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In 1995, Congress overwhelmingly passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which basically ordered the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem on the pain of withholding funding. The only "out" was the president's ability to sign a six-month waiver, which has occurred over three dozen times since its passage.
"It is remarkable to hear religious leaders defend profanity, ridicule and cruelty as hallmarks of authenticity, and dismiss decency as dead language," writes Michael Gerson in the cover story of the April edition of The Atlantic. He is referring specifically to evangelical Christians who defend President Donald Trump despite his very un-Christian behavior.
Flor Edwards, 36, a community college teacher in California, details her experience in the apocalyptic sex cult "Children of God" and her harrowing escape, in a new memoir called " Apocalypse Child: A Life In End Times ," reported the New York Post. Edwards grew up in Thailand, one of 12 children who grew up doing practice drills preparing for the apocalypse.
AS a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent made his way onto the roof of a building in the large compound in Waco, a volley of bullets ripped through the wall beside him. A TV camera captured the moment he was hit and crumpled on the roof.
Once upon a time, long ago in another universe, the end of the world was left in the hands of the gods, not human beings. Today, however, humanity, in its curious ingenuity, has managed to come up with two ways of destroying itself, as well as the very habitat that welcomed and nourished it all these eons.
"Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die" by Garrett M. Graff Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die by Garrett M. Graff, Simon & Schuster, 529 pages Our government is built to last. It may or may not be comforting for you to know that, should some end-of-days situation occur, the U.S. government has robust procedures for maintaining control and evacuating all those essential bureaucratic machines everyone is so fond of to a safe, warm place.
A full solar eclipse will appear over America on Monday for the fist time in close to a century, and various religious groups have hailed it as a sign of great spiritual significance. The eclipse , which will be sighted first in Salem, Ore., just after 10 a.m. PT and will enter the final stage of visibility from land right before 3 p.m. EST over Charleston, S.C., is the first total solar eclipse to be visible over North America in 99 years.
Sigh. What bull crap. People Magazine is fawning all over the Obamas. And they are making hay out of the fact that Obama said concerning President Trump last November: "He's nothing but a bullsh-ter."