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Yeah, my father who was somewhat religious was also a scientist.
I once asked him how he reconciled the two, being a man of science and believing in religion.
He replied that either you have faith or you don't. He did, and believed there were rational explanations:
https://dottolife.com/10-biblical-miracles-explained-by-science/
I don't and think it's all kind of convoluted By biblical standards, we're bombarded with miracles every day, many on par with biblical achievements. But we don't create religions around them, willy nilly, they're just sort of somewhat believable, or not, stories, it's all the same to us, in our information saturated lives.
Ok, no, I misread, you have the Right Guy. If that's what you want to call the Supreme Being.
Yes, the USPS guy's continuing employment is a mystery - slower mail delivery that will cost more, what's not to like. And this:
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2022/02/louis-dejoys-usps-buys-fleet-of-gas-guzzling-trucks-despite-biden-order-not-to/
If anyone who worked for Trump, in government, showed the slightest bit of competence, I'm unaware.
Hah! I do feel sorry for the young women of TikTok, who apparently have nothing more going for them than a hot body and tiny bathing suits. I mean that counts for something, of course, but still.
Funny dad you got there.
Where's that moron who posted the picture of a baby in celebration of the Roe decision?
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/07/01/ohio-girl-10-among-patients-going-indiana-abortion/7788415001/
Good last line!
Never having studied the New Testament, I was unaware until a couple of years ago that Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding reception. It was a party trick and it's likely that there are a bunch of magicians working in Las Vegas that can do that on a nightly basis. Chris Angel even walked on water:
https://techjourney.net/criss-angel-walks-on-water-magic-tricks/
Back to the talking burning bush and putting aside the possible recreational drug effect aspect. It's no less unbelievable than parts of a lot of super hero comic book adventures. You have to wonder how some of those ancient, Biblical miracles would be regarded if they happened in the past few years.
The idea of being born in sin kind of puts you behind the eight ball right from the get go.
Schools would be better off making kids read from the various Marvel Comics books. And then studying the interpretations of them by the sages.
The only thing that's going to finally sever GOP fealty to Trump is when he stops being able to continue delivering votes. If his anointed ones continue to do poorly at the polls his relevance is over.
They were out of control, crazy, things that Hutchinson exposed, but who is actually surprised by them? The media play at needing smelling salts, at being shocked, I'll tell you, shocked, but no one is.
Making little kids pray 4 or 5 times a day should be considered a type of child abuse.
The more wealthy Texans are going to start loving some Mexican abortion clinics.
I think you might be giving the Republicans of the past a break. Think Nixon (and Agnew), both Bushes, and Reagan - I believe a case can be made that they were also, "complete Fucking POS assholes". Throw in Cheney, Rumsfeld, Erlichman, Haldeman and I rest my case.
And it's better for them, too.
A quicker reply? From that author? Good one.
I read about 1/2 of it, skimmed the rest, life is short.
There was no mention of anyone else's religion. What is gained by referencing Maddoff's, how does it add to your understanding of the piece? Would he not be in jail for the same crime with the same sentence if he were Catholic, say? Does religion play a role in prosecution and sentencing?
And, what I did was not cherrypicking.
It was a theory, a hypothesis, not an accurate comment.
The point is that, whether anyone is or is not Jewish in this context is irrelevant. Did they mention the religion of anyone else in the piece?
It was a stupid comment.
A quote about this, apparently unknown to the author
"The wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine"
It cracks me up that all of these armchair quarterbacks know that justice should have already been served, that it's exceeding the allotted time. My money's on Letitia James, anyone who doubts her isn't paying attention.
I guess this is the problem with a 24/7 news cycle and the internets. Everyone has to produce content continuously to keep the clicks coming. One thing for sure, Stonekettle should figure out a more streamlined presentation.
"If Trump was a Jew who scammed a bunch of people out of their money, he'd be in prison next to Bernie Madoff." A Hall of Fame stupid comment.
Vaccines make a huge difference. Haven't heard any reports of portable morgues parked in the street outside hospitals since they became available.
And the cases we do hear about seem to have much milder effects. You can still catch covid if you're vaccinated, as you did, but you aren't going to die.
I've heard, anecdotally, about people who didn't even feel sick when they tested positive, thanks, also, to the vaccines and boosters.
It's weird how the anti-vaxxers won't get one for covid, but are fine with the ones for polio, smallpox, tetanus, et al.
How can she really be a conservative if she's backed Trump 97% of the time and Trump "has nothing to do with conservatism."? That's trying to shove a round peg into a square hole.
The Democratic party has become the old Republican party. Nelson Rockefeller and Jacob Javits and George Romney would be right at home as Democrats, now. We need a new, more liberal, saner, party to become the new Democratic party, call them whatever.
Maybe the parties will flip again as they did after the Civil War when Republicans became Democrats and vice versa. Not in name but in principles.
Why does he talk so fast, it doesn't make him less irrelevant.
At this point I'd rather hear the opinions of Elton Brand over Russell.
No. She supported Trump at almost every turn:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/liz-cheney-defends-pro-trump-bona-fides-377783
The types of conservatives you used to remember were nothing like this.
She threw her own sister under the bus in pursuit of a seat in the Senate:
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-liz-cheney-gay-marriage-20131118-story.html
(also, see the movie, Vice)
How can anyone raised, in part, by Dick Cheney, have any sort of acceptable moral core?
She's doing the right thing now and I applaud her for it, but let's not get carried away, please.
And yet we do and it's popular.
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/meals-menus/g37103321/chicken-pasta-recipes/
What culture looks down on it? Not sure I've been anywhere that I've seen that it's verboten.
Tofu was meant to be a separate issue, I'm a fan, but, also, not in pasta. If you don't like tofu, I'd suggest you take it up with some Chines-style cooks.
I remember feeling very weird in elementary school, being made to sing Christmas carols about Lord Jesus and whatever
I think Jewish kids think the Old Testament is the Bible, and fortunately I never had to sit through school bible readings of any kind.
Children, you must love country and God, every day, multiple times a day, or you will be punished!
Maybe they should ask kids if they want prayer in schools, maybe they enjoy the respite from praying.
Yes, to pasta and protein (and tofu, too, actually)
Sure, we feel the sublime in nature, in art, in love, in a great meal, and whatever all to whomever all.
Not sure about that, but they are about to try to get rid of contraception:
https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article262988028.html?scrolltoken=41JMBxQU0QKv0myavdjSgivTk1EoYtYvBp9HC-ui1Tl9SpD9xV76pCNyUgd5MPx7JtkQ37gN-faD5b-EKZ_qxTx8R_JiLtiu_GgUXd_jX1IOfJ2t4jtYeORKTeDNfhHAQhPdoO8nO-kkCvtGNPbKVjr10fl6hkbFrJ5eN_LK3X2kMxQAeZYIntkOcG4HjSiPTdB2KypSZ1YuGbE0WJtQ4zpb2VrM6aA6.eyJraWQiOiIzIn0
It ain't us, bro.
Your assertion, without any proof, has caused the deaths and miseries of countless people throughout the ages.
Unless, of course, you believe that a burning bush talked to some guy thousands of years ago and that just about proves it.
(Rev. Green's version of the song is the standard, in my opinion)
Yes, this is the basis of the lawsuit coming out of Florida.
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20220628-synagogue-sues-florida-over-abortion-limits-a-possible-template-for-future-challenges
We'll find out just who gets religious freedom around here.
Yes, but I'm afraid that soon the public will be popping for tuition for religious schools.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-backs-public-money-religious-schools-maine-case-2022-06-21/
You have to wonder what happened to America. Maybe we've had the wrong idea all along?
Observant Muslims pray 5 times a day.
https://muslimversity.com/how-many-times-a-day-do-muslims-pray/
I went to public school from K-12 and don't think we did the Lord's Prayer, but we might have early on, I can't remember. Definitely no bible reading for us but the Pledge of Allegiance every day.
I guess, according to the conservatives, that school children must be mandated to pledge allegiance to God and country every day. Weird, isn't it? I suppose that makes for good underpaid factory workers who won't question their situations.
I really don't understand the prayer in school thing. You can pray before you go to school, maybe at 7:30 a.m.? Then you can pray again as soon as school gets out at about 3 p.m. So that would be about 7 1/2 hours between prayer sessions. Is that not enough times for that portion of the day for a child? Then you can, of course, pray at dinner time and before bed which would make 4 times a day.
How many times a day should elementary age school children be praying, anyway? Do they really need that 5th time during school hours?
Or maybe schools can have little prayer rooms set aside. So when that troubled 3rd grader is in desperate need to pray at lunch time, they would have a private place in the school for prayers to tide them over until 3.
I was just throwing an idea out there, just because you chose to research it does not mean that I should have.
You chose to do it and I chose not to, free choice was exercised by both of us and either option is legit.
No harm, no foul.
Is anyone questioning her truthfulness? That's rhetorical, I'm sure there are, we seem to be hitting new lows in political ethics on a daily basis.
Watched most of it, both riveting and depressing. It seems the plot to overthrow the election results, our government, was more involved than previously known.
Loved the descriptions of Meadows, while the riot was going on, sitting on a couch fiddling with his phone, unwilling to take action, Trump trying to choke the Secret Service guy, him knowing the rioters were armed and not caring. It's even made headlines at Fox.com.
Both Stone and Flynn are in increasingly deep doo doo. It took Flynn 1 1/2 minutes to answer the question about whether the violence at the riot was justified and then he took the Fifth!
It's as if you don't understand the quote you posted (in fact, I'd bet on that).
Regardless, who cares what Hamilton thought in the 18th century? Times change and so do conditions, otherwise a few of us might be chattel slaves.
Could women vote in Hamilton's time? Let's go back to Plato's Republic and govern ourselves by its stipulations, why don't we?
Can abortion clinics be set up on Indian tribal lands throughout the country?
With their permission, of course.
Not an expert, by a long shot, but I'm under the impression that they govern themselves on their own land via what's called "tribal sovereignty".
Rudy lies some more:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/27/2106750/-Rudy-Rudy-Rudy
If the man's lips are moving, lies are coming out. A truly bad mayor, too.
It's truly amazing that conservative columnists like Rubin and Boot are expressing unhappiness about the turn of events.
I guess the ruling class in a theocracy doesn't need to give a shit about what the majority wants.
What's next, that high school age girls can no longer go to school?
In that case, let the mass sterilizations begin!
Hah!
And that guy's a conservative columnist, too.
I can trace back to John Calhoun, a former VP and Senator from SC, the concept that hard core capitalists have felt that democracy is incompatible with capitalism. That is, they're not in favor of majority rule, as was the case, obviously, with slavery.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/12/how-capitalism-is-killing-democracy/
While there are some relatively enlightened 1%ers like Buffett and Gates and Cuban and Bloomberg (sometimes), there are others like Murdoch and Thiel and Koch and Mercer and Musk who seem to be actively working to curtail rights traditionally associated with
democracies.
I haven't included Trump because everyone knows that he clearly isn't an actual billionaire.
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/mobilized_contention/files/merkel_-_is_capitalism_compatible_with_democracy.pdf