Yea, some signs of sanity is showing back up in society.

A charter school in Georgia started a new year by revisiting old disciplinary policies MORE

“In these times, it seems like the ‘Great Accuser’ has been unchained and is attacking bishops. True, we are all sinners, we bishops. He tries to uncover the sins, so they are visible in order to scandalize the people. The ‘Great Accuser’, as he himself says to God in the first chapter of the Book of Job, ‘roams the earth looking for someone to accuse’. A bishop’s strength against the ‘Great Accuser’ is prayer, that of Jesus and his own, and the humility of being chosen and remaining close to the people of God, without seeking an aristocratic life that removes this unction. Let us pray, today, for our bishops: for me, for those who are here, and for all the bishops throughout the world.” MORE

BACKFIRE: Many voted Trump

The critical miscalculation, Murillo wrote in a stunning admission in the email, was that Latino voters backed Trump by higher margins than any experts had forecast in the lead-up to the election. Trump’s 29 percent among Hispanics nationally blew prognosticators away, and he hit even higher numbers—about 31 percent—in the key battleground state of Florida, Murillo admitted. MORE

Naomi Osaka played against the one woman she admired. And beat her. But her idol, Serena Williams berated her opponent (who was half Haitian [black]) yelling, “How dare you do this, I’m a mother!” And the tortured Osaka was made to apologize for winning. 

“Blue-collar jobs are growing at their fastest rate in more than 30 years, helping fuel a hiring boom in many small towns and rural areas that are strong supporters of President Trump ahead of November’s mid-term elections,” said the Post, under the headline “Under Trump, the jobs boom has finally reached blue-collar workers. Will it last?” MORE

The Pope Ignores a Plea

A year later, Sr. Lucia’s memoirs were published, bringing widespread attention to Our Lady’s request for the consecration of Russia. Thousands of Catholics responded by signing petitions asking the Pope to perform the ceremony. When Pope Paul VI visited Fatima in May of 1967, Sr. Lucia pleaded to speak with him, but was rebuffed and told to “speak to your bishop.” Her bishop, meanwhile, was not able to make any effective effort to achieve either the consecration of Russia or the revelation of the Third Secret.

Chronology of Four Cover-up Campaigns: Silencing of Sister Lucia MORE

Could California be broke after this?

The agency is down to its last $11 million after spending $432 million on July and August fires alone, Kim Pimlott, director of the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection — known as Cal Fire — said in a letter sent to lawmakers and obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. MORE

ANTWERP, Belgium (JTA) — Come autumn, hundreds of men and their children stream out of the dozens of synagogues of this Belgian city’s Jewish quarter, and walk quietly to its main park. MORE