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  • Why do we have the COVIUD-19 epidemic

    03/28/2020 6:48:22 AM PDT · by nagant · 12 replies
    1. Wuhan, China has a bio-weapons lab known to have been working with viruses very similar to COVID-19. 2. China has sweetheart deals receiving business and paying huge cash prizes to very powerful Democrats. 3. Joe Biden is the front-running candidate in the Democrat party. 4. Joe Biden has a reputation of loony, creepy behavior with women and girls, and has recently been accused of sexual assault. 5. Joe Biden couldn't win a president election against an orange traffic cone even its name failed to appear on the ballot. 6. In response to this pandemic the Democrat party has postponed...
  • Agnes Nixon, creator of 'One Life to Live' and 'All My Children,' dies at 93

    09/28/2016 4:51:49 PM PDT · by Borges · 5 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 9/28/2016 | Valerie J. Nelson
    *** Although her characters were inevitably embroiled in melodrama, Nixon was repeatedly honored for elevating soaps during a television career that spanned more than 60 years. She pioneered socially relevant themes and dealt with them seriously, bringing attention to such once-taboo topics as racism, AIDS, lesbian relationships and teenage prostitution. In 1962, Nixon wrote a story line for “The Guiding Light” on CBS about a character who develops uterine cancer and has a life-saving hysterectomy. The network and show sponsor Proctor & Gamble agreed to the plot only if the words “cancer,” “uterus” and “hysterectomy” were not used.
  • [Bruce] Jenner Cancels Speaking Tour

    01/07/2016 5:24:41 PM PST · by SoFloFreeper · 42 replies
    [Bruce] Jenner has canceled h[is] upcoming speaking tour, Gossip Cop confirms. As Gossip Cop reported, Jenner's rep confirmed in October that [h]e would embark on a five-city tour with the women's lecture organization Unique Lives and Experiences. The tour was to be called "Up Close And Personal," ...at venues in Toronto, Vancouver, Denver, San Francisco, and Seattle beginning in late February. Tickets were on sale with prices ranging from $40 to $500 for a VIP package, depending on the location.
  • The banality of evil

    12/07/2013 3:22:24 PM PST · by NYer · 6 replies
    Catholic Education ^ | December 7, 2013 | Fr. George W. Rutler
    "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." A young businessman told me that on a recent trip to California he was struck by how insipid the art of conversation had become among those he met there, and that the stock reply to almost every observation or critical comment on any subject was:  "It's all good."  Although New Yorkers might breezily pass this off as typical of the insipidity of what they call "La-La Land," this insouciance has infected all parts of our society, and anyone...
  • Cross? What Cross?

    07/28/2007 6:54:40 PM PDT · by hiho hiho · 14 replies · 477+ views
    Mere Comments (Touchstone) ^ | July 24, 2007 | Anthony Esolen
    I've recently been strapping on the swamp boots to wade through something called Glory and Praise, perhaps the most commonly used Roman Catholic hymnal in the United States and Canada. Oh, it is sloppy and noisome work, logging the bathos, stupidity, banality, heresy, and textual vandalism. I've concluded, though, that there is one factor that touches every problem, something that helps explain these apparently disparate acts of mischief: -- the neutering of old masculine language about mankind and even God -- the heedless fouling up of the old poetry, to update a "thou" and a "thee" -- the seizing of...
  • HE WAS COMPLACENT,ARROGANT,HUMOURLESS.HOW THEY LOVED HIM.

    08/02/2004 8:43:21 AM PDT · by CHARLITE · 16 replies · 1,130+ views
    London Telegraph Online ^ | AUG.2, 2004 | MARK STEYN
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/08/01/do0102.xml He was complacent, arrogant and humourless. How they loved him By Mark Steyn Aug. 2, 2004 It was interesting to see Ben Affleck emerge as the Hollywood mascot of the Democratic Convention. The week reminded me of Ben's movie Pearl Harbor: wall-to-wall evocative military imagery, a cast of thousands, superb production values, but a huge gaping hole where the star performance was supposed to be. On TV the other night, young Mr Affleck offered a pearl of wisdom to Mr Kerry and his consultants: "You have to enervate the base," the Hollywood heartthrob advised solemnly. If it's enervating the...