Sunday, June 18, 2023

And the Rest of It

Rest assured that the Supreme Court moves as the government does.

Bringing in thousands of people one cannot house will, eventually, make the taxpaying population grumpy.

And now here we are:

Canada’s Supreme Court said Friday the agreement between Canada and the U.S. that stipulates asylum seekers must seek refugee status in the first “safe” country they reach is constitutional.

 

This deadbeat Canada:

In a shocking and embarrassing development, the Department of National Defence said that “while the Royal Canadian Air Force remains ready to deploy NATO-committed assets as required,” it was unable to accept Germany’s invitation for Canadian aircraft to participate because “many of our aircraft and personnel are currently committed to modernization activities such as the Hornet Extension Project … and training new and existing fighter pilots and technicians as part of our ongoing reconstitution efforts.”

In other words, the Air Force would appreciate it if Russia were to refrain from instigating a fight at this time because the fleet is up on bricks.

 

No wonder people don't like Justin:

 

 

It is important that this movie is released in theatres not just so that people can be aware of what is going on - 

(Sidebar: not that movies should be a single source of news.)

- but that we question why such a film is not getting a wider release:

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Sound of Freedom will be released across the U.S. on July 4. Produced by Catholic human rights activist Eduardo Verástegui, it is based on the life of Tim Ballard, a former CIA agent who founded Operation Underground Railroad in 2013 to root out trafficking efforts across the world. 

During an interview with Steve Bannon last month, Caviezel cryptically remarked that the film essentially depicts real-life events. “Epstein Island isn’t the only island out there where they have … children,” he said.



How strange:

Pope Francis has ordered Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the private secretary and long-time aide of the late Pope Benedict, to return to his native Germany by the end of the month without any new assignment, the Vatican said on Thursday.

A Vatican statement put an end speculation about what role Gaenswein, a powerful figure in the Vatican for more than a decade before Francis sidelined him after a personal falling out, would have in the Church.

Former Pope Benedict died on Dec. 31, nearly a decade after he resigned in 2013, the first pontiff to do so in 600 years.

Gaenswein is 66 and it is exceptionally unusual for someone of that relatively young age and rank not to have an assignment, giving the pope's decision a sense of banishment.

The two-line statement said Francis "had disposed" that the 66-year-old Gaenswein return to his diocese of Freiburg "for the time being".

 

 

Tis Excalibur:

A bronze sword more than 3,000 years old , which is so well-preserved that it “almost still shines”, has been unearthed in southern Germany, officials say.

The Bavarian state office for the preservation of historical monuments (BLfD) said the sword, which is believed to date back to the end of the 14th century BC — the middle of the bronze age — was found during excavations last week in Nördlingen, between Nuremberg and Stuttgart.

The sword has an octagonal hilt and comes from a grave in which three people – a man, a woman and a boy – were buried in quick succession with bronze objects, the BLfD said this week. It was not yet clear whether the three were related to each other and, if so, how.

Slightly oxidised bronze sword

 


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