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Despite increasing acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community, at least in some circles, adults who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual are more likely than those who identify as straight to have serious thoughts of suicide and mental health conditions including major depressive episodes, and they are more likely to misuse substances like alcohol or drugs, according to a new US government report.The report, published Tuesday, comes from the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health, sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. It’s included a question about how the...

Tell me this isn't "in your face" to all believes in Jesus as the Messiah.https://twitter.com/megbasham/status/1661128764372185088Question. Any other religion/belief would this be the newly defined "hate speech," or is this just art, expression and baseball fans having a good time? From Meghan Basham: Megan Basham @megbasham

Quote from You Tube videographer below( excerpt from his You Tube thread): "Immediately after acquiring this footage, I was chased approximately four or five blocks by two men, one with a slingshot and one just bare-fisted (known as Trumpet Man). I called Law Enforcement, and they had my back... the way they are supposed to and always will"

Christine Blasey Ford, the Palo Alto University professor who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of trying to rape her while in high school, said she will testify in public before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Ford’s attorney Debra Katz told NBC’s Today Show the Professor will ensure that the Committee have a full picture of President Donald Trump’s pick before they are asked to make the final decision on the nominee. Alongside the White House issuing denials of the allegations against Kavanaugh, the Judge has also ‘categorically and unequivocally’ refuted the claims — White House spokesperson Kerri Kupec revealed today....

Should doctors ask patients if they own guns? Currently, ObamaCare bans the federal government from using patient medical records to compile a list of gun owners. But following the Newtown, CT shootings, President Obama issued an executive order clarifying that “the Affordable Care Act [ObamaCare] does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.” The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) similarly encourages physicians to ask patients if they own firearms — in the name of protecting child safety. As a physician, I consider this advice misguided.

Posted twice on beliefs of Islam and banned three times go figure. This is Islam's core beliefs and yet they ban . Should this be in vanity? I'm just looking for like minded folks and victims of the dhimmitude. Do we need to pay jizya, or just post Taquiya? signed Karliner the Infidel Kuffar

Okay I didn't know whether to post in Vanity or another. When i click on Nachum's-list Clinton or Obama body count and I think on Benghazi als? no matter I can not find it, it's gone and add and malware clicks are there blocking or just hoping someone clicks on it I personally used to refer to it about five times a week and he's not even emailing. Is he is I hope not and hope someone has saved and can send me a link I think with jusy the prior few. I heard he asked if anyone would take...

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Syrian troops committed another massacre in Idlib on Monday, murdering 55 people as President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown shifts into high gear. Focal points of unrest such as Idlib, Rastan, and Homs have all been subjected to intense artillery and sniper fire in recent weeks. The lastest massacre comes one day after the Syrian regime killed at least 47 women and children in a massacre in the Karm al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Homs. Activists said that death toll from Monday’s violent crackdown on protesters topped 114 people, mostly in Homs and Idlib. al-Arabiya reported scores of tanks were deployed in and around...

Iranian nuclear site after explosion Institute for Science and International Security The explosion earlier this week that Iran said was at a uranium enrichment site actually damaged a nuclear plant and was far from accidental, The London Times reported Wednesday.The newspaper quoted Israeli intelligence officials as saying that satellite photos revealed extensive damage from the explosion at Isfahan, near Tehran. The Israeli sources, so far unconfirmed, added that smoke was seen pouring out from a conversion plant and that it was clear that the blast was not accidental. The government-controlled Fars News Agency had (more on site)

The US has pulled terrorism manuals referencing Islam following complaints from terror-linked advocacy groups.eputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday the Obama administration was recalling all training materials used by the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam. “I recently directed all components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security,” Cole told a panel at the George Washington University law school. The move comes after complaints from Muslim advocacy organizations, including the Council on American Islamic Relations...

Israel Police Chief Yochanan Danino has confirmed that the victims of a tragic car crash Friday were murdered by terrorists, Channel 2 television reported Sunday afternoon. Previously, police stated that the crash was caused by driver error and was definitely not the result of an attack. The dramatic change in approach followed a meeting Saturday night on autopsy findings in the deaths of the two victims, 25-year-old Asher Palmer and his infant son Yehonatan. Arutz Sheva has obtained a document detailing findings from the scene of the crash. Among the evidence that at first failed, for unknown reasons, to convince...

A senior cleric in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has declared that ordinary Egyptians are obligated to kill 'Zionists' whom they encounter. According to Arutz Sheva Arab affairs expert Dalit Halevy, the pronouncement is part of a general wave of incitement that directly endangers Israelis who are currently in Egypt. This follows Muslim Brotherhood calls to end the peace treaty with Egypt and threats to kill Israel's ambassador if he does not leave the country. Although there are many benefits for Egypt if it continues its relations with Israel, not the least of which is continued American aid, that is not...

Itamar terrorist who murdered five. Israel news photo: Flash 90Every single Palestinian Authority terrorist held in an Israeli jail receives a monthly salary from the PA. Terrorists who committed the most heinous crimes – and therefore received longer sentences – receive the most money, according to a report in Israeli paper Yisrael Hayom. Citing a report received by a senior government official in Jerusalem, the paper says that the terrorists' salaries are paid from the PA's "public budget," which accounts for about 3.5 percent of its total budget. The PA treasury receives cash from two main sources: the US pays...

Taliban video shows fighters shooting dead 16 Pakistani police officers* Warning: Graphic footage records cold-blooded killing of police captured when Taliban crossed from Afghanistan into north-west PakistanThe Pakistani Taliban have released graphic video footage of the execution of 16 Pakistani policemen and tribal guards who were captured last month following a cross-border raid from Afghanistan. The video shows a masked Taliban commander angrily denouncing the men lined up before him, hours after they were captured in a firefight. "These are the enemies of Islam," he declares. Moments later the men are killed a hail of automatic gunfire, followed by individual...

Pro-Hamas flotilla activists are thrashing in deep political waters without a life raft as support for their aim to break the counterterrorist maritime blockade on Gaza drifts further away. The Quartet – comprised of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia – has torn the sails of the flotilla movement and noted Saturday that Israel’s maritime blockade reflects its "legitimate security concerns that must continue to be safeguarded. It supported Israel’s position that anyone wanting to send aid to Gaza can use "established channels so that their cargo can be inspected and transferred via established land...

Hundreds of Egyptian Muslims: "We will kill the priest, we will kill him and no one will prevent us." Another one of those "misunderstandings" seems to have cropped up again. Funny how that keeps happening. The crime this time? The priest received a license to renovate his church, and moved ahead with it. "Muslims Surround Church in Upper Egypt, Threaten to Kill Priest," by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency, June 24: (AINA) -- Hundreds of Muslims surrounded the church of St George today in the village of Beni Ahmed West, 7 KM south of Minya, vowing to...

The leftists visited several homes in the Samaria village, including that of the Awad family, which spawned the murderers. The identities of the confessed murderers were released for publication on Sunday, the day after the visit. The murderers were already in IDF custody at the time of the leftists' visit and their arrest - including the fact that they are relatively young - was already widely rumored and hinted at by the press. A photograph from the visit which can be viewed here, posted by one of the activists on her Internet blog, shows Raya Yaron, spokeswoman of Machsom Watch,...

Suhir Ayoub, an Arab-Israeli attorney in Akko, was indicted by the Jerusalem District Attorney's office for serving as a go-between for members of the Mahajat El Quds terror organization incarcerated in Israel's prisons and their leader, Abu Hamza, in Gaza. The Mahajat El Quds organization is closely linked to the Islamic Jihad. According to the indictment Ayoub was retained by A’amar A’ashur Abu Hamza, a Mahajat El Quds member, to pass on information to the group’s members serving sentences in Israeli prisons. According to the indictment Suhir gained access to the prisoners on two occasions in February and April under...

Over the last twenty years there has been a movement in schools that has changed the way many children are educated—charter schools. Charter schools are public schools, Kindergarten through 12th grade, that receive public money, but are not subject to the same rules that apply to other public schools. In return, charter schools are accountable to achieve certain goals that are outlined in the school charter. The goal of a charter school is to provide a better education than can be received though the normal public schools. Some of the schools specialize in certain fields; i.e., mathematics and the sciences....