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The mayoral debate in San Francisco, California, took a bizarre turn after Democrat Mayor London Breed asked her challenger to name three LGBTQ advisers to his campaign as well as three drag queens in the city or prove his loyalty to the cause. Breed pitched the question during Monday’s debate, putting the five candidates on the same stage. They were each given the opportunity to ask a fellow candidate a question, and Breed used the opportunity to ask challenger Mark Farrell to prove his loyalty to the LGBTQ2S+ community by naming three drag queens in the city. “I’d like to...

June 17 (UPI) -- Commuters were evacuated from a Hong Kong train during rush hour Monday morning when a snake measuring more than a foot long was spotted on board. Police said the Island Line MTR train was evacuated at Admiralty station at 7:37 a.m. Monday when passengers spotted the snake slithering loose through a train car. The passengers were boarded onto a replacement train and MTR employees were able to capture the serpent in a cardboard box. The snake was carted away by police and a snake catcher later identified the reptile as a California king snake, a non-venomous...

What is he yelling here? No one has any idea....... 0:11 VIDEO AT LINK..................

There have been at least two cases where local judges in Massachusetts have held the license to carry law, which was passed in defiance of the Supreme Court Bruen decision and is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. On May 14, 2024, Judge Kevin J. Finnerty granted a petition against the denial of a Firearm Identification Card (FID). Without an FID, the License to Carry is suspended.On May 20, 2024, Judge William P. Hadley ordered Police Chief David Pratt to issue Randy Westbrook a License to Carry (LTC).The two cases are discussed in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly:Smith noted that Fall River District...

[Catholic Caucus] Andrea Grillo: An astonishing interview of the main lay ideologue behind Traditionis Custodes and the desire to ban the Traditional Mass(Chartres Pilgrimage)While Archbishop Viola, Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, is the main clerical ideologue interested in the ultimate ban of the Traditional Latin Mass, the main lay ideologue is Italian lay theologian Andrea Grillo, whose ideas and words are the very essence of the first partial ban instituted as "Traditionis custodes". Italian blog Messa in latino has just released an interview with him, from which it can be gleaned how exactly the Francis pontificate sees faithful...

Science Alert warned Monday “worsening human-induced climate change” is contributing to an increase in heat-related deaths as the United States languishes under a “heat dome.” “Despite being preventable, the leading weather-related deaths in the US are caused by heat,” the article states, adding that heat-related deaths “are rising as heat waves like this one occur more regularly thanks to worsening human-induced climate change.” “Extreme heat events are also increasing in their intensity and duration, bringing along greater fire danger too,” it contends, arguing that “millions are at risk” from the intense heat.

A woman named Lilly Gaddis recently went viral for a video bemoaning how “theater kids and nerds” run our society. "So, all those nerds in high school, like the weird theater kids and the anime people. You know who I'm talking about, the people we didn't hang out with, so they've grown up now, and they're the ones making the laws," Gaddis warned in her TikTok. This video was a hit with RW Twitter and conservatives. It aligns with a popular conception on that right-wingers were the popular jocks in high school while the libs were the nerds. It’s obviously...

VIDEOIn his own words, Joe Scarborough has been exposed by history as a FOOL and useful IDIOT. Here we see Scarborough bloviating in October 2020 while smearing the New York Post for publishing the Hunter Biden laptop story. Yeah, a story that has been proven TRUE to the extent that the prosecutors used Hunter's laptop as evidence against him in his recent gun trial. But, of course, Scarborough has not learned even a smidgen of humility by being so incredibly wrong. Instead he is again smearing the New York Post for publishing stories about videos revealing Joe Biden's loss of...

A New Zealand Rugby player has died suddenly at the age of 25 following a reported “medical event.” Connor Garden-Bachop’s death on Monday was confirmed by New Zealand Rugby. The statement read: On behalf of the entire rugby community, the Highlanders, Wellington Rugby, New Zealand Rugby, the New Zealand Māori Rugby Board and the New Zealand Rugby Players Association would like to extend our deepest thoughts and love to the Garden-Bachop family. Connor passed away on Monday following a medical event, and rugby’s collective focus at this time is on supporting his family. All of rugby walks alongside the Garden-Bachop...

Daily Readings from the USCCBJesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.” Matthew 5:43–45Jesus continues to deepen and clarify His call to His new command to love of others. The love to which He calls us is radical, total, and...

US Treasury Secretary (and former Fed Chair) Janet Yellen says the US economy is in excellent shape. Is she a genius and sees something that rest of us don’t? Or is she a partisan thug like Shap Shot’s Gilmore Tuttle? Yellen brags about rising wages and declining inflation. Well, average hourly earnings YoY are now 4.1%. However, home prices are growing at 6.5% year-over-year (YoY) and electricity prices are up 6.1% YoY. Food CPI grew at 2.1% in May. Yellen ignores the string of 10%+ increases in 2022-2023 making eating unaffoprdable for millions. I doubt if Yellen could run a...

Apparently, The New York Times hasn’t come to terms with the fact that Bidenomics is anathema to Americans, because one of its editorial board members spent over a 1,000 words celebrating the so-called “intellectual force” behind all of it. Times editorial board member Farah Stockman swooned over “the best dinner party” she “attended all year” listening to the ramblings of President Joe Biden’s former Senior Director of International Economics for the National Security Council Jennifer Harris, whom she dubbed the “Queen Bee.” “I’d wanted to interview Ms. Harris for years,” wrote the star-struck Stockman. She lionized Harris as “the quiet...

A week ago I wrote about a Hertz President Circle member charged $277 for returning a rented Tesla without filling it with gas. That’s the second-most Hertz thing ever, after getting arrested because the rental company reported the car you rented stolen. And just like getting arrested just for being a Hertz customer – and Hertz refusing to admit its mistake lest the police stop believing them when they file false police reports – appears to be anything but a one-off. Being charged exorbitant rates for not filling up the gas on an electric vehicle seems to be a systemic...

The corrupt Department of Justice has leaked details of how the political prisoner Steve Bannon will serve his sentence to its close media ally CNN. Bannon, a former Trump strategist turned popular radio host, is expected to report to prison on July 1st to start a four-month sentence after refusing to testify before Liz Cheney’s sham January 6 Committee. While Bannon’s lawyers had hoped to get him in the most comfortable prison facility, known as Club Fed, sources at the DOJ told CNN that it will make him serve his time in a low-security facility instead. CNN reported: When former...

18 June 2024 Tuesday of week 11 in Ordinary Time Shrine and Altar of St Elisabeth of Schönau (with the reliquary in which Elisabeth’s skull is kept) in the Monastery Church of St Florin, Kloster Schönau im Taunus Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Kings 21:17-29The punishment of Ahab and Jezebel foretoldAfter the death of Naboth, the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, ‘Up! Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, in Samaria. You will find him in Naboth’s vineyard; he has gone down to take possession of it. You are to say...

After a tropical rainstorm brought heavy rainfall to portions of Florida last week, AccuWeather hurricane experts warn that yet another tropical rainstorm is expected to impact the southern U.S. in the coming days. In addition to the tropical rainstorm, two other areas in the Atlantic Basin are being monitored for tropical development later this week, including one off the Southeast coast. It is possible that one of these areas could strengthen into Alberto, becoming the first named storm of the season.

Thailand's senate passed a bill Tuesday to legalize same-sex marriage, setting it on course to become the third place in Asia with marriage equality, alongside Taiwan and Nepal...

Justin Timberlake has been arrested for driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons after allegedly blowing a stop sign and swerving out of his lane. The “SexyBack” singer, 43, was pulled over in Sag Harbor Monday night on a charge of driving while intoxicated and cited for running a stop sign and failure to keep in his lane, TMZ reported. Timberlake, who was wearing a black baseball cap, gray graphic t-shirt and black short-sleeve button-up, appeared in court Tuesday and was released without bail. Sources told TMZ that Timberlake had been partying with friends at American Hotel on Main Street before...

I'm beginning to think we are being gaslighted again. We've heard all year how the Ukraine/Russia situation was going to drive the price of wheat up so much that a loaf of bread would cost $10. Well folks, it didn't happen. I sold my Oklahoma wheat this morning for 5.72/bushel, which is down from 7.80/bushel last year. It's a big drop, but not as big as I've seen over the years. However, last year was a bad year for wheat nationwide, and I think that's what drove the price of wheat up. This year, we had a great crop, so...