RENNES: A French village priest who smashed a statue of Jesus in his church has blamed the stress and fatigue of his job for an act which shocked his congregation.
Jean-Jacques Le Roy, 55, a priest in Plestin-les-Greves in Brittany, shouted out “one less!” as he threw the statue to the ground last Thursday during a visit by a sacred art commission. Continue reading
Oklahoma is now the No. 1 earthquake area in the world, an Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman said Monday. MORE
Les Brigandes – The Jacobin Lodge is mocking freemasonry & the infiltrators of the Catholic Church. They’re Traditional Catholics.
IDK…Asking too much of my precious time to put up with their atheistic attitude and too much of my well earned money to be bothered w/Starbucks
What’s the problem with California?
For the past forever, high-speed rail in the United States has existed as a sugarplum dream, sweet to think about, but dissolving instantly upon contact with reality. One of the sweetest and fastest of these dreams is maglev trains, a super-high-speed rail system that already exists in other parts of the world,reaching speeds of 373 miles per hour in Japan. Soon, our high-speed aspirations might become reality thanks to new funding for maglev research here in the United States. MORE
Pope Francis had to be helped up the steps to an altar at a Rome basilica on Monday after stumbling in public for the second time in three days.
Two church officials flanked the 78-year-old pontiff and took him by the arm as he faltered on his way up the steps during a service in the Basilica of St. John Lateran. MORE
For those San Franciscans who happened to be looking skywards on Saturday evening this was the ethereal and somewhat terrifying sight that greeted them shortly after 6pm. MORE VIDEO- continue reading Continue reading
The administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty legislation is 5,554 pages long, twice that of Obamacare and nearly 3 feet high, a legislative nightmare highlighted in a tweet from Sen. Jeff Sessions Monday.
The Alabama Republican used his photo to alert critics that because the bill is fast-tracked, it cannot be filibustered or amended.
Not only is the legislation filled with 2 million words, it measures exactly 2 feet high and weighs an amazing 100 pounds.
The TPP is a trade agreement among 12 Pacific Rim countries. SOURCE
This is a truth that could not make good fiction in a low budget B movie, much less a policy issue in the once most dignified and morally advanced nation the world has ever known.
My first inclination was to title this piece, “Obama threatens to spank school district for not favoring a single transgender student.”
Too crass, I thought; but along came an article before I got to write word one. It was entitled “Complete Anarchy’ as Obama Invades girls’ Showers.” The subtitle was even more scathing and reads: “Feds force school to comply with ‘profoundly stupid’ rule.” MORE
DNA-laced security mist, chemical, biological and nuclear-proof panic rooms and superyacht getaway subs. The paranoid world of London’s super-rich rivals anything you see in Spectre, as John Arlidge reports MORE -VIDEO#2 continue reading
China’s Navy pulled into Naval Station Mayport for its first official visit to an East Coast U.S. base, a 5-day goodwill visit that will include a crew trip to Disney World. Times-Union reporter Dan Scanlan was there when the guided-missile frigate Yiyang, guided-missile destroyer Jinan and Chinese fleet oiler Qiandao Hu pulled into port with pomp, circumstance and some Chinese dragons.
COP 21 or the 2015 Paris Climate Conference that is scheduled to take place in Paris on November 30, 2015, will be unlike other UN climate summits or climate conferences in the past. COP 21 has a scarily grandiose objective: in their own words “to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate … for the first time in over 20 years of UN negotiations.” MORE – VIDEO#2 or continue reading.
The chart below captures much of what has gone wrong in this country since 1970. Households in 1970 looked entirely different than households today. In 1970, almost 71% of all households consisted of married couples. MORE
A man with terminal cancer was desperate to get married – but didn’t want to leave a heartbroken widow.
His solution? Get married to a SEX DOLL.
Now his surprisingly tasteful wedding pictures have become a viral sensation in his native China.
The Beijing man reportedly wanted to experience a fancy wedding shoot before he died, so he brought the life-like inflatable doll and got the full works – including a make up artist and a beautiful wedding dress. MORE