First Lady Jill Biden praised the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Paris that has faced backlash for mocking Christianity as a “spectacular” display. Biden, who led the U.S. delegation to the opening ceremony on Friday, made the comments during a brunch celebrating the fact that the 2028 Olympics are going to be held in Los Angeles. “It was spectacular,” Biden said. “The rain did not dampen our spirits. … Every step of the way, I was thinking to myself, ‘Oh my god, oh my god. How are we going to top this?'” 'IT WAS SPECTACULAR': First lady Jill Biden fawns over Olympics opening ceremony that's received widespread backlash for featuring drag queens making fun of Last Supper. pic.twitter.com/tpcZp4XFOe — Fox News (@FoxNews) July 28, 2024 Biden went on to note how Paris has the Eiffel Tower, but Los Angeles has Hollywood. “The magic of Hollywood that makes all dreams come true,” she said, adding later, “It’s a city where new generations of dreamers shape our culture.” This year’s opening ceremony, which featured a number of acts, drew controversy for including a drag show parody of “The Last Supper” with Jesus Christ, his apostles, and Greek god Dionysus. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said in a post to X that the scene was “shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world who watched the opening ceremony.” C Spire, a tech company based in Mississippi, said that it would be removing ads from the Olympics. “We were shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. C Spire will be pulling our advertising from the Olympics,” the firm said on X. NFL kicker Harrison Butker, who earlier this year suggested President Joe Biden had betrayed his Catholic faith by supporting abortion access, and religious leaders also lashed out. Amid the outrage, according to ESPN, organizers for this summer’s games apologized to Catholics and other Christian groups who took offense. “Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance,” said Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps. She added, “We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense, we are really sorry.” The ceremony’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly, said, “We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together. We wanted to include everyone, as simple as that.”

An elementary school teacher crocheted a miniature version of all the pupils in her class to honor each individually with a personalized gift as the year ended. Sara Shabir started the project in May and presented the tiny lookalikes to her third graders this month when classes ended at Tyndale Community School, in Oxford, England. […] The post Third Grade Teacher Crocheted Mini Versions of Every Student in Her Class for End-of-Year Gift appeared first on Good News Network.

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On CNN’s “State of the Union”, commentator Jamal Simmons got utterly clowned by Scott Jennings, who threw cold water all over the Harris hype that has overtaken the airwaves since President Joe Biden endorsed her to be his successor practically immediately upon withdrawing from the campaign. WATCH as Jennings blows Simmons’ narrative up in a matter of seconds: CNN STATE OF THE UNION 7/28/24 9:43 AM JAKE TAPPER: Where are we right now? JAMAL SIMMONS: Yes.  TAPPER:100 days.  SIMMONS: 100 days out. Listen, the campaign has got a lot to do.  TAPPER: She says she's the underdog. Is she? SIMMONS: I do- of course, he's the underdog. First of all, she's- Donald Trump is still polling a couple of points ahead of her and in most polls is in the 48, 49 range. She's in the 47, 48 range. The campaign is literally building. Someone said this earlier. They're still using Joe Biden dot com email addresses over there, right? They're still figuring out how to get the talking points with the right language. So they've got, like, a lot of work to do to make this whole thing come together. But the plane’s already in the air and the good news is that the people are sort of powering this thing. So you see, you know, 44,000 black women come out and then you see 170,000, almost, white women come out on another phone call and then you see African-American men and Latino- like, this thing is growing in a kind of organic way that I don't think many of us who were watching it expected that kind of energy. SCOTT JENNINGS: They're still using Joe Biden dot com emails because there's still using Joe Biden dot com policies over there. 65% of the American people disapprove of these policies. She's never going to be able to shake off Joe Biden dot com whether they have the emails or not, and the only thing you're celebrating this week is some amount of base consolidation. But if you look at where Donald Trump is today versus where he was in 2020: underdog? Yeah, that’s one way to look at it. As is the case in the immediate aftermath of a fireworks show, we are still in that hazy afterglow phase wherein everyone oohs and aahs over the show, before the smoke clears. Such is the case of a Regime Media and related commentariat, bent on celebrating and protecting its new figurehead before last week’s smoke has fully cleared. Jennings cut through the noise this time. But expect much more nonsense, and smoke, in the days and weeks ahead.

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A new study reveals that the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan, Mexico, marks the astronomical orientation axis of the ancient city. The research team, coordinated by Ismael Arturo Montero García, has verified that the vertices of the pyramid align to the northeast with the summer solstice sunrise and to the southwest with the winter solstice sunset. This groundbreaking discovery suggests that the Teotihuacans intentionally designed the city to highlight these significant solar events. The archaeoastronomy specialists from the University of Tepeyac (UT) and the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) found that on the longest day of the year, the sun rises over the Xihuingo volcano, which functioned as an observatory to calibrate the calendar, and sets behind Maninal Hill to the west, states an INAH report. This alignment indicates the Teotihuacans' advanced understanding of celestial mechanics and their integration of natural landscape features into their urban planning. The Pyramid of the Moon, located at the end of the Causeway of the Dead, served as the focal point of this astronomical axis. Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyAncient PlacesAmericasRead Later 

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