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Pommer · Friday at 3:01 PM

wing2000 said:
....or the Govnernor of Texas could step up like a real man do the right thing - defer redistricting util after the next census.

This seems unlikely as Abbott called for the legislative session to do the redistricting, among other things?

RileyG · Friday at 3:00 PM

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen

Tropical Wilds · Friday at 2:57 PM

essentialsaltes said:
Will Trump make the Smithsonian display their nephilim bones?

GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants
In June, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican serving on the House Oversight Committee, appeared on BlazeTV’s Prime Time with Alex Stein, where he discussed his belief that giants once existed. Burlison told Stein he was scheduled to be at “NephCon 2025,”

He credited Timothy Alberino’s podcast with sending him “far down the rabbit hole,” eventually reaching claims that the Smithsonian Institution is hiding evidence, the bones of past giants that lived on the Earth.

Now here’s the real story.

essentialsaltes · Friday at 2:56 PM

NYC ICE Office Evacuated After ‘Suspicious White Powder’ Found at Federal Plaza

Hentenza · Friday at 2:56 PM

HantsUK said:
But people who think the earth is flat do not understand these things. It just goes over their heads.

Besides, there are various explanations put forward by flat earthers to describe how such technology might work on a flat earth. YouTube of course. And a disregard to geometry and physics.

That’s fine. I’m still going to post the truth. Call it planting seeds.

durangodawood · Friday at 2:55 PM

BCP1928 said:
You should always take AI with a grain of salt* (sorry, I couldn't resist).

*or an AI approved substitute.

essentialsaltes · Friday at 2:55 PM

Will Trump make the Smithsonian display their nephilim bones?

GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants

In June, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican serving on the House Oversight Committee, appeared on BlazeTV’s Prime Time with Alex Stein, where he discussed his belief that giants once existed. Burlison told Stein he was scheduled to be at “NephCon 2025,”

He credited Timothy Alberino’s podcast with sending him “far down the rabbit hole,” eventually reaching claims that the Smithsonian Institution is hiding evidence, the bones of past giants that lived on the Earth.

dlamberth · Friday at 2:54 PM

AV1611VET said:
Essentially, it's challenging one to walk by sight, not by faith.

And than there are those of who walk both.

BCP1928 · Friday at 2:52 PM

You should always take AI with a grain of salt (sorry, I couldn't resist).

Nithavela · Friday at 2:51 PM

probinson said:
This seems to be a tacit admission that neither side is even pretending to care about the rules or democracy any more. I guess it's good that the facade has been shattered.

When only one side plays by the rules, there are no rules, only self-imposed handicaps.

Warden_of_the_Storm · Friday at 2:51 PM

AV1611VET said:
Either that, or I'm clarifying a term.

But you're not clarifying a term at all. You're adding to the Bible, pure and simple.

AV1611VET said:
(And it's "Revelation," not "Revelations."

No, you are right, and I'm not even sure where it comes from myself since it IS one long singular revelation not multiple different ones. I'll bear that mind in the future so I don't flub it.

BCP1928 · Friday at 2:49 PM

Oompa Loompa said:
I am not just talking about a man defending himself. Most often, if a man was attacked by a woman, all that is usually necessary is a single shove and a firm grab on the arm for a man to defend himself from an unarmed woman. What i am talking about is if you go hands on with a man, would you expect him to fight you like a man?

I know a number of women (not even "modern feminists") who you shouldn't ought to try that on, I don't care how tough you think it makes you sound.

BCP1928 · Friday at 2:45 PM

Oompa Loompa said:
Now you want to answer for a woman. But I am the misogynist?

You certainly give that impression. Or rather, you seem to have saddled yourself with an imaginary idea of what it means to be a "man" and resent women for it.

Hentenza · Friday at 2:42 PM

wing2000 said:
....or the Govnernor of Texas could step up like a real man do the right thing - defer redistricting util after the next census.

And if it was a democratic governor pushing for the redistricting would your statement remain the same?

BCP1928 · Friday at 2:41 PM

RDKirk said:
"Blanket statements?" As I said, there has been field exercise after field exercise after field exercise to prove that women do not measure up to men (even men across the board) compared to women. Any field unit with a woman in it suffers clearly and notably against an all-male unit...always, every time. It would be a complete route to pit an all-woman unit against an all-male unit, and unless an all-woman unit can compete against an all-male unit, we can't say women do just as well in field combat. They simply don't.

There's not going to be another draft. A draft is normally for cannon fodder. The US is not going to fight another cannon fodder war.

A draft is useful in a particular type of war: A war that is bloody, long, and low-tech...all three of those factors. A Vietnam-style war. It has to be bloody to call for more troops than normal voluntary accession; notice that the US fought 20 years in Afghanistan without a draft. But it does have to be long enough for the draft process to get into operation; it would take at least a year from the start of a war until the first draftee's boots hit the ground in combat. And it also has to be low-tech because, first, even getting a troop into combat within a year assumes a low degree of technical training, and, second, a modern high-tech war with another high-tech opponent would be over--one way or another--before a draftee got into the fight.

The draft is bandied around as a political soccer ball. It will never happen in another war fought by the US.

Sure, and those roles do not include ground combat for women.

You don't need to get snippy, I agree with all of that. But here, in this particular discussion, we are talking about a highly unrealistic scenario to start with.

PTW · Friday at 2:38 PM

Straw.

Hot Dog or Corny Dog?

Hentenza · Friday at 2:36 PM

JosephZ said:
I didn't say it was representative of the people of Israel; I said it was Israeli settlers that opposed the peace process. And while that attack was carried out by a single person, there were also mass demonstrations against the peace process and the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin by an Israeli extremist.

With Mr. Peres and Mr. Arafat, Mr. Rabin was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for the secret negotiations in 1993 that led to the agreement to end Israeli rule over the Palestinians in the occupied territories. But the peace also provoked a loud and passionate opposition. Settlers and right-wing nationalists have held held constant demonstrations and protests, blocked intersections and jeering Mr. Rabin wherever he appeared.

“Surely I blame them,” Leah Rabin said of the Likud members, her husband’s most vocal critics in the Knesset. “If you ever heard their speeches, you would understand what I mean. They were very, very violent in their expressions: ‘We are selling the country down the drain.’ ‘There will be no Israel after this peace agreement.’ I mean, this was wild.”

During a rally in Jerusalem not long ago, she recalled, “they put the figure of Yitzhak, my husband, in the uniform of a Nazi leader, and Mr. Netanyahu was there. He later talked against it, but he was there and didn’t stop it,” she told ABC.

Every Friday for the past year, she noted, her husband would arrive home, tired from a long week of work, only to be shouted at by extremists protesting his peace deal with the Palestine Liberation Organization.

“They were here, yelling ‘Traitor! Killer!’ ”

“Sometimes I think, despite the fact that we are Jewish and the right is Jewish, that we could easier find a common language with Palestinians and Arabs,” she told one interviewer. “Because we [the right and left in Israel] live on two different planets.”

ASSASSINATION AFTERMATH : Rabin's Widow Accuses Political Foes of Fostering Hate : Reaction: 'Surely I blame them,' she angrily says of her slain husband's most vocal critics in Parliament.

Appearing angry but composed, Yitzhak Rabin's widow, Leah, bluntly criticized her husband's political opponents Tuesday, claiming that they created and even encouraged the hateful climate that inspired his assassination.

www.latimes.com

Thanks for clarifying. Am sure both sides had issues with the negotiations. I’m not even sure if the negotiations would have gone to fruition without Hamas interference but at least some good things had come out of it like recognition of each other and Israel withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza.

Pommer · Friday at 2:36 PM

ozso said:
The lesson being don't keep attacking a nation capable of completely annihilating you.

“Might Makes Right” seems the next street over, no?

Tropical Wilds · Friday at 2:36 PM

Oompa Loompa said:
I am not just talking about a man defending himself. Most often, if a man was attacked by a woman, all that is usually necessary is a single shove and a firm grab on the arm for a man to defend himself from an unarmed woman.

Do you just live in a land of gender stereotypes or what?

Oompa Loompa said:
What i am talking about is if you go hands on with a man, would you expect him to fight you like a man?

Let me tell you, your line of questioning through this whole thread has been a journey and a half.

Warden_of_the_Storm · Friday at 2:36 PM

AV1611VET said:
Now you know why I had to put "evolution" in brackets.

Because you're making the Bible say something it very clearly does not say; you're adding to the Bible, which is outright against what the Bible says in Deuteronomy 4:2, Revelations 22:18 and Proverbs 30:5-6.

Dan Perez · Friday at 2:35 PM

NewLifeInChristJesus said:
Thank you for answering the question. I have a couple of follow-on questions because I don't quite understand the sinless perfection argument.

Scripture is clear in its instructions to Christians to avoid sinning. It is unclear to me how you all address that issue. My most reasonable guess is that you all think it is possible to sin, but you are empowered to avoid it. But then, that would contradict verses like 1 Jonh 3:9 and Ephesians 4:24. My second best guess would be that you see the imperatives that urge people to stop sinning are simply calls for them to be saved so that after that they won't sin any more. Can you provide the sinless perfection perspective on Scripture's instructions to Christians to avoid sinning?

AND you will be Perfect IF you were living in. the Great Tribulation. and 1 John. 5;18 We know that whosoever is BORN

of God sinnrth NOT //. is a DISJUNCTIVE PARTICLE. NEGATIVE and that Greek word NOT , means neverrrrrrrr. ever sin , EVER

dan p

Tropical Wilds · Friday at 2:33 PM

Oompa Loompa said:
Now you want to answer for a woman. But I am the misogynist?

They asked a question about doing your own car repairs and who does that in this day and age. They answered on their own behalf.

You rebuked them for speaking on my behalf (they didn’t) like I didn’t reply to you (I did) and am offended they replied (I’m not).

Just saying.

Oompa Loompa · Friday at 2:30 PM

dogs4thewin said:
With all due respect ( as a woman) if I did that I would expect a man to defend himself. I will not go hands on with you unless you go hands on with me however if you do so you can expect me to "return the favor.

I am not just talking about a man defending himself. Most often, if a man was attacked by a woman, all that is usually necessary is a single shove and a firm grab on the arm for a man to defend himself from an unarmed woman. What i am talking about is if you go hands on with a man, would you expect him to fight you like a man?

essentialsaltes · Friday at 2:29 PM

New $250 Visa Integrity Fee Will Cost US $11 Billion, Say Tourism Officials

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the new $250 visa integrity fee will bring in around $27 billion over a decade—or $2.7 billion per year—to U.S. government coffers and reduce the national debt.

[CBO did not consider the impact of this barrier to tourism.]

But a U.S. tourism official told Forbes the fee will instead cost the U.S. economy $11 billion over three years, including $9.4 billion in lost visitor spending and $1.3 billion in lost tax revenue—or about $3.6 billion per year, according to an analysis by Tourism Economics.

In addition, the lost revenue will lead to losing 15,000 U.S. travel jobs, according to U.S. tourism industry estimates.

Tourism Economics, a division of Oxford Economics, estimated that the $250-per-person fee is onerous enough to deter 5.4% of international visitors from coming to the U.S., which would translate to a drop of nearly 1 million fewer visits annually.

WHAT DO INTERNATIONAL VISITORS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VISA INTEGRITY FEE?

The fee is not actually as “refundable” as Congress has billed it to be. As written, the Big Beautiful Bill says the State Department “may reimburse” the fee after the visitor’s visa expires, provided that the visa holder has complied with all conditions of the visa. But most visitor visas are valid for 10 years, Hansen pointed out. “The idea that you’re going to give the government money and then wait around 10 years and remember to ask for it back, even if you followed the rules, is just absolutely crazy,” he said.

Another red flag: The $250 fee was inserted into the Big Beautiful Bill without a plan for processing refunds. In its analysis, the CBO wrote that “the Department of State would need several years to implement a process for providing reimbursements.”

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