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11 August 2024 19th Sunday in Ordinary TimeSaint Clare of Assisi, Surprise, AZReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: B(II).First reading1 Kings 19:4-8The angel gives Elijah food to reach the mountain of GodElijah went into the wilderness, a day’s journey, and sitting under a furze bush wished he were dead. ‘O Lord,’ he said ‘I have had enough. Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down and went to sleep. But an angel touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat.’ He looked round, and there at his head was a scone baked on...

There's a lot of talk about shepherds being for sale lately, and if this isn't that problem in spades, I don't know what is. Our boy Woke Preacher Clips did the painstaking work to put together a montage that's nearly 7 minutes long, featuring more than 50 pastors, all saying the exact same thing about Kamala Harris a couple of weeks ago. This is insane:

One has to wonder, who are those people who have come out of the woodwork, ostensibly to support the vacuous, inarticulate Kamala Harris? She was very unpopular when she tried to run for president in 2020. She was still unpopular when she was Biden’s DEI hire as vice president; she fulfilled his promise to select a black woman.Biden did so without regard for her merit or competency. Everyone knows that. So now, suddenly manufactured crowds appear at her rallies this past week and display what seems to be a hypnotized mob. The obvious answer is they are so mind-numbed they...

resident Biden admitted he was pushed out of the presidential race by Democratic Party elites and specifically name-dropped former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as one of the perpetrators in his first TV interview since the tectonic news last month. Biden said that Dems in the House and Senate were worried that he’d drag down their chances of being reelected. He said he believed his reelection bid would face too many distractions if he carried on. “A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was...

Ali Khamenei, the Day of Judgment has arrived, it’s time to speak openly...Video delivered to Iran via YouTube

So I have common Bermuda grass (not sure exactly what kind)here in the burbs of hotlanta. I have a crabgrass and clover issue that has been frustrating to control. I’d been using bioadvanced previously and it didn’t control the weeds like I thought it would. My grass is pretty green though. Any recommendations for my lawn that’ll help. My back will appreciate any feedback. Pulling those weeds are a pain.

Russia has failed to push back Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region despite sending in reinforcements as the incursion enters its sixth day, Ukrainian soldiers involved in its army’s operation told the Financial Times on Sunday. Speaking near the international border, the troops said they remained in Russian territory. Russian general Valery Gerasimov has repeatedly attempted to portray the situation as being under control, with the defence ministry posting videos on Sunday of fighter jets and helicopters purportedly striking columns of Ukrainian equipment. But verified videos and photographs show Ukrainian troops and equipment have advanced 30km inside Russia since the...

President Joe Biden said on “CBS Sunday Morning” that if former President Donald Trump wins in November he will be a “genuine danger to American security.” Reporter Robert Costa asked, “How do you want history to remember President Biden?” Biden said, “That he proved democracy can work. He got us out of a pandemic—it produced the single greatest economic recovery in American history. We are the most powerful economy in the world. We have more to do, and it demonstrated that we can pull the nation together.”

ROME — Pope Francis prayed Sunday for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a topic he has returned to on numerous occasions. In these days we have commemorated “the anniversary of the atomic bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” the pontiff told visitors gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly Angelus address.

FR needs a block feature. I'm tired of coming to FR to get the news only to find zeepers and ho supporters dominating the bandwidth.

Daily Readings from the USCCB“I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” John 6:48–51We continue this Sunday with the beautiful “Bread of Life Discourse” from John’s Gospel. At the beginning of today’s passage, we read that the people listening to...

“Mass Deportation Now!” declared the signs at the Republican National Convention, giving a full embrace to Donald Trump’s pledge to expel millions of migrants in the largest deportation program in American history. Some Republicans aren’t quite ready for that. Lauren B. Peña, a Republican activist from Texas, said that hearing Trump’s calls for mass deportations, as well as terms like “illegals” and “invasion” thrown around at the convention, made her feel uncomfortable. ... “He’s not meaning to go and deport every family that crosses the border, he means deport the criminals and the sex offenders,” Peña said. But Trump and...

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Omar could lose her primary, especially since Republicans and Independents can also vote.

Who is better for the US economy 🔴 Trump 43.8% 🔵 Harris 56.2% 13,487 votes · 23 hours left

Trying to explain Buc-ee's to someone who has never visited a Buc-ee's is like trying to explain to a fish what it's like to fly a helicopter: It's difficult to even know where to begin because you know that the person you're talking to has no frame of reference for such a thing even existing. The problem, though, is that the fish thinks it knows what's going on, because occasionally it jumps a couple of feet out of the water. All you can do is shake your head sadly and say, "No. I mean, I get that you think you...

President Joe Biden said on “CBS Sunday Morning” that he opted to not to seek reelection because his colleagues in the “House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them” in the November election. Biden said, “Look, polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race, would have been down to the wire. but what happened was a number of my democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic.”

The Biden/Harris billion dollar plan to provide Puerto Rico a secure source of energy has come to nothing. Secretary of the US Department of Energy Jennifer Granholm explained "we figured that a place with as much sunshine as Puerto Rico gets would be a natural fit for a solar panel solution. But after three years of effort and expense we realized that the same hurricanes that destroy the structures people live and work in would also destroy the solar panels installed on their roofs." Granholm insisted that "it wasn't a total loss. We learned that (1) the solar option isn't...

THIS is the moment fearless Ukrainian troops plant their flag inside Russia as they continue on with their invasion of Kursk. Ukraine's army have reportedly managed to infiltrate as deep as 20km into Russian territory leaving Vladimir Putin "scared and seething" over the continuous attacks. Amazing footage shows a group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine laughing around in the village of Guevo in the war-torn Russian region of Kursk. One of the soldiers can be seen carrying a flag of Ukraine up to a building as he proudly hands it over to his pal who is stood up on...

Sean Davis @seanmdav They need election night to count Trump’s vote so they can use the week after the election to manufacture however many ballots they need to beat Trump.