Federal prosecutors have offered Charlottesville-area socialite Eleanor Hoppe a plea deal that would put the former judge’s wife behind bars for roughly 11 years.

Hoppe, the 35-year-old ex-wife of federal magistrate Judge Joel Hoppe, has been jailed for a year, accused of transmitting child pornography and plotting to molest a little girl. Eleanor Hoppe was arrested in March of 2023 at a Warrenton motel where, the prosecution alleges, she was prepared to violate a girl with her father’s consent.

Born Eleanor Beaumont Hunton, the defendant is a scion of the family that founded Richmond’s largest law firm, Hunton Andrews Kurth. Educated at St. Catherine’s, a private school for girls in Richmond, Eleanor Hoppe later attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Probably not. Genesis 7:

1 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,

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Those were the first mentions of clean and unclean animals. There were no definitions until Moses (Leviticus 11). Probably, only clean animals were allowed to be offered as sacrifices. If Moses had penned those words in Gen, he probably used the definitions in Lev.

Genesis 9:

3 Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

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God gave Noah clean animals for food. That's probably what Moses meant.

Hey, I have been pondering something- why does God use people? There is an answer, A good reason! I have been seeking God for the answer! If it does come I think it will be mind-blowing! I may have the answer. God has been using people from the very beginning! God uses people because He put mankind in charge of the earth, He gave mankind dominion over the earth, it is man's responsibility that the will of God is done on the earth. God does nothing on the earth without man's invitation, prayer. The earth belongs to God, but God has given man stewardship over the earth until Christ returns! There is a scripture- "Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"-Luke 18:8 The bible says it is impossible to please God without faith. So this scripture means "will God be pleased with what man has done with His creation when He returns"? The Master of the house is away, on a journey, but He is coming back! He is going to repay his stewards what is due to each one for what they did with His property when He was gone!

I have had some sort of virus for a couple weeks now. I think I have hit the peak of it now. Yesterday I lost my voice while teaching. That was an adventure- trying to teach 27 first graders while being unable to speak above a whisper! I came home just feeling awful and my husband told me to go to bed because he could handle things. I knew it wasn't that simple, but I went to bed anyway.

A few minutes later, all 3 children were in my room taking off with things and climbing on me. Husband finally took them out and I fell asleep.

I woke up this morning still feeling terribly. I stumbled into the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee. There were dishes in the sink and on the table. I sat down with my coffee and couldn't stop coughing, so I finally agreed to take a sick day. My kids woke up screeching as usual, through the pounding in my head. I started working on sub plans, but all my school things are at work because I was fully prepped for today so I had to figure out all my school passwords. As I am writing my sub plans, my daughter climbed up next to me with her xylophone and started banging on the computer mouse. I decided to feed the kids breakfast and go back to sub plans, at which point my 4 year old emptied my pantry all over the kitchen floor. I then realized that the boys still needed their lunches packed for the day, so I finished my lesson plans and packed lunches... while my son had his cereal all over the table and floor. Then it was time to get dressed... I found a uniform shirt for my older son in the dryer and told my 4 yr old to get dressed. Once I found clothes for myself, I came out to find my 4 yr old still running around in his underwear. I couldn't find my glasses anywhere. Turned out my daughter had taken off with them, and they were in a pile of laundry.

We made it out the door and the boys are at school for the day. My daughter emptied my checkbook, and followed me to the bathroom, a which time she stood on the stool and sucked on the toothpaste. We stacked blocks for a while. I can't speak to her very much, but at least she thinks it's a game.

Nathan told David (New Living Translation) 2 Samuel 12:

9 "Why, then, have you despised the word of the LORD and done this horrible deed? For you have murdered Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the Ammonites and stolen his wife."

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Then David repented and received forgiveness from God.

13 Then David confessed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.”
Nathan replied, “Yes, but the LORD has forgiven you, and you won’t die for this sin.

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The Lord forgave David. He wouldn't die. But there were other consequences.

14 Nevertheless, because you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORDa by doing this, your child will die.”

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Whether or not you have been forgiven, you may still be disciplined.
Whether or not you have repented, you may still be chastised.

This world is a testing ground for everyone.

Hebrews 12:

7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?

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Former president Donald Trump’s push to get the Nebraska legislature to change the way it awards electoral votes faced a major setback Wednesday night, when lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to prevent the change from being attached to an unrelated bill.

Nebraska is one of only two states that divide electoral votes among statewide and congressional district winners, which allowed Joe Bidento pick off an electoral vote in the red state in 2020 by carrying a swing district in the Omaha area. But Gov. Jim Pillen (R) and Trump on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to return the state to a winner-take-all system, possibly upending the final days of the state’s legislative session, which ends April 18.

The sponsor of the winner-take-all proposal has said he does not have the votes to overcome a filibuster [if it gets attached to some other future bill], but Trump’s intervention has raised speculation that Republicans could regroup.

“Ultimately, the Nebraska legislature does not legislate in response to tweets from anyone,” Cavanaugh [D] said earlier in the day.

He tweeted the cover art yesterday which was the first I heard about the book, but it seems very appropriate for our time and I hope it at least gives Catholics comfort in how to live in such times if not solutions to push back and help correct it.

I dropped a hint to my wife today that I'd like it for my birthday in a few weeks, and by dropped a hint I said "I'd like this for my birthday".






I like that in the blurb he calls out Fr James Martin too, heh.

Ever since my psychiatrist switched my meds around a few weeks ago ive been constantly attacked by the Devil to think and declare in my mind super unholy thoughts and declarations often times without even thinking about them.. Thoughts and sayings so terrible that im afraid to repeat them in fact, for like 2 hours last night he kept just placing "Satan!!" Into my mind sendings intense waves of fear thoughout my body. This also includes calling the holy spirit the devil and things like that? I'm SO afraid to even repeat half of these because they're just do terrifying and if i declare one of them i will never be able to again be restored to the Holy Spirit.

As some of you might recall I had similar issues in the past and then most of it went away for years. But now, Satan just won't leave me alone and this is the largest trial of my life yet for more ways than this one. I see my psychiatrist again in the end of April but I'm just terrified that I've lost my salvation because I said and thought things that I normally would. IM TRYING TO RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE IS JUST WINNING!

All of the Holy Spirits joy, peace, and presence is gone and I just need assurance that everything is going to be OK. Because, I sure don't feel ok.

When we receive Jesus Christ into our hearts and lives to be Savior and Lord of our lives, we should understand that he is absolutely in control of our destiny. Nothing will happen to us but he has allowed it, and he has allowed it for a purpose in our lives, and for his glory. It does not mean we will not ever feel fear (the emotion), but that we have no reason to ever give way to fear to where we allow it to control our lives and our choices in life. Jesus may not rescue us from all our circumstances, but he will always be there to bring us safely (spiritually) through them.

Hear my Voice

An Original Work / July 9, 2012
Based off Psalm 27

The Lord is my great salvation.
He’s the stronghold of my life.
When my enemies attack me,
My heart will not fear at all.
Though a war break out against me,
Confident in Christ I’ll be.
Of the Lord, I ask that I may
Live with Him eternally.

Hear my voice, Lord, when I call you.
Merciful to me You’ll be.
Though my relatives forsake me,
My Lord God will receive me.
Teach me Your way, O my Jesus.
Lead me in Your righteousness.
I will sacrifice to my Lord.
I will sing with joyfulness.

I am confident that I will
See the goodness of the Lord.
All the richness of His blessings,
My Lord has for me in store.
He asks me to be of courage;
To be strong and to take heart,
Patiently as I wait for Him,
And from Him to ne’er depart.

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If our faith in Jesus Christ is genuine God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, and which is not a result of our own fleshly works, it should result in us no longer walking (in conduct, in practice) in sin. We should no longer be those who are following the course of this sinful world, following the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

We should no longer be those who are walking (in conduct, in practice) in sin but who are now walking in holiness and in righteousness and in walks of obedience to our Lord and to his commands. And we should no longer be among those who are living in the passions of their flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, who are by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. All this is to be in our past, not part of our present reality.

Sin should no longer have mastery over our lives to where we obey its sinful desires. For if sin is what we obey, and not righteousness, and not obedience to our Lord and to his New Covenant commands, it will lead to death, not to life eternal. But if obedience to our Lord is what we obey, it leads to righteousness and to sanctification, and its end is eternal life. For we died with Christ to sin that we might live to his righteousness (Romans 6:1-23).

For God, who is rich in mercy, sent his only begotten Son Jesus Christ to the earth to ultimately become our sacrifice for the sins of the world. For in his death, he who knew no sin became sin for us on that cross in order that we might become the righteousness of God, i.e. in order that we might die with him to sin and live to his righteousness (1 Peter 2:24). And in his death he redeemed us out of slavery to sin so we will honor God with our bodies.

And the grace of God, which is saving us from our slavery to sin, is training us now to renounce (say “No!” to) ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s soon return. For Jesus Christ gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works (see Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10).

And all the promises of God in the Scriptures written for the benefit of those who have died with Christ to sin and who are living to his righteousness in walks of holiness and in obedience to his commands, in practice, are ours to claim if indeed we have died with Christ to sin and we are now living to his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. So these promises are not for the professers of faith who are still walking in sin.

And then this is critical that we understand this about faith and what genuine faith in Jesus Christ looks like. For it is not lip service only. And it is not born of the flesh, but of God. It is not of our own doing, and neither is our salvation. For our faith comes from God, it is gifted to us by God, it is perfected by Jesus Christ, and it is persuaded of God. And so this faith is going to align with God’s holiness and with his will and purpose for us.

And all throughout the Scriptures we are given the picture of faith as something that results in us dying with Christ to sin, self-denial, and us following our Lord in obedience to his commands in holy living. For if we profess him with our lips, but we walk in sin and we do not obey his commands, in practice, then we are liars who do not live by the truth, and we will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of what we profess.

And although we are not saved by our own fleshly works, this does not mean that our salvation is absent of works. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. And all throughout the Scriptures we are taught what we are to put out of our lives and what we are to put on in our lives, instead, which will give honor, glory, and praise to God, and not to self.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24]

Hear my Voice

An Original Work / July 9, 2012
Based off Psalm 27

The Lord is my great salvation.
He’s the stronghold of my life.
When my enemies attack me,
My heart will not fear at all.
Though a war break out against me,
Confident in Christ I’ll be.
Of the Lord, I ask that I may
Live with Him eternally.

Hear my voice, Lord, when I call you.
Merciful to me You’ll be.
Though my relatives forsake me,
My Lord God will receive me.
Teach me Your way, O my Jesus.
Lead me in Your righteousness.
I will sacrifice to my Lord.
I will sing with joyfulness.

I am confident that I will
See the goodness of the Lord.
All the richness of His blessings,
My Lord has for me in store.
He asks me to be of courage;
To be strong and to take heart,
Patiently as I wait for Him,
And from Him to ne’er depart.

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"The state would join 16 other states that have already agreed to support the presidential candidate that wins the popular vote. But the 16-state compact would only be activated if they have a total of 270 Electoral College votes, which would decide the presidential election."

"No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."

In this way, by allowing enough illegals to vote in one state (require no ID) and flooding a lax-rule state with mail-in-ballots, Democrats can very much be in the driver's seat for the presidential election. Maine would be the recipient of such cheating taking place in a different part of the country.

The apostle Paul wrote this to the saints who were in Ephesus, but these truths apply to all of us who are the Lord’s saints, his holy ones, i.e. to those of us who have died with Christ to sin, and who have been raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. We are his called out ones, and we are to be living our lives separate (unlike, different) from the world because we are being made to be like Jesus in character, in mind, in heart, and in practice.

We are to be his faithful ones who offer our bodies to Christ as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to him, no longer conformed to the ways of this sinful world, but transformed in heart and mind away from sin to now doing the will of God, by his grace and in his power. So we are no longer to live like we did before we believed in Jesus Christ. Sin is no longer to have mastery over our lives to where we obey its desires, for if sin is what we obey, and not obedience to God, we will die in our sins, not have eternal life with God.

[Romans 6:1-23; Romans 12:1-2; Ephesians 1:3-4; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; 2 Timothy 1:9-10; 1 Peter 1:13-16; 1 Peter 2:4-5; 2 Peter 3:10-12]

We are the chosen of God, even before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before our Lord, by his grace, and in his power, as we die with him to sin and live to him and to his righteousness. We, then, are those whom God has blessed in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. We are his children, according to the purpose of his will, which is that we live holy lives pleasing to him and that we die daily to sin and walk in obedience to his commands.

In him we have redemption through his blood. For via Jesus’ blood shed for us on that cross, Jesus bought us back for God (he redeemed us) out of our lives of slavery to sin so that we will now honor him with our bodies, and so that we will no longer walk in sin and live for self, but so that we will now serve Jesus Christ with our lives in walks of obedience to his commands and in surrender of our wills to his will and purpose for our lives. For he died that we might die to sin and live for him and to his righteousness (1 Peter 2:24).

So, Jesus did not die that painful death on that cross in taking upon himself the sins of the entire world just to pardon our sins and just so that we can go to heaven when we die, and not to hell. For he died to deliver us out of our lives of slavery to sin so that we will now serve him with our lives, and so that we will now obey him, and so that we will no longer walk in sin, making sin our practice, but so that righteousness and obedience to our Lord will be what we practice, instead.

And God’s grace to us is not forgiveness of sins with the free invitation to keep on sinning, only now without feeling guilty about our sin. God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce (say “No!” to) ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s soon return. For Jesus Christ gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. (see Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

So, if you are professing faith in Jesus Christ, convinced that all your sins are forgiven and that heaven is your eternal destiny, and that it can’t be taken away from you, but while you are still walking (in conduct, in practice) in sin, and while obedience to God and to his New Covenant commandments is not your daily practice, please know that the Scriptures teach that you are not in fellowship with God, you do not know God, you are not born of God, and you will not inherit eternal life with God unless you turn from your sins and you now walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24]

So, don’t let sin and death and hell defeat you and end up being your eternal destiny. Surrender your lives to Jesus Christ, die with him to sin, and now live for him in walks of obedience and in holy living, in his power and strength and wisdom, because of what Jesus did for us on that cross, and because of God’s grace to us. Don’t let sin defeat you! But let God empower you to now walk in victory over sin and over death and in holy living – all for his praise and glory, and all in his power and wisdom and strength.

Arise My Love

By Eddie Carswell

Not a word was heard at the tomb that day.
Just shuffling of soldiers feet as they guarded the grave.
One day, two days, three days had past.
Could it be that Jesus breathed His last?

Could it be that His Father had forsaken Him?
Turned His back on His Son, despising our sin.
All hell seemed to whisper "Just forget Him, He's dead."
Then the Father looked down to His Son and He said..

Arise, My love. Arise, My love.
The grave no longer has a hold on you
No more death's sting; No more suffering
Arise....Arise....Arise

Sin, where are your shackles?
Death, where is your sting?
Hell has been defeated.
The grave could not hold the king…

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I listened again to the song "Do you love me?" from the play "Fiddler on the Roof."

It gave me pause to wonder: Which is better, love or commitment?

I think I'd rather someone be committed to my benefit rather than being in love with me.

Is there even a functional difference? If a person is committed, does love matter?

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The Biden administration’s program of secretly flying illegal immigrants directly from Latin America to U.S. cities dumps over 90% in hubs of two Southern states governed by the president’s harshest border critics, according to government data.

Using taxpayer funds for political purposes and attempting to interfere in an election.

With the shape my back and hips are in at my advanced old age, I believe I would prefer to have a john that I simply *sit* on, rather than having to *mount*, thank you.

Especially without reins and stirrups.....

Greetings, everyone. I registered here a loong time ago when I had just left the Pentecostal church and was an angry-atheist. After a couple of years I mellowed and developed an inexplicable (at the time) interest in spirituality, and after a couple more years, suddenly felt called to attend a church. I've been a faithful member of my local Episcopal church since, although in terms of theology and practice I'm closer to the Orthodox and Catholics. I'm trying to give up reddit completely, but still wanted to talk about faith & spiritual practice.

Trump Not Immune From Prosecution In Criminal Hush Money Case, Judge Rules​

Trump failed to invoke the defense in a timely fashion, the judge determined.

Former President Donald Trump is not immune from prosecution in his New York hush money case, in part because he failed to invoke the defense in a timely fashion, the judge in the case ruled Wednesday.

Trump was "well aware" he could try to claim presidential immunity after he was indicted one year ago on charges of falsifying business records related to a hush payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, Judge Juan Merchan ruled. "Nonetheless, defendant chose not to raise the defense of presidential immunity until well past the 45-day period provided by statute," Merchan said. Merchan avoided ruling on the merits of Trump's immunity claim, instead choosing to focus on the timing, which he said tested "this court's credulity."

"This Court finds that Defendant had myriad opportunities to raise the claim of presidential immunity well before March 7, 2024," Merchan wrote.

The judge did draw a distinction between Trump's claim of presidential immunity in the New York case and in the federal election interference case, where Trump is arguing that he cannot be prosecuted for conduct that occurred while he was in office.

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up that argument at the end of the month.


In the hush money case, Merchan noted that Trump did not try to claim the alleged falsification of business records constituted an official act.

Trump last April pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment his then-attorney Michael Cohen made to Daniels just days before the 2016 presidential election.

Jury selection for the trial is scheduled to get underway April 15 in New York City. The former president has denied all wrongdoing.

Trump could be looking at a six-week trial that requires him to be in court right before the presidential election.

Sixty-four percent of prospective Jewish students have taken at least one school out of consideration, according to the poll from Jewish campus organization Hillel International, with 96% of survey respondents citing concerns about campus antisemitism and 80% citing campus safety as factors in their college decision-making.

“Even if they subsidized the cost of the electric vehicle 100%, I still would refuse because I still would go broke,” Mike Nichols, a truck driver from Wisconsin, told Fox News. “That’s how useless they are. If they gave me one of these things, I still wouldn’t take it.”
It's the green movement gone crazy.

That was an ignorant thing to do on his part.

New Member Here Saying Hello.

It’s not clear why some were remanded and some were cut loose — even though they all face the same charges of criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a controlled substance and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
Police said they found four guns on the property.
Desousa-Villalta and Javier Alborno, both of Venezuela, were allegedly found with handguns on them when cops arrived.
Then officers found two more guns — including a Springfield 9 mm pistol and a so-called “ghost gun” — as well as three extended magazines, a box of ammunition, a bag of ketamine and a bag of ketamine mixed with cocaine, police officials said.
There was also a 7-year-old child inside, although it’s not clear who the parents were.

I strongly disagree with the liberal handling of crime. Recently someone suggested I must be against gun control, indicating the cause of so much crime was the availability of guns. That although NY had strict gun control laws other areas of the U.S. did not and that was the problem. To me this illustrates the real problem, that when criminals have guns there often are not serious consequences. Those who only want to defend themselves from crime are the ones persecuted, and prosecuted.