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From the Leftists Ruin Everything file: A Christmas tree farm in Northern Virginia felt this was the perfect season to blast an antisemitic message to customers and passers-by. Cox Farms, a popular destination for pumpkin pickers and Christmas tree shoppers in the D.C. area, put "Ceasefire Now" on their roadside welcome sign and accentuated the antisemitic display with a wooden watermelon. Advertisement The addition of the watermelon wasn't some folksy, farm-y touch, it was an obvious wink and a nod to the "from the river to the sea" crowd, who use the watermelon emoji to show their solidarity with Hamas....

I have been reminded a lot recently of the novel Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro. The narrator is a butler who was loyal to his lord. The butler idolized his employer. But as the novel unfolds, the lord he so fondly and faithfully served turns out to have been a foolish Nazi sympathizer in the years leading up to WWII. Imagine spending decades of your life serving someone you admire, and then having to face up to the reality that the man was a knave. I can think of so many Jewish friends who in recent years loyally...

The country of Jordan should be considered the true national homeland for the Palestinian people, according to Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders, who caused an uproar after making the declaration online. In a Saturday post on X, formerly Twitter, the right-wing firebrand who won this past week’s election in the Netherlands made the remarks, sharing a Politico article describing Arab states condemning his “push to relocate Palestinians to Jordan.” The post sparked widespread criticism and disapproval from Arab nations. Often compared to former President Donald Trump due to similarities in his ideology and character, Wilders has earned the nickname “the...

Was indulging in some '90s nostalgia on YouTube and bumped into this video. The performer known as Vanilla Ice reacting to his iconic video and song Ice Ice Baby from back in the day. Posted about a month ago. What strikes me: 1) The song is a stone cold classic, totally infectious 2) Love those dance moves, so cool in a period kind of way 3) This represents the end of the era stretching back to the '60s when we still believed in racial reconciliation and thought we were going to have a good thing together. The modern Left is...

Why public heretics are not true members of the Catholic Church(LifeSiteNews) — This is the fourth part of our series on membership of the Church. It examines who the members of the Church are, and who they are not. Part I can be read here; Part II can be read here; and Part III can be read here.IntroductionIn his letter to the Galatians, St. Paul warned that “there are some who trouble you, and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.” (Gal 1:7)In the face of these false preachers, he commanded his flock to remain faithful to the true gospel...

Lanny Lee Larson, better known by Tom Larson, whose sports broadcasting career spanned nearly four decades, died this week in Virginia, his family confirmed to the Boston Globe. Larson was 84. Larson had previously been diagnosed with cancer. The former longtime Boston Bruins and Boston Red Sox television host famously vowed to forgo shaving his beard until the city's NHL franchise won the Stanley Cup. Larson made the leap to Boston in the late 60s after spending time in Illinois and Lansing, Michigan. Larson's legendary career with the Bruins television crew started during the 1969-70 season. He hosted the pregame...

My Doctor recently suggested I consider RSV Vaccine. Any opinion to share. I have not my Annual Flu and Pneumonia shot.

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Müller: Pope Francis allowing ‘trans’ people to be godparents is ‘confusing and harmful’A recent text published by Pope Francis and Cardinal Victor Fernández allowed for 'transgender' individuals to be godparents for the sacrament of Baptism. The Catholic Church teaches that so-called 'gender reassignment surgery' is a grave sin and a rebellion against divine and natural law.Cardinal Gerhard Müller has strongly rebuked a recent document issued by Pope Francis and Cardinal Victor Fernández on transgender issues, accusing Fernández of a “manipulation” of prior teaching on such questions.“It is confusing and harmful for the Magisterium to rely on the...

Update from Ukraine | Situation in Avdiivka | Ruzzia is Unable to encircle the city Meat waves start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp1SR2xdKaA The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 22nd November 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-637-summary/ [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

On Thursday for the 18th time Emmanuel Macron's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne used Article 49.3 of the French Constitution allowing a French President the ability to pass legislation without a vote by legislators... This week two migrants dying in the English Channel after their boat packed with 60 people who set off from the French coast at Boulogne. French police said to have been on hand when the boat left taking no action. France and the UK cut a deal earlier his year to address the flood of migrants with France expected to step up enforcement. Word today that two...

A Sky News reporter claimed that Israel released "children" - the Prime Minister's spokesman attacked: "Do you even know what he was accused of?" Once again there was a storm on the broadcast of the important British network: Mark Regev did not remain indifferent to the problematic definition of the foreign reporter. Was he accused?", and she admitted: "I don't know" .. Once again an approach from the "Sky News" network is embarrassingly exposed in front of an Israeli official. Mark Regev, Prime Minister Netanyahu's spokesman for foreign media, was interviewed by the British Broadcasting Network last night (Friday) and...

Joe Biden was booed and heckled on the streets of Nantucket on Saturday even as people protesting the war in Gaza were kept far away from the president. The president's motorcade even took a different route from where he is staying - David Rubenstein's $34 million home on Abrams Point - into town to avoid driving past protestors gathered on the side of the road with signs saying 'Free Palestine.' A group of about 40 people calling for an end to the fighting in Palestine were kept down one end of Main Street in downtown Nantucket - about six blocks...

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Marty Krofft, who with his brother Sid produced memorable kids shows “H.R. Pufnstuf” and “Land of the Lost” — as well as the 2009 feature based on the latter — has died. He was 86. Krofft died of kidney failure Saturday in Los Angeles, Calif., a family representative told Variety. Often referred to as the King of Saturday Mornings, Krofft and his brother also produced a number of primetime variety shows, including “Donny and Marie” and “Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters.” Sid and Marty Krofft began their careers producing children’s television with “H.R. Pufnstuf,” a live-action program about a...

A look at events unfolding as hostages released from clutches of Hamas. The Sun newspaper brings you the latest breaking news videos and explainers from the UK and around the world

25 November 2023Saturday of week 33 in Ordinary TimeSaint Catherine Church in Tabán, Budapest DistrictReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: A(I).First reading1 Maccabees 6:1-13 ©'I remember the wrong I did in Jerusalem'King Antiochus was making his way across the upper provinces; he had heard that in Persia there was a city called Elymais, renowned for its riches, its silver and gold, and its very wealthy temple containing golden armour, breastplates and weapons, left there by Alexander son of Philip, the king of Macedon, the first to reign over the Greeks. He therefore went and attempted to take the city and...

The southern border is not the only one reaping the downfall effects of President Joe Biden's reckless open border policies. The Northern border has also seen a record-breaking surge in illegal crossings. According to data, the United States' northern border with Canada saw a 550 percent increase in migrant apprehensions in the last fiscal year. There were 6,925 apprehensions in the Swanton sector in fiscal year 2023 between October 2022 and September 2023. This is compared to 1,000 in the same sector the previous year, covering New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and just 365 in FY 2021. Swanton Sector...

When a group of young Israeli women were woken up at 6:30 a.m. on October 7, they had no idea they would be making history as the first female armored crews in Israel, and perhaps the world, to participate in active battle. In an interview with Channel 12 this week, the combat soldiers spoke of thundering along main roads to get to some of the 20 southern Israeli communities that came under massive assault that morning, running down terrorists, and securing breaches on the border with the Gaza Strip. One of the officers in the unit, identified as Hagar, told...

The Washington Post@washingtonpost · Follow Online rumors claimed the perpetrator of a stabbing attack was an immigrant. The BBC found that the man was an Irish citizen who had lived in the country for 20 years. Police blamed a “lunatic faction driven by a far-right ideology” for the riot in Dublin.The man is indeed an immigrant, as he was originally from Algeria. The WaPo segment appears to conflate citizenship with not being an immigrant, and you can be both. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…The chief suspect arrived in Ireland from Algeria more than two decades ago

ALPERN AT LARGE - One awful but “silver lining” in the hellish black cloud that is the Hamas-initiated Israeli/Hamas Gaza war is that at least we know The Truth: 1) Iran, as many of us knew for decades, is NOT our friend since the Ayatollahs took over, and hates the U.S. and the West about as much as it hates Israel. 2) We’re really stupid to play around with Iran, and to presume that bribing that terrorist-sponsoring nation would slow down its focus on creating a nuclear bomb. 3) Those screaming “From the River to the Sea”, and proclaiming that...