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U.S. Vaccine Advisory Panel Recommends Restarting Use of J&J’s Covid-19 Shot Posted on A federal vaccine advisory committee Friday recommended that use of Johnson & Johnson ’s Covid-19 vaccine resume in the U.S., while J&J and regulators plan to add language to the product label warning of the potential for a rare blood-clot condition. If U.S. authorities follow the panel’s recommendation, J&J’s vaccine could be back in circulation as soon as this weekend, ending a pause that began la...

Vatican event explores meaning of discernment in families (jesuit alert) Posted on Since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis has gone out of his way to push the concept of “discernment” – a much-beloved process in Jesuit spirituality – as key to the spiritual life, yet according to one expert, while the term is used often, not many people actually know what this means. “For me to discern means to decide in the sense of taking on one’s own responsibility, that which we c...

Bank manager’s heart attack prompts viral post about overwork Posted on Then he thought about funding for a project, his will, and finally, his wife. Frostick, who manages more than 20 employees working on regulatory data projects, chronicled his near-death experience in a viral LinkedIn post that had been viewed almost eight million times. The 45-year-old Briton is the latest financial employee to weigh in on the work-till-you-drop culture during a pandemic that’s obliterated the lines b...

Bernie Sanders introduces bill to make college FREE for millions of Americans and will fund it using a tax on Wall Street Posted on Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill Wednesday to make college tuition completely free for families earning less than $125,000 per year – paid for by a tax on Wall Street transactions that would haul in $2.4 trillion over a decade. Sanders has introduced similar legislation for years, and touted it as a presidential candidate for the Democratic nominat...

Kentucky Derby Contenders Past Performances Ya Know.... ml/nj Secretariat still holds the track record dating back to 1973. Hard to believe it’s been 48 years. 04/22/2021 8:37:03 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional) basalt Good choice with a nice price. Hard to beat essential quality though as an unbeaten and banked 2.6m already. Both look like my exacta. 04/22/2021 9:57:06 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.) Mouton May consider...

Fantasist Who Called Himself Lord and Duke Swindled Companies out of Thousands Posted on Timothy Ahlbeck stood at the local election in Torbay in 2019. A fantasist who once stood for election in Torbay has been convicted of fraud and setting up multiple companies while being a disqualified bankrupt. Timothy Ahlbeck, 37, used different names and gave himself aristocratic titles such as Lord or Duke Timothy Ahlbeck while ordering goods and services worth tens of thousands of pounds. He claimed...

Pope Hangs Picture of Naked Jesus Caressing Judas in His Office Posted on Pope Francis is by far the most secular, ungodly pope to take the high office of the Roman Catholic Church in modern history. While the Roman Catholic Church is most certainly apostate, and by no means should be considered a valid expression of Christianity, in recent decades, no pope has ever taken strides to embrace profanity quite to the point that Francis has done. Whether it be his push for global climate control, ...

The Church Testifies to the Resurrection - Devotional Posted on The true church has consistently testified to the power of the Resurrection. Kenneth Scott Latourette observed in his History of the Expansion of Christianity: “It was the conviction of the resurrection of Jesus which lifted his followers out of the despair into which his death had cast them and which led to the perpetuation of a movement begun by him.” This statement was true for the church at Corinth, even with its many pro...

How I Learned To Love The Earwig Posted on Pretty much everyone I know grew up with an unholy fear of earwigs. The evil-looking pincers on the insects tail were said to deliver a sting worse than a bee. And the creatures long, slender body was supposedly ideal for slinking down the human ear canal and burrowing into the brain. Get an earwig in the ear, they said, and youd go deaf. But an earwig in the brain, well… you could wind up dead by morning. Of course, like nearly everything I learn...

Biden Eyeing Capital Gains Tax as High as 43.4 Percent for Wealthy President Joe Biden will propose almost doubling the capital gains tax rate for wealthy individuals to 39.6%, which, coupled with an existing surtax on investment income, means that federal tax rates for investors could be as high as 43.4%, according to people familiar with the proposal. The plan would boost the capital gains rate to 39.6% for those earning $1 million or more, an increase from the current base rate of 20%, the ...