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Day #24 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the course of several months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so this will probably be done by early November. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity...

In answer to the YouGov poll question "Would you vote for or against a candidate just on the basis of their position on the abortion issue?" Fifty-eight percent of Democrat respondents said "yes." Democrat presidential nominee Vice-President Kamala Harris "this majority support for protecting the sacred right to an abortion is why it is essential that Democrats win this election. There is no bigger constraint on a woman's freedom than being stuck bearing, birthing, and rearing an unwanted child. Some even call it an '18 year prison sentence,' but in many ways it is far worse." "Legally, a parent is...

Reports of Heavy Israeli Artillery Fire now against several Lebanese Towns on the Border with the Upper Galilee Region of Northern Israel.

BERUIT — Following the death of their leader Hassan Nasrallah, members of the militant group Hezbollah asked the U.S. for advice on how to govern with a dead leader. "Following the demise of our great ruler Nasrallah at the hands of those Israeli pigs, we here at Hezbollah need to know how to run our organization with a dead leader," Omar Ibadi told the press. "We have reached out to leaders in the United States to ask how they can govern their own people with a dead president still in office." U.S. officials say Ibadi has been sending texts to...

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YouTube Video🔥🔥 Beloved; for us who eat, drink and consume Biblical prophecy; these days in which we presently live in today are the days we use to talk about and knew would be; Israel is this days last days sign to all the earth that; Almighty God’s Kingdom is coming; with Jesus Messiah’s return; (Dan. 2:43-44; 7:13-14; Dan. 9:27; Zech. 12:10-14; Matt. 24; Rev. 19:11-21). In the last year; Israel has decimated her border enemies leadership and is presently bringing security into that region; thus setting the stage for the Gog/Magog war against her; Ezek. 38-39. This video; by Jack...

Illegal Alien in New York City from Ecuador said he’s not working because he has no documentation, but admitted on video that the immigration office gave him a state ID and Democrat officials told him he could VOTE in the upcoming election and that he will be voting Kamala Harris because he see many opportunities with Kamala vs Trump.

ut she has never offered a single shred of evidence to prove she did. This wouldn’t matter much if she didn’t make it the cornerstone of her professional life, a claim she repeatedly made in an attempt to identify with voters who otherwise likely wouldn’t be able to relate to a stuffy, rich kid who never had to worry about money and only ever worked for government after getting her start in politics through an appointment by her boyfriend. She’s never told a story about her summer at McDonald’s, never explained why she allegedly worked in a McDonald’s in California...

Legacy media outlets in the United States raised eyebrows over the weekend with glowing coverage of terror leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was praised as a "father figure" with a "propensity to crack jokes." "He was responsible for hundreds of Americans deaths, yet the media here in America is making him look like he’s a good guy," Ainsley Earhardt said Monday on "FOX & Friends" as favorable mainstream headlines appeared on screen. Steve Doocy called it "kind of curious" that the press would describe Nasrallah in such glowing terms. Popular X personality Comfortably Smug responded, "Insane New York Times piece with...

Prince fans will be given the opportunity to live how the iconic music star lived, for a small fee. Lisa and Wendy of The Revolution band have restored Prince's childhood home in Minneapolis, Minnesota and are making it available on Airbnb from October 26 to December 14. Over the 25 consecutive nights, fans will be allowed to book a one-night stay, with up to four guests for $7 per person – a nod to the former musician's favorite number.

The massive flooding across NC and East Tennessee happened on Sept. 27. One of the busiest Interstate highways, I-40 is closed at the border of those two states after the roadway was washed away. Bridges have washed away, trapping people who can't get out. Where is the U.S. Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg? He has not uttered one statement, for the three days after this disaster. He is proof your sexual preferences do not qualify you to manage the infrastructure in this country.

VIDEOThe direction of the presidential campaign becomes much clearer when viewed through the lens presented by Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Radio Show. And the lens that Brian has presented is that Kamala Harris (and Tim Walz) have... GIVEN UP! Watch as Brian makes this case first early on the morning of September 30 from deep within the recesses of the vast Craig Family Compound. A few hours later Brian elaborated on this premise while on the air at the his Palm Beach County radio station. There was one brief interruption by a very weird caller but Brian...

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital promotes contraception, LGBT lifestyle: reportFormerly focused on pediatric healthcare, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, founded by Catholic entertainer Danny Thomas, now advocates for the use of contraception and pushes the homosexual lifestyle.What does celebrating, promoting, and supporting the open practice of sodomy have to do with helping kids fight childhood cancer? That’s the question donors need to be asking St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.St. Jude was founded in 1962 by the famous actor and comedian, Danny Thomas. A Maronite Catholic, Thomas had a great devotion to St. Jude Thaddeus and made a promise that if...

Lawmakers in both parties are bracing themselves for a messy aftermath to Election Day as polls show the race between former President Trump and Vice President Harris is so close in several battleground states that it could take days to determine the winner. Democratic senators say they fear Trump and his allies will seize on any initial uncertainty over the results to claim election fraud if Harris is projected the early winner. Some lawmakers are already girding themselves for another battle on the Senate and House floors over certifying the election if Harris is declared the winner. Though Congress passed...

In the years before the Civil War, slaveholders were the greatest threat to free speech in the United States. White Southerners used state laws, a congressional gag rule, suppression of the mail, and physical violence to silence abolitionist speech because they believed it was dangerous. In 1830, for example, Louisiana penalized anyone using “language in any public discourse, from the bar, the bench, the stage, the pulpit, or in any place whatsoever,” as well as “in private discourses or conversations,” that had “a tendency to produce discontent among the free colored population of this State, or to incite insubordination among...

[Catholic Caucus] The Infernal Synod on SynodalityAs the three-year synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church limps into its final three weeks of meetings in Rome, even poking fun at it has become a bit tedious.Originally ridiculed by many as a “meeting about meetings,” it never managed to demonstrate that it wasn’t. Way back in November 2021, still flush with excitement over the synodal process—with meetings at the parish, diocesan, national, continental, and planetary level still beckoning enticingly—Cardinal Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio in the United States, said that if synodality was a “meeting about meetings,” it would be a...

Don't be fooled by David Frum's rather reserved academic mien. The CNN regular is as rabid a Trump/JD Vance hater as anyone on the liberal media's Team Kamala. In recent times, we have caught Frum calling Vance a "racist, corrupt" Trump with better hair and a law degree. And comparing Trump to psychopathic mass murderer Charles Manson. Frum was back at his incendiary attacks on today's CNN This Morning. The topic was the appropriateness of Trump calling Kamala Harris mentally impaired and disabled. Frum suggested that instead of making personal insults about Harris, Trump should speak about his plans. Frum's...

A Hamas commander in Lebanon who was killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight was an accredited member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the embattled agency confirmed after his death. Hamas’s Fateh Sherif and his family were killed in an airstrike at a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern city of Tyre, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Monday. “Sherif was responsible for coordinating Hamas’ terror activities in Lebanon with Hezbollah operatives, as well as Hamas’ efforts in Lebanon to recruit operatives and acquire weapons.” While leading terrorist activities, Sherif...

NPR host Maria Hinojosa said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that Latinos who support former President Donald Trump “want to be white.” Host Jonathan Capehart said, “This is from this Telemundo poll, that shows a shrinking majority of Latino voters in favor of the Democratic candidate.” He asked, “Vice President Harris at 54%, she has a 14 point lead but it has been shrinking after each consecutive presidential election from 2016. Why is that? Why is the Democratic share of the Latino vote shrinking?” Hinojosa said, “What I said to you when we asked the question...

A 41-year-old Syrian national wounded 31 people, including two children who were left in critical condition, in arson attacks on Saturday in the German city of Essen, according to police and media reports from Sunday morning. At around 5:10 p.m. on Saturday, the man set fire to a residential building on Altenessener Strasse, at the corner of Pielsticker Strasse, according to Bild. He later drove a few streets over, where he set fire to a second residence. The fire service said that 31 people were wounded in the arson attacks, while Essen police placed the number at 30. Tagesschau reported...