Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven...

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,

    whose sin is covered.

Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,

    and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away

    through my groaning all day long.

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;

    my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. 

I acknowledged my sin to you,

    and I did not cover my iniquity;

I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”

    and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. 

           -Psalm 32:1-5

The grandest fact under heaven is this—that Christ by his precious blood does actually put away sin, and that God, for Christ’s sake, dealing with men on terms of divine mercy, forgives the guilty and justifies them, not according to anything that he sees in them or foresees will be in them, but according to the riches of his mercy which lie in his own heart.  -CH Spurgeon

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Nepal-Tibet flood live updates: Rescue efforts resume after being halted over fears of renewed flooding   At least 579 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 are missing, Nepal police said. The State Department says 90 Americans are unaccounted for in Nepal and China.

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All a Bunch of Cheats 

Even in not very holy societies, religious values can permeate the people. One does not have to be a religiously observant person to know not to steal, not to lie, not to mistreat others. But as we move generation after generation away from religious foundations and into some type of moral relativism, society loses its trust and becomes reactive. Some professors asked college students a while back about morality, and most said that it was each to his own.

Former worker at Arkansas county clerk's office gets suspended sentence for altering voter records  

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A Top FBI Official's Remarks About Running a Secret Government Are Now More Chilling  Piece it all together, and the FBI was turned into a political police force for liberal America. It started in 2015, accelerated during the 2016 election, and progressed like a cancer since then. It shielded the Clinton and Biden families, let Swalwell’s peculiar intersects with Fang Fang slide, and then went all-out to destroy Donald Trump.

FBI Followed Catholic Priests, Continued Richmond Memo Work After Removal Order: DOJ Report Finds   A new Justice Department report reveals that FBI personnel opened investigations into two Catholic priests, conducted surveillance tied to the Richmond Catholic Memo, and continued revising the memo after headquarters ordered it deleted.

Satanic ritual abortion filmed inside Hobby Lobby 

 Satanic Planet, a “band” of the co-founder of The Satanic Temple, released Wednesday a “music” video featuring a woman performing a satanic ritual abortion inside a Hobby Lobby bathroom.

   The disturbing video shows a tattooed woman, Martina Rinaldi, walking into a Hobby Lobby store and alternates the footage with snapshots of store items referencing Jesus for dramatic effect. Satanic screams from the band of TST co-founder Lucien Greaves blare in the background.

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Trump Called It: X Uncovers Massive Chinese Bot Farm Targeting U.S. Data Centers  According to X, about 200 accounts within the bot farm network were posting claims that data centers drive up household electricity prices and put excessive strain on the power grid. Some of the accounts, ironically, posted AI-generated cartoons depicting data center operators getting rich while ordinary American citizens were stuck paying the bill.

Trump Says He’d ‘Absolutely’ Ban Sharia 

If Sharia were simply benign religious law, these Sharia courts would be no problem. But to take just one of the many ways in which Sharia and Western law contradict one another, the Qur’an directs men to “beat” women “from whom you fear disobedience.” (4:34)

Swarm of 700 AI bots went rogue in hacking attack 

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, revealed last month that a rogue bot had broken out of its IT system to gain internet access as it attempted to steal the answers to a test it was asked to complete.

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Canada Conservatives Push Back on Carney’s Economic War with U.S. Smith pointed out that Canada lacks the strategic oil reserves of the United States, so putting heavy tariffs on Canadian oil would “bring the economies of Ontario and Quebec to a grinding halt.”

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation tells staff not to refer to 9/11 as terror attacks in coverage  

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Former inmate says male prisoners are getting ‘bottom surgery’ to stay in women’s prison     As Warmbo explained, once biological male inmates have sex-change surgeries, they’ll likely remain at Shakopee.

   “They’re doing this because they’re afraid that when these new laws go into effect that they’re gonna get sent back to men’s prison. So they’re doing this so that they can guarantee that they can stay in a women’s prison,” Warmbo said, referring to the federal push to protect women’s spaces.

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