History is funny like that. It does not seem real until you see it more like it was.. in real ways.. in color. As it was to people then. Then it seems real. Very real..
Now, a team of Berkeley-based scientists are suggesting a sort of compromise, and one based on facts and data rather than attempts to smooth over tensions. According to a recent study that will soon be published in Science, researchers suggest that the asteroid impact may have accelerated the volcano explosions, and the combined fallout from both catastrophes may have been what ultimately drove the dinosaurs extinct. It’s even possible that the asteroid impact on its own would not have been powerful enough to wipe out the dinosaurs.
I cannot fathom it being 14 years already since 9/11.. I have my personal memories, some I have shared in public settings, others I have kept very secret.. I have those images forever in my mind.. This morning while hearing news accounts of today’s ceremonies planned in the locations hit by terrorism on September 11, 2001, I realized this: The kids born that year, those who first were welcomed…
There are two schools of thought on Pope Francis. In one corner, the hardcore fans who believe he has assumed the right hand of Christ on earth, people who think his lectures about global warning and poverty are long overdue, and that he is a savior of the modern era.. one that will create a hybrid of heaven on earth and social justice across the planet.
Pope Francis attends a dance presentation during his meeting with the youth in Asuncion, Paraguay, Sunday, July 12, 2015. On his weeklong trip to some of South Americas poorest places, Pope Francis burnished his credentials as a new kind of pontiff, issuing a searing apology for church crimes that are more than half a millennium old and making a pit stop at a Burger King to change clothes and freshen up before celebrating Mass. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
The other camp?
Well, quite frankly, they think he is the antichrist and use lots of information, sometimes clumsily clumped together, as proof. The prophecy of the Popes didn’t help.. Malachi all but said this is “the end,” we are told. And Francis’ decrees seem to fit into the thought process that he is heralding over the end times..one social statement at a time.
The Union League of Philadelphia said Friday it would offer the simple wooden stand for the pontiff to use during his planned speech on immigration and religious liberty.
“Its simple beauty and humble role in one of American history’s most important moments reflects, in many ways, Pope Francis’ own world view,” said Robert Ciaruffoli, president of the World Meeting of Families.
Don’t judge. That wouldn’t be very Catholic of you.
Donald Trump got trashed for diminishing John McCain’s war hero status (then his polls went UP).. But there may have been and either unintended or intended consequence to the brouhaha… Now some are re-looking at some longstanding oddities over McCain and his attempts to conceal some POW related items about Vietnam.. A report worth reading here: https://www.intellihub.com/john-mccain-is-no-war-hero-he-has-covered-up-pows-left-behind-in-vietnam-for-years/