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WASHINGTON — Multiple members of the U.S. Secret Service have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, according to Department of Homeland Security documents reviewed by Yahoo News. In March, the Secret Service, which is responsible for the protection of President Trump and other leaders, acknowledged that a single employee tested positive in March. However the problem is currently far more widespread, with 11 active cases at the agency as of Thursday evening, according to a daily report compiled by the DHS. This report comes as a pair of cases among White House staffers close to Trump...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Several big life insurance stocks fell sharply Thursday, dragged down by jitters about their role in the credit crisis and fears sparked by a comment from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Wednesday about a potential bankruptcy in the industry. "We don't have a lot of leeway on time. One of the individuals in the caucus today talked about a major insurance company. A major insurance company -- one with a name that everyone knows that's on the verge of going bankrupt. That's what this is all about," Reid said prior to the Senate's approval of...

Nobody else started a thread...so I thought I would. Happy Valentines Day! I left a nice gift and card for my wife on the kitchen counter...since I leave for work at 6am. She left me a gift and card for me by the coffee pot LOL! Hope we all can show the love we have for that important person in our life today. ;)

PRACTICE OF CHRISTIAN MORTIFICATION by Cardinal Desire Mercier (1851-1926) NB: All the practices of mortification which we have collected here are derived from the examples of the Saints, especially Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Teresa, Saint Francis de Sales, Saint John Berchmans; or they are recommended by acknowledged masters of the spiritual life, such as the Venerable Louis de Blois, Rodriguez, Scaramelli, Mgr. Gay, Abbe Allemand, Abbe Hamon, Abbe Dubois, etc.. ' 1 - In the matter of food, restrict yourself as far as possible to simple necessity. Consider these words which Saint Augustine addressed to God: "O my...

Well, I'd like to encourage people that homeschooling DOES make a difference, if you weren't already convinced of it. No descendant of Adam will ever be perfect and all children, homeschooled or not, will make mistakes. Some little and some really big. But homeschooling is not about kids never making mistakes. As a child I was homeschooled and sent to private school (about the same amount of years doing each). I have 9 siblings, one who went to school a majority of his schooling years and 8 who've not been to school at all (except for those who are now...

stuffonmycat.com...I thought it was an interesting site...just thought I'd share...alot of potential ZOT pics there...enjoy.

I thought this pic of my kid was hilarious. Enjoy.

Admin, pls delete if you deem necessary. I'm pretty sure the secretary of state web sites for all 50 states will post election results as they come in. That being said, do any Freepers know of any other sites where the results are being posted? When will the results start coming in?

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Some senior Iraqi officials sacked in a purge of those connected with Saddam Hussein's regime will be brought back in an overhaul of the policy, a spokesman for the U.S.-led administration said Thursday. Dan Senor suggested the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council had gone overboard in preventing former senior members of Saddam's Baath Party from returning to work. "We want it to be implemented in the way it was designed," Senor told a news conference. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, would address the nation Friday on the issue, he added. Senor said there was "no room...

OK...first some background...my wife and I have been married for 7 years, she's 34, I'm 29. Over the years we have tried to have children with no success. My wife has had fertility problems her whole life. About a year ago, we considered going to a fertility specialist and go thru those motions. We began that process, and then realized that the stress that was putting on my wife (i.e. "will it happen this time or not?") was too much for her. We painfully decided to stop seeing the fertility specialist and forgo the attitude that if we were ever...

The Sex Of The Computer A language instructor was explaining to her class that in French, nouns unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine. "House," in French, is feminine-"la maison." "Pencil," in French, is masculine-"le crayon." One puzzled student asked, "What gender is computer?" The teacher did not know, and the word wasn't in her French dictionary. So for fun she split the class into two groups appropriately enough, by gender and asked them to decide whether "computer" should be a masculine or feminine noun. Both groups were required to give four reasons for their recommendation....

Kudos to JimRob and his tech-geeks! The site is FLYING today of all days. Based on the tech problems that happened a couple weeks ago, they really came through in the clutch and are to be commended.

Democrats in a Nutshell Friday, October 25, 2002  - by George Kocan, editor of TAPROOT, a Republican newsletter Saul Alinsky was the founder of a new type of politics -- do whatever it takes to win. His book, Rules for Radicals, was dedicated to Lucifer. Corrupt ethics has a long tradition in the Democrat Party. Vote fraud, bribery, ghost pay-rolling and extortion are just a few of the tricks in the Democrat's black bag. So, when Republican Jim Ryan, an experienced prosecutor, asks for an investigation of allegations that Democrat Rod Blagojevich had a city job for which he never...

October 8, 2002 Beware of government propaganda, Libertarians say As Americans consider the merits of the case against Iraq as laid out by President Bush on Monday night, they should keep these five words in mind, Libertarians say: Babies being pulled from incubators. The explosive allegation that Iraqi troops had invaded a Kuwaiti hospital in 1990, pulled babies from incubators and left them on the floor to die - a charge made on national TV by Bush's father - later turned out to be patently false government propaganda. "There's no way for ordinary Americans to determine whether all of...

Yahoo's home page looked like the following as of 7:41 CST:     Founded by Jim Furtado and Sean Forman, the Baseball Think Factory ties together a wide range of baseball interests and information under a single company. Please visit our sites. Feel free to tell us what you think about them.Baseball-Reference.com Find statistics from 1871 to the present for major league players, teams, and leagues. Complete post-season and managerial data is included as well along with other interesting features including The Baseball Travel Guide where you can find all the baseball close to you from Akron to Yuma. BaseballPrimer.com...

Spurgeon and the Down-Grade ControversybyJohn F. MacArthur, Jr.Excerpted from Ashamed of the Gospel copyright 1992 by John F. MacArthur, Jr. (Wheaton: Crossway). All rights reserved. Used by permission.[At the end of the Puritan age] by some means or other, first the ministers, then the Churches, got on "the down grade," and in some cases, the descent was rapid, and in all, very disastrous. In proportion as the ministers seceded from the old Puritan godliness of life, and the old Calvinistic form of doctrine, they commonly became less earnest and less simple in their preaching, more speculative and less spiritual in...

Abortion Clinic Gets New Home: Taxpayers Foot The Bill of $300,000(CNSNews.com) - A local abortion clinic in Bridgeport, Conn. will soon have a new home in the heart of the city's "high profile" commercial district, costing taxpayers $300,000 in moving and relocation costs and outraging many religious and political leaders in the city. A new state courthouse and juvenile detention center are currently under construction in Bridgeport's downtown area. As the city clears a site for the construction, it will have to pay the relocation costs for several city businesses, including the Summit Women's Center. The Summit Women's Center, an...

Despite the growing media consensus that Roman Catholicism causes sodomy, an alternative view—adopted by the Boy Scouts—is that sodomites cause sodomy. (Assume all the usual disclaimers here about most gay men not molesting boys, most Muslims being peaceful, and so on.) It is a fact that the vast majority of the abuser priests—more than 90%—are accused of molesting teen-age boys.Meanwhile, no spate of sex scandals is engulfing the Boy Scouts of America. Inasmuch as the Boy Scouts were not taking risk-assessment advice from Norman Mineta, they decided to eliminate a whole category of potential problems by refusing to allow gay...