Musical Interlude; OK, it's almost New Year's Eve....oh my. It's been a hell of a year. But I love this peppy paean to the turning of the year, and it has the perfect optimistic spirit we need right now.

"We'll All Meet Up Next Year," performed by Deirdre Flint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4CJZEl-ANk

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We’ll All Meet Up Next Year (A New Year’s Song)

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The Iranian inventor that invented the floating shoes, has now built a propeller-less propulsion system ideal for flying taxis

Mohsen Bahmani is an Iranian-born mechanical engineer and a man with a dream. When he was just 17 years old, he made a pair of floating shoes that ...

It's Bryan Ferry's birthday today.

He's 80.

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#HolyCrap Trump email asked for donations so he could 'get to heaven' | Snopes.com

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fundraising-email-heaven/

Trump email asked for donations so he could 'get to heaven'

In the email, Trump said God saved him during the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, and asked supporters for $15 donations.

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#holycrap New Texas law will require Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/texas-ten-commandments-law-3f1ea84acd67a028ad9b7c01c3c2368c

New Texas law will require Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom

Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new state law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate. The measure is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state. Two other states, Louisiana and Arkansas, have similar laws. Louisiana’s is on hold as federal courts have ruled it unconstitutional. The Ten Commandments laws are among efforts in conservative-led states to insert religion into public schools.

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Southern Baptists overwhelmingly call for ban on gay marriage

Southern Baptist delegates at their national meeting overwhelmingly endorsed banning same-sex marriage — including a call for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide. They also called for legislators to curtail sports betting and to support policies that promote childbearing. The votes came at the gathering of more than 10,000 church representatives at the annual meeting of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. A proposed resolution says legislators have a duty to “pass laws that reflect the truth of creation and natural law — about marriage, sex, human life, and family” and to oppose laws contradicting “what God has made plain through nature and Scripture.”

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#holycrap Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for ‘anti-Christian bias’ | Trump administration | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/veterans-affairs-anti-christian-bias

Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for ‘anti-Christian bias’

New taskforce demands names in rooting out ‘policies, procedures … or understandings hostile to Christian views’

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#holycrap Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for ‘anti-Christian bias’ | Trump administration | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/veterans-affairs-anti-christian-bias

Veterans affairs agency orders staff to report each other for ‘anti-Christian bias’

New taskforce demands names in rooting out ‘policies, procedures … or understandings hostile to Christian views’

The Guardian
House passes bill requiring Ten Commandments in schools

The bill would require displays in all K-12 classrooms that teach history.

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