“The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) despite a decades-old tree-spiking incident that led to GOP opposition to her nomination,” The Hill reported on Thursday, September 30, 2021 (read story here). The vote was 50-45. The[...]
Archive for September 30th, 2021
GOPers tried to block BLM nominee for tree spiking she didn’t commit
Map proves Vikings discovered North America by 1950s
If the famous Vinland Map (pictured below) is an actual Viking map, and that’s a big if, it proves that Vikings discovered North America no later than the mid-1950s. Acquired from an Italian dealer who went to prison for stealing rare manuscripts, and donated to Yale University by a wealthy ph[...]
Threw his life away for what?
I don’t get it. It’s senseless. John T. Earnest, 22, described as “a former nursing student,” will spend his life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooting up a synagogue, the Associated Press reported on Thursday, September 30, 2021 (read story here). The stat[...]
Democrats demand recount after losing baseball game
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GOP turns back on Afghan refugees
The Senate defeated a Republican bill on Thursday that “would have curtailed assistance for thousands of Afghans evacuated last month,” Reuters reported (here). All 50 GOP senators voted to “cut off housing, medical, food and other aid for the resettled Afghans after March 31, 2023[...]
A revered Korean War chaplain returns home
It took him 70 years to return home, but legendary U.S. Army chaplain Fr. Emil Kapaun (read his story here and here) is back in Kansas, where a funeral mass was held for him in Wichita on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 (read story here). Kapaun was one of four Army chaplains captured in the Korean [&[...]