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USA Shipping API's like USPS, UPS, FedEx

How much shipping are you doing?
10s, 100s, 1000s of packages a day?
After a while web APIs will slow down your shipping vs on site premise services.
(I work for an enterprise shipping software company)
Seeing it is a new market for us, I can not say how much volume will be shipped. We have worked with AUstralian API's and they have worked well for us. I don't know how US ones differ.
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Trump claims about his poll numbers - delusion or purposeful lying, or is someone lying to him?

He didn't say it was just Republicans. And Republicans aren't the only ones who vote.
Yet. Wait until the Gerrymander Wars are done and the Voting Rights Act completely neutered.
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Trump claims about his poll numbers - delusion or purposeful lying, or is someone lying to him?

AI Overview

Multiple recent polls show that Donald Trump's approval rating among Republicans remains high.
  • A recent survey by Gallup found that Republicans broadly approve of Trump's job performance, with his handling of foreign affairs receiving the highest approval at 93%.
If that is what Trump is going by, then it's not a matter of him lying, or being delusional, or having dementia etc.
Lols, if you click on the link AI provides, you'd note that the 93% is among Republicans only and not very recent.


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Don Trump Tilts at Windmills: Rescinds All Offshore Wind Energy Areas in the US; current leases up for review

If the reasoning is that we should avoid a solution because "safety regulations are not properly followed," this would apply to many areas, such as cars on the road, medicine in pharmacies, food in grocery stores, or money in banks.
I think the scale of the consequences is quite different.
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Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds

They'd do a lot better if they didn't embrace so many positions tht are patently insane. They've got a flippin' Communist running for mayor of NYC, for all love! On what planet does that seem like a good idea?
You think they would do better if they didn’t support the candidate that swept the primary?
But these are people can't define "woman", but know beyond a shadow of a doubt that a man in a wig unarguablty is one. They're the party that thinks little children should be allowed to chose their sex and then perform body altering surgery on them if the sex they're chosen isn't what they physically are. They're the people who believe that race, ethnicity, and gender are more important in hiring decisions than education, experience, and aptitude. They're the people who believe that national boundaries are irrelevant, and that "the wretched refuse of... teeming shores" should he allowed in unhindered, with little pretense of filtering out criminals, the mentally ill, clandestine agents of foreign powers, and whoever else wants or needs to beat a hasty retreat from wherevever they come from, no matter how many of them will become dependent on the government (i.e., us) for their sustenance, or otherwise be liabilities rather than assets. They're the folks who believe that education of children should be more about social programming than teaching reading, mathematics, sciences, and social studies, which is why American students tend to look like dunces ompared to children educated in other countries. They're the people who believe that every culture is good but ours, that every religion is due respect but the ones common to Americans, just ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

The net effect is that Dems, at root, just don't find much to like in American or Americans. They have different visions, and different ultimate goals, and their sole point if agreement is that whatever it is we have now has to go. They're not about taking the American paradigm and making it work better for all. Their goal is to start it all over in their current vision of what America should be. But the trick is that not even they know what their goal looks like. They're only in agreement that whatever their goal is, it isn't anything that's now standing. They're not about taking what structure we have and making it work beter for everyone. Thegre about destroying it and rebuilding all to their ever-changing ever-evolving, ever-shifting, visions of what America should be.

So maybe Democrats would do better if they have something better to offer than blue-smoke-and-mirors, pie in the sky bye and bye, cultural-reprogrammimg to a standard still under construction vision that even they don't share amongst themselves.

Mahybe if we just set about to make the what we have work better for the people who are here rather than trying to reprogram the people to conform to a standard that, if it's ever completed, will probably be both stupid and self-destructive in its own right.

Jipsah, Old, Bi-Racial, Southern, Anglo-Catholic, Curmudgeon
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Jesus reaffirms predestination

John 6:25: He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.

This clearly says that the people who comes to Christ is from the Fathers will
It is best to read this verse in context. Here are a few verses before this verse. It does put a different spin on your interpretation.

John 6:63-65 reads: "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” And then he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

It is His Holy Spirit that the Father grants to the believer in order to be saved. No Holy Spirit, no salvation. No belief no Holy Spirit.

Blessings
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I Remember...

They'd go off at sunset.
Then, KAAY, Little Rock, Arkansas, was permitted to crank up the am signals to 50,000 watts. They could be heard from Mexico to Southern Canada!


I'm sorry. I missread your post. AM radio signed off at sunset.
Ah yes, "border blasters". I remember that. Last year I made a thread about them: Border Blasters
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How should have Christians historically addressed Islam?

The correct response is to protect the flock from the wolves. If Muhammad was a false prophet, then he was a ravenous wolf according to Jesus. This doesn't mean you should be cruel to Muslims or look for trouble. Treat others, including Muslims, as you would like to be treated. You are under no obligation, however, to let yourself or others be devoured or subjugated by them.
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I Remember...

Anyone remember

Listening to the top songs of the year during the New Years Countdown on the radio

AND

record for free, every single top song on your cassette tapes?!

I wrote them all down in order and had all the hits I wanted
We had a local FM rock radio station that would announce that next Friday at midnight, they'd be playing a newly released album from a major band, all the way through with no interruption. So of course we'd record it on cassette and get a free album. FM was kind of "underground" back then. No way they could get away with that today.
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Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds

Do you think the democrats may do a little better if they had a character as outlandish as Trump in their camp directing all attention unto themselves?
They'd do a lot better if they didn't embrace so many positions tht are patently insane. They've got a flippin' Communist running for mayor of NYC, for all love! On what planet does that seem like a good idea?

But these are people can't define "woman", but know beyond a shadow of a doubt that a man in a wig unarguablty is one. They're the party that thinks little children should be allowed to chose their sex and then perform body altering surgery on them if the sex they're chosen isn't what they physically are. They're the people who believe that race, ethnicity, and gender are more important in hiring decisions than education, experience, and aptitude. They're the people who believe that national boundaries are irrelevant, and that "the wretched refuse of... teeming shores" should he allowed in unhindered, with little pretense of filtering out criminals, the mentally ill, clandestine agents of foreign powers, and whoever else wants or needs to beat a hasty retreat from wherevever they come from, no matter how many of them will become dependent on the government (i.e., us) for their sustenance, or otherwise be liabilities rather than assets. They're the folks who believe that education of children should be more about social programming than teaching reading, mathematics, sciences, and social studies, which is why American students tend to look like dunces ompared to children educated in other countries. They're the people who believe that every culture is good but ours, that every religion is due respect but the ones common to Americans, just ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

The net effect is that Dems, at root, just don't find much to like in American or Americans. They have different visions, and different ultimate goals, and their sole point if agreement is that whatever it is we have now has to go. They're not about taking the American paradigm and making it work better for all. Their goal is to start it all over in their current vision of what America should be. But the trick is that not even they know what their goal looks like. They're only in agreement that whatever their goal is, it isn't anything that's now standing. They're not about taking what structure we have and making it work beter for everyone. Thegre about destroying it and rebuilding all to their ever-changing ever-evolving, ever-shifting, visions of what America should be.

So maybe Democrats would do better if they have something better to offer than blue-smoke-and-mirors, pie in the sky bye and bye, cultural-reprogrammimg to a standard still under construction vision that even they don't share amongst themselves.

Mahybe if we just set about to make the what we have work better for the people who are here rather than trying to reprogram the people to conform to a standard that, if it's ever completed, will probably be both stupid and self-destructive in its own right.

Jipsah, Old, Bi-Racial, Southern, Anglo-Catholic, Curmudgeon
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How should have Christians historically addressed Islam?

I guess all we can do is disprove their “prophet” by the words of the Lord ( whom they consider a prophet) in that John the Baptist was the final prophet ( Matthew 11:1-15). They have no ability to disprove this as some manipulation which is probably their tactic to undermine our scriptures. These words were spoken and recorded centuries before their “prophet” was born.
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How should have Christians historically addressed Islam?

Well no you didn't. Historically Muslims from North Africa launched numerous slave raids into Europe, they would capture men in order to put them to work and women for sexual purposes. Should Christians have washed their feet and loved them per the quote you provided?
We all have a right to defend ourselves and our family.
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Dorothieyas Testimony

And when he left i decided to start my recovery from drugs. I did not want to be on drugs anymore even though before him i had recently broken up with someone and had already decided to go into recovery, but i just felt like i could do it at home at that time because i didnt have alot of paranoia and the voices werent that bad.I didnt immediately go into rehab, it took a while because i thought that i could do it on my own and no, i couldnt. So, I went into a recovery center and they had a church across the street that some of the clients go to on wednesdays and sundays and it enlightened me to start going to church. I believed in God but i wasnt practicing His word and praying often. I knew that He was going to do it, but i just didnt know when. I had already been into treatment multiple times and it hadn't worked... I knew hHe was going to do it, but i didnt know when. I was sick of the constant lingering of tension and people that I was recieving from being around and doing drugs. I was in and out of rehab for a while and while i was doing that i was using and the paranoia, and voices were UNBEARABLE. I couldnt sit at home in peace at all, it made me go places where i didnt wanna be to try to get some peace. Even though they werent peaceful places to go, they were trap houses and it didnt work. One day i was standing in front of a gas station, which i did almost daily i would stand outside of this gas station all night for like a month till morning came, and someone spoke to me . It was like my own thought and someone speaking to me at the same time and was like "Why don't I go to the faith based recovery home again?" I went there before and left and got high and they wouldnt allow me to come back after that, so i hesitated. I begin to think.. "I've gotta do something about this, I'm tired and i don't wanna do this anymore or be like this.." So i went home and started reading my bible. I've been in a different faith based recovery home in a different town and i liked it, i had a good paying job and i liked the church and the people i was living with, but i had caught a domestic charge and i had restitution and forgot to pay my restitution and so they ordered a warrant for me back in the area where im from and the administration there told me that i wouldnt be able to come back after that warrant. That was Satan, i know it because i loved it there. It was very peaceful, but even though i was there the voices i was hearing were still shrewd and unbearable... Im guessing God had another plan ... So i went back to Sikeston.
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If God can replace Israel, He can replace the Church, too

If the sun still rises, God’s covenant with Israel still stands.

That’s the startling logic of Jeremiah 33where the fixed order of creation is offered as proof that God’s promises to the Jewish people are unbreakable. Yet in an age of rising theological confusion and mounting hostility toward Israel, many in the Church have begun to waver. Replacement Theology is back, often dressed in more “respectable” robes. But let’s be clear: if God can abandon Israel, then no one is safe. If He breaks that promise, why wouldn’t He break yours? Has God truly revoked His covenant? Has the Church replaced Israel in His plan? Or is the continued existence of Israel as certain as the sunrise?

The answer, resoundingly and unmistakably, is found in the mouth of the prophet Jeremiah:


These two verses are both a prophetic rebuke and a theological anchor. God Himself sets the terms: Only if the rhythm of day and night ceases — only if the laws that govern the cosmos unravel — then, and only then, would He cast off Israel.

Continued below.
And Christ will NEVER give on. Israel or His Body .

I say the Eze 36 : 24-38

Then in. EZE 37 : 1-28 Chist will raise Israel from their graves and Israel will be BORN AGAIN

and it says how Israel and JUDAH. will become ONE STICK. and one Nation once again ,

And youn will to be disappointed , ifnnnyou read Chapers 36 , 37 and 38 !!

dan p
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Ted Cruz Engages in a Bit of Bigot-Baiting

And tell me, which is acting like a brood of vipers and whitewashed tombs, saying you don't care about others because they are a different religion, or people who happen to have another religion?

-CryptoLutheran
He said he didn't care about their opinions. That's not the same as not caring about them

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