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“I understand that the family’s initial request was denied by Air Force leadership in a letter dated February 9, 2021,” [USAF Undersecretary] Lohmeier wrote in the Aug. 15 letter shared by Judicial Watch. “However, after reviewing the circumstances of Ashli’s death, and considering the information that has come forward since then, I am persuaded that the previous determination was incorrect.”

[I wonder what that could be.]

In May, the government agreed to pay Babbitt’s family nearly $5 million as part of a settlement.

Hi all!

I feel stir crazy and bring cooped up for so long.

It gets so old.

Different day, same old, same old.

Any advice?

Peace

My position on God has shifted. I would now say I believe in God... but i don't really like the word. It implies too much for me at the moment. I feel more comfortable with 'the Light'. It's more meaningful to me.
So I say there is an intelligence, a power that is caring and watches over us.. or can help us.

But I can't say any more than that. I don't know about creation or salvation or anything more that I've said. I have no theology that I can name.

So, I can't really say I'm a Buddhist anymore, nor am i a christian or anything.

I don't know what I am?

I've been doing some Hermetic Qabbalah practices, but I wouldn't label myself in that respect.

I do feel some affinity with ancient egyptian beliefs. But still, nothing for certain.

I don't know where to turn next...?

We’ve seen the demonic advance throughout our culture over the past decade and more.

On Wednesday morning, the students at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis were attending a Mass in the church next to the school when, suddenly, the stained-glass windows were shattered by a hail of gunfire.

The fusillade didn’t stop immediately. Witnesses said that between 50 and 100 bullets were pumped into the church, injuring at least 15 of the students badly enough to send them to the hospital and killing an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old.

The shooter, whose indiscriminate hosing-down of that place of worship was preceded by a very detailed video manifesto released a day earlier, then took his own life.

And the aftermath of this horror has become even more chaotic, if that’s possible, than was the horror itself.

We’ll want to keep the Minneapolis shooting in our focus, because the legacy corporate propaganda press will do everything they can to memory-hole this atrocity by the end of this week. How do we know this? Very simple.

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Really?

Earlier this week I posted on Twitter X about universalism and someone opined that the opposite of universalism must be “zealous infernalism” Which I take to mean “an active desire not only for the reality of eternal torment, but the perverse desire that many people will go there.”

I don’t think the alternative to universalism is quite so stark. It is possible to criticize universalism while also criticizing “zealous infernalism”. I believe in the reality of hell, but that doesn’t mean I like it. Indeed, I’m afraid of hell and wish universalism were true, but that’s a kind of magic thinking. You know…”If you believe in fairies clap your hands…”

If there is such a place as hell, and we are assured by the gospel and by common sense that there is, who will go there and why?

Does God send people to suffer for all eternity in hell? Why would he do that if he is a God of everlasting mercy and love? Sending people to be tortured forever doesn’t really fit with an all loving God does it?

If there is a hell and if people go there is it really forever? If so why? Can’t people change their minds?

First we can answer the question of whether or not hell is eternal. It has to be eternal because God made human beings in his image and he is eternal. All of us have eternity locked within us. All of us will live forever. All that remains therefore is to decide where that will be.

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A federal appeals court panel has revived a physician's assistant's lawsuit claiming she was fired for refusing on religious grounds to assist in body-mutilating gender surgeries and use preferred pronouns.

A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous opinion Wednesday in favor of Valerie Kloosterman in her lawsuit against the University of Michigan Health-West, also known as Metropolitan Hospital.

Circuit Judge Eric Murphy, a Trump appointee, authored the panel opinion, which overturned a lower court ruling that had dismissed the lawsuit and allowed the hospital's request for arbitration to proceed.

By approving the hospital's arbitration request, the lower court sought to have Kloosterman's complaint resolved outside of litigation.

Murphy wrote that the hospital took too long to introduce the proposal to arbitrate the litigation, noting that the defendants "gave up their right to arbitrate by litigating this dispute in court for a year before invoking that right."

"Courts often recognize the conflict between seeking a court victory and arbitrating the dispute. The Third Circuit, for example, held that a defendant lost the right to arbitrate when it sought to enforce that right only after the judicial decisions on its motions to dismiss made clear 'that further litigation would be required' and that it could not win on the pleadings," wrote Murphy.

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Researchers say they’ve now come up with a plausible route by which RNA and amino acids could have paired up to assemble small proteins called peptides, without the help of complex enzymes or the ribosome. The work, published today in Nature, offers a glimpse of how RNA might have helped form the first simple proteins, an event that could have set the stage for evolution.

“This is the first step to allowing life’s information molecules to encode peptides,” says Matthew Powner, a chemist at University College London (UCL) who led the study. Thomas Carell, a chemist at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, says the study “gives wonderful insights” into “one of the big riddles in prebiotic chemistry.”

For me it's always the person that is the problem to the question below.
None of these items will harm anyone unless someone with ill intent misuses the object and directs it toward an innocent person.
I have been around people all of my life who are responsible with each of these things and they have never misused any of them to harm an innocent person.
The object, if left alone, will not pick it self up and throw itself or shoot itself or stab at someone or drive into anyone.
Those without ill intent know how to properly use these objects so innocent people don't get hurt. It's those with ill intent who are the problem!

Whether a person misuses a brick, a gun, a knife, a vehicle, etc and it harms/kills innocent people...which is the problem in your opinion, the object used or the person?

FYI...This post is about adults or youth old enough to know better. Not a small child, etc. Just adults and youth old enough to know.

"Research from the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that each illegal immigrant generates an average lifetime net fiscal cost of $68,000, calculated as the difference between public services received and taxes paid. Multiply that by 1.6 million, and the long-term cost of supporting these migrants would be roughly $109 billion.
Put simply, spending $1,000 per person upfront is a tiny fraction—about 1.5%—of what it might cost to support them over a lifetime." SEE VIDEO

This is a great start.

A husband and wife who run an Inland Empire religious group have been arrested and automatic weapons and ghost guns were seized by Redlands police as part of an investigation into how a former follower of the group disappeared two years ago under suspicious circumstances.

Emilio Ghanem disappeared in May 2023 shortly after he left the Hemet-based His Way Spirit Led Assemblies and opened a pest control company; the business was a rival to one run by the religious group’s leaders. Authorities are also searching for a second man associated with the group who vanished in 2017.

Two of the leaders of the Assemblies group were arrested Aug. 14. Pastor Darryl Muzic Martin, 57, of Hemet, and his wife, 62-year-old Shelly Bailey “Kat” Martin, were arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal weapons. The wife, whom the Assemblies described as the prophetess, was later released following an unspecified medical episode, police said.

Earlier in the month, police served search warrants at homes in Hemet and Anza. Two [more] people were arrested on [various gun charges].

During the Hemet and Anza searches, detectives found “several illegal firearms, including converted fully automatic rifles, short-barreled rifles and unserialized ghost guns along with electronic devices and other digital evidence,” according to police.

St. Augustine/

Shalom

Can you please pray for me that the Lord will open (heart)doors so that I can share the gospel and bear witness for Him.
And that He will grant me wisdom on how to be a fisher for men in Jesus' name?


May the Lord bless you abundantly (Luke 6:38, Job 42:10) and may He bless Israel in Jesus' name. Amen!


Soli Deo Gloria


PS And I pray that the Lord will send out harvesters into His harvest (Matthew 9:38).

Please pray that if it is God's will I can feel good and get my work done. Please ask Jesus to heal me, my husband Robb and son Jake. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and God bless you. Carmen

Another word for the word “eat” is partake, which means to take part in, to participate in, to join in with. Spiritually speaking it has to do with fellowship with Christ, which is participation with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection via us dying with him to sin and us being raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. For the word fellowship also means participation, sharing, contribution, and partnership. We have a part in him.

For in Jesus’ death and resurrection he put our sins to death with him, and he rose victorious over sin, death, Satan, and hell, on our behalf, so that by faith in him, which comes from God, we will now die with him to sin and walk with him in obedience to his commands in holy living. And this is what he was talking about here, too. We must participate with Christ in death to sin and in being victorious over Satan and hell, by faith in him, which results in obedience to him and us no longer living under the control of sin.

And another word for “drink” is swallow, which means to believe, to accept, and to allow. And Jesus’ blood represents his life given for us on that cross, whereby he took upon himself the sins of the world and put them to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will now give up our lives of sin and selfishness and pride in order to now live for him and for his purpose and his glory. So, what Jesus was saying is that we must die with him to sin, and now walk in obedience to his commands, for us to have eternal life in him.

But it goes beyond just death to sin and walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands, but it has to do with our daily fellowship with him and our daily participation with him in his death and life by how we live our lives day in and day out for him, in fellowship (participation) with him in his work and in his will that he has for our lives. For our faith in Jesus Christ, if it is biblical faith, means that we join with Christ in marriage to him, and he now becomes our husband, and we become his bride, and he is now our life.

So, this isn’t about just praying a prayer to receive Christ so that when we die we get to go to heaven and not to hell. This is about Christ becoming our life, with us in him, and him in us, and him living his life now through us as we cooperate and participate with him in his work on this earth. We become one with him in mind and heart and purpose, and we now live our lives for him and for what he wants, and no longer for self and what we want. He is now master of our lives and our lives are now surrendered to his will.

And, as those who participate with Christ in his death and resurrection, via us dying with him to sin and being raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but as slaves to righteousness, we will also suffer with him in being persecuted for the sake of his name and for the sake of righteousness, and for the sake of the gospel. Especially if we are sharing the truth of the gospel in a day when many are believing Satan’s lies, we will suffer if we confront the lies and if we speak the truth.

Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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An Original Work / August 28, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Oh, "data-driven" - that explains the problem...

The Salvadoran man who was illegally deported in March has reasserted his claim for asylum.

The Salvadoran man at the center of the most highly publicized case in President Donald Trump’s mass-deportation drive, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is seeking to remain in the United States by renewing his bid for asylum.

Lawyers for Abrego filed a motion reasserting his asylum claim in immigration court Monday afternoon, hours after Abrego was taken into custody following a “check-in” with immigration officials he was ordered to attend.

Abrego’s attorneys revealed the new move publicly in a court filing Tuesday in a federal lawsuit he brought this week seeking to block the Trump administration from deporting him to Uganda, a country his lawyers say he has no ties to and where he could face new dangers.

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It just astonishes me.

Providential reminders are often subtle — even hidden in the math of a Cracker Barrel check

Since Cracker Barrel is in the news these days, I thought I’d relate a cute story that — somewhat uniquely — has nothing to do with the logo.

The year after my father died, Lisa and I drove from Florida up to Virginia with a few of our children to visit my mom.

Over the days we were with her, my mom kept saying that my dad had left some cash and she wanted us to take it to pay for some of our travel expenses. I kept resisting her offer. She tried to hand me a few $100 bills, but I kept handing them back to her.

But after she had mentioned this to me several times over several days, I had an idea.

You see, my dad loved Cracker Barrel — and everything about it. For a number of years, my dad would take my mom on a regular Thursday evening date to Cracker Barrel.

If someone asked me on a random Thursday night where my mom and dad were, I’d tell them, “It’s Thursday. They’re at Cracker Barrel.”

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Pray Jesus Christ comforts, heals & provides for all who were affected by deaths & injures caused by the gun shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church:

A mother whose 9-year-old daughter encountered a naked male trans-identified sex offender in a school locker room spoke out at a Virginia school board meeting last week.

Jen McDougal was among several parents who spoke during the Arlington County School Board meeting last Thursday. The mother said that a year had passed since her family stopped registering for swim lessons at Washington Liberty High School in Arlington after an incident involving her then-9-year-old daughter.

“Last September, my daughter and I walked into the locker room, and a biological male who identifies as transgender and who also happened to be a registered sex offender, was standing there completely naked with no regard for the other patrons, among whom were at least a dozen little girls," McDougal stated.

The mother learned after the incident that multiple women had previously complained about Richard Cox, but no concrete actions were taken. McDougal declared that Cox's admittance into multiple Arlington County facilities is an example that the school division's locker and restroom policy is a failure.

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Law enforcement on Wednesday said two children have been killed at a shooting during a Mass held at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, with the gunman reportedly taking his own life after the deadly attack.

Follow here for live updates.

United in prayer: A litany to be prayed after a school shooting​

August 27, 2025 at 04:24 pm ET

In times of tragedy, the Church turns to prayer. The Catholic Church believes that prayer can effect real change — not just in the heart of the person praying but in the world. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “Prayer and Christian life are inseparable” (CCC, 2745) and that prayer is a “vital necessity” (CCC, 2743).
Here is a litany to be prayed after a school shooting.

Police confirm shooter’s identity as 23-year-old Robin Westman​

August 27, 2025 at 04:04 pm ET

At a 3:30 p.m. ET press conference, Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirms the shooter’s identity as 23-year-old Robin Westman, born Robert Westman.

“We have to be men and women of hope,” Minneapolis Archbishop Bernard Hebda says at the conference.

As a bell begins to ring, he says: “A bell in the Catholic Church is always a call to prayer. It’s a reminder for us to be praying. And we have to recognize that it’s through prayer … that we can indeed make a difference. That has to be the source of our hope.”

Principal Matt DeBoer says that staff and teachers were heroes during the shooting.
“This is a nightmare. But we call our staff the dream team. We will recover from this,” he says.

“We lost two angels today. Please continue to pray for those still receiving care. We can’t change the past. But we can do something about the future,” he says.

FBI director calls shooting ‘an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime’​

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Us Husbands need to know. so please be open about it. my wife and I disagree as to the extent Christian woman like want foreplay. In marriage, her Love language is fulfilled. this is contention in many marriages. how prudish are Chistian women. please respond to better clarify answers (if you can, this is my first post, not sure home this works)

The process is permitted under a law passed by Congress in 1996 as part of a wider immigration package. But over the last three decades, threats of fees — which can now reach up to $998 a day — have rarely been enforced. Officers instead focused on removal, rather than adding another layer of punishment.
But that changed under Trump, largely because the process for sending out threatening fines with potentially financially disastrous results is much easier, according to the American Immigration Council, an immigration policy research group.

This should go further toward reducing our deficit.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- San Bernardino and Riverside county officials discussed the presumed death of baby Emmanuel Haro one day after his parents were charged with murder, saying they believe he was abused over time.

Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin, along with Sheriff Chad Bianco and San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus and others, provided details of their investigation during a news conference Wednesday.

Authorities have not recovered the 7-month-old's body, but Hestrin said they have a "strong indication" of where his remains are located. They also believe that Emmanuel was abused over a period of time by his parents and eventually succumbed to those injuries.

"It's appropriate to have a press conference, because it was the defendants in this case that had a press conference first," Hestrin said. "They did so in order to tell the public, the media and ultimately law enforcement that their child had been kidnapped - when in fact that's not what occurred."

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Certainly, Philip. Based on the most recent 2025 data from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program and analysis by the Council on Criminal Justice, here are ten U.S. cities with the lowest crime rates per capita, along with the political affiliations of their mayors and state governors:

️ Ten Lowest-Crime Cities in the U.S. (2025)​

Note: Many small towns and suburban municipalities in the U.S. operate under nonpartisan mayoral systems, especially in New England. Where party affiliation is publicly declared or inferred from electoral records, it is noted.

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These cities exemplify how low crime rates often correlate with factors such as affluence, strong local governance, and community engagement rather than strictly partisan leadership.