
Brethren,
Please be in prayer for Brother Bill (William Oldham) and his family. His youngest son, John, is in hospice care. He has been battling cancer for a long time. John loves the Lord and knows that he will be in heaven when he leaves this earth.
Thank you for your prayers for Brother Bill and all of his family at this time.
Blessings in Jesus,
Geri
From westernjournal.com
Vice President Kamala Harris might have been trying to act tough, but she was really tipping the Biden administration’s hand.
In an interview that aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Harris was clearly aiming to up the pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stay Israel’s hand on a pending military operation in its war against the terrorist group Hamas.
But in the process, she blurted out the real truth about the Israel-Hamas war that the Biden administration and the establishment media are ignoring.
The foot-in-mouth vice president was discussing the prospect of an Israeli invasion of Rafah, a city at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip where Hamas terrorists remain holed up.
Harris, like President Joe Biden, claimed an operation against Hamas will lead to Palestinian civilian casualties, which they consider unacceptable. (It would be nice if Hamas considered casualties among Palestinian civilians, women and children, as something to be avoided.)
“We have been clear … in every way,” Harris told ABC’s Rachel Scott, “that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake.
“Let me tell you something. I have studied the maps,” Harris said. “There’s nowhere for those folks to go.”In this case, studying the maps might have shown here that there is, in fact, somewhere “for those folks to go.” It’s that large land mass just to the west — called “Egypt.” (Maybe the vice president has heard of it in a briefing here or there?)

But the fact of the matter is, Egypt, like Jordan to the east, wants no partof a Palestinian immigration influx. (Those Egyptians are touchier about their border sovereignty than the Biden administration, clearly.)
That’s because the Egyptian government knows all too well how dangerous Islamist terrorist organizations are. It’s a government that’s fighting its own brand of Islamist extremism, as Business Insider reported in October.
“Since 2011, the Egyptian military and police have battled ISIS-affiliated militants. The fear is that incoming Hamas militants could bring further instability to the region,” the article noted.
It explained that Egyptian strongman/President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi “views Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, suspiciously, with Cairo considering it a potential security threat.”
It’s also because the “human rights” that are part of the Western world’s way of thinking don’t have the same cachet when it comes to Arab governments — unless it’s a cudgel to bash Israel.
(As an unidentified Egyptian official told an unidentified European diplomat in October, according to the Financial Times, “You want us to take 1 million people? Well, I am going to send them to Europe. You care about human rights so much — well you take them.”)
But the Biden administration doesn’t make a show of pressuring Egypt to take on the role of assisting Palestinian refugees. Obsessed with the domestic political problem that terrorist-supporting Democrats will endanger his chances of re-election, President Joe Biden reserves his public fury, his insulting “come-to-Jesus”-style comments, for Netanyahu alone.
So Vice President Harris can study maps of the area surrounding Rafah all she wants, but that huge area on the left side of the map, with a country that starts with an “E,” apparently won’t penetrate her brain.
Because if it did, the Biden administration might have to start talking and acting like Israel is the only real victim of unprovoked violence in this war, and that its neighbors also have a responsibility to see that civilian Palestinians have a safe refuge from Israel’s more-than-justifiedmilitary attack on Hamas.
That won’t fit the leftist worldview that dominates the Democratic Party in 2024, and it doesn’t suit the hopes of Biden and Harris to remain in the White House after January 2025, but it’s the truth that’s driving American foreign policy.
Naturally, there were plenty of social media users commenting on Harris’ “studied the maps” remark.
And they weren’t favorable.
“There’s nowhere for them to go” why is there nowhere for them to go Kamala? WHY? Falling right into the trap. Rewarding Hamas and its ilk for setting up the population this way. Why can’t she just ask the president of Mexico I mean Egypt to let them pass through?— Becca (@BeccaBsarro) March 24, 202
It’s sadder that the foreign policy is being confronted with a clear choice between the evil of murderous terrorists against the good of a democratic ally, and the Biden administration is making the wrong decision based purely on its misguided — if not deranged — voting base.
And maybe the saddest part of all is that it’s an administration that can tell the truth — only by accident. source
From theepochtimes.com
Researchers reported results in a new study
Toddlers and other young children faced a higher risk of seizures shortly after COVID-19 vaccination, according to a new study from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) researchers.
The incidence of febrile seizures was 2.5 times higher among children within a day after receiving a Moderna shot than among the same children eight to 63 days after vaccination, the researchers said.
There was also a higher risk for febrile seizures zero to one day after receipt of a Pfizer-BioNTech dose than in the 8–63 day window following vaccination, but that elevated risk was not statistically significant.
Richard Forshee, deputy director of the FDA’s Office of Biostatistics and Pharmacovigilance, and other researchers conducted the self-controlled case series by analyzing data from commercial databases. The data came from CVS Health, Optum, and Carelon Research. The children were 2 to 5 years old.
Fever is a common side effect of the COVID-19 vaccines. Some 19 percent of children aged 2 to 3, for instance, in Pfizer’s clinical trial suffered fever after a second dose. Fever may result in some cases in seizures, health officials said.
The two-day window used in the new study ensures that the seizure cases “are more likely to be associated with vaccination rather than other causes,” the researchers said.
There were 88 febrile seizures after the Pfizer vaccination among the study population. Seven of those cases happened the day of or the day after vaccination.
There were 67 cases after the Moderna vaccination. Ten happened in the two-day window.
Seizures that happened two to seven days after vaccination were excluded from the primary analysis.
In a secondary analysis, using a longer risk interval within seven days of vaccination, researchers identified 103 febrile seizures and 135 seizures/convulsions after Pfizer vaccination, including 22 febrile seizures and 32 seizures/convulsions within seven days of a shot. The secondary analysis showed 78 febrile seizures and 106 seizures/convulsions after Moderna vaccination, including 21 febrile seizures and 28 seizures/convulsions in the longer risk interval.
No statistically significant findings showed up for that secondary analysis, or any other secondary analyses, after researchers applied adjustments to the data.
Exclusions included children who received more doses than approved. Researchers analyzed data from the Carelon database from June 2022 to February 2023, from June 2022 to March 2023 from the CVS database, and from June 2022 to May 2023 in the Optum database.
The FDA authorized new versions of vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax in late 2023, relying on clinical trial data from just 50 humans. Those currently available versions are not covered by the research.
The FDA funded the new study. Limitations of the research included the small number of cases, according to the researchers.
Dr. Harvey Risch, professor emeritus of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, who was not involved in the research, agreed. “These small numbers are not large enough for a reliable statistical analysis, which makes the paper scientifically weak,” Dr. Risch told The Epoch Times in an email.
The corresponding author, Mr. Forshee, did not respond to a request for comment. The FDA declined to comment. Moderna and Pfizer did not return inquiries.
Despite the finding of elevated risk, the researchers claimed that “based on the current body of scientific evidence, the safety profile of the monovalent mRNA vaccines remains favorable for use in young children.” source