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President Joe Biden has a history of spreading misinformation about the coronavirus that spans years, making grandiose claims that vaccinated Americans would not contract the illness or spread the virus. It is a great irony, given that he has contracted the virus, and his wife, Jill Biden, tested positive for it for the second time on Monday. Both of them are vaccinated and boosted. “This evening, the First Lady tested positive for COVID-19,” the first lady’s communications director, Elizabeth Alexander, said in a statement on Monday, adding that Jill Biden is “currently experiencing only mild symptoms” and staying at her...

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865 drivers in the space of 24 hours have been detected going over the speed limit on National Slow Down Day. Each of the drivers will now receive a €160 fine and have three penalty points applied to their driving licenses, An Garda Síochána have said. The detections were all recorded between 7 am yesterday morning and 7 am this morning. Garda members and GoSafe Safety Cameras were deployed in a bid to encourage drivers to reduce their speed, and a total of 149,488 vehicles were checked. Gardaí gave a number of examples of “motorists putting themselves and others at...

-A brief nationwide ground stop for United Airlines flights was lifted after the carrier experienced computer issues, the Federal Aviation Administration said. -Ground stops halt flights at their origin of departure, not at their arrival destination. -“We are experiencing a systemwide technology issue and are holding all aircraft at their departure airports,” United said in a statement earlier. In this article A brief nationwide ground stop for United Airlines flights was lifted Tuesday after the carrier experienced technology issues, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Ground stops halt flights at their origin of departure, not at their arrival destination. “We are...

Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Chinese authorities have arrested two construction workers accused of using an excavator to dig a hole through the Great Wall in central Shanxi province, according to local reports. The Shanxi Cultural Relics Bureau said Monday that the two people used the excavator to dig a shortcut through the 32nd Great Wall, which dates back to the Ming Dynasty of 1368-1644, in Youyu county, Shanxi province, state-run China Daily reported. The suspects have been identified by local police as a 38-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman, according to Sina. Local police were notified of the damage at...

"Desperate" isn't a word used often in the sterile language of elite medical journals. Yet that word alarmingly appears twice in a recent editorial from the Lancet publications about the lack of long COVID treatments. Long COVID is the name given to the constellation of medical conditions that can potentially last for weeks, months or years after infection with the coronavirus that triggered the 2020 pandemic. These include fatigue (especially after exercise), shortness of breath, heart palpitations, difficulty thinking (sometimes referred to as "brain fog"), fever, headaches and joint pain. With millions of people already infected, and roughly 1 in...

[Catholic Caucus] How to Be a Catholic in the Synodality EraA Voice from the PewsWe know now that the culmination of the Francis Papacy will occur in October of this year (regardless of whether he is still around to see it). That is when the Synod on Synodality will take place. This has been building for nearly 11 years.Back when the working document for the Synod was released, Father Gerald Murray, writing for The Catholic Thing on June 24, 2023, predicted the outcome:a make-believe, delusional religion of self-worship in which God is relegated to the role of the Divine Affirmer...

Secret files relating to the disgraced Prince Andrew, the Royal connected to child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, will be locked away until 2065. Unless Prince Andrew lives until 105, he will likely be dead by the time the files are released. The restrictions came to light after historian Andrew Lownie requested access to them for an upcoming biography on the British royal family member. Last year, Andrew paid £12 million (around $15 million) to Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexual assault while she was 17 and underage. As The National Post reported, the denial of access forms part of a...

Austin police in Texas are asking residents to call 311 if they get robbed near an ATM as the department struggles amid an increase in urban crime and staffing shortages. The Austin Police Department posted a graphic in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, to urge residents to call 311 or make an online report if they’re robbed — 311 is a number usually used for non-emergency requests, as opposed to 911. […] The new protocol comes as the Texas capital grapples with an increase in crime. Compared to 2020, Austin has had a 77% increase in auto...

Students paying to live on campus at the University of Michigan may need to find a hotel room to isolate should they test positive for COVID-19, according to guidance on the school’s website. Students who test positive for the virus will be required to leave their dorms during their isolation period, which could last for five days, university Chief Health Officer Robert D. Ernst said in a message to the school community Friday. In the message, "Campus COVID-19 resources and related guidance," Ernst included various preparations and prevention methods against transmission of the virus. The guidance also encouraged students to...

Luke 4:31-37 Friends, today’s Gospel reports that Jesus came to Capernaum, entered the synagogue on a sabbath, and began to teach. So far, so ordinary. Any bar-mitzvahed adult had the privilege of speaking in synagogue and commenting on the Scripture.But then it says that the people “were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority.”Once again, we’d probably pass over this rather quickly, but it meant the world to a first-century Jew. The ordinary teachers would have appealed to their own teachers and authorities, and finally to Moses and the Torah, which were unassailable.The Sermon on the Mount gives...

EL MONTE, Calif. -- Employees at an El Monte, California jewelry store punched, kicked and used a stick to fight back and chase off a suspected thief. El Monte police say the attempted robbery happened Saturday around 2:12 p.m. at Meza's Jewelry on Main Street. Video posted on social media, which is now part of a police investigation, shows employees fighting back against the suspect before he gets away. The incident began when a man came in armed with a hammer and smashed a display case, according to employees. Police say he used pepper spray on the workers, who are...

Several weeks ago I posted a prayer request for my little dog. Through a veil of tears and terrible grief I have to report he passed away today. I want to thank all of you kind souls for the best wishes and prayers but it was not to be. We will keep praying and dwell on the Rainbow Bridge. God bless.

If you haven't figured it out already, wake the hell up. Joe Biden is the most dishonest, most mendacious, most corrupt President in history. His lies are the stuff legend. He is giving gaslighting a bad name. The other day he regaled us with the wonder of Bidenomics "Folks, on this Labor Day, let me tell you what we’re celebrating. Jobs. Good-paying jobs. Jobs you can raise a family on. Union jobs." The White House issued this deceit Over 1.5 million jobs have been created in manufacturing, construction, and engineering since President Biden took office. His economic plan is creating...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s planned meeting with Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok, as revealed by US intelligence, gives us a new insight into Russia’s strategy in Ukraine as well as a warning of wider dangers for the world.As Kyiv’s offensive wears on into its fourth month, with only limited success and a few Russian counter attacks, it is becoming clear that Moscow’s plan may be to allow Ukraine to exhaust its men, tanks, shells and missiles against the Surovikin Line’s hardest edge. The thinking could be that, once Ukraine’s Western equipped and trained manoeuvre forces have been ground down, Russia...

The daughter of a 60-year-old woman who was beaten with her own cane in a disturbing caught-on-camera assault in Harlem said she’s angry nobody came to help her defenseless mom — as cops identified her alleged attacker as a 43-year-old man with at least nine prior arrests. Laurell Reynolds, 60, of the Bronx was walking through the West 116 Street and Lenox Avenue station at about 3:30 a.m. Friday when Norton Blake allegedly stripped her cane from her and beat her with it, according to NYPD officials and a disturbing two-minute-long recording of the crime. Nobody stepped in to help...

[Catholic Caucus] Francis Appeared To Reject Criticism Raised By Cardinal BurkeThere is no place for ideology in the Synod on Synodality, Francis said straight-faced during his in-flight press conference on his way to Rome (September 4).Those present were kind enough not to laugh. His aim at his synod is to "discuss [= question] doctrine" and "move forward" [into the abyss].Francis openly lied that his synod is following the "ancient reality" of the Eastern Churches while Eastern synods are not staffed by lay people.When asked about a recent book, supported by Cardinal Burke, that the synod is a Pandora's box, Francis...

President Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday and will wear a mask while around others indoors after first lady Jill Biden tested positive for the virus a day earlier, the White House said. The first lady is experiencing “mild symptoms” after testing positive Monday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. She will remain in Delaware to quarantine. The president was tested for the virus Monday and again Tuesday, and he tested negative both days. He is not experiencing any symptoms, Jean-Pierre said. Biden “will be masking while indoors and while around people, in alignment with CDC guidance,” Jean-Pierre said,...

Anthony Fauci — the chronic STD of tyrannical bureaucrats — is back to bother the nice people again. Worry not, faithful readers, I won’t spend too much time on the worm. Yesterday was a slow, federal holiday news cycle though, and I needed a foil for us patriotic, freedom-loving types. I had zero hope that Fauci would fade away in retirement. He was beyond tedious when Donald Trump first weaponized him. He became the most insufferable human on Earth after Biden and Co. elevated him to secular cult god status. It wasn’t difficult to figure out that the guy would...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Hollerich: World Synod needs protected space. Rather the Church needs to be protected from Synod.Papal statement on media exclusion causes unrestCardinal Hollerich: World Synod needs protected spaceOn his return flight from Mongolia, the Pope said media professionals would not be allowed into the debates of the upcoming Synod of Bishops. This had caused unrest in the background. Cardinal Hollerich takes a stand.The Luxembourg Cardinal and General Relator of the World Synod of Bishops to be held in October, Jean-Claude Hollerich, has defended a "protected space of non-public deliberations" for the world church assembly. Hollerich said (Monday afternoon)...