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How a Child Led Alec Guinness to Catholicism
Sir Alec Guinness is one of the most recognizable actors of the 20th century. While he appeared in lots of films over the years and won many awards, he is best known as having played Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars.
What many people don’t know about him, though, is that at the age of 42 he converted to Catholicism – in part because of a miracle. Continue reading
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Op-Ed: The Key to Stopping Mass Shootings Is to Pass Sensible Legislation Against Thoughts and Prayers
From The Babylon Bee.
I’ve noticed something. With every mass shooting, there are thoughts and prayers. That’s a correlation — a science word that means “one caused the other.”
Now, I’m a big believer in science. Science tells us about climate change and asteroids. I always listen to science — except economics which isn’t a real science and is very mean. So if science tells me that thoughts and prayers cause mass shootings, then I’m going to act. I’m going to tweet, “Hey, stop it with those thoughts and prayers.” And I’m going to do some more tweets. And then maybe write a bill — or an FAQ summarizing what I want the bill to be since that’s easier. Continue reading
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PRAYERS NEEDED: Record flooding caused by heavy snow and rain in the Great Plains forced the evacuation of thousands and killed at least three people in Midwestern states over the past three days. Continue reading
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TRUMP 2020
Excerpts from an article by Michael Glassner (COO of DJT for President), so yeah, it’s totally biased, but it also makes excellent points:
Dozens of counties throughout the country that voted for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, but switched their support to Donald Trump by hefty margins in 2016.
The trend was driven largely by ‘hidden Trump voters’ — many of whom hadn’t voted in years, if ever — who came out of nowhere and helped President Trump win one of the largest electoral upsets in American history. Continue reading
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Checking in with Los Feliz
Los Feliz Daycare (motto: “We do not accept immunized children”) is an ultra-progressive child care center in an unspecified affluent neighborhood on the left coast. Some recent tweets:
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Army to Name New Attack Helicopter after Elizabeth Warren
From The Duffel Blog.
FORT RUCKER, Ala. — The U.S. Army will honor Elizabeth Warren and her Native American ancestry with the latest addition to its helicopter fleet, the AH-68 Warren, sources confirmed today.
The Warren will join the Black Hawk, Kiowa, Apache, and Lakota in the Army’s impressive legacy of combat aircraft named after Native American tribes.
The Warren conquered its two chief competitors, the AH-67 Redskin and V-23 Columbus, to win the Army contract. Continue reading
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