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How Young Life Changed My Life
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Young Life is a group that some may judge because of the people who attend it, or by the topics that it covers; but it is much deeper than that. The teens who attend Young Life are thrown into a world of friendship, games, and most importantly Jesus Christ. Columbia, Missouri holds many different groups of the organization: Rockbridge, Hickman, and Battle all have different meetings with different leaders. All their activities convey the same main message, to strengthen the bond to God within oneself.
Young Life began in the early 1930s by a elderly women, Clara Frasher, who felt obligated to go with a lovely group of people and pray for the town's teenagers who were not expressing their love and relationship with the Lord. Six years later in a town 75 miles out of Dallas, Texas a man Jim Rayburn with the help along with a pastor Clyde Kennedy created the Miracle Book Club. After exploring several possibilities, Jim decided that the best setting for the teaching to teens of the Gospel was at a Young Life club, held in the home of one of the kids. Club involved lively singing, a skit and a short talk about Jesus Christ. Jim believed that every kid had the right to hear the message of Jesus Christ and decide how to respond to the Gospel. Years later the leaders of these clubs realised that to really connect with the teens, they would have to form friendships on them on their turf. This is also known as contact work and has been the main focus of Young Life organizations since. By the 1950s Young Life has emerged and swept over 100 countries.
Lydia Martinez is a Battle High student whose relationships with Young Life and god have varied over the years.
"I've always had a religious background," quotes Martinez. "I grew up in a religious family, but I have never had that strong support group that I wanted."
Martinez first started to hear bits about the club during her freshman year at Battle, after being pushed by her friends on the volleyball team. Martinez did not feel comfortable going just quite yet, feeling like an outcast that didn't fit as the typical Young Life member. Her opinion flipped 180 degrees after her first encounter with Young Life a year later, leaving her with the strong sense of friends, fun, and most importantly God.
"It was awesome! It is something that I want to be a part of, for a long time." Martinez recalled after she reminisces on her first meeting of the club. Sadly after a few meetings her best friend stopped going, but Martinez continued on her journey with the group. After meeting so many new people, and creating so many strong relationships off the group, Martinez doesn't see a closing stop to her interactions. Martinez instructs that anyone who doubts going to Young Life should just go. Collecting the friendly experiences along the way is a plus to the club.
"It has changed my life so dramatically, I wouldn't change a thing." Martinez puts into words.
Young Life a camp that started with just a few members in a crowded classroom has changed drastically over the many years, by reaching out to teens all over the country and even the world, yet continuing to teach power messages and touching the hearts of thousands. Without the weekly meetings, constant laughs and unbreakable bonds, Young Life wouldn't change any live
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The Secret X-37B Just Landed After 2 Years in Space
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Though the Air Force doesn't disclose the X-37B's precise orbit, keen-eyed amateur astronomers have managed to track the vehicle from the ground — and so can you, thanks to their efforts. Check out Space.com's satellite tracker to see where the X-37B is overhead during a mission. The view won't be dramatic; the space plane usually looks like a star of middling brightness moving across the sky. More here.
The U.S. Air Force's top-secret spaceplane, the Boeing X-37B, landed in Florida early Sunday after 780 days—over 2 years and one month—in orbit around the Earth. And we still have no idea what it was doing while it was up there.
The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-5 (OTV-5) mission was the fifth time that the uncrewed vehicle has flown around the world, beating the duration of the fourth mission, which landed in May of 2017 after 718 days in orbit. This most recent mission launched from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on September 7, 2017.
"The X-37B continues to demonstrate the importance of a reusable spaceplane," Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said in a statement posted online. "Each successive mission advances our nation's space capabilities."
What are those capabilities? We don't know the specifics. But according to the Air Force, the X-37B has the unique ability to "test new systems in space and return them to Earth" and the mission "successfully completed" all of its objectives.
Military leaders, many of whom were previously skeptical of the need for an entirely new branch of the armed services, appear to be excited about President Donald Trump's Space Force and the way that the X-37B might play a role in that branch of the military. At least that's the gist you get reading the Air Force's press release.
"The safe return of this spacecraft, after breaking its own endurance record, is the result of the innovative partnership between Government and Industry," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein said in a press release. "The sky is no longer the limit for the Air Force and, if Congress approves, the U.S. Space Force."
This latest mission launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida and landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on October 27, 2019, at 3:51 a.m. The last time this spaceplane came back to Earth there was video of the landing. This time, however, there was no video, perhaps because the landing took place in the predawn hours.
"This program continues to push the envelope as the world's only reusable space vehicle. With a successful landing today, the X-37B completed its longest flight to date and successfully completed all mission objectives," said Randy Walden, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office director.
"This mission successfully hosted Air Force Research Laboratory experiments, among others, as well as providing a ride for small satellites."
The Air Force says it plans to launch the sixth X-37B mission from CCAFS in 2020. And you can bet good money we won't know much about that launch either.
What do you think they were doing up there? A couple of missions ago, something like "aliens" may have been a ridiculous guess. But we've sure learned a lot about U.S. military contact with unidentified flying objects since this mission first launched in September of 2017.
I'm not saying they're flying aliens around in a super-secret Air Force spaceplane. But they're probably flying aliens around in a super-secret Air Force spaceplane.
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EVD vaccination exercise completed in Yei River State. Since the launching of vaccination on 28 January 2019, a total of 1, 261 healthcare workers and frontline workers in Yei River State and Gbudue have received the vaccine against Ebola.
The results of the suspected EVD alert in Tambura State tested negative for Ebola. A 15 years old male child presented to Tambura County hospital with fever, followed by bleeding from the nose, body pain and vomiting. Accordingly, the State Rapid Response Team (RRT) investigated, collected blood samples, listed all contacts, and advised the community on the preventive measures.
The IPC/WASH TWG trained 35 health care workers from the South Sudan People's Defense Force (SSDF) from 12-14 March 2019 on EVD screening, isolation, referral, reporting and IPC/WASH.


(Sub 22) which will be lead by Phil are doing a parlouf and Indian file relay session on the track.
(22-25) which will be lead by Lucy are doing a tempo run. First 3 miles will be around 9-9.10 pace, with the last 3 miles at 7.30-8 pace, approximately.
(25-27) which will be lead by Cat are doing a hills session at the half-pipe.
(27-30) which will be lead by Mary are doing 3 x 10 minute intervals with 2 minute recovery in between each set on the track.
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You're a blogger, right? Unless you're predominantly posting videos, infographics or other image-heavy content, you're probably writing a lot. Writing blog posts will have honed and improved your writing skills. Writing a book will improve your skills further and make you a better blogger. Win, win.
A short, focused, ebook that solves one specific problem can easily come in at around 10,000 words. If you're writing long-form blog posts of around 1000 words, that's the equivalent of just ten posts.
My first two ebooks were the result of me shutting down my blog about freelance writing. It was my starter blog, and while the content was good, I never really had a plan, a strategy, or a suitable way of monetizing that content. So I closed it down and decided to re-purpose the blog content by writing a book.
As I went through the content I realized I had a lot of posts aimed at newbies, and some aimed at more experienced writers. So I ended up creating two ebooks, How To Start Your Freelance Writing Career From Scratch, for brand new freelancers, and 52 Tips For Freelance Writers, aimed at those already working as freelance writers. As a bonus, I realized lots of people who bought the first, and applied the advice, might then be interested in the second.
I also had a couple of essay style posts left over that didn't seem to fit in either book. They were eventually adapted into two chapters in my third book Ten Commandments For The Thriving Writer (I wrote the rest from scratch).
Lastly, I had a page on my blog that was simply a list of all the free tools I'd found useful while starting my freelance writing business on a zero dollar budget. I took that list, wrote a short review of every tool, and turned it into my most successful and best selling ebook so far, Free Tools For Writers, Bloggers and Solopreneurs.
As I was closing down my blog I was able to compile my content into exclusive ebooks, but it's OK to use posts from your live blog and compile them into book form too, especially if you add some extra exclusive material as well.
Look at your blog. Do you already have posts that could be a chapter in a book? Have you written a series of several posts on one niche sub-topic that could be compiled into a book?
If you don't already have a series of posts on one niche topic, could you start one now? If you start with the idea that each post will also be a chapter in a book, you'll adapt your writing as you go along. This means you'll spend less time editing when it's time to compose everything into book format (I may have used my blog content as a basis for those first few ebooks, but it took a LOT of editing to make them read like books, not a series of blog posts).
I'll be honest. I don't make a ton of money from my book sales. It is nice to have a bit of extra (passive) income coming in every month, but for most bloggers the real benefits of being an author don't come in royalty checks.
This reason, and all the following ones, are the hidden benefits of authorship. If you have your blog set up right, they'll be worth much more to you than your monthly royalty payments.
I put a live link to my blog in the front (and back) of every ebook, along with the occasional link within the text to a specific post or page. Every time I release a new book or do a big promotion for an old one, I get a significant spike in traffic. With my Savvy Solopreneur Guides, in particular, the traffic tends to be well targeted. As I'm sure you're already aware, if your blog is well monetized, targeted traffic is as good as money in the bank.
I put a link to my sign-up page, and a mention of my free opt-in gift, in every book. Again, every new book release or promotion brings me new subscribers.
Hint: I put my call to subscribe right at the beginning of my ebook, where people previewing my book on Amazon or other online retailers can see it, and click it. Even people who don't buy my book may click through that link and sign up. If they were checking out a book on freelancing or solopreneurship, they're probably bang in my target market. Again, if you're monetizing your list, you'll find that over time an interested, engaged subscriber list is worth a lot more than book sales.
Write an ebook firmly in your niche and you'll find you can use it to promote your services. Health coach? Write a book on healthy living and nutrition and offer readers your health coaching services. Blog designer? Write a book on blogging strategy and use it to sell your design services. You can even offer your ebook readers a coupon code to get a discount on your services.
Maybe you sell physical or digital products. Same deal. You can mention them within your book or even include an advertisement or promotional blurb at the front or back of your book. Selling your info products or an online course? That would also lend itself to an exclusive discount offered to readers of your ebook.
This works best, of course, when you niche it down. So if you sell a course on blog strategy, a book about starting a blog or planning a content strategy would work. If you sell stock images you could produce a tightly focused ebook about the importance of visual marketing. Make sure your book attracts your ideal customer.
Many of us promote various affiliate products on our blogs. But did you know you can do that in an ebook too? If you include any recommendations or suggestions for products and services your readers might find useful, you can include your affiliate link for them to click through (don't forget to disclose – I put my disclosure notice in the front matter of my books).
Even though it's really simple to produce an ebook, or even a print book, producing a good one (one that offers high quality information, is well edited, with a great cover design) will help establish you as an expert in your field.
Since I've been an author I've been approached for interviews and quotes, and asked to contribute guest chapters to other books (most recently I've been featured in the new ebook, The Secret Lives of Writers).
A print book is also an excellent way to make extra money from speaking or training events. Have signed copies of your book for sale after the event. If you've wowed your audience, that's a nice extra for them to take home.
It's much simpler than you might imagine to produce an ebook. Once you've done the actual writing, uploading the book to Amazon Kindle, for example, is no more complicated than uploading your latest blog post.
Have a question about publishing your first book? Email me (seriously). I'll try and help. And if I can't help, I might know someone who can. And consider signing up to get your free printable workbook and other goodies to help you run your online biz.
I hope you get to it soon, Sim. But don't try and put all your experiences in one book! When you're looking at non-fiction the more focused, the better.
Thanks for stopping by, Hannah. It's not an idea that suits every blog, of course. But I bet you could find or create the content for a book if you decided to. Maybe one day the time will be right for you. Sometimes the book topic picks you!
I really, really want to write my first eBook sometime before the fall this year. 10K words doesn't scare me, I've written papers in post-grad that were longer than that. It's just a time thing and prioritizing different goals for my blog.
So sharing this and hoping to write my blog posts with purpose so I can bundle them into a book.


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Thulani Malinga, South African boxer
Vula Malinga, British soprano
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Lower back pain can be quite scary, especially if it is sharp or if there doesn't seem to be any reason for it to have started. There are many small structures that can be affected and become painful, and with the low back in the centre of your body, it can be influenced by many different areas, from the position of the head all the way to how your ankles are moving.
It can be dull or sharp, focal or radiating up and down the spine and buttocks, movement can aggravate it or relieve it, each patient is different.
So how does the back work?
the muscles around it need to be strong to stabilise it — the core muscles include the buttocks, the "lats" and the muscles around the abdomen, acting like a corset, or guy ropes around a mast.
your centre of gravity needs to fall in the right place — too far forward and the muscles of the back will have to work harder, too far back and you may need to "drop" through the low back and compress the spine into a backward arch.
What's the structure that hurts?
There are roughly 21 joints in the lower back and about 24 main muscles that can pull it in any directions (depending on which textbook you look at). That's without counting all the tiny muscles between every single vertebrae (that's roughly another 34) and as many ligaments and tendons holding everything together. Add an extra disc between each vertebrae, a few nerves, the whole lot wrapped in sheets of connective tissue and you have well over 100 different structures that can become painful. Every structure has its role to play and is highly integrated with its environment. They may become painful when stretched (eg. a ligament), when compressed (eg. a joint) or when moving (eg. a muscle) Some have a very good nerve supply (they will be extremely painful very quickly) when others don't (they may take a while to get irritated and produce a duller ache) so there can be many different manifestations of lower back pain.
We all get aches and pains every now and then, so when is it ok to let it get better on its own? Sometimes it's tricky to tell when one should seek help.
My advice is that if your lower back pain doesn't start to improve about 3 days after the initial onset, if your symptoms seem to be getting worse rather than better or if the same problem keeps happening over and over again in the same place, it is probably a good idea to seek professional help.
We can tailor our approach to your current state: if the pain is very acute, there are a lot of very gentle techniques we can use to calm the tissues down, before addressing the cause in the background. If the pain is almost gone but you know it keeps happening in the same place and you don't want it to come back, we can examine the surrounding tissues for clues as to why it keeps happening.
What is my Osteopath going to do?
The Osteopath's first job is to identify the cause of the problem. Which structure is causing the pain, but most importantly, why did it start in the first place or why is it failing to get better? We will look at your overall posture, see how your spine, pelvis and legs are moving by asking you to do a few simple movements, and we have simple tests that we can use to check different structures (we may ask you to stand on one leg or gently lift your leg up whilst you lie on your back). We may also check your reflexes and muscle power.
Once we understand more about what is going on, then we can work out a way forward — this will likely include manual therapy to normalise range of motion in different joints and muscle tone. Treatment may not be isolated to the lower back. We may find that the way your ankle moves is producing a twist through the leg that in turn is upsetting the lower back, or we may find that you are holding your head forward, thus throwing your centre of gravity off balance.
I also like to include lifestyle advice to my treatment — I often give tips on desk setup and posture. I like to talk about activities one can do to strengthen and mobilise the back, be it swimming, yoga, pilates or other. There are often a few simple exercises I can give patients to speed up their recovery and prevent the problem from coming back.
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1 Week to go. Here's What I Expect.
Barack Obama rode an incredible wave of celebrity adoration into the White House in 2008 and while its clear to many of us that he has proven himself unworthy to lead this country further he still remains a celebrity with a "can do no wrong" label stuck on him by his many devoted fans. I think of Lindsay Lohan's continuing celebrity in spite of repeated brushes with the law. I think of Britney Spears shaving her head, possibly neglecting or mistreating her kids, and her drug and alcohol failings. And I think of Mel Gibson simply losing his mind. Like all of these "celebrities" Obama has proven undeserving of our total and unquestioning affection. Given yet another chance could he rebound ala Robert Downey Jr. and resurrect his image? My guess is No. But his "fans" think yes. And to me, that's the saddest part of this story. He doesn't so-much have followers, he has "fans" which is short for "fanatics". I don't want a President whose a celebrity. I want a leader.
I have never been enamored with celebrity. And I've absolutely NEVER understood celebrity worship. These feelings and sense that they're not much different from you and me precedes the era in my life when I was constantly in front of nationally known and revered celebrities. As a reporter in the late 80s and early 90s I had my share of celebrity exposure. Having married the daughter of a very prominent Washington State politician and Washington Husky football star I came across even more. All this exposure did was confirm my lifetime sense that these individuals are seldom worthy of the "worship" Obama has been the recipient of.
So what's going to happen next week? Let's start with what's simple before we get into the more complicated.
270 Electoral Votes are needed by either candidate in order to secure the Presidency.
Senator John McCain carried 21 states against Obama in 2008. Not one of those states will go for Obama this time around. Due to census re-apportionment those states now carry 180 electoral votes.
Obama barely took Indiana in 2008. He won't this time. Polls clearly show Indian's 2010 strong shift to the right was not a fluke. Indiana's 11 votes will be Romney's. Romney's electoral total- 191.
So-called swing states Virginia and North Carolina also went strongly Tea Party and strongly Republican in 2010 and the latest polls show Romney with a narrow lead in each. Romney get's them. They're worth 28 electoral votes. Romney's electoral total- 219.
Florida is also a swing state but recent polls going back more than one month have consistently shown Romney in the lead. Florida went for Bush in 2000 and 2004. It'll add to Romney's total. 29 more. Romney's electoral total- 248
With all these East Coast state's (Virginia, Florida, North Carolina et al) falling to Romney and closing polls while state's further west remain open to voting, that will have an undeniable benefit for Romney. And he'll need it because of the remaining eight swing states Obama narrowly leads or is tied in the polls in 7 of them. Colorado and its 9 electoral votes is the only one I'm really confident putting in the Romney column. Romney's electoral total- 257.
The remaining state's in play are Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada. Nevada went for Bush in 2000 and 2004. I'm confident the many Mormons in Nevada as well as the momentum from East Coast voting will push Nevada into the Romney column. That's six more. Romney's electoral total- 263.
That leaves five midwestern states plus New Hampshire to determine the Presidency of the United States. They total 74 Electoral Votes. Pennsylvania and Michigan have each voted for the Democrat in 2000, 2004, and 2008. It's really incredible that they are in play at all. But barring something unforeseen I predict they'll be in the Obama column (though if Romney gets either it's over. Romney wins).
Wisconsin also voted Democrat in 2000, 2004, and 2008. But the cheese-heads also elected a Republican Governor and legislature in 2010 and then re-elected the Governor in an even more lopsided re-call vote last year. And THEN Wisconsin's Paul Ryan was named Mitt Romney's running mate. Polls show Obama leading but Romney within the margin of error. Of the four remaining states in question (New Hampshire, Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin) the Badger State is the one most likely to go for Romney. I think they will. Romney wins. Romney's electoral vote count- 273.
Iowa and New Hampshire have gone Democrat 2 of the last 3 Presidential Elections and polls very narrowly favor Obama in each. Ohio has gone Republican in 2 of the last 3 elections. And Obama only won it with 52% of the vote in 2008. Political pundit and former Bill Clinton election Master-mind Dick Morris is strongly asserting Ohio will go for Romney. But if I'm right, that will just be icing on the cake.
Romney's win will have a positive influence out West where last-minute voters will help elect Rob McKenna to the Washington Governor's post, becoming the first Republican in more than 30 years to lead our state. McKenna got 59% of the vote in 2008 when he was re-elected Attorney General. And since his destruction of Jay Inslee in the Gubernatorial debates he will slide home safely with this election too.
What I really believe is that something is yet to happen that will decide this race for the Presidency. I believe the eight swing state's are so close that some news event, some revelation, or some major gaffe will bring victory or defeat to Romney or Obama. I definitely think more is going to come out about Benghazi. I would not be surprised in the least if Obama conducts a military strike in Libya with the claim of securing justice for the murderous perpetrators of the attacks in Benghazi. Perhaps hurricane Sandy will be so devastating as to cast an incredible shadow over Obama. If there are other October surprises out there I don't know. But that's why they're called surprises.
Categories: National Politics, Washington State . Tags: 270 needed to win, Barack Obama, Benghazi, celebrity adoration, Colorado, current-events, election day, electoral college, electoral votes, Iowa, Libya, Mitt Romney, Nevada, New Hampshire, November 6, October surprise, Ohio, politics, Presidency, Presidential election, Republican nominee, senator john mccain, the next president, Tuesday, washington husky football, Wisconsin . Author: Michael Schuett . Comments: 2 Comments
"Another Broken Promise, Mr. President?" | Fox Business
Written prior to the first debate, but still worth reading:
"Another Broken Promise, Mr. President?" | Fox Business.
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Obama: "We Tried Our Plan — And It Worked." – YouTube
In the video below President Barack Obama is on the campaign trail where he makes the statement: "Just like we've tried their plan, we tried our plan, and it worked…that's why I'm running for a second term."
It seems as if he has strayed from his teleprompter again.
Do you agree? Do you agree that the Presidents policies have worked to better this nation and the condition of it's people?
For the record here is how his policies have worked:
1. Unemployment has remained over 8% for 41 consecutive months.
2. Real unemployment is closer to 15%.
3. Workforce participation is at its lowest level in 30 years in spite of a population increase of 30-40 million.
4. The poverty rate is higher now that it has been since 1965.
5. Home values have plummeted and only recently have shown signs of increasing.
6. The median household income has been slashed $4300.
Then…there's healthcare.
If you think the nation is better off with these above listed conditions than you are not a very enlightened person.
I get that Obama was and is trying to defend his record. But when do we hold him accountable for the outrageous things he says and does? If he is trying to condition all of us for THIS being the new normal…well…no thank you Mister President. Me and my fellow smarter and harder working business owners and a whole lot more people will ask you to leave the stage please.
But don't worry I'm sure they can set up teleprompters in your new/old Chicago home.
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Donald Trump Announces ICE to Begin Deportation Process for Millions of Illegal Aliens
President Donald Trump revealed late Tuesday U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will initiate removal proceedings for millions of foreign nationals deemed illegally present in the United States.
17 Jun 2019, 10:37 PM PDT
Donald Trump Blasts Puerto Rico Officials for Wasting Billions in Disaster Funds
President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his administration's response to the hurricane disaster in Puerto Rico, accusing local officials of wasting billions of dollars.
2 Apr 2019, 6:10 AM PDT
Caroline Glick: Time for the U.S. to End Aid to Lebanon
After nine months, Lebanese Prime Minister Saed Hariri has finally bowed to reality. Hezbollah and its allies won the elections last May. And elections have consequences — which is why the U.S. should withdraw its support from Lebanon's government.
9 Feb 2019, 10:11 PM PDT
REVIEW: UK Exaggerated Lives Saved by Aid, Claimed Stopping Women Having Children Prevents Deaths
An aid watchdog has slammed the government for exaggerating the number of women's lives it saved with taxpayer's money spent on its maternal health initiatives.
Liam Deacon
Amnesty Made Staff Work with Alleged Sex Pest Brendan Cox Despite Warnings
Charity workers were ordered to work with disgraced alleged sex pest Brendan Cox by the head of Amnesty International UK, who was aware of the allegations against him.
4 Oct 2018, 7:07 AM PDT
UK Taxpayer Funded 100 'Aid' Projects in Superpower China Last Year
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19 Sep 2018, 1:29 AM PDT
'Unacceptable': £98 Million UK 'Aid' Injection for Space Exploration Power India
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WATCH: Israel Donates Aid Packages to Syrians Fleeing Regime Offensive
The IDF on Tuesday transfered aid and care packages donated by Israeli residents of the Golan Heights to Syrians displaced by fighting on the other side of border, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit announced Wednesday.
EU Proposes Pumping Billions More into Africa, 'Peace Facility' Fund to Buy Weapons for Crisis Zones
The European Union (EU) has proposed that billions more in aid be pumped into Africa including a €10.5 billion "Peace Facility" which could be used to purchase weapons for use in crisis areas.
Victoria Friedman
15 Jun 2018, 10:20 AM PDT
Oxfam Boss Quits After 'Sex for Aid' Scandal
The Chief Executive of Oxfam has announced he will stand down, three months after the charity was embroiled in a sex and prostitution scandal.
UK Taxpayer Hands £47 in Aid Million to Superpower China
Despite the government promising to stop giving hand-outs to the wealthy nation, more than £47 million of UK taxpayer cash was handed to China in 2016.
27 Apr 2018, 3:03 AM PDT
White House Ready to Pursue Gaza Projects Without Palestinian Authority
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration will move ahead with projects in the Gaza Strip with or without the Palestinian Authority if its chairman Mahmoud Abbas continues to boycott the U.S., senior administration officials said Tuesday.
One in Seven Charities Spending UK Taxpayer Cash Abroad Caught in Sex Abuse Scandal
One in seven aid charities taking taxpayers' money to spend abroad have now reported conduct breaches, with dozens of new claims of abuse, including paedophilia, the International Aid Secretary has said.
5 Mar 2018, 10:35 AM PDT
BBC Charity Quietly Fired Sex Pests Whilst Taking £70 Million from Taxpayer
A BBC charity, which takes tens of millions from the taxpayer, fired six members of staff for sexual misconduct without informing the government.
28 Feb 2018, 6:19 AM PDT
Donald Trump: 'Let's Have a Shutdown' If Congress Can't Close Immigration Loopholes
"If we don't change it let's have a shutdown, we'll do a shutdown," Trump said. "It's worth it for our country."
UK to Spend £180 Million on Africa Aid, Helping Migrants 'Return Home'
The UK will spend £180 million of taxpayers' money over five years in Africa in an effort to convince migrants to stay where they are, reintegrate, or "return home".
19 Dec 2017, 10:18 AM PDT
Dramatic Footage Shows Syrian Women, Children Praising Israel For Helping Them
TEL AVIV – Dramatic footage broadcast over the weekend shows Syrian women and their children crossing the border into Israel to receive medical treatment.
Donald Trump on Deal with Democrats: 'Everyone Was Happy … Not Too Happy'
President Donald Trump celebrated a deal with Democratic congressional leaders to punt the debt ceiling and government funding to December in an effort to speed up tax reform.
'Blackmail': Brexit Secretary Slams EU Divorce Bill that Includes Aid to Africa
The Brexit 'divorce bill' demanded by the European Union (EU) includes payments towards aid to Africa, loans to Ukraine, and expensive environment projects including bridges for wildlife.
Report: Trump Administration to Withhold Up to $290 Million in Egypt Aid
The United States has decided to deny Egypt $95.7 million in aid and to delay a further $195 million because of its failure to make progress on respecting human rights and democratic norms, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
23 Aug 2017, 2:09 AM PDT
Germany Gives Additional 3.5 Million Euros to Migrants in Libya
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is pledging an additional 3.5 million euros ($3.9 million) to help improve conditions for refugees in Libya.
After EU Threatens Sanctions, Philippines Refuses Aid to Stop 'Interfering With Our Internal Affairs'
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines will no longer accept new grants from the European Union, officials said Thursday, forgoing possibly more than 250 million euros ($ 278.7 million) in funds for development projects in the country.
Italy Investigates Aid Groups Suspected of Working With Traffickers to Facilitating Illegal Migration
ROME (AP) — An Italian prosecutor says he is investigating employees of aid groups that are rescuing migrants off Libya for allegedly facilitating illegal migration, but says it's not a punishable crime since saving lives at sea is paramount. Trapani
Senior Tories Demand Foreign Aid Slashed, Diverted to Military
Senior Conservatives are calling for the government to scrap the legally enshrined rule forcing the UK to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on foreign aid, making more funds available to the military.
Sen. Lindsey Graham to Reintroduce Bill Cutting Off Palestinian Aid for Paying Salaries to Terrorists
TEL AVIV – A bill to sever U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority until it stops paying salaries to terrorists and their families for attacks on Israelis and Americans would be reintroduced, Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday.
1 Mar 2017, 4:04 AM PDT
Secret Israeli Operation Brings Tons of Winter Supplies to Syrian Refugees
TEL AVIV – A clandestine Israeli initiative has gathered over a hundred tons of winter supplies bound for Syrian refugees who have no idea that the donations hail from the enemy state next door.
Britain Ends Millions In 'Aid' Funding For Ethiopia Girl Band
Britain says it has ended millions of dollars in funding for an Ethiopian girl band, amid growing criticism at home of overseas aid. Yegna, sometimes called "Ethiopia's Spice Girls," addresses women's issues in the East African country.
7 Jan 2017, 1:51 AM PDT
UK Foreign Aid Spent on Five-Star Hotels and Chinese Restaurants
The UK's massive foreign aid budget is helping to fund middle-class luxuries in booming economise, including Pakistan's version of Amazon, Chinese restaurant chains, online gambling websites, five-star hotels and luxury shopping malls.
Tens Of Thousands Of Emails To Senators Urge End to Aid Until Palestinians Stop Financing Terrorism
TEL AVIV – Inboxes belonging to U.S. senators have been flooded with more than 22,000 emails over the past week urging them to back the Taylor Force Act, a bill that would make aid to the Palestinian Authority conditional on its cutting off financial rewards to terrorists and their families, a major Christian group said on Monday.
Watchdog: No Evidence Foreign Aid Budget Improving Lives
The National Audit Office has said the private investment arm of the UK's foreign aid department cannot prove its work makes a lasting difference to people's lives.


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Q: how to display values on labels from plist. objective-c i have the plist:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"      "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<array>
  <dict>
    <key>name</key>
    <string>Daniel</string>
    <key>Description</key>
    <string>Bad boy</string>
</dict>
<dict>
    <key>name</key>
    <string>Mary</string>
    <key>description</key>
    <string>Good girl</string>
</dict>
</array>
</plist>

i want to display on my label's values name and description depending of name:
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"PropList"   ofType:@"plist"];
ComplexArray = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:path];
NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:path];
for (int i = 0; i < [ComplexArray count]; i++) {
            ThirdViewController *item = [ComplexArray objectAtIndex:i];

    if ([item.name isEqualToString: @"Mary"]) {
        _nameLabel.text = [dict objectForKey:@"name"];
        _descriptionLabel.text = [dict objectForKey:@"description"];
    }
}

And why i can't do like this (i did this when i have no plist, but now this return errors):
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"PropList" ofType:@"plist"];
ComplexArray = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:path];
for (int i = 0; i < [ComplexArray count]; i++) {
ThirdViewController *item = [ComplexArray objectAtIndex:i];
if ([item.name isEqualToString: @"Mary"]) {
_nameLabel.text=item.name;
_descriptionLabel.text=item.description;
    }
}

A: Try This code it Must work perfect !
       // Read plist from bundle and get Root Dictionary out of it
    NSDictionary *dictRoot = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"PropList" ofType:@"plist"]];

    // Your dictionary contains an array of dictionary
    // Now pull an Array out of it.
    NSArray *array = [dictionary objectForKey:@"keyarray"];

    // Now a loop through Array to fetch single Item

    for (NSDictionary *dict in array) {

if ([[dict objectForKey:@"name"] isEqualToString:@"Mary"])
{
    // Do stuff...

        NSString *name= [dict objectForKey:@"name"];
        NSString *description= [dict objectForKey:@"Description"];

}

    }

you need to add a key befor the array .
<key>keyarray</key>

A: Perform following steps:

*

*Get the plist data in a dictionary
NSString *plistPath=[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"NameOfPlistFile" ofType:@"plist"];
NSDictionary *bundleDictionary=[NSDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:plistPath];

*Get the Value with respect to Key
NSString *nameString = [bundleDictionary valueForKey:kCustomURLScheme];

Hope this helps!

A: Again, you pretty much had it right already.
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"PropList" ofType:@"plist"];
ComplexArray = [NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:path];
for (NSDictionary *dict in ComplexArray) {
    if ([dict[@"name"] isEqualToString:@"Mary"]) {
        _nameLabel.text = dict[@"name"];
        _descriptionLabel.text = dict[@"description"];
        break;
    }
}

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Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Principe: Who Is Joel Danies?
The West African nations of Gabon and São Tomé and Principe are getting a new ambassador courtesy of Donald Trump. On October 27, 2017, he nominated Joel Danies for the job. A career foreign service officer, Danies has served as associate dean of the School of Professional and Area Studies, a unit of the Foreign Service Institute that offers training in foreign affairs specialties, since July 2016. If confirmed by the Senate, Danies would succeed Cynthia Akuetteh, who has served in Libreville, Gabon, with concurrent accreditation to São Tomé and Principe, since August 2014. It would be the first ambassadorship for Danies.
Born April 1, 1958, in Jacmel, Haiti, to Edgard and Marie-Thérèse (Boucard) Danies, Joel Edgard Danies earned a B.S. in Zoology/Animal Biology at Loyola College Maryland in 1977 and a B.A. in Political Science and Government at the University of Maryland College Park in 1979. Years later, he earned an M.S. in National Security Strategy at the National War College in 2010.
Danies worked for USAir (now US Airways) before joining the State Department as a Foreign Service Officer in September 1987. Early assignments included general services officer in Sanaa, Yemen, and consular officer and staff assistant to the Ambassador, at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. In 1994, he was a spokesman for Rep. Porter Goss (R-Florida).
He served as management officer and chargé d'affaires in Belmopan, Belize, during and after Hurricane Mitch in October 1998, when Danies used his authority to declare a disaster in order to allow U.S. aid to begin flowing. In 2001, he moved to the U.S. mission in Geneva, Switzerland, serving as senior human rights officer. In 2004 he was bumped up to political counselor there. His next stop was as post management officer in the Bureau of European Affairs. In 2005, he also served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Still in the Bureau of European Affairs, Danies, in 2007, moved up to program analyst and undersecretary for management.
In 2010, Danies traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, to serve as deputy director of the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Division at the U.S. Embassy.
From September 2011 to 2014, Danies served as deputy Haiti special coordinator, helping his native land recover from the devastating earthquake of January 2010. In that role, Danies sometimes found himself in awkward positions trying to explain American policies that were unpopular among Haitians.
June 2014 to July 2016.
Danies speaks French, Haitian-Creole, and Arabic. His wife, Caren Danies, was recently elected vice-president of the Women's Diplomatic Series in Washington. The couple has two adult children, Blair and Judson.


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Q: how do i get the name of a component in IOS? I just dragged a UIImageview onto a storyboard in xcode 5. I am coming from .NET where this would add an object of type UIImageView to the main form. Is this the way to think about it in IOS? Where do I click in the xcode IDE to get the name of the instance of UIImageView?

A: You dragged a UIImageView into a storyboard.  You need to see which view controller this UIImageView object lives in and then you can connect that UIImageView to an IBOutlet, which is how your view controller (the implementation or code for which you're working on, which also happens to be a subclass of UIViewController) will interact with the UIImageView object.

A: You have to write a IBOutlet in the corresponding ViewController.h file like this.
@property (nonatomic , strong) IBOutlet UIImageView *myImageView ;

Then in your ViewController.m , use @synthesize after @implementation tag.
Then go back to the Interface Builder and connect the IBOutlet myImageView to your ImageView which you have dragged there. Hope it helps.


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The Trouble with Truth, Reconciliation, Peace and Friendship Treaties: Indigenous Land and Resource Rights Among the Mi'kmaq
by Rachel Herrington
Honoring the history of the treaties is not just about the past but also about the present and future of indigenous Canadians.
Canada is Going through its Own History Wars
by Ian Rocksborough-Smith
"To what degree will well-established professional historians and scholars respond and engage with younger generations of activists, intellectuals and cultural workers adamant about centring the experiences of marginalized people?"
SOURCE: National Post
The Canadian Historical Association's Genocide Statement "Brazenly Unscholarly" (Opinion)
Columnist Barbara Kay supports Canadian historians who have dissented from the Canadian Historical Association's statement that Canadian treatment of First Nations peoples was genocidal.
SOURCE: Toronto Globe and Mail
Totem pole celebrates Haida's pact with Canada
A new totem pole the height of a three-storey building now looms over the southern Haida Gwaii, carved with symbols to note the remote land is protected from ocean floor to mountaintop.Hundreds gathered in the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve to watch the nearly 3,000-kilogram pole raised using six ropes and sheer manpower, the first such raising in over a century. Spectators were dwarfed by the colourful and intricate pole, which took more than a year to carve and paint and represents Gwaii Haanas' modern and ancient history....
SOURCE: Toronto Star
First Nations children used in experiments in 1940s
Aboriginal children were deliberately starved in the 1940s and '50s by government researchers in the name of science.Milk rations were halved for years at residential schools across the country.Essential vitamins were kept from people who needed them.Dental services were withheld because gum health was a measuring tool for scientists and dental care would distort research.For over a decade, aboriginal children and adults were unknowingly subjected to nutritional experiments by Canadian government bureaucrats....
Mohawk history towers over New York
MONTREAL—Generations of toil at dizzying heights have culminated in this towering achievement.Ironworkers from a Mohawk community were part of the team that installed the final section of spire at the top of the new One World Trade Center in New York last month.John McGowan was one of those involved as he and colleagues wrote a special page in a history filled with high-level triumph, and also with tragedy."It was a clear nice day. It couldn't have been a nicer day," said the 48-year-old resident of Kahnawake, Que., near Montreal....
400-year-old skeleton of aboriginal woman found
A Sarnia couple who set out to build a fence dug up more than they bargained for recently when they unearthed a 400-year-old skeleton and got stuck with a $5,000 bill from the province.The archeological misadventure began two weeks ago when Ken Campbell came across some bones while digging post holes in their backyard.He put them aside, thinking they must have belonged to an animal. The following week, his wife, Nicole Sauve, asked about the bones, which sat unceremoniously atop a bucket of earth"I said, 'They're not animal bones, Ken. Let's dig some more and see what we can find,' "she said....


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Judge Kevin P KellyCurrently selected
JUDGE KEVIN P. KELLY
Judge Kevin P. Kelly was appointed to the Kitsap County District Court Bench by the Board of County Commissioners on July 1, 2017. He is a native of Washington but spent most of his youth in Ohio. Judge Kelly graduated from Kent State University in 1984 and from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1988, after which time he returned to his Washington roots.
Judge Kelly worked as a Deputy Prosecutor with the Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney's Office for 27 years. Throughout that time he practiced in various divisions of the prosecutor's office including Family Support, Civil, and Juvenile. The majority of his career was devoted to the Criminal Division where he prosecuted all level and manner of cases ranging from DUI to Aggravated Murder. During the course of his career he was promoted to supervisor of the Felony Drug Unit and later the Administration Unit. He volunteered and became a Certified Dog Handler with Canine Companions for Independence and brought the first Courthouse Dog, Kerris, to Kitsap County. During his last two years as a prosecutor he was the Chief of the District and Municipal Court Division.
Judge Kelly served as the Drug Court Prosecutor for many years and was instrumental in the planning and development of both the first ever Veterans Treatment Court and the newly created Behavioral Health Court.
Judge Kelly believes in the importance of community service. He is a 20-year active member and Past-President of the Rotary Club of South Kitsap, a former Executive Board member of the Kitsap Humane Society, a graduate of Leadership Kitsap and a past Kitsap County Youth Court mentor.
Judge Kelly is the proud father of three daughters and resides in South Kitsap with his wife, Wendy.


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Q: How to find and replace a particular string in a specific line I developed a code which find and replaces a specific string in all xmls under all subdirectories. But i dont want all occurances to be replaced. In entire xml, code should find the tag xyz and replace xyz within this tag with abc. Other "xyz" in the xml should remain as it is.
Can you please help me with this.
Thanks...

A: You can use sed for the same
sed -i.bkp  5'i'"s/search/replace/"  inputfile

*

*-i.bkp take backup as inpufile.bkp and edit original file

*5'i' go to  line 5

*s/ search and replace

also you can search specific word say 'NAME' and in same line search 'RAM' and replace with 'SHYAM' , see example below
sed -e '/NAME/s/RAM/SHYAM/g' filename

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A: As mentioned by @donothingsuccesfully modifying xml with simple text replacement when you have requirements like tag xyz inside tag abc is generally a bad idea  unless you have a very strict, known format of the input xml file, which is rarely the case. You need something that understands xml.
xml-sed from xml-coreutils allows you to run sed commands on an "echo-leaf" rather than a line which is basically means sed on an xml fragment with a PATH. So you would have something like
xml-sed 's/oldstring/newsting/' file.xml :/abc/xyz

Python lxml or Perl XML::Twig could be used if you can script it.


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	$username = "root";
	$password = "";
	$dbName = "timsrp";
	// Create connection
	$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbName);
	// Check connection
	if ($conn->connect_error) {
		echo "connerr";
		die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
	}

	if ($stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT `picture` FROM `users` WHERE userid=?")) {

		$stmt->bind_param("s", $_COOKIE["loggedInUID"]);

		$stmt->execute();
		$stmt->bind_result($pic);
		$stmt->fetch();
		/*
		$rc = $stmt->execute();
		if ( false===$rc ) {
			printf("Errormessage: %s\n", $conn->error);
			echo "failed excecute";
		}
		*/
		$stmt->close();
	}else echo "faileds statement";

	echo $pic;

	$conn->close();

?>

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#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

#import "PBPracticeController.h"

/** Teaches the user how to swipe on the sensor. */
@interface PBPractice2Controller : UIViewController {
    IBOutlet UIImageView* handImage;
    BOOL continueAnimation;
    BOOL insideAnimation;
    IBOutlet UIButton* nextButton;

    PBPracticeController* practiceController;
}

- (id)initWithPracticeController: (PBPracticeController*)aPracticeController;

- (IBAction)next: (id)sender;

@end


Horisontaalinen ja vertikaalinen tuokio abstraktissa tilassa. Ylivalottunutta viivastoa.
This exhibition creates a quiet and occasionally changing soundscape in the gallery environment. Each work has a character of its own, but in terms of the audio component the idea was to link each work to the others and to create a sum of these parts. Construction ideas and solutions emerged through sketching and sometimes through directly working with the material, but some part was played by my dreams, which seem to continue processing my artistic ideas while I sleep. The influence of my sound art workplace community is also apparent. I would particularly like to thank my colleague Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski and Kirsi Vinkki from the Sibelius Academy instrument workshop, both of whom kindly contributed help to the emergence of these works.
The foundation of my work is an homage to Theo Jansen, a Dutch inventor and kinetic sculptor and his works. Jansen has developed and built his beach creatures (Strandbeest) for decades; wind-powered kinetic sculptures wandering around the beaches of Holland with the ability to avoid walking into the sea or collapsing due to stormy winds. The smooth movement of these beach creatures is largely based on the leg mechanics designed by Jansen. This same mechanism is presented in my own work. I myself have for years wondered and admired the very organic movement of Jansens beach creatures and his ambitious development of them. My kinetic sound sculpture JANSEN shows an interpretation of the beach life of a certain Jansen leg.
Tampere-based actor, singer and voice artist Marja Skaffari presents a vocal improvisation in dialogue with the works displayed at Galleria Saskia during the Tampere Biennale.


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It's been a while sincemy last Wellness Wednesday,so to help wind-downgreen beauty month,I thought I'd rope in my amazing dermatologist Dr.Amy Wechsler to talk 188bet金宝搏体育about how your mind can affect your skin.A former psychiatrist,Dr.Wechsler has an interesting perspective on how everyday emotions,habits at home and daily diet affect what you see in the mirror.This integrative point of view is one of the many reasons I've entrusted my skin to her over the years.Who wouldn't want to have a dual therapy sesh /cancerous mole surgery??
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Etch-A-Sketch Midget Candidates And Voters
The Circus of the Midget Naturalists is over. Over. Done.
Like any bad show (think of My Mother the Car or Pistols n' Petticoats or Grindl or Then Came Bronson), there will be a few more episodes before the Circus of the Midget Naturalists has had its termination notice. It came in Illinois on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. The current coming of Bob Dole, Willard Mitt Romney, an adherent of the false religion started by a Freemasonic confidence man named Joseph Smith (see Pure, Unadulterated Americanism), will be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, destined to be Mowed Down By A Lord Of The World.
The 2011-2012 edition of the Circus of Midget Naturalists has had its share of colorful characters, some of whom (Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain) vied with each other to become hosts of Peabody's Fractured History while another (James Richard Perry) demonstrated that he was not yet ready for the "big top" as he tried to cram for debates without being conversant in national issues. Two others (Tim Pawlenty, a Catholic apostate, and Jon Huntsman, a Mormon) conjured up a old description of several long forgotten politicians ("Wherever they walked, they never left footprints) as they are even now but footnotes in the current political season.
Yes, there were two others, Gary Johnson and Buddy Roemer, the former Governors of New Mexico and Louisiana, respectively, who dropped out of the Circus of Midget Naturalists to seek the presidential nominations of minor organized crime families of naturalism (Johnson is seeking the Libertarian Party nomination while Roemer is trying to the Reform Party nominee).
The three who are still in the Circus of the Midget Naturalists but who have yet to accept the fact that the series is over (Richard John Santorum, Newton Leroy Gingrich and Ronald Ernest Paul) continue to march to whatever end it is they have set for themselves. The circus in which they have been performing, however, is over. The big top will be taken down soon enough.
The arrogance of power is such that the lead midget's campaign staff is boasting that they can start the general election against the currently reigning caesar, Barack Hussein Obama, by ignoring whatever "tack to the right" that their man, Willard Mitt Romney, made during the primary and caucus season, comparing the switch to a mere shake of an Etch-A-Sketch board:
Is Mitt Romney an Etch-A-Sketch candidate, one whose positions can be erased with a shake, ready for a new and different drawing?
That's an analogy that's getting a lot of discussion today in the Washington professional political class following a comment made by senior Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom on CNN. Asked whether conservatives Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich had pushed Mr. Romney so far to the right that he'll have trouble with moderates in a general election, Mr. Fehrnstrom said that wouldn't be a problem.
"Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart it all over again," Fehrnstrom said.
That comment – which appears to imply that Romney can forget what he's said and take new stands in the fall – came bouncing back to whack the Romney camp faster than a SuperBall pitched against a concrete wall. The Santorum campaign sent out an email alerting reporters to Fehrnstrom's words, claiming they're proof that Romney is a Massachusetts moderate.
"We all knew Mitt Romney didn't have any core convictions, but we appreciate his staff going on national television to affirm that point for anyone who had any doubts," said Santorum national communications director Hogan Gridley in a statement.
Gingrich piled on, adding via Twitter that "Etch-A-Sketch is a great toy but a losing strategy. We need a nominee w/bold conservative solutions."
Democratic strategists gleefully retweeted these remarks, hoping to sow chaos in the GOP ranks, while the blogosphere resounded with Romney critics opining as to what other toys he has in his closet: My Little Phony, Gumby, a Hot Wheels Dog Carrier, and so forth.
Very funny. But will this incident hurt Romney, or simply launch a flotilla of bad jokes? We're guessing the latter. It'll be gone faster than you can erase a ... well, you know. Etch-A-Sketch references stop here. We promise.
Why? First of all, Romney's had a pretty good week, in case you didn't notice. He won the Illinois primary in a walk. Jeb Bush endorsed him, in essence saying to others in the GOP, "it's time to end this now."
In other words, Romney has pretty much won. All that's left is for Santorum and Gingrich to realize that they've become zombie candidates. Fehrnstrom's comments won't help rivals who have already lost. (Etch-A-Sketch: Can Mitt Romney shake off his aide's Mr. Potato Head Comment?)
Seeking to quickly move on after one of his spokesman blotted out what should have been a banner day for his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney promised wary conservatives that he would not change course if he becomes the Republican nominee.
Speaking to reporters after a town hall meeting in Arbutus, Md., Romney clarified an aide's statement that he would view the start of the general election campaign like an Etch-A-Sketch, suggesting that he could adjust positions he took in a primary campaign dominated by conservatives to please a more centrist electorate in November.
Asked whether Romney's positions in the primary might be too far to the right to win in November, Eric Fehrnstrom said on CNN: "Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again."
Though Fehrnstrom was specifically asked about Romney's political positions possibly changing, Romney portrayed the comments as being about his organization. Should he be the nominee, Romney said, the nature of the campaign certainly would change "organizationally." But "the issues I'm running on will be exactly the same."
"I'm running as a conservative Republican. I was a conservative Republican governor. I'll be running as a conservative Republican nominee," he said. "The policies and positions are exactly the same."
The Romney campaign had hoped to spend the day talking about its double-digit triumph in Illinois on Tuesday and the endorsement of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. At a town hall meeting outside Baltimore, Romney sought to keep his focus on President Obama, mocking his trip out West to talk about energy prices.
But his rivals seized on the comments from Fehrnstrom, forcing Romney to respond.
A Rick Santorum campaign spokesman showed up at the site of Romney's Maryland campaign kickoff event to hand out miniature versions of the Etch-A-Sketch.
Fehrnstrom's analogy, Alice Stewart told reporters, "confirms what a lot of conservatives have been afraid of. He used to be pro-abortion, he used to be pro-gay marriage, he used to be for a Wall Street bailout, climate change. Now he's talking a different language, but the campaign acknowledged that if need be, if he won the primary, he'd go right back to the middle in order to win the general." (Romney clarifies Etch-A-Sketch remarks to reporter.)
Actually, this is nothing new. Naturalists who are the creatures of focus group polling and the advice given them by their political handlers and marketers always change their positions in order to win as winning is the only thing that matters in American politics. Nothing else.
Most of those who participate as gladiators in the naturalist farce and circus that is electoral politics count on the simple fact that they can use an "Etch-A-Sketch" strategy to campaign for office because most voters themselves live "Etch-A-Sketch" lives in that they do not remember the events of past campaigns or the policy positions they had taken once in office.
Most Americans, diverted by endless other bread and circuses that arouses the senses and excite the passions (such as whether professional football quarterback Tim Tebow, who is some kind of garden-variety Protestant fundamentalist, fit in with the profane characters who comprise the New York Jets, headed by a profane self-promoter by the name of Buddy Ryan), are blank tablets who are apt to believe whatever is beamed into their skulls repeatedly and incessantly in campaign television advertisements. Everything is of the "moment" in this country. Thus it is that people tend believe whatever is told to them at the moment. It's Etch-A-Sketch time.
Indeed, for all of his just criticism of Willard Mitt Romney's being a true "Etch-A-Sketch" candidate, Richard John Santorum is just as much as one himself. Santorum's wife, Karen Santorum, said that the only reason that he brought up the issue of contraception in his campaign was in response to Obama's mandate requiring all employers, including religious institutions, to provide health insurance coverage for contraception and sterilization. The former United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has no problem with people using contraception and he would "do nothing" about the matter as he respects the "consciences" of others. He just wants to protect the heresy of religious liberty that created the whole mess in the first place:
Karen Santorum, wife of presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, said Monday that as president, her husband would "do nothing" on the issue of contraception.
"Women have nothing to fear. When it comes to contraceptives, he will do nothing on that issue," she said on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" Monday. "I think the real issue was, what I said, about the religious freedom issue and not allowing the government to be intrusive in our lives."
When pressed on whether a Rick Santorum administration would respect a woman's right to use contraception, she quickly responded, "Absolutely.
The issue is the government forcing people to go against their conscience," she said.
The presidential candidate, known for his conservative social values, took heat last month when the top donor behind a pro-Santorum super-PAC joked about the cost of contraception for women amid the debate over the Obama administration's rule requiring insurance companies to provide birth control for employees.
Santorum was a harsh critic of the president's proposal, which originally required religious organizations such as charities and hospitals to include contraception coverage in their healthcare plans. Obama has since shifted his plan so employees of those organizations could get birth control directly from insurers.
The issue has continued to follow Santorum on the campaign trail.
"It makes me really sad that the media tries to do that to him. They try to make it look like he is something that he's not. Rick is a great guy. He is completely supportive of women," Karen Santorum said.
The former Pennsylvania senator sparred with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Monday over whether he had been treated fairly by the news media on the issue of contraception access.
Santorum said it was unfair to take instances where he was talking about his personal religious beliefs and suggest they would result in dramatic changes to social policies.
"The only reason I've been talking about this issue is in respect to government mandates of people of faith," Santorum said on MSNBC. (Karen Santorum says husband 'will do nothing' on issue of contraception.)
No, it's always "Etch-A-Sketch" time with the Midget Naturalists of the false opposite of the "right." Romney told us a few months ago that contraception was "working very well" and Santorum supports the nonexistent "right" of women to use it. Neither Romney or Santorum understand that the pro-population control policies that both have supported over the course of decades have contributed mightily to the world's economic woes as there is a direct connection between the de-population of the world and the destruction of the stability of the family, expedited by divorce and, now, by the rise of the homosexualist collective. As goes the family, so go fate of nations. The monster civil state of Modernity has taken the place of the family as a result, having grown to the point of totalitarianism as there is no external check upon its growth that would be provided if men and their nations recognized and respected the Social Reign of Christ the King as It must be exercised by the Catholic Church.
What is true of the naturalist "right" is true also of the naturalist "left."
Indeed, Caesar Barackus Obamus Ignoramus himself knows all about Etch-A-Sketch as he and his political wunderkind, David Axelrod, know that no one is paying attention to the Fast and Furious gun running scandal or United States Attorney General Eric Holder's coverup of it.
Obama and Axelrod want Americans to forget about ObamaCare (although RomneyCare neutralizes that as an issue in the general election as the latter was the model for the former).
Obama and Axelrod know that most people don't know and don't care about. the scandals associated with "green energy" projects such as Solyndra.
Obama and Axelrod know that most people don't know and don't care about the Obama administration's effort to force religious institutions to provide health insurance coverage for contraception and sterilization to their employees.
Obama and Axelrod know that most people don't know and don't care about their administration's refusal to protect the borders of the United States of America and the decision to sue the State of Arizona by daring to seek to protect itself from a wave of violent criminals who have crossed into this country from Mexico.
Obama and Axelrod know that most people don't know and don't care about the caesar's bowing before foreign leaders, thus demeaning American national sovereignty.
Obama and Axelrod know that most people don't know and don't care about the administration's many and varied rank violations of the Constitution of the United States of America, including his making a "recess" appointment to a new Consumer Financial Protection Board even though the United States Senate was in session (see Hugo Chavez Ortega Obama). The Constitution? What's that?
We are living through a great chastisement for our sins and the sins of the whole world. Although so few people want to believe these words, there is no naturalistic "short-cut" to prevent the worsening of this chastisement. We must pray and fast and sacrifice as the consecrated slaves of Christ the King through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Our Queen. We must stand for Catholic truth as it alone can convert men and their nations to the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation and without which it is impossible to know true social order.
Archbishop Alban Goodier, S.J., who was the Archbishop of Bombay, India, form December 22, 1919, to October 1, 1926, explained in Volume Two of The Public Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ that Our Lord had to teach the Apostles to stand for truth and to reject all human prudence that might impede them from standing for the truth. Archbishop Goodier's reflections should inspire us to reject all "human prudence" that men use to excuse themselves from standing in behalf of Catholic truth in the midst of the world because of the alleged "impossibility" of converting men and their nations to the true Faith:
"From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples that the Son of Man must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things and be rejected by the ancients and chief priests and scribes and be put to death. And after three days rise again. And he spoke the word openly."
The day on which Simon Peter made his great confession was a landmark and a day of change in many ways. Jesus now no longer hung about the outlying semi-pagan districts; He turned His steps once more towards Galilee. From Caesarea Philippi to the north of the lake, down the upper Jordan Valley, would be a short day's journey; between the hills on either side the road was even. He took that road; as He went along He began to speak to the Twelve of other things which were indeed passing strange. He had come to found a Kingdom, and at last the Kingdom had been founded; that day the foundation-stone had been definitely laid. All during the preceding months he had laboured hard to teach them independence of the Pharisees and Scribes. He had told them expressly not to fear them; to their faces He had defied those men; when they had wished to argue with Him He had turned His back upon them. He had bade His own to beware, not of the men themselves, but of their 'leaven' ; of the doctrine they taught and their subtle devices.
Now on a sudden all was changed. He no longer sought to avoid them; He would go into the very jaws of death. He no longer spoke of His power and authority; He spoke as one who was already doomed. He had just crowned His teaching by the promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against His Church; yet this was immediately followed by emphatic predictions, that He must go into the centre of danger, that there He must suffer, must be rejected, must die. And not only must the people reject Him; that, more or less, the Twelve could understand. Already many had begun to desert Him, many more had never followed Him at all. The talk that they had heard in the bazaar had let them see that the crowds were not to be trusted. But the rejection, so He told them, would be far more serious than that. He would be rejected by the ancients, by the chief priests, by the Scribes, by every authority which they held sacred, and all but infallible, and representative of God Himself. In the end, so they had always dreamed, He would win them to His side; by His miracles, by His words, by the evidence of Himself, He would convince these leaders as He had convinced them. The Old Law would at last recognize its Messias; the priests of the Temple would see in Him their elder Brother, the prophets would be proved to have been fulfilled in Him. Ancients priests, and Scribes would be convinced, and Jerusalem the Golden would own its lawful King.
So they had dreamt, and in the strength of that dream the human side of their minds had clung to Him. What then could He mean by this strange and new language that He spoke? He gave no explanation; He just stated the fact; again and again, when they were alone together, He came back upon it. At first it would seem that again He was speaking to them in parables, and later explain what He meant. Then, since no word of explanation came, they would say that this was a timely warning of opposition that would last yet longer. Lastly, since He continued to repeat it, they were convinced that He was only too depressed; that He was feeling too keenly His recent ill-success, the desertion of the people, the enmity of the Scribes and Pharisees, the weakening of themselves, the Twelve, His own inability to do anything that would appeal. He was too sad; He was losing heart; He was looking into the future with hopeless eyes; perhaps He was saying these things that He might induce them to show Him sympathy and encouragement. For surely what He said could never positively come true; such a doom could never befall the Son of the living God.
Once more Simon, now Peter, spoke up for the rest. He was now the Rock; he must show that he was equal to the task imposed upon him. Along that country lane, in His company, with the Eleven all around him, and not a single enemy in sight, Peter could be very brave. Hay more, he could show what a worthy vicar he would be. If the Master went down, he would be there to lift Him up. The Kingdom had been established. They must not now look back. Such a debacle as Jesus foreshadowed must not be tolerated for a moment. Besides, for Him to speak like this would have a bad effect upon the rest. The last few months had been hard enough; ever since their successful expeditions, when Jesus had sent them to preach before the Pasch, they had had a trying time. They had shown anxiety of late at the attitude of the Pharisees and Scribes; if this kind of future were all their Master could show them, they, too, might lose heart. He must interfere; He must remonstrate. He was now the Rock; he stood responsible for the loyalty of the rest. The gates of hell were not to prevail against him; must less must they be permitted to prevail against the Master. Perhaps this was a first test for him; if so, like a man he must play his part.
So it came about that on one of these occasions, when Jesus gain came back on this depressing picture, Simon Peter would endure it no longer. He took Jesus aside; he meant to speak strongly, therefore he did not wish to be overheard. Affectionately enough he scolded his Master; he rebuked Him, he pointed out to Him what a mistake was this which He was making: 'And Peter taking him began to rebuke him saying Lord be it far from thee this shall not be unto thee.'
Jesus looked at Peter. At another time, in another place, He might have taken his remonstrance gently, at least with great condescension; by the Jordan, on the lake, in the synagogue at Capharnaum, He had always given Peter encouragement. But now it was very different; the Peter that now spoke was another man from him who had said: 'Depart from me for I am a sinful man O Lord.' or again: ' Lord, if it be thou bid me come to thee upon the waters'; or who had later cried: 'Lord to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.'
For in this last assumptive manner there was that which might one day prove Peter's downfall. Besides there were others to be considered. The Eleven were behind, looking on. They knew what Peter was doing; if they could not hear his words they could guess from his behaviour, for Peter was always spontaneous. Though Peter was the chosen head, yet even Peter had his place and his duty, and both he and the others must be taught it.
Jesus turned round and stood still. He faced the Eleven coming towards Him, He turned His back on Peter. Then severely, yet not offensively, for Peter clung to Him all the same, He spoke strong words: "Who turning about and seeing his disciples threatened Peter saying Go behind me, Satan. Thou art a scandal to me because thou savourest not the things that are of God but the things that are of men.'
Such was Peter's first lesson as Prince of the Apostles. Not always success as men see it is the truest triumph. There is something far more true than success, and truth alone in the end prevails.
But the lesson begun was not to stop there. Not only to the Twelve had He now begun to teach this new doctrine of suffering, and rejection, and death; He would show that to others also His attitude had changed. And yet in reality it had not changed; He who from the beginning had blessed the poor, and the meek, and those who suffered for the sake of justice, was consistent with Himself. Only from henceforth forward He would emphasize those things which before had been less noticed. He would insist that suffering of some kind were it only that of ordinary life, was a condition of His service; that the first step in the following of Him was to be along the way of the Cross. . . .
He had lifted them up on another plane. In the early days, in the days of His temptations, we had seen how 'The devil took him up and shewed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time and the glory of them', and had said to Him: 'To thee will I give all this power and al the glory of them for to me they are delivered and to whom I will them. If therefore thou falling down wilt adore me and all shall be thine.'
That temptation was no passing thing. It was real, it was persistent, it attacked the soul of every man who was zealous for the spread of the Kingdom, it would continue to the the end of time. At that very moment His followers were affected by it. Because of it the would make Him their King; not least His Twelve dreamed and dreamed again that for the conquest of the world, the gaining of it for the Kingdom, any price would be worth while. 'In a moment of time, the glory of them all shall be thine.'
Who would not give all He possessed for a conquest so glorious!
Jesus would now set Himself to correct that impression. More than all the world to Him was the single soul of any single man; more than a kingdom that reached across the globe, and held the nations in thrall, was a kingdom in a single heart. The Kingdom of God was within Him, it was not of this world; it was in the hearts of other men, not in the things that they possessed. Let a man therefore keep that safe, and all would be well. let him save a single soul, and another, and another, one by one, in that alone would come the conquest.
And then He took another side; He faced and countered another temptation that pursued and would pursue His own. For thus they would reason. To seek to spread the Kingdom, to win the favour and the allegiance of men to Jesus Christ, to conquer the power and glory of the earth, entailed a great risk, demanded great prudence. For this mean must needs be humoured; they must not be offended; the unpleasant things must be glossed over. Jesus of Nazareth might at times be a scandal to the Pharisees and Scribes. His claim, too, openly declared, might shock the people of Nazareth; to the men of Capharnaum His promise might appear too extravagant. His overlordship of the Sabbath and the Temple might offend the citizens of Jerusalem; His powers, too strongly maintained, might arouse opposition, above all His power of forgiving sins. On this account some of His own would be tempted to half-measures. They would suffer human prudence to prevail; they would adapt Jesus Christ and His doctrine to the standards of this earth; they would be ashamed to proclaim Him as He was. It was not a new temptation; it was but another phase of that which we have just seen. to prefer the external kingdom to the kingdom within a human soul, to sacrifice a soul for the kingdom, would in the end lead to this; that for the sake of the Kingdom the King Himself would be sacrificed.
Once for all, then, he would denounce and crush this evil, the greatest save one that could creep into His Church, and of the others He had already given warning. This was the evil that would try her most, and would injure her most, both from within and from without, through all the ages that were to come in high places as well as in corners of the Kingdom. A few days before He had founded His Church on Peter; Peter had responded by saying that which savoured not 'The things are of God but the things that are of men.'
Even in Peter then the danger was imminent. Therefore, now the first time, the Son of Man reveals Himself in all His dignity and might. The kingdom of the earth! Let the kingdoms of the earth hear Him who now speaks and tremble: 'He that shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his father with the holy angels.'
It was a tremendous announcement; for those who were versed in the prophets it was also a solemn declaration. Now definitely, at this beginning of His downfall, Jesus declared what He meant by His self-chosen title of the Son of Man. Daniel had foreseen it; Jesus took to Himself the prophet's words: 'I beheld therefore in the vision of the night and lo one like the son of man came with the clouds of heaven. And he came even to the Ancient of days and they presented him before him and he gave him power and glory. And a kingdom and all peoples and tribes and tongues shall serve him. His power is an everlasting power that shall not be taken away and his kingdom that shall not be destroyed.' (Daniel vii, 13, 14.)
As the storm rises against Him, so much the more from henceforward does Jesus assert His supremacy. As here He had foretold His doom, and then in the same breath foretold His victory, so when the end did some, in the same words but more emphatic, He announced the coming of His Kingdom. In all and among all He was always the Master; this feature of His life must never be forgotten during the troubled times which are now to follow. Nowhere more than on Calvary does He show that He is the Lord. (Archbishop Alban Goodier, The Public Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ: An Interpretation, Volume Two. London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd., 1931, pp. 1-5; 6-9.)
Have you read these passages from Archbishop Goodier's book with care? Read them again. And again. And yet again after that. When you have read these passages and meditated upon them, I ask you to pray three Hail Marys for a reader of this site, a person who lives east of the Alleghenies and west of Dublin, Ireland, for firmly recommending that we purchase Archbishop Goodier's book.
These remarkable passages have application to the state of the world and to those who think that some "strategy" is necessary to shade the truth in order clothe the naked emperor that is Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI with the fiction that he is a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter despite his many defections from the Catholic Faith, including his complete and utter rejection of the Social Reign of Christ the King as a matter of principle, not as a concession to the realities of time.
Archbishop Goodier, who died on March 13, 1939, just thirty-two days before what would have been his seventieth birthday, wrote words that describe both the anti-Incarnational world of the civil state of Modernity that has influenced Catholics to accept with passivity and a shrug of the shoulders the seeming permanence of the way things exist now and the Modernist predilections of the lords of the counterfeit church of conciliarism, men who believe that it is indeed inopportune and imprudent to proclaim what the Catholic Church proclaimed throughout her history concerning the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Readers of this site can choose to believe what they want to act as they will, preferring, quite perhaps, that it is "necessary" to "put aside" the truths of the Holy Faith to combat the evils being wrought by the current caesar. Yet it is that the Etch-A-Sketch naturalists of the false opposite of the "right" who seek to replace the current caesar are themselves creatures and slaves of Modernity's Protestant and Judeo-Masonic contention that it is not necessary for men and their nations to recognize Christ as King and to submit to Him as He has revealed Himself to us exclusively through His Catholic Church in all that pertains to the good of souls, upon which hinges the fate of nations.
The conciliarists have "indeed" put aside the truths of the Catholic Church in order to appear "reasonable" to a pluralistic world. Although I have noted this before, perhaps it is time to point out yet again these words of Pope Saint Pius X, contained in Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906:
That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error. Based, as it is, on the principle that the State must not recognize any religious cult, it is in the first place guilty of a great injustice to God; for the Creator of man is also the Founder of human societies, and preserves their existence as He preserves our own. We owe Him, therefore, not only a private cult, but a public and social worship to honor Him. Besides, this thesis is an obvious negation of the supernatural order. It limits the action of the State to the pursuit of public prosperity during this life only, which is but the proximate object of political societies; and it occupies itself in no fashion (on the plea that this is foreign to it) with their ultimate object which is man's eternal happiness after this short life shall have run its course. But as the present order of things is temporary and subordinated to the conquest of man's supreme and absolute welfare, it follows that the civil power must not only place no obstacle in the way of this conquest, but must aid us in effecting it. . . .Hence the Roman Pontiffs have never ceased, as circumstances required, to refute and condemn the doctrine of the separation of Church and State. (Pope Saint Pius X, Vehementer Nos, February 11, 1906.)
How can something absolutely false in 1906 and that had been condemned repeatedly by pope after pope become true, good, virtuous and even necessary sixty years thereafter at the "Second" Vatican Council? How? That the conciliar "popes" have ceased condemning the doctrine of separation of Church and State and have, quite instead, embraced and defended and promoted it is yet another proof that have not the Mind of the Divine Redeemer, Christ the King, but are possessed of Modernist heart and soul that is intent on "reconciling" with the anti-Incarnational, religiously indifferentist, naturalist and semi-Pelagian principles of Modernity that are from the devil himself, who is more than happy to use Catholics as enablers of the Etch-A-Sketch Naturalists who can do nothing but continue to perpetuate his own falsehoods while social conditions deteriorate as a result.
As Pope Leo XIII put it in Custodi Di Quella Fede, December 8, 1892:
May the Rosaries that we pray each day help us to so oriented to the things of Heaven that we come to despite the ways of naturalism and naturalists, becoming apostles only of the Social Reign of Christ the King and of Mary our Immaculate Queen remembering at all times these simple but profound words of Pope Saint Pius X:
. . . . For there is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion: it is a proven truth, a historical fact. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)
We must make sure, therefore, to cleave to true Catholic Faith without making any concessions to concilairism, whose apostate apologists such as the midget naturalists who are vying for the one to be defeated by the Uber Statist, Barack Hussein Obama, on November 6, 2012, are always trying to convince the voters that they have the "solutions" to the nation's problems. They do not.
The solution rests with us as we seek to make reparation for our sins, especially during this season of Lent, which is about to enter Passiontide with First Vespers for Passion Sunday on Saturday evening, and pray for the fulfillment of Our Lady's Fatima Message.
The "message" we must convey is that of the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King, a message rejected by the lords of Modernity in the world and by the lords of Modernism in the counterfeit church of conciliarism alike.
"Vivat Christus Rex! Viva Cristo Rey!"
Saint Isidore the Farmer, pray for us.


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