They had a lightning storm while it was snowing over Washington D. C.

A federal judge on Thursday evening declared that Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, in the strongest legal reversal yet of restrictive marriage amendments that exist throughout the South. “Our Constitution declares that ‘all men’ are created equal,” wrote Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Norfolk. “Surely this means all of us.” LINK

The snow and ice dumped by an unusually severe winter storm were melting, once-frigid temperatures were rising and residents of South Carolina and Georgia finally had begun to relax. Then the earth shuddered. A small earthquake shook both states late Friday, shaking homes and rattling residents hundreds of miles away. LINK

No dilemma if your a Sede Vacantist

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc settled with Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB) a $1.2 billion claim, freeing up millions of dollars which will be available for distribution to the bank’s creditors. Under the settlement, Lehman will make a one-time cash payment of $767 million toFreddie Mac, Lehman said in a court filing on Wednesday. LINK

Does a terminally ill child in intolerable pain have a right to die? Belgian lawmakers said yes. The lower house of the Belgian Parliament adopted a bill that extends the right to euthanasia for minors, the Parliament said Thursday on its official Twitter account. The law passed 86 to 44 with 12 abstentions. LINK

There’s a lot of confusion, actually, about St. Valentine, whose feast we celebrate today.

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Snowden has denied in interviews that he stole computer passwords or tricked some co-workers into giving him their passwords. But the NSA letter suggests that Snowden tricked at least one of them and copied his password without the co-worker’s knowledge. LINK

With his forked tongue, razor-sharp fangs and horns that poke from his forehead, Diablo Delenfer, 43, from Kent, looks like most people’s idea of a terrifying demon. Now the former security guard and self-described ‘body modification artist’ is to have screws implanted into his skull in a bid to create a devilish metal mohawk. LINK

In Genesis 9:12-15 God promised He would never flood the earth again, our token of that promise is the rainbow. So we know Christ is not speaking of a literal flood. Rather, Christ is talking about the flood of lies and deception Satan will shower on the earth during the Tribulation. The accounts of this fact are numerous in God’s Word. LINK

We watch the famines that roll by in foreign nations and most of us have a mixture of feelings. Sympathy at the suffering, anger at those nations rulers for not doing more…there’s a gamut of emotions particularly for the children who are powerless to do anything about it. What rarely crosses our minds though is ‘how would I cope?’. LINK

Hanging on a thread Justice is denied without Capital punishment. See books

Pope Francis is ranked ‘the 4th most powerful’ person in the world after Presidents Putin (Russia), Obama (USA), and Xi Jinping (China), by Forbes, the prestigious US business magazine. Pope Francis is the 4^th ‘most powerful’ person in the world according to Forbes, the prestigious American business magazine, LINK

FERTILITY BEFORE AND AFTER ECONOMIC CRISIS

Day care centers are characterized by two main features, one is the type of facilities and the other is the type of financial participation. In Brussels, childcare facilities are subject to regulation. LINK