A commander recently told a gate guard on a base in Georgia that he could no longer tell someone to have a “blessed day,” for example, though further review found that wasn’t a religious imposition, he said. MORE

The U.N. general secretary’s appearance at an upcoming Vatican event promoting a worldwide movement to combat climate change coupled with a pontifical paper calling for the establishment of a global political, MORE

Pacific coast sardines are facing a population collapse so severe that Oregon’s multimillion-dollar sardine industry almost certainly will be shut down this summer.

Anticipating fishermen will pursue anchovies instead, ocean conservationists are pushing for pre-emptive measures to avoid repeating the collapse with another species. MORE

This is a “rush” article submitted at the 11^th hour of the battle Montanans are fighting to keep their water rights intact.  The average citizen is trying to defend against the onslaughts of the Agenda 21-funded, oligarch-driven EPA (pushing the CSKT water compact) and the Federal Government.  The battle is almost over and it doesn’t look good about one minute to midnight.  This battle is Montana’s “Alamo” of water rights and it is very important for all of us: a loss for Montanans and a win for the Federal Government will set a nationwide precedent. MORE

Palermo police said they had detained 15 people suspected in the high seas assault, which they learned of while interviewing tearful survivors from Nigeria and Ghana who had arrived in Palermo Wednesday morning after being rescued at sea by the ship Ellensborg.

The 15 were accused of multiple homicide aggravated by religious hatred, police said in a statement.

The survivors said they had boarded a rubber boat April 14 on the Libyan coast with 105 passengers aboard, part of the wave of migrants taking advantage of calm seas and warm weather to make the risky crossing from Libya, where most smuggling operations originate.MORE

What it comes down to is the old adage:  “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”.  Jews and Protestants share a palpable and pathologic hatred for Christ’s Holy Catholic Church, and this common denominator makes them join hands in a bizarre “fellowship”, even though we know that one generally can’t stand the other, and that feeling is mutual between them.

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Remember Donald Sterling? He’s the explicitly racist asshat who used to own the Clippers before a recording was released last year of him being explcitly racist at his girlfriend, V. Stiviano, and who still owns hundreds of apartment buildings across Los Angeles, at which, lawsuits allege, he has engaged in a lot of explicitly racist landlording. MORE

Anniversary of Lincoln’s shooting, was on a Good Friday, also during the Passover.

In New York Catholic Church authorities have blundered into a remarkably … closure for the archdiocese’s one specialist church catering for deaf congregants…. … But in what category can we file an awe-inspiringly stupid decision like the … It’s St Elizabeth’s church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side MORE

One of Iran’s most high-profile female public figures is poised to become the country’s first female ambassador to be based abroad in nearly 40 years, the Daily Sabah reported Monday. If she accepts, Marzieh Afkham, who is currently a spokeswoman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, would be Iran’s first woman diplomat since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, though it is unclear when she would be appointed or to which country she would be assigned. MORE