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Thanksgiving can be a tough time of year for many Americans. “The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank,” G.K. Chesterton pointed out many years ago. These days, the holiday has two stumbling blocks that I see. The first is America’s growing secularization. The second is something evident even among many of the still-faithful: a failure to appreciate the abounding blessings we all enjoy. The answer to both is the same: Look up. Let’s take those in reverse order. In our deeply divided world, with impeachment hearings dominating our news...

Make no mistake about it, this is a multi-front cultural, political and economic war against the God of Abraham, His Bible, against His Son Jesus Christ, and against His Church that He shed His own blood to create. Whenever you see the 6-color rainbow Pride Flag, just remember that you are looking at a battle flag under which LGBTQ+ soldiers are marching to war, and that war is on biblical Christianity and the King James Bible. They do not want tolerance, acceptance or equality, they want control and aim to take it by any means necessary. Wake up, church, you...

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday after the United States Supreme Court opened and justices began filing in, a half-robot, half-human with the face of Ruth Bader Ginsburg entered wielding an arm cannon, body armor, enhanced retinal targeting, and an integrated jetpack. “I AM RUTH BADER GINS-BORG. PLEASE PROCEED,” the cybernetic justice said to her colleagues, then reclined in her provided Windsor chair which was instantly crushed under the weight of her new cybernetic body. Overall, Gins-Borg performed well, never falling asleep or showing any signs of fatigue. “She didn’t even blink,” said Judge Sonya Sotomayor who claims the cyborg justice stared at her...

The Community Climate Ambassadors Program is now accepting applications through Wednesday, November 27! We are seeking a racially and economically diverse group of applicants. We are interested in people who can meaningfully engage with one or more of the following groups: Black, Indigenous, people of color Youth LGBTQIA+ Communities Immigrant, migrant, and/or refugee communities Union workers People with disabilities Low income communities People experiencing homelessness People with records

Snails known as impressed odostomes, Boonea impressa, are common parasites of oysters, latching onto a shell and inserting a stylus to slurp the soft insides. Because the snail has a predictable 12-month life cycle, its length at death offers a reliable estimate of when the oyster host died, allowing Florida Museum of Natural History researchers Nicole Cannarozzi and Michal Kowalewski to use it as a tiny seasonal clock for when people collected and ate oysters in the past. Stowaways on discarded oyster shells, the snails offer new insights into an old question about the shell rings that dot the coasts...

Below is the college football TV and live stream schedule for Week 14 of the 2019 season.

A painstaking clean-up operation on a haul of Viking-age treasures found buried on church land in Scotland is unlocking new secrets about their origins... Tiny traces of linen, silk, wood and leather have been analysed during two years of detective work on the hoard has helped develop theories that some objects are several centuries older than previously thought. The careful wrapping of more than 100 gold, silver and jewelled treasures is set to shed new light on how long it was accumulated for before being buried in Galloway nearly 1,000 years ago... He said: "We have a better understanding now...

Billionaire 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer says he will unify the nation behind his vision “without having to compromise with Republicans. I will be the president. Why should I compromise with the losers? They will cooperate with my policies or be completely shutout of government.” “The notion that governing requires splitting the difference between contending parties is the kind of ‘deal making’ approach that Trump has inflicted on America,” Steyer maintained. “Why should we make deals with racists? If voters make the right choices across-the-board we’ll have Democrat majorities in the House and Senate as well as own the...

At age 60, she wasn’t entirely sure where Bali was. By age 62, she was living there. Sherry Bronson, now 69, spent much of her life in Minnesota, where she raised three daughters and worked in real estate. But she didn’t love it: “I have hated the weather in Minnesota since I was a child,” she says. So in 2010, when her oldest daughter, who was teaching in South Korea, asked her to come to Bali so they could celebrate Sherry’s 60th birthday together, Sherry — after, she recalls with a laugh, Googling “Where’s Bali?” — jumped at the...

Left-wing pop icon Cher called on women to vote President Donald Trump out of office for possibly misgendering Conan the combat dog, who helped U.S. special forces kill Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last month. “trump’s LOWEST FORM OF LIFE EVER.LYING’S IN HIS DNA.HES CHAUVINIST.HE LIED ABOUT SEX OF DOG WHO HELPED KILL BAGHDADIHE SAID 3 TIMES DOG WAS A BOY. DEFENSE DEPT SAID NO,DOG’S A GIRL3 TIMESFINALLYASS DEFENSE DEPT CAVED,& SAID”ITS A BOY”. WOMEN VOTE & KICK HIS ASS OUT,” Cher, a frequent Trump critic, wrote on Twitter early Wednesday morning.

2020 SESSION 20101207D SENATE BILL NO. 64 Offered January 8, 2020 Prefiled November 21, 2019 A BILL to amend and reenact § 18.2-433.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to paramilitary activities; penalty. ---------- Patron-- Lucas ---------- Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice ---------- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That § 18.2-433.2 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: § 18.2-433.2. Paramilitary activity prohibited; penalty. A person shall be is guilty of unlawful paramilitary activity, punishable as a Class 5 felony if he: 1. Teaches or demonstrates to any other...

Robert De Niro says life for Americans during the Trump presidency is like "living in an abusive household." "It's a really, really serious situation we're in," the "Irishman" star said in a Monday interview on CBS's "The Late Show." "It's like a pall around certain things," De Niro — who's called Trump the "jerk-off in chief" and a "f------ fool" — told host Stephen Colbert. "It's like living in an abusive household. You feel you don't know what's going to happen next, what crazy thing is going to happen next, what's going to make you say what the hell's going...

Sparton Resources announced that it had successfully produced a small quantity of yellowcake (U3O8) from fly ash from a Chinese coal-fired power plant. The uranium extraction test work is being conducted by Sparton's processing engineering consulting firm Lyntek Inc of Denver, Colorado, USA. The test to produce yellowcake used 6.1 kg of mixed fly ash produced at the Xiaolongtang power plant. The ash averaged some 0.4 pounds of U308 per tonne of ash (160 parts per million uranium).

Actress and activist Mia Farrow reacted to President Trump’s move to criminalize animal cruelty on Tuesday by resurfacing a photo of his eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, posing with a dead leopard as part of a hunt in Zimbabwe that took place nearly a decade ago. The president on Tuesday signed H.R. 724, otherwise known as the Protect Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT). It criminalizes animal torture, specifically “crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating and impaling live animals, and other abuses such as sexually exploiting them,” according to the Humane Society.

Mark Sandy, a career staffer in the White House Office of Management and Budget, told impeachment investigators that two budget staffers left the agency after expressing frustrations about the unexplained hold on Ukrainian aid, according to new closed-door transcripts released Tuesday. Sandy said that one staffer, who worked in OMB’s legal office and whose name was undisclosed, told him they were leaving the agency, at least in part, because of their concerns regarding the hold on Ukraine security assistance. Sandy, who is the deputy associate director for national security Programs at OMB, testified behind closed doors before the House Intelligence...

REPORT: Teen Girl Raped, Murdered After ‘Ignoring’ Catcall From Convict Released Early From Prison; Victim’s Christian Mom Releases Incredible Statement ... On Saturday morning, 19-year-old University of Illinois at Chicago honor student Ruth George was reportedly raped and murdered after she ignored advances from a paroled convict. Twenty-six-year-old Donald D. Thurman was formally charged with first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault of George on Monday, CBS Chicago’s Charlie De Mar reported. ... Thurman was released from prison in December 2018 for armed robbery. He was sentenced to 6 years, but only served two and is currently on parole ... According...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Bruce Lee. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Bruce Lee was an actor who popularized the martial arts themes of Chinese theater to American-produced films. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on the bottom half (answer grid)...

North Carolina Republican Congressman Mark Meadows said Wednesday that new evidence surrounding House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky supports the White House's argument that the probe is a "sham partisan process." The House Judiciary Committee announced the next step in the impeachment process, scheduling the second round of hearings for next week. In a letter to the president, Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the hearing will "...discuss whether your alleged actions warrant the House's exercising its authority to adopt articles of impeachment..." White...

It’s finally time for the Iron Bowl, the time of year when the state of Alabama splits in two and the rest of the world tunes in ready to watch the chaos. This year there’s plenty of reason to expect the unexpected. Bama’s Mac Jones will be making the biggest start of his life with a possible Playoff spot on the line, and if you know Gus Malzahn, you know he has something up his sleeveless sweater vest to spring on the Bama defense. But who should you root for if you’re an impartial observer? We made it easy for...