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Friday cocktail – the Brown Derby
Scroll back if you want the history of the cocktail. There are mixed opinions on how much bourbon to use – 2 oz. as shown here, or 1.5 oz. See the Farandaville recipe and opinion below the video. Farandaville Recipe We've had it with 2 oz and 1.5 oz of bourbon and prefer the 2…
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“Mamdani’s Bad Ideas, Part 1: Seizing the Means of Production, Government-Run Groceries & High Taxes”
This is from the libertarian John Stossel. I am no libertarian but he's right about everything here. Eight minutes long. Here's a cool quote from the first comment on this video. "The mouse dies in the trap because it doesn't understand why the cheese is free. Socialism."
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Memorial Service – 80 years since we incinerated 100’s of 1000’s of civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What Archbishop Fulton Sheen said were the worst things done in U.S. history. On the 50th "Anniversary" of Nagasaki – the center of Catholicism in Japan – I was arrested at a protest with 20 other people including Fr. Daniel Berrigan. We never had to appear in court as charges were dropped. I'll be here…
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“Woman’s healing from incurable disease officially presented as Lourdes’ 72nd miracle”
Beautiful story – hit the link! "During a July 25 press conference, alongside Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes, Father Michel Daubanes, the rector of the Lourdes sanctuary, and Dr. Alessandro de Franciscis, the sanctuary’s permanent doctor, Roca detailed her miraculous healing from Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS), which was attributed to the intercession of…
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Woman with dementia rescued from roof of 4 story building – Poughkeepsie
Happened in Poughkeepsie. Check out the pictures of how they got her down. Too risky to have her climb down the fire escape. But she must have climbed up it, since the building was totally locked. After being unable to gain entry into the locked building, officers climbed the fire escape to get to the…
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Cardinal Dolan responds to mass shooting: “Never get used to violence”
(OSV News) — “We should never get used to violence or lose our respect for the sacredness of human life,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, following a deadly mass shooting in that city that claimed four lives, including that of a New York City police officer. “We are heartbroken by the loss…
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WSJ: Colbert and the End of Late-Night TV – Our common culture has fallen victim to the digital revolution.
Correct – youtube is the most watched television – which is good for Google who owns youtube. The point of this article is the segmenting into niches of so called commentary and comedy programming. People who watch The View don't watch Hannity (A plague on both their houses). People who like Colbert don't care for…
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YIKES! HHS overahuls organ donation system – need to be sure the patient is dead…
Really? This is the sort of abuse people, including some physicians, have been warning about for years. Thanks to AF for sending me this. According to a partially redacted, eight-page report dated May 28, 2025, HHS received “an allegation of potentially preventable harm to a neurologically injured patient.” This prompted the Health Resources and Services…
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The incredibly unfunny “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” gets cancelled
The reason given is financial. Colbert had 24/7 Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), but at least he announced the show ending with some grace. He’s likely to miss his $15 million a year contract. Maybe MSNBC will hire him?