Colin Powell Dead at 84

 

Colin Powell dead. Fully vaxed, still died of Covid. RIP. 

He did not die from the unvaxed. He died of a disease that was developed by China and the CDC.

Instapundit: Kurt Schlichter and remember this?

AoSHQ: Colin Powell dies of Covid complications and Morning Report 10.18.21

Townhall: Colin Powell and the Crisis of the Boomer Elite (read it)

Instapundit: CNN's Hot Take and Colin Powell dies of Covid

PJ Media: Trump inflames media over Powell comments

Legal Insurrection: Powell Dies, Covid Complications

Post Millenial: Fauci Lied, Many Died

Protein Wisdom: Oh

Man-Baby Obama throws another tantrum before leaving office...

AoSHQ: Obama's Impotent Rage

Powerline: Sanctions on Russia: Why Now?

IBD: Obama's attacking Trump, not Russia

I do not trust the Russians either, but why all the interest in Putin and Russia now?  Why didn't Barack Obama act over the last almost eight years he has been in office? Why not act before the election? Because this is all a big nothing.  

Unfortunately we still have 22 days to go until Trump is sworn in.  Obama is upset knowing his legacy is about to be erased (and is mostly a big failure). You think this is bad, just wait for what is coming...

DRUDGE REPORT: Moscow Mocks Obama, Laugh at Weak 'Shallow Brained' Obama, Russian Diplomats Expelled, One Last Slap, and What has Hillary been up to? (Goodbye 2016)  

Instapundit: Trump's Thank You Tour vs. Obama's F-U Tour, Joke of the Year, Priorities, The Last Days of Barack Obama (more hissy fits surely to come), Obama's relationship with Netanyahu hits rock bottomed, how biased against Israel is the UN? (a lot), John Kerry is an idiot (Kerry's Alternative Universe), The Soviet Union's demise 25 years ago (somehow I think Obama would have preferred if the Soviet Union stayed), Anthony Bourdain admits how people like him helped to elect Trump, Election Fraud Nonsense.

Don Surber likes this tweet:

https://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2016/12/california-democrats-vote-to-make-child.html

Legal Insurrection: Barack Obama, you better pardon her just in case... and why do so many Americans cheer when Bibi sticks it to Barack?

EBL: Obama and Kerry: Let's Screw The Jews, Barack Obama celebrates Hanukkah the only way he knows how, and Roam

Lem's Place: Obama kicks out Russians and Not invited to the Syria peace party

DaTechGuy: Obama created Syrian disaster, so it's fitting he's not there to end it

The Last Refuge: Kellyanne Conway discusses 'the Russian' controversy

American Power Blog: Obama sanctions Russians for Hacking

Rush Limbaugh: Guest Host Mark Steyn on the EIB mike

Legal Insurrection: Why didn't Obama act sooner?

Mark Steyn: Speaking as a Man of Views...

TOM: Anti-Semitism Ruins Everything

Hot Air: Obama's Israel Backfire!

AoSHQ: Flash Back 2008

Catholic Church bans Down's Syndrome boy from taking communion?

Denum Ellarby and his mother Clare Ellarby

I am guessing a local parish priest made a big mistake here.  My understanding is you have to understand the sacrament in order to participate in it, and not everyone can have the sacrament.  But to suggest a boy with Down's syndrome cannot take communion is just not the case.  Most Down's syndrome Catholics do in fact take communion.  There is a suggestion by the Yorkshire Evening Post that the parish priest intentionally did not invite Denum to the preparation classes and only when they realized that were they informed he was not ready.  
The Daily Mail reports that:  "The church has denied banning Denum and says it hopes he will be ready to participate  in the important religious ceremony in  the future."  The Catholic Church has done a lot for Down's Syndrome awareness.  If some local officials did make a mistake here (and just from these stories it appears they did), the smart move would be to acknowledge their mistake, correct it, and get in front of this story.  The Catholic Church does so much good with Down's Syndrome, so one priest's mistake should not become a big deal.  This is an opportunity to get the bigger and more important message out.  
Update:  To be fair to the priest, this boy may not be ready at this time for this sacrament.  But if that is the case, then school and church officials should have been very upfront with the family from the start and given some expectations of what would be expected from this boy.  There are also conflicting statements of church officials claiming the boy and his family were not participants in the church; yet the boy attends a Catholic parochial school and his parents claim they have been life long members of the parish.