enduring challenge of corruption in Ukraine” has “emerged as a rare area of criticism of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership.”

This week, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann called for former NCAA championship swimmer Riley Gaines to drop her campaign to exclude males from competing in women's sports, saying "can you just address the reality and move past it? You sucked at swimming. You couldn't even beat the mediocre Lia Thomas." Paula Scanlan, former Penn University teammate of Lia Thomas on the women's swim team, pointed out that "Riley Gaines was the SEC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2022. That's the reality Olbermann can't deal with. She didn't beat Thomas because he's a man who invaded our sport, which in...

The musician had been placed in hospice care in the days leading up to his death.Former Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell has died, a representative for the band confirms to Billboard. Harwell, who performed as lead vocalist for the California pop-rock act until announcing his retirement from the group in 2021, passed away Monday (Sept. 4) at his home in Boise, Idaho, after being in hospice care. He was 56. “Steve Harwell passed away this morning September 4, 2023 at his home in Boise Idaho. He was surrounded by family and friends and passed peacefully and comfortably,” reads a statement...

Aside from transfusions, there currently is no way to boost people's platelet counts, leaving them at risk for uncontrolled bleeding. Could something as simple as a dietary change raise platelet counts in people with low levels, such as cancer patients receiving chemotherapy? New science suggests the answer might be yes. A study led by Maria Barrachina, Ph.D. found they could raise platelet counts in mice by feeding them polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) like those found in the Mediterranean diet. In contrast, mice fed a diet high in saturated fatty acids had decreased platelet counts. "We were honestly surprised at how...

If You’re a Hunter, Fisherman, Sportsman…Or Just Love the Outdoors …Watch this from President Trump. https://twitter.com/JamesPleickhar2/status/1697384968924672357

North Carolina State University is walking back its decision to distribute sexually explicit material to new students after numerous parents expressed outrage over their children receiving a paper encouraging them to track how many “orgasms” they experience. Included in the welcome packet were condoms, lubricant, and information discussing various sexual topics, such as group sex and one-night stands, according to local news outlet WRAL. The school ceased distribution of the packets after receiving various parental complaints, including one comment on an NC State Facebook post. The individual wrote, “No advice, a question. A friend was moving in their child this...

We could be producing concrete that's 30 percent stronger by processing and adding charred coffee grounds to the mix, researchers in Australia have discovered. Their new recipe could solve multiple problems at the same time Every year the world produces a staggering 10 billion kilograms of coffee waste globally. Most ends up in landfills. "The disposal of organic waste poses an environmental challenge as it emits large amounts of greenhouse gases including methane and carbon dioxide, which contribute to climate change," explains RMIT University engineer Rajeev Roychand.

Has anybody had a problem with the Brave browser after updating? I just did a full update and it does not let me get on any websites.

Pope Francis urges Buddhists, Muslims, and Shamans to promote their religions during event in MongoliaSpeaking to Buddhist, Shinto, Shaman, Jewish, Muslim, and assorted Christian religious leaders, Pope Francis praised the assembled religions for being the continuation of 'ancient schools of wisdom.'Speaking as part of an ecumenical gathering during his trip to Mongolia, Pope Francis quoted from Buddhist texts while arguing that “every religious institution” has “the right to freely express what it is and what it believes.”He urged gathered non-Catholic religious leaders to promote their own religions, saying, “May it be so for us, as committed followers of our respective...