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Yale School of Public Health dean Dr. Megan Ranney (pictured) gave congressional testimony Tuesday in which she responded to questions about Chicago gun violence by pointing to studies suggesting that repairing urban buildings could reduce shootings. Ranney made the remark during an exchange with Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who had asked her about the raging gun violence in Chicago. Kennedy said, “Why do you think Chicago has become America’s largest outdoor shooting range?” Ranney responded by saying, “Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri actually have higher firearm death rates.”

There is an article floating around from The Expose that makes an explosive claim: There is a wildly statistically-significant skew in the death rate from Covid-19 vaccines by lot number.What originally got my attention was the tinfoil hat crowd screaming about lots being intentionally distributed to certain people to kill them -- in other words certain Covid-19 vaccine lots were for all intents and purposes poisoned. That was wildly unlikely so I set out to disprove it and apply some broom handles to the tinfoil hatters heads. What I found, however, was both interesting and deeply disturbing.Lots are quite large,...

China has now clearly overtaken the United States as the world's leading emitter of climate-warming gases, a new study has found. The increasing emissions from China - up 8 percent in the past year - accounted for two-thirds of the growth in global greenhouse gas emissions in 2007, the study found.

GOPers have lots of ammo to fire in ethics ‘war’ Dems started By Jack Kelly Jewish World Review May 5, 2005 http://www.JewishWorldReview.com People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, Democrats in Congress are beginning to find out. Rep. Norman Dicks (D-Wash) has reimbursed the Spectrum Group, a defense lobbying firm, $571 for food and lodging in Fort Lauderdale in February, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Tuesday. It is against House rules for a lawmaker or staffer to accept gratuities from lobbyists, though non-profit groups may pay for their travel expenses. The AP reported the same day that expenses for a trip...

The Cave Of Lot's Seduction And The Monestary It InspiredBy konstantine D. Politis Special to The Daily Star Monday, October 25, 2004The cave of Lot's seduction and the monastery it inspired Jordanian site of Deir Ain Abata testifies to a thriving Byzantine and Umayyad-era Christian community Amman: The ruins were first discovered during an archaeological survey at the south-east end of the Dead Sea in 1986, near a spring named Ain Abata. After further investigations it was evident that the site - near today's Ghor al-Safi, the biblical city of Zoara - was none other that the Sanctuary of Agios...

Volunteers listen to lots of whoop-de-do By Jules Crittenden Sunday, July 11, 2004 Memo to Dale Carnegie reps - When instructing the Democratic National Convention hospitality volunteers; ixnay on the Arzenegger-schway. ``No one ever got muscles by watching me work out,'' quoted an instructor in the feel-good arts, citing the wisdom of Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Dale Carnegie guru was urging the DNC volunteers to take a little affirmative action to make sure the out-of-town delegates will all feel at home. Among those volunteers was one we'll call ``Deep Vote.'' Volunteers are instructed not to speak to the...

g News Posted Monday, September 30, 2002 1:25 PM by Domenico Here's the latest big news sources are telling Catholic World News. And note that this is coming from a lot of diverse places. Perhaps as soon as Tuesday, a new archbishop of Boston or co-adjutor archbishop will be appointed. And the two names we're hearing most frequently are Archbishop Edward O'Brien of the USA Military Archdiocese and Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver. Note that these are rumors and we have not confirmed it yet, but it's interesting nonetheless. UPDATE: Archbishop O'Brien has flatly denied that he is the guy...