Posts on Sunday, April 21, 2019
Now that Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) has come out in opposition to President Donald Trump on the issue of obstruction of justice, as outlined in the Mueller report, the mainstream media is rushing to apologize to the former presidential candidate for doubting his warnings about Russia. (Video) On Friday, Romney released a statement, essentially condemning President Trump´s behavior in the days and weeks following the opening of Mueller´s investigation, and accusing the Trump campaign of ignoring evidence that Russia was making a concerted effort to undermine the 2016 presidential elections. "I am also appalled that, among other things, fellow citizens
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof spent yet another Easter Sunday trying to see just how little one can believe of Christianity’s anchoring ideas, and still consider oneself a Christian. Kristof refers to these regular interviews with theological figures as “my occasional series of conversations about Christianity.” All have the same theme -- seeing if one can get away with calling oneself a Christian if you don’t actually buy that whole virgin birth and Resurrection mythology. Fortunately for him, this year’s interviewee was on Kristof’s wavelength. This year he talked with Serene Jones, Protestant minister and president of Union Theological
SOUTHWEST RANCHES, Fla.– A dog found abandoned in Colorado has been returned to its family, nearly two years after it was stolen in Florida as a puppy.Animal charity organization Wings of Rescue says the German Shepherd named Cedar was covered with snow in a rural Colorado ditch, apparently malnourished with an injured leg when a deputy marshal found her. The pet was identified thanks to its microchip. The youngest of four dogs in the Peterson family, Cedar was stolen from their backyard in May 2017 in the town of Southwest Ranches, north of Miami. At the time, other signs for
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surging national profile has inspired a trio of Republican opponents from her home district — along with a multimillionaire mystery donor who could help close the gap in her foes’ long-shot race against her. Just three months after taking office, the Democratic socialist congresswoman’s challengers include an Egyptian American journalist, who has already tossed her hat in the ring, and an NYPD cop-turned-high-school-civics teacher and conservative talk-radio producer, both of whom are seriously exploring a run against her. And the fledgling challengers could get help from a wealthy New Yorker committed to backing an Ocasio-Cortez opponent, a GOP
MSNBC reporter Mike Viqueira confronted Robert Mueller with a microphone and camera crew after the former special counsel exited Easter Sunday church services with his wife. WATCH: (Video) The MSNBC reporter and camera crew were waiting outside where Mueller typically attends church, and Viqueira acknowledged that they likely surprised Mueller, whose recently released report has dominated the news cycle, as he left the building. “Well, we understood that Robert Mueller was just across Lafayette Square here from downtown Washington at St. John’s Episcopal Church,” Viqueira said, describing the encounter to anchor Alex Witt on Sunday. “He’s been seen there before
President Donald Trump wished the world a happy Easter on Sunday, pointing to his happiness and success as president. “Happy Easter!” he wrote Easter morning on Twitter. “I have never been happier or more content because your Country is doing so well, with an Economy that is the talk of the World and may be stronger than it has ever been before. Have a great day!” The president spent Easter at his club at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. He attended Easter service Sunday morning with First Lady Melania at the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, according to the
A British mother and son having breakfast in a five star hotel were among more than 200 people killed this morning in eight coordinated terrorist bombings which targeted churches and tourists in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Alex Nicholson, 11, his mother, Anita, 42, were killed in the Table One cafe on the second-floor of the Shangri La hotel in the country´s capital, Colombo, at around 8.30am, The Telegraph reported. They were on a family holiday. Alex´s father Ben Nicholson survived the blast but the whereabouts of the couple´s youngest daughter are unknown. Mr Nicholson is not believed to have
On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” veteran journalist Bob Woodward acknowledged the extraordinary role the dossier manufactured by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Woodward to host Chris Wallace the use of the Steele dossier warranted an investigation.Partial transcript as follows: WALLACE: President Trump kicking off what may be the next chapter of the Russia probe, looking into why the FBI launched the investigation and we are back now with the panel. Well, Mr. Woodward, more than two years ago back in January of 2017 when the Steele dossier first surfaced, I remember you saying right here on
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed that “several” American citizens are among the casualties of the Sri Lankan church bombings. The official statement reads: The United States condemns in the strongest terms the terror attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter morning. Attacks on innocent people gathering in a place of worship or enjoying a holiday meal are affronts to the universal values and freedoms that we hold dear, and demonstrate yet again the brutal nature of radical terrorists whose sole aim is to threaten peace and security. The United States offers our deepest condolences to the families and friends
When Hassan Whiteside of the Miami Heat wired $2.75 million to Michael Avenatti in January 2017, the pro basketball player intended most of the money to go to his former girlfriend, Alexis Gardner. Avenatti was Gardner’s attorney. An actress and barista, she’d hired him just a few weeks before to negotiate a settlement of a potential lawsuit against Whiteside. It’s unclear what she would have alleged. Avenatti quickly struck a $3 million deal, and the $2.75 million was Whiteside’s first payment. Avenatti, prosecutors say, was entitled to take just over $1 million in legal fees, leaving the rest for Gardner.
Edelweiss über alles
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On Friday I started the day with three hours of substitute-host-level Excellence in Broadcasting on America´s Number One radio show. The Mueller Report predominated, but we got to other topics as well: (Snip)~The moronization of society proceeds apace. As we mentioned on the show, a bigshot New York Times correspondent thinks that playing "Edelweiss" at the White House is some kind of Nazi dog-whistle to Trump supporters. It is tragic and profound the way even small artifacts of our inheritance get trashed in these witless arguments, so, if you want to know the real story of the
I had a good first night of Passover seder in my new Nashville home thanks to some friends who took us to the impressive local Chabad. Chabad, to their credit, likes to make sure no Jew is left out on the holidays. (There were plenty of gentiles at the festivity as well.) Also to their credit, this consistently outreaching branch of the Hasidic movement is determinedly upbeat, looking to the future and the joy of life for all. L´chaim! But even with this positive atmosphere, my mind drifted off and I kept thinking of Isaac Singer´s post-Holocaust novel Shadows on
I’m on my fifth 4×8 whiteboard overlay, now formatted into a timeline sequence; and I’m determined to have a massive amount of material for both the House and Senate to confront former special counsel Mueller if he complies with requests for appearance. (Snip) it’s from the original small group: 19 lawyers, 40 current FBI officials and their Lawfare assistants. They have no idea how much their own hubris has positioned themselves at the precipice of their own grave. In my opinion, the Mueller appearance and a well armed Republican panel should be the ignition spark for The Big Ugly.
A comedian with no political experience won a landslide victory in Ukraine´s presidential election Sunday, exit polls showed, dealing a stunning rebuke to the country´s political establishment. Volodymyr Zelensky, whose only previous political role was playing the president on television, trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko by taking 73 percent of the vote, according to exit polls conducted by several think tanks. (Snip) It was an extraordinary outcome to a campaign that started as a joke but struck a chord with voters frustrated by poverty, corruption and a five-year war that has claimed some 13,000 lives.
With Meghan Markle due to give birth any day, a new report says the British royal family is scrambling to try to contain her popularity amid worries she could become “bigger than [Princess] Diana.” And so they’ve determined to keep her and Prince Harry as far away as possible from the media(Snip) “There have been various ideas floated for them to take on a job abroad, such as governor-general of Australia or Canada, wherever,” a palace source told The Sunday Times of London. But sending the couple to Canada was “mooted, then booted”
Buried in special counsel Robert Mueller´s 400-plus page report is the question of whether then-president-elect Donald Trump attended a 2016 championship chess tournament — an event that came under scrutiny as Mueller probed possible collusion between Trump´s orbit and the Russian government. Although Trump said he did not attend the event, he told Mueller in written answers that he became "aware of documents indicating" that then-president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov — a sanctioned Russian power player — invited the Trump Organization in March 2016 to host the tournament at Trump Tower. "I do not remember having
MAPASTEPEC, Mexico — Madison Mendoza, her feet aching and her face burned by the sun, wept as she said she had nothing to feed her 2-year-old son who she´d brought with her on the long trek toward the United States. (Snip) Heyman Vázquez, a parish priest in Huixtla, a community along the caravan´s route, said local support for the Central American migrants has dried up because of an anti-migrant discourse that blames them for crime and insecurity. "It is due to the campaign of discrimination and xenophobia created through social networks and the media that blames migrants for the
Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein invested Robert Muller with the following power: “If the Special Counsel believes it is necessary and appropriate, the Special Counsel is authorized to prosecute federal crimes arising from the investigation of these matters” Mueller and his high-powered legal team indicted, convicted or obtained guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies, including top advisers to President Trump, Russian spies and hackers with ties to the Kremlin. The charges ranged from interfering with the 2016 election and hacking emails to lying to investigators and tampering with witnesses. However Mueller did not indict or prosecute anyone
Buckingham Palace Does Not Deny Rumors that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Could Move to Africa
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Prince Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex only recently moved out of Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace and into Frogmore Cottage, their new home near Windsor Castle. But according to a new article this weekend, they could have another, even bigger move on the horizon.(Snip) According to a source, the job could take the couple to Africa. "Discussions are at an early stage, but the plan is to find a new way of using their soft power abilities, most likely in Africa," the insider said. A move would likely not take place until at least 2020, and
What’s the Next Fake News?
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NEW YORK — On April 21, 1980, Rosie Ruiz won the fabled Boston Marathon in record time and looked fresh as a daisy when the media descended on her following her crowning with a wreath à la Ancient Greece. Rosie answered all the questions. She loved running, this was only her second marathon, and no, she was never tired or doubtful of victory during the two hours and 32 minutes of the race. The newspapers and the hacks went wild. Well, the reason for Rosie’s freshness, it later transpired, was that she had entered the race twenty minutes from the
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren thrust herself into the climate change debate this week, promising that if elected president, she´d sign an executive order on her first day in office to end drilling offshore and on public lands, a move that would reverse President Donald Trump´s most notable energy policies and halt the soaring rate of drilling permits granted on federal lands. (Snip) The proposal also includes: Fully funding public land management agencies and requiring mandatory spending for the Land and Water Conservation Fund Creating a "21st century Civilian Conservation Corps" by employing 10,000 young people, funded by
Nattering nadlers of nihilism
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The Mueller Report appears to be crafted to keep hope in overthrowing Trump alive among Democrats. No matter that the Trump campaign’s alleged “collusion” with the Russian authorities proved to be a hoax — who engineered it again? — Trump lied and tried to thwart the investigation int his nonexistent crimes. Now we will have to listen to the Democrats and their media adjunct yammer on until Trump is defeated by hook or by crook or the old-fashioned way. The Democratic protagonists Congress put me in mind of the late William Safire. It was Safire who drove the media nuts
The apotheosis of the Left’s 21st-Century lunacy is its insistence that disagreeing with leftist dogma–declining to accept the “trans” farce, for example–is “violence” that demands suppression, while actual violence by leftists like Antifa–bashing people in the head with a baseball bat, for instance–is merely free speech exercised by “protesters.” No one in the world, with the possible exception of a handful of mis-educated college professors and students, is dumb enough to be fooled by that inversion. But liberals soldier heedlessly on. Here is a today’s instance of the phenomenon. April Ryan, a CNN personality, suggested that
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said on Sunday the findings in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report were more significant than the Watergate scandal that led to the end of Richard Nixon’s presidency. Schiff, D-Calif., was pressed by "This Week" host Martha Raddatz to answer for his past assertions that there was “ample and abundant” evidence of collusion between President Trump and Russia. She pointed out that Schiff said on the show previously the alleged scandal was “of a size and scope probably beyond Watergate.” “I think it’s clear from the Mueller report that that’s exactly right. The obstruction of
In 2013, then-CBS reporter Lara Logan had an investigative report on the 2012 Benghazi terror attack that was buried and “discredited,” reportedly due to the network’s mistaken vetting of one eyewitness’s account of the incident. However, according to Logan, the report was disparaged because it was critical of the Obama administration’s failure to come to the defense of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and his compound when it was attacked by Islamist terrorists. Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack on September 11, 2012. In a recent interview with Mark Levin of Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty and Levin,”
The original authorization for the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller was May 17th, 2017. However, the recently released Weissmann report shows there were two additional scope memos authorizing specific targeting of the Mueller probe. The first scope memo was August 2nd, 2017, OUTLINED HERE, and is an important part of the puzzle that helps explain the corrupt original purpose of the special counsel. (Snip) second scope memo was to provide Weissmann and Mueller with ammunition and authority to investigate specific targets, for specific purposes. One of those targets was General Michael Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr.
I remember September 11, 2001. Terrorists hijacked civilian airlines and flew them into the two World Trade towers and the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field after the hijacked passengers heroically overcame their captors. Late in the day, our phone rang. It was a friend informing us that four of the passengers on the plane flown into the Pentagon were a couple with whom we were friends and their two young daughters. At that point, I sat on the stairs, buried my head in my hands, and wept.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is not at all pleased with Utah Sen. Mitt Romney’s constant attacks on President Donald Trump and even said he is sickened by the idea that Romney could have become President of the United States. Romney once again lashed out at President Trump in a statement on Friday, reacting to the Robert Mueller report. Romney stated that he is “sickened” by the level of dishonesty from Trump’s administration. Huckabee, however, was “sick” about something else, MSN reported. “Know what makes me sick, Mitt? Not how disingenuous you were to take @realDonaldTrump $$ and then 4
As many as 207 people are dead in an Easter Sunday terrorist attack targeting Christians in Sri Lanka after eight explosions ripped through high-end hotels and churches as suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up. Seven suspects have been arrested after the explosions injured up to 500 people, and the country´s foreign minister said at least 27 foreigners were among those killed. Earlier reports indicated that nationals from the UK, US, Netherlands and Portugal were among the dead. After an initial six blasts hit three churches and hotels - mostly concentrated near the city of Colombo - a further two were
President Trump and his aides are preparing to declassify the Carter Page FISA docs and other pertinent Russiagate records following the release of the Mueller report. Investigative reporter James Rosen of Sinclair Broadcasting, reported that according to sources, with Mueller’s report now public, President Trump and key White House aides are said to be taking a fresh look at declassifying documents that will expose the FBI’s and DOJ’s criminal actions of spying taken against Trump’s 2016 campaign. According to James Rosen, President Trump is planning on declassifying the documents around the same time Inspector General Michael Horowitz releases his report
Following the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller´s report by Attorney General William Barr, an unusual television interview was held by former President Obama´s director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. A fantastic phrase came from his mouth: "If there was no active collusion proven, then I think what we have here is a case of passive collusion." In addition to the significant contribution to Orwellian left-wing Newspeak, the terms "active collusion" and "passive collusion" suggest that there is another side to the "collusion." Which one? The answer is provided by the Mueller Report (there is also a convenient searchable WikiLeaks
School teachers are the largest single occupational group contributing to socialist Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. As Breitbart notes, “A disproportionate number of those to whom we have entrusted the task of passing our values on to the next generation disagree with those values and would prefer a “revolution.” So many school teachers in North Carolina joined Marxist May Day protests organized by #RedforEd, the four largest school districts shut down for the day. #RedforEd talks about hirer wages and Medicare for all. They pretend to be bi-partisan. They are anything but mainstream: A well-funded and subversive leftist movement of teachers
Despite the oceans of pixels, buckets of ink, and hours of TV and radio coverage respecting the Mueller report, there are two important things underplayed or ignored: the ubiquitous nature of Russian interference from 2014 on, which Obama ignored, and the real target of the witch hunt -- General Michael Flynn (and why). To get there, let’s first quickly review the pre- and post- report major media coverage. The Ridiculous Press Propagation of the Hoax and Response to the Report There are countless examples of the media beclowning itself when the left’s dream
He Is Risen
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Gospel LK 24:1-12: At daybreak on the first day of the week the women who had come from Galilee with Jesus took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them. They were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground. They said to them, “Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He is not here,
What Trump is guilty of
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Donald Trump, the president of the United States, behaved as any innocent man would, behave having been framed by fabricated propaganda prepared by foreign intelligence agents and paid for by his political enemies. He behaved as any innocent man might when prosecutors hounding him were enabled and appointed by his political enemies. He behaved as any innocent man might when he realized that his prosecutors included the chief counsel of the Clinton Family Foundation and Barack Obama´s deputy assistant attorney general and that the chief witness against him was represented by Hillary Clinton´s longstanding lawyer
The most casual patriot melts when hearing Kate Smith sing "God Bless America," which she introduced in 1943 (watch @ 4:20 for Ronald Reagan cameo). Subsequent renditions have prompted then and modern stars to appreciate how, per President Reagan when he presented her the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in 1982: "Kate always sang from her heart, and we all listened with our hearts." Philadelphia Flyers hockey team fans reveled when Kate Smith appeared center-ice to spark winning their first Stanley Cup in 1974 and thereafter (2009, 2010, 2012);
The Truth About Dentistry
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In the early 2000s Terry Mitchell’s dentist retired. For a while, Mitchell, an electrician in his 50s, stopped seeking dental care altogether. But when one of his wisdom teeth began to ache, he started looking for someone new. An acquaintance recommended John Roger Lund, whose practice was a convenient 10-minute walk from Mitchell’s home, in San Jose, California. Lund’s practice was situated in a one-story building with clay roof tiles that housed several dental offices. The interior was a little dated, but not dingy. The waiting room was small and the decor minimal: some plants and photos,
Understanding Jesus´s Mission
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One of the most important questions in the history of the universe is “Why did Jesus have to die?” This is especially the case as we are in the throes of what many are referring to as the “post-truth” era, where “Everybody Wants to Rule Their World.” The late great Oswald Chambers provides one of the best descriptions of why Jesus went to the cross: The Cross of Christ is the revealed truth of God’s judgment on sin… There is nothing in time or eternity more absolutely certain and irrefutable than what Jesus Christ accomplished on the Cross --
Hillary´s Two-Year Tantrum
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For the last two years we have all been forced to endure the temper tantrum thrown by Hillary Clinton over her second Presidential campaign loss just as the spectators in a grocery store aisle watch the young mother attempt to discipline her out-of-control toddler as it thrashes itself screaming across the floor. The American people defeated Hillary in the Democrat Primary season of 2008. The popular version of that loss is that Obama overwhelmed the party with his charm. The reality is that Democratic Party voters chose his inexperience, melanin level, and vacuous campaign of "Hope and Change"
The Symbolism of Notre Dame
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It’s hard to think that Holy Week anno domini 2019 will be remembered as having created a strict demarcation in our cultural timeline: pre-Notre-Dame fire, and post. April is the cruellest month, indeed. But here we are. Living in a world, in a West, without the full Notre Dame cathedral looking out protectively over Paris, a spiritual stone guardian. The façade remains; its sacral inside, including a forest’s-worth of 12th-century oak latticework, is smoldering and gone. The live coverage of the fire was painful to watch,
The task was simple and at the same time a bit silly: Each of the 12 leading French candidates for European Parliament elections was to bring an object that symbolized Europe for them to the first TV debate. The conservative candidate with the Republican Party brought a copy of Homer´s "Odyssey;" the leftist politician Raphaël Glucksmann brought a piece of the Berlin Wall. Jordan Bardella, the lead candidate for Marine Le Pen´s right-wing populist Rassemblement National, held up a red kitchen sieve to the camera.
A Meditation after Easter
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And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in. And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples? And he shall show you a large upper room furnished: there make ready. —Luke 22: 10–12 There is a strange agency at work here. The Scripture might be haunted. That pitcher-bearer. This goodman. They spook me.
"If you build it, he will come.” Puh-lease. Thirty years after the release of "Field of Dreams," it´s time for a major reassessment. Sorry, all you folks who view baseball — and this movie — as some sort of timeless metaphor for connecting to your past and understanding what America is really all about. In reality, it´s just another terrible film. If you can somehow get past all the factual errors and horrible casting — Ray "Goodfellas" Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson? — you realize this is nothing more than an epic helping of corniness, passed off as some
Mayor Pete — as Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic presidential hopeful from the city of South Bend, Indiana, has been affectionately dubbed by his fawning following in the media — called out climate change as the “greatest security issue of our time” during his recent announcement speech. And if we don’t fix it, we’ll all die. He’s yet the latest from the left to use climate change for political advantage by claiming the same. We’ve got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez giving us the 12-year countdown to doom and gloom and death, if we don’t do something quick. That’s not hyperbole.
In his long-awaited report, special counsel Robert Mueller found that the evidence failed to establish “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russia. In addition, he did not find that President Trump committed obstruction of justice, the only other offense discussed in the report. By contrast, independent counsel Kenneth Starr, in his 1998 report, established that President Clinton perjured himself during a civil deposition, conspired to obstruct justice, violated criminal prohibitions against witness tampering, and perjured himself before a grand jury. When congressional Republicans commenced impeachment proceedings against Clinton, congressional Democrats and their media allies were outraged. Even though the evidence established
A Few Humble Thoughts
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First of all, about reparations, the notion of paying money to black or partially black Americans for the enslavement of their ancestors from Africa. It’s a beguiling idea. Slavery was so hideous a crime and caused so much pain and suffering that something should be done about it. But we face a lot of problems in the concept of reparations. For one thing, there were a fair number of black people who emancipated themselves through superhumanly hard work, then used their savings to buy slaves. How do we assess their liability? For another, the conditions of slaves varied wildly.
As Democrats privately admit to themselves that there was no Russian collusion, they’ve also shifted gears to focus on the question of obstruction of justice. Despite the Mueller investigation being loaded with anti-Trumpers, even they weren’t able to say that any obstruction occurred. If there’s anything the release of the Mueller report has exposed, it’s not criminal behavior or even impeachable offenses of President Trump, but rather the hypocrisy of Democrats who are willing to call anything an impeachable offense with Trump but pretended the corruption that occurred under Barack Obama was all above board.
LOS ANGELES — Roman Polanski asked a judge Friday to restore his membership in the organization that bestows the Academy Awards nearly a year after he was expelled from it for sexual misconduct. Lawyers for the 85-year-old fugitive director petitioned Los Angeles Superior Court to compel the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make him a member in good standing again. In May, the academy made the rare move of expelling Polanski and Bill Cosby, months after ending the membership of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. Polanski appealed the decision, and in January the academy rejected his appeal.
True story: My wife and I both are former residents of New York City, and on a recent business trip there she was taking a nostalgic walk through the Upper West Side on a lovely fall day, talking to me on the phone about the possibility of moving back there. And then the crusty guy walking in front of her on the sidewalk stopped, dropped trou and took a dump right there on the sidewalk on Central Park West. “Never mind,” she said. We live in Texas, where we don’t have any state or local income tax or languish
The Great Synagogue of Warsaw ´reappeared´ in the Polish capital on Thursday, 76 years after it was destroyed by the Nazis during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Artist Gabi von Seltmann used projectors to recreate the place of worship against the facade of the modern building which now stands in its place. Recordings of the synagogue´s cantor Gerszon Sirota, who died in the ghetto, were used to recreate the sounds of Jewish Warsaw .The light-and-sound show, taking place for the second year, was designed to remind Poles of a history which has now largely disappeared from the city.
Poor little Bobby Francis O´Rourke. His 2020 presidential campaign´s top advisor just quit and took her deputy with her today. BuzzFeed News reports that Becky Bond, a progressive activist who has been with "Beto" since his 2019 senate race, has left his presidential campaign. Zack Malitz, her deputy, also left the campaign. via BuzzFeed: Chris Evans, a spokesman for O’Rourke, did not address questions about the reasons for the departures or whether Bond and Malitz left voluntarily.
NEW YORK – There´s at least one area of agreement among conservative, centrist and liberal leaders in the United Methodist Church: America´s largest mainline Protestant denomination is on a path toward likely breakup over differences on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT pastors. The differences have simmered for years, and came to a head in February at a conference in St. Louis where delegates voted 438-384 for a proposal called the Traditional Plan, which strengthens bans on LGBT-inclusive practices. A majority of U.S.-based delegates opposed that plan and favored LGBT-friendly options, but they were outvoted
(Video) - Bomb blasts hit several high-end hotels and churches across Sri Lanka on Sunday morning, killing at least 138 people and injuring 560. Explosions occurred during Easter services at churches in the cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa. Additional blasts ripped through three hotels, the Shangri La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury Hotel, all in capital city Colombo, according to state broadcaster SLRC. At least 20 foreigners are among the dead in Colombo, according to hospital Director General Anil Jasinghe. Sri Lankan security officials said police and security services immediately rushed to all affected areas