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WORSHIP: [1:57] – “Some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential, but have left out churches and other houses of worship. It’s not right.

I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of worship to open right now. If there’s any question, they’re gonna have to call me, but they’re not gonna be successful in that call. These are places that hold our society together and keep our people united.

“The ministers, pastors, rabbis, imams, and other faith leaders will make sure that their congregations are safe as they gather and pray. I know them well. They love their congregations. They love their people. They don’t want anything bad to happen to them or to anybody else.

“The governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to open right now, for this weekend. If they don’t do it, I will override the governors. In America, we need more prayer, not less.” – President Trump

• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-deems-churches-essential-demands-governors-allow-them-to-reopen-immediately

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32 minutes and following: Discussion of Judge Sullivan refusing to dismiss the Flynn case, the Writ of Mandamus that Powell filed, and the speedy response filed by the Appeals Court.

• https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/05/21/federal-appeals-court-orders-michael-flynn-judge-to-respond-to-petition-within-10-n2569280

According to an Associated Press report, more than 4,300 recovering coronavirus patients were sent to New York’s already vulnerable nursing homes under a controversial state directive that many are saying led to countless unnecessary deaths.

Democrat Governor Cuomo continues to defend the directive this week, saying he didn’t believe it contributed to the more than 5,800 nursing and adult care facility deaths in New York — more than in any other state — and that homes should have spoken up if it was a problem.

Yeah, no. This problem originally became public because one frustrated administrator told the press that they had tried to refuse patients, but were told they’d lose their state funding if they did so. Another went public with the news that he had begged to be allowed to send his suspected virus patients to Javits or the USNS Comfort. He was told no. Those beds were only for “hospital overflow.” (Each facility had about 800 empty beds.)

“It infected a great number of people in nursing homes who had no business getting infected, including short-term residents who were there for rehabilitation after surgeries,” said John Dalli, a New York attorney who specializes in nursing home cases. Continue reading →

OBAMAGATE: Margot Smith points out at The Federalist that the recently declassified paragraph in Susan Rice’s Jan. 20, 2017 email proves several things.

1. That the FBI had no valid investigative purpose for its ambush interview of Michael Flynn on January 24, 2017. (This is the interview during which he allegedly lied.)
2. That Comey was not proceeding “by the book” in national security matters.
3. That Obama knew about and condoned the withholding of information from the incoming administration.

Lee Smith writes at Tablet that, just two days after Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States, President Obama told Trump NOT to hire Michael Flynn. Obama told an aide that he was bewildered by this. Of all the things an out-going president could choose to talk about, why did he pick that? Continue reading →

Today is Ascension Thursday. “He ascended into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.”

This seems like an appropriate time to review six things Catholics need to take a lot more seriously than we generally do these days. These five are already part of explicit Catholic teaching.

1. The authority of the literal sense of Scripture: While it is true that Catholics recognize allegorical, moral, and anagogical meanings can be found in Scripture, the Catechism makes clear, “all other senses of Sacred Scripture are based on the literal.” (CCC 116)

2. The reality of sin and hell: Catholic doctrine definitely includes literal teachings about sin, judgement, repentance, God’s wrath, demons, and eternal damnation in hell.

3. The absolute unicity of Jesus for salvation: It is the express teaching of Jesus himself and of the Catholic Church that Jesus is the only way to God. No exceptions.

4. The future Second Coming of Christ: The Catechism teaches that “since the Ascension, Christ’s coming in glory has been imminent” and “could be accomplished at any moment.” (CCC 673) Following Scripture, the Catechism also says that “before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers,” and that “God’s triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.” (CCC, 675, 677)

5. A willingness to be fools for Christ: We tend to be a lot more worried about looking stupid to the world than about being 100% faithful to God. Let us listen to St. Paul’s exhortation to the church in Corinth: “Where is the one who is wise? […] Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? […] For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. […] But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise.”(1 Corinthians 1.20-27)

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May 20, 2020 NY Post Editorial:

Susan Rice’s memo about a high-level Jan. 5, 2017, meeting plainly aimed to protect the then-national security adviser’s boss, President Barack Obama — but it’s backfiring spectacularly.

Rice sent the Jan. 20, 12:15 p.m., note (recently declassified) to herself at literally the last minute: President Trump was sworn in at noon that day; her administration was headed out the door.

Oh, and Rice’s lawyer says she drafted it “upon the advice of the White House Counsel’s Office,” Fox News reports.

The point? Ostensibly, to memorialize the meeting with her, Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, FBI boss James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, following a briefing on Russian hacking.

Obama, the memo claims, stressed that “every aspect of this issue” be handled “by the book” and then “reiterated” that law enforcement proceed “by the book.” Comey “affirmed” he’s “proceeding ‘by the book.’  ” That’s right: She used the term three times. Continue reading →

Jesus told his disciples that, in the End Times, “Many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.” – Matt 24:10-11

There are an untold number of false prophets running around these days. Some, like Jim Jones, have even convinced their followers to commit suicide. They all preach a gospel that isn’t found in the Bible.

Read the Bible. Make sure you’re worshiping the true Jesus.

• https://churchpop.com/2016/04/09/do-you-worship-real-jesus/

FLOODING: Michiganians need our prayers [2:40].

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Yesterday, John Solomon reported that District Court Judge S. V. Vovk (Kiev, Ukraine) has ordered that the previously identified “unnamed American citizen” in Viktor Shokin’s case will now be designated as “citizen of the United States of America Joseph Biden, former U.S. Vice President.”

Shokin’s case began last February, when the court ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office and the State Bureau of Investigations to investigate Shokin’s claim that he was forced to resign in spring 2016 because then-VP Biden had pressured his government to get rid of him.

In the one minute 2018 video above, Joe Biden bragged at a Council on Foreign Relations event that he had succeeded in getting Shokin removed by threatening to withhold $1 Billion in loan guarantees the Ukrainians desperately needed.

“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.” Continue reading →

COVID-19: C-SPAN May 18, 2020 [7:09] – During a press conference, the president talked about hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).

“You’d be surprised at how many people are taking it — and especially the frontline workers, before you catch it — the frontline workers, many, many are taking it.“

“I happen to be taking it,” he continued, saying that he began taking HCQ “a couple of weeks ago.” He took one dose of azrithromycin at first then HCQ and zinc daily since.

The president said, “I think it’s good, I’ve heard a lot of good stories. And if it’s not good, I’ll tell you right. I’m not going to get hurt by it. It’s been around for 40 years for malaria, for lupus, for other things.“

President Trump went on to say that “a lot of doctors take it” and told the story of a New York physician who wrote him a letter saying that he has prescribed the drug to hundreds of patients along with zinc and azrithromycin and “I haven’t lost one” to the coronavirus. Continue reading →