This hits me at my heart. My husband and I grew up here and have driven by this countless times. I am glad it is going to the Supreme Court. I can only hope that this verdict might be overturned.
I'm visiting my parents in California for spring break and logged on to my mom's computer and tried to access the 'solve-this-riddle' thread and couldn't. It's weird that MoG would work but this specific thread would be blocked (parental controls are the default for guest accounts, I think). I'm not sure where the algorithm is coming from, like whether this is from the Mac or it's associated with Google or something else. What worries me is why it would be flagged, obviously it's not pornographic so it must be because the words 'islamophobia' and 'gay couple' were used close to each other (I looked at it on my laptop)...I've attached a screen shot. I can access sites like Barnhardt tho so I don't know why this thread on MoG would be singled out. Maybe it's just the Mac's algorithms? Strange.
China's big space lab may fall to Earth this month By Leonard David Space.com's Space Insider Columnist | Space.com http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/03/05/chinas-big-space-lab-may-fall-to-earth-this-month.html Roque spacecraft expected to re-enter earth's atmosphere A Chinese space station lost contact with Tiangong-1, a craft that is expected to re-enter the earth's atmosphere sometime in the beginning of 2018. Some are concerned debris may hit populated areas. The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a new re-entry forecast for China's Tiangong-1 space lab. The 8.5-ton spacecraft is now expected to fall into Earth's atmosphere between March 24 and April 19, though ESA officials stressed that this is a rough estimate. "Re-entry will take place anywhere between 43 degrees north and 43 degrees south (e.g. Spain, France, Portugal, Greece, etc.)" latitude, officials with the Space Debris Office at ESA’s European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, wrote in an update last week. "Areas outside of these latitudes can be excluded. At no time will a precise time/location prediction from ESA be possible." Tiangong-1 was the first space lab built by China. It launched in late September 2011, to help the nation master the technologies needed to construct and operate a crewed space station. China aims to have such a station up and running in Earth orbit by the 2020s. More From Space.com Tiangong-1 space lab The first Chinese orbital docking occurred between Tiangong-1 and an unpiloted Shenzhou spacecraft on Nov. 2, 2011. Two crewed missions later visited Tiangong-1: Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 10, which launched in June 2012 and June 2013, respectively. Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," published by National Geographic. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel series "Mars." A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. This version of the story published on Space.com.
That looks to me like an add on or something that is running on her computer. Something like ad block which I know most Mac users don't use but there must be some variable that controls the results displayed. Is she using parental controls to keep her online activity safe? https://www.lifewire.com/set-up-mac-parental-controls-2260735
I think that often Protestants are having pius thoughts maybe. To say "God said to me" or "I heard from God" leaves me uncomfortable. I sometimes seem to "hear" interior words that could be from Christ (when I am at Adoration)but I never just assume it is because I have s vivid imagination. I will ask Him to confirm what I "heard" by giving me a scripture and sometimes--not often--I will receive the perfect scripture. And then I am very sure it is Christ speaking to me. But I am careful. Often much time will go by without hearing anything. I wouldn't worry about it. Our Lady told St Cstherine Laboure that when she is before the Blessed Sacrament to "tell Him your joys and tell Him your sorrows and then listen. If He speaks to you thank Him. And if He doesn't speak to you thank Him." So this is the method I follow. And I always thank Him regardless. But He often doesn't "speak".
I always remember reading that St Therese of Lisieux never heard the voice of God in her lifetime -- struck me as incredible but a sure sign that God does not have to communicate directly to us for us to become saints. Should He choose to speak directly that is a real grace! But discernment is really necessary. The pride in us all is great -- so we are easily manipulated into believing that we are so important to God that He would speak directly to to us lol. I am sorry to say I see this clearly in Ned Dogherty's so called private revelations -- I an 100% certain they are false and from his own imagination.
Syrian rebels shell Christian area in Damascus with particular discrimination, Western media doesn’t care – French aid worker By Andrew Illingworth 06/03/2018 https://www.almasdarnews.com/articl...-western-media-doesnt-care-french-aid-worker/ Rebel 'Omar Cannon' in action (Credit: Jaysh al-Islam media center). BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:05 A.M.) – According to a French volunteer aid worker cited by the Sputnik news agency, Syrian militants based in the countryside east of Damascus purposely shell densely populated civilian areas of the capital. The source noted that among the residential areas that armed rebel groups attack with mortars and rockets is the Christian borough of Bab Tuma in the Old City district that now houses many refugee families. The small suburb is targeted with particular discrimination says the aid worker. Yet amazingly, as Sputnik’s source point out, even with Western governments and mainstream media so heavily fixated on the bombardment of rebel-held areas east of Damascus city by Syrian government forces, the same entities fail to mention the actions of militant groups against civilians in government-controlled areas just several kilometers away. The volunteer aid worker cited by Sputnik works for a humanitarian NGO called SOS Chrétiens d’Orient (trans: Christians of the East). Source: Sputnik Syrian government removes trauma kits, surgical items from Ghouta convoy: WHO March 5, 2018 Reuters Staff https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...al-items-from-ghouta-convoy-who-idUSKBN1GH0WC GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian government officials removed trauma kits and surgical supplies from trucks that are part of an inter-agency convoy heading into the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta, a World Health Organization (WHO) official told Reuters on Monday. “All trauma (kits), surgical, dialysis sessions and insulin were rejected by security,” a WHO official said by email, adding that some 70 percent of the supplies loaded on its trucks leaving its warehouses had been removed during the inspection. The United Nations said on Sunday that it had received approval for the convoy to the government-besieged area of 400,000 near Damascus, which only one small convoy reached in mid-February. Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Tom Miles and Toby Chopra
I really believe that this is prophecy unfolding. I bolded some text for emphasis in the following article, Ghouta's desperate plead with aid workers after weeks without help Josie Ensor and Joseph Haboush, Beirut 6 March 2018 • 6:18pm https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/06/ghoutas-desperate-plead-aid-workers-weeks-without-help/ Syrian children are seen after receiving medical treatment at the field hospital after a suspected alleged chlorine gas attack in Hamouriyah Credit: Getty After stepping out of his truck, Pawel Krzysiek looked around at a town that no longer seemed habitable. Until Monday, the aid worker had only seen the destroyed landscape in pictures. From the wreckage of the neighbourhood of Douma, which has borne the brunt of the Syrian government’s offensive on besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, came families desperate for food. “My children have been living in the basement for 15 days to escape the bombs,” one mother told Mr Krzysiek, who works for the International Committee of the Red Cross, saying they had only moldy bread and animal feed to eat. "Why is no one helping us?” she implored. “Why can’t someone stop this? Will the world stay silent?” The convoy of 46 trucks carrying UN aid was the first into the Damascus suburb since last month, and the ICRC’s first since last November. Civil defence worker carries a team member affected by chemical gas at the field hospital Credit: Getty Surrounded by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, food is hard to come by in Eastern Ghouta and becoming harder every day. “Everything is missing from their society. There is no society,” Mr Krzysiek told the Telegraph by phone from Damascus. “There are no markets, no medicine, no basic supplies, they can’t even go to medical facilities because they are afraid of being hit.” He said hundreds of people displaced by the fighting in other districts have gathered in makeshift shelters underground. “The few people there who have food feel bad eating it in front of the others,” he said. “So they go out on the street to eat, where they are dangerously exposed to air strikes. A general view shows several destroyed buildings in Douma, in the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta Credit: AFP “The residents appreciate the humanitarian aid that was brought in - of course they want food and medicine - but really they just wanted shelling to stop. They genuinely fear for their lives and how this will all end. “They told us: all we want is to stay here and live in dignity, and if we can’t live in dignity, at least let there be some for our children.” Anger towards the United Nations among residents has been building since the Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on a 30-day ceasefire last month without implementing it. More than 250 have died over the last 10 days, waiting. International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) convoy seen crossing into eastern Ghouta near Wafideen camp in Damascus, Syria Credit: Reuters “I thought people would be much angrier, much more aggressive towards us, which I would not blame them for at all,” Mr Krzysiek said. “They have the right to be angry, the conditions they’re living in are very difficult and the stories they tell you are horrific.” A third of the trucks that made it into Eastern Ghouta on Monday were not able to unload their contribution because of shelling in the area, despite guarantees of a safe passage. The fate of the convoy has been tied to the political situation, aid workers told the Telegraph, making it difficult, if not impossible, to reach any kind of agreement. Monday’s delivery coincided with one of the deadliest days for Eastern Ghouta, where some 89 people were reported to have be killed by Syrian government strikes and shelling. Doctors in the enclave also reported a suspected chlorine attack in the Hamouriyeh neighbourhood, saying they treated some 30 cases of suffocation and breathing problems. The UN Children's Fund (Unicef) revealed some 1,000 children have been killed and injured since the start of the year. Residents the ICRC spoke to expressed hope for a political solution, but it seemed further away than ever yesterday. Russia, which is fighting in support of the Assad regime, said it would allow rebels to leave via a humanitarian corridor together with their families and firearms. Rebels said no such offer had been communicated with them, and they would reject it in any case. Assad sees all those fighting the government as terrorists, which is how he justifies the continuing bombardment of Eastern Ghouta in spite of ceasefires. “Russia and the regime are using the excuse that they are fighting Jabhat al-Nusra (an al-Qaeda-aligned group),” Iyad Abdel-Aziz, president of the Local Council in Douma, told the Telegraph. “But what’s strange is that we have now around 1,500 dead - more than a third of them women and children. But there have been no dead among Nusra, not even an injury. “They say this is a war on Jabhat al-Nusra, who doesn’t make up more than 250 of the 20,000 fighting on the ground here. It has been proposed to the Russians and the regime that there is a readiness to force Jabhat al-Nusra out of Ghouta,” he said. “And Nusra is ready to leave. But the regime and Russians want them to remain so they had a reason to launch their war.” Middle East, Russia, Syria
Tens of thousands of dead sea creatures wash up on British beach By Jennifer Earl | Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018...sea-creatures-washed-up-on-british-beach.html British photographer Lara Maiklem shared photos of thousands of sea creatures washed up on a beach near her hometown of Kent, England. (Lara Maiklem/SWNS) When British photographer Lara Maiklem heard tens of thousands of sea creatures washed up on a beach near her hometown of Kent, England, over the weekend, she had to see the scene for herself. So she woke up her 5-year-old twins in time to catch the low tide. Maiklem described the scene as "shocking" and "sad," but at the same time, she admitted it was an "incredible" sight. In fact, it was "almost biblical in scale," she said. "There were thousands upon thousands of starfish, with crabs, sea urchins, fish and sea anenomies mixed in with them," Maiklem told Fox News. "Someone even found a lobster." It was "almost biblical in scale." - Lara Maiklem The creatures covered the sandy beach like a thick blanket. Maiklem and her two kids tried to rescue as many fish as they could, tossing them one by one back into the sea. The animals were the victims of a cold spell – what Maiklem called a "beast from the east" – that hit the U.K. last week. Similar scenes were reported down the coast, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, a wildlife conservation charity, said in a news release on Wednesday. “There was a three-degree drop in sea temperature last week, which will have caused animals to hunker down and reduce their activity levels," Bex Lynam, North Sea marine advocacy officer for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, said in a statement provided to Fox News. "This makes them vulnerable to rough seas – they became dislodged by large waves and washed ashore when the rough weather kicked in." Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is working with local fisherman to clear the beach and rescue any remaining species that are still alive. (Lara Maiklem/SWNS) Crabs, starfish and mussels were "ankle-deep" in some places, though at least two lucky marine species seemed to survive the freeze: lobsters and crabs. “Lobsters and crabs can survive out of water, unlike the majority of the other creatures washed up," Lynam told Fox News. "Also they have a hard exoskeleton, which offers them a certain level of protection when being thrown around by the sea.” Maiklem said she also found several dead sea birds washed up along the same stretch. "I understand it is a natural phenomenon," Maiklem said. "I'm pleased I went to see it, but I wouldn't like to see it again." Wildlife officials also hope they won't see a repeat of the disaster. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust is working with local fisherman to clear the beach and rescue any remaining species that are still alive. "This area is very important for shellfish and we work alongside fishermen to promote sustainable fisheries and protect reproductive stocks," Lynam said. "It’s worth saving them so that they can be put back into the sea and continue to breed." Dr. Lissa Batey, senior living seas officer with The Wildlife Trusts, an organization made up of 47 local wildlife trusts in the U.K., said the government can help the creatures by designating more marine conservation zones. “We can’t prevent natural disasters like this – but we can mitigate against declining marine life and the problems that humans cause by creating enough protected areas at sea and by ensuring that these sites are large enough and close enough to offer fish, crustaceans, dolphins and other marine life the protection they require to withstand natural events such as this," Batey said in a statement.
Maybe a hopeful sign for France and Europe? I do not know much about LePen so I hope that her motives are pure..
Apologies if i have posted this in the wrong place or if it has been posted before, but i found this to be a great talk on the various spirits (literally) and signs of the past few generations
Le Pen is the daughter of a French Fascist who was the head of a French party with Fascist leanings. She wrested control of the party from her father and manage to swing it to a more moderate, Conservative bent. She was the greatest threat to Macron in last year's election.
The woman in the video is Marine LePen's niece, Marion Marechal-LePen. According to this BBC report, she is not currently active in politics: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39864948
I've been reading about the M5S, the party which won most votes in the Italian general election. Prior to this election, all I knew about the Five Star Movement was that it was founded by the very anti-Catholic comedian Beppe Grillo. Even the usual journalists can't seem to figure them out although they seem to be unanimous in their opinion that M5S is preferable to what they call the far-right LaLega. This piece from The Atlantic is typical of the regular media's assessment of M5S: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/italy-election-european-union/554900/ Then I came across this article in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/world/europe/italy-election-davide-casaleggio-five-star.html If that NYT piece is accurate, the likely future Prime Minister of Italy is merely a front man or a puppet. None of what I have read so far fills me with confidence for the future of the Catholic Church in Italy. The only good news is that the Italian voters continue to forget the "greatness" of Emma Bonino whose party had an abysmal showing with about 5% of the vote.
From the guy (Amazon's Bezos) who is taking over the food supply (just beginning with Whole Foods), putting more local stores out of business; delivery systems, rivaling UPS in plans; media...so far the Washington Post to spread only globalist/left ideas; and now banking or the means of paying for supplies!: 'There's a good chance I get murdered tonight': Terrified Amazon Echo users reveal Alexa has been emitting 'bone chilling' laughs at random and is ignoring their commands Users say their Alexa-enabled devices won't stop laughing at random times One user said they were sleeping and an Amazon Echo Dot laughed unprompted Alexa is programmed in many voice-activated devices with a preset laugh Amazon has yet to respond to inquiries trying to get to the bottom of the issue Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ont-stop-randomly-laughing.html#ixzz59AFyYZvE
