New Posts

Elongated · 2026-02-24T14:12:20-0600

Aldebaran said:
There's that character assassination I was talking about.

When it’s accurate it isn’t character assassination. If it were you could report the post if I understand the rules here.

essentialsaltes · 2026-02-24T14:12:15-0600

Democrats Have Settled On How To Rebuke Trump At This Year’s SOTU

Some will bring guests to spotlight Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses and ICE violence. Others will boycott the president's speech entirely

This year, Democratic leaders are encouraging members to either skip the address or keep their protests low-key, and most members seem inclined to follow their advice. There’s a big rally being held outside the U.S. Capitol, and inside, the most popular form of protest is bringing a guest in one of two categories: a survivor of the late Trump-linked sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, or a victim of violent behavior by federal immigration enforcement officials.

Several Epstein survivors will be in attendance.

Lawmakers are also bringing constituents who have been violently detained by Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents.

One of [Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn)'s] guests, Aliya Rahman, is a Bangladeshi-American and a disabled person with autism who was driving to an appointment on Jan. 13 when federal agents smashed in her car window, dragged her out onto the street, and detained her at a federal detention center where she claims she experienced severe medical neglect and violence at the hands of ICE agents, requiring hospitalization for assault.

Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.)...’s guest, 26-year-old combat veteran George Retes, was stopped by ICE agents last year on his commute to work. According to the congressman’s office, the officers smashed his car window, pepper-sprayed him, pinned him down by kneeling on his back and neck, and detained him for three days without charges, access to legal counsel, contact with his family or medical care.
“George Retes is a U.S. citizen and an Iraq War veteran, and yet he was treated like an enemy by his own government,” Takano said in a statement. “His story exemplifies the overreach and cruelty of the Trump Administration… I am honored to have George as my guest at the State of the Union. His presence will speak volumes.”

More than two dozen Democrats are boycotting Trump’s speech entirely, and instead participating in a “People’s State of the Union” rally focused on countering the president’s night of “lies and misplaced priorities.” [Some will have guests such as the above take their place.]

GoldenBoy89 · 2026-02-24T14:12:11-0600

The Barbarian said:
One of my students told me her grandparents live across the street from G.W. Bush. There was a medical emergency, and Bush came across the street and stayed with them until the EMTs got there.

You think things like that will ever be said of Donald Trump?

We don’t even have to imagine.

PTW · 2026-02-24T14:09:26-0600

timothyu · 2026-02-24T14:07:59-0600

Many happy returns of the day. Personally I look forward to 80F weather.

Jan001 · 2026-02-24T14:07:37-0600

Mercy Shown said:
The only imperative in the passage is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. The family's response to being saved was to be baptised. They did not rejoice because of baptism but because they believed.

Mark 16:16
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

keras · 2026-02-24T14:07:08-0600

eclipsenow said:
Who is this "you" he refers to? It's his audience.
Yes, 2,000 years ago.

Seriously bad conclusion.
The Bible is for everyone, at all times in history, now and future. Some directly applicable, the rest; as information and warnings.

Acts 13:41-42 is parallel to 2 Peter 3:3, .....in the last days..... and the 'doom', proclaimed by the Prophets remains unfulfilled. The 70AD conquest
of Judah by Rome, is not fully described by the Prophets, only by Jesus in Luke 21:23-24

eclipsenow said:
It's just utterly bewildering

To you, yes, and to anyone who looks at videos like you post.

rebornfree · 2026-02-24T14:06:46-0600

She dealt with that so well. I love the way that she simply said "He's not." when a bystander accused him of inciting hatred. That's what we need: more people saying that it is not inciting racial violence when we preach our gospel or say we that don't believe in Islam.

Christsfreeservant · 2026-02-24T14:05:33-0600

Richard T said:
I think healing is in the atonement, though very few walk in it entirely, it still is helpful for churches to teach God heals and pray for the sick such as anointing with oil in James. God too can make people rich. It is the love of money that is evil. As to preachers overcharging and being money motivated, there is lots of room to grow. Here is some scripture regarding "filthy lucre."

"On the surface it’s a quaint archaism. But it speaks of a deadly trap. “Filthy lucre” is used four times in the King James Bible and in each case it refers to a grave temptation for gospel ministers (1 Timothy 3:3,8; Titus 1:7; 1 Peter 5:2).

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind. (1 Peter 5:2)" Source: Filthy Lucre | The King’s English

Richard T, thank you for your response. Yes, God still heals. Yes, pray for people to be healed. God provides for people according to his plans and his purposes, but we should not be seekers of wealth and prosperity, but rather seekers of God and of his righteousness. And giving should never be about getting in return. We should give out of sincere hearts and pure love without expecting anything in return. And we should trust God to provide. And he will guide us and direct us in the way that he would have us to go.

PTW · 2026-02-24T14:03:59-0600

Acid Burn

Yarddog · 2026-02-24T14:01:55-0600

Michie said:
Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) President Clint Pressley voiced his support for proposed Tennessee legislation that would allow the death penalty to be imposed on a woman who has an abortion.

“I am glad to support HB 570 and SB 738, two bills in the Tennessee legislature that would protect every preborn child in Tennessee from abortion by providing preborn children with equal protection of the laws,” Pressley posted on X. “By protecting the lives of preborn children with the same laws that protect people who are born, we are simply loving our neighbors in the womb as ourselves.”

“Tennessee now has the opportunity to set an example of how states can protect the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death,” he continued. “I am urging the Tennessee legislature to move these bills forward this legislative session. It’s both pro-life and consistent!”

Continued below.

SBC President Clint Pressley Endorses Tennessee Bill Allowing Death Penalty for Abortion

SBC President Clint Pressley voiced support for Tennessee legislation that would treat abortion as homicide, potentially allowing life in prison or the death penalty. The bill has sparked praise and criticism within Southern Baptist circles.

churchleaders.com

He doesn't sound pro-life. All life is precious, whether born or unborn.

Dan Perez · 2026-02-24T13:59:33-0600

Jan001 said:
This is called "believing in vain." 1 Corinthians 15:2

And there some that quote 1 John 5:18 that says , WE know that WHOSOEVER is BORN of GOD. SINN ETH NOT.

and the b b word NOT. //. OU. , his a DISJUNATIVE PARTICLE NEGATIVE and means they can NEVER EVER SIN and just

check the Greek text !!

And the CONTEXT OF 1 John is happening during the GREAT. TRIBULATION. AS the BODY. of CHRIST WILL BE CAUGTH UP

in 2 Thess 2:1 and 3. it does not mean FALLING AWAY as the Greek word is DEPARTUIRE //. APOSTASIA

And in. verse 4. the temple has been rebuilt and the ANTICHRIST is sitting in. the TEMPLE calling Himself god and

read to verses 4-10

dan p

essentialsaltes · 2026-02-24T13:55:27-0600

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump

The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.

Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

NPR's investigation found dozens of pages that appear to be catalogued by the Justice Department but not shared publicly.

Justice Department spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre reiterated DOJ's stance that any documents not published are because they are privileged, duplicates or relate to an ongoing federal investigation.

Some of those documents were briefly taken down and put back online last week, while others remain hidden, according to NPR's comparison of the initial dataset from Jan. 30 with document metadata of those files currently on the Justice Department website.

"Just as President Trump has said, he's been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein," White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told NPR in a statement.

The FBI interviewed this Trump and Epstein accuser four times.

Only the first interview, conducted July 24, 2019, is in the public database. That interview does not mention Trump.

Of 15 documents listed in a log of the Maxwell discovery material for this first accuser, only seven are in the Epstein files database. Those missing also include notes that accompany three of the interviews. The discrepancy in the file for the Trump accuser was first reported by independent journalist Roger Sollenberger.

hedrick · 2026-02-24T13:54:47-0600

Nithavela said:
Actually the amount of people with criminal convictions who are taken into this deportation system is closer to 5%.

That's a little low. Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows 60% had some kind of record, but mostly not violent crimes. Traffic violations and weed possession count. That also counts people accused and not convicted.

The number of non-criminals is actually going up. The chart here As ICE Arrests Increased, a Higher Portion Had No U.S. Criminal Record - FactCheck.org makes it look like they're reaching the limit of criminals and increasing getting others.

Lost4words · 2026-02-24T13:50:15-0600

99% of the prophesies came to fruition in 70AD.......

Jesus is the 3rd Temple....fact.

joymercy · 2026-02-24T13:46:38-0600

Dave... · 2026-02-24T13:41:07-0600

The Liturgist said:
None of that contradicts the veneration given in Scripture to the Holy Martyrs like St. Stephen the Illustrious Protomartyr, one of the Seven Deacons, whose heroic martyrdom is depicted in Acts, or indeed St. John the Baptist, so, once again, we see eisegesis. For that matter, the veneration of the Theotokos is expressly based on Luke ch. 1.

I greatly dislike eisegesis.

Let me show you how that sounds. Catholic Priests didn't molest children, they venerated them. See what I mean? No matter how much spin you put on it, it is what it is. We all know what venerate means. Even you do. The Marxist game of redefining words doesn't trick people except the ones who want to be tricked. You get that, right? The ones who want to be tricked are idolators.

"He must increase, but I must decrease." Do you know who said that? John the Baptist. That's what John the Baptist thinks of you "venerating" him.

It's not that complicated. If it's a stumbling block to your brother, stop doing it. Romans 14:13-15, 1 Corinthians 8:13. Even if it's lawful to do, which BTW, what you're doing is not.

I'm not answering long winded posts of intellectual gibberish over something so simple. Back to the point at hand. All false religion, including Cupid, has it's source in 'Babylon the great, the mother of all harlots and the abominations of the earth'". You can reply to the Scripture in that OP if you like.

Dave

Servus · 2026-02-24T13:34:44-0600

essentialsaltes said:
It's NIke. It's Greco-Roman symbology, borrowed by American founders who hearkened back to the Greeks and the Roman Republic.

Victory with arms. Victory bestowing a laurel wreath.

Exactly. Most DC architecture and American symbology is Greco-Roman. Unless it's Egyptian. The US ripped off the Greeks and Romans quite a bit. Democracy, the Senate...

LovebirdsFlying · 2026-02-24T13:33:36-0600

Mod Hat ON

We have a small cleanup. If your post is removed and you didn't get a notification, that's because it quotes a post that was removed.
Mod Hat OFF

Carl Emerson · 2026-02-24T13:33:23-0600

We need to consider the issue in a broader biblical context.

Jesus said He could only do what He saw the Father doing.

Faith comes from Hearing the Word of Christ.

To have faith He must have spoken it to you - then the mountain will move and the sick will be healed.

You will notice also the following verses where forgiveness is essential if your prayers are to be effective.

Pommer · 2026-02-24T13:30:15-0600

RocksInMyHead said:
LLMs (which is all we have on the market right now) are not the least bit intelligent. They can produce an illusion of intelligence through conversation, but all they're doing is rearranging words in what they calculate to be a likely correct way.

Hey, this is my schtick!

Postvieww · 2026-02-24T13:16:05-0600

Pommer said:
How long is election data in Georgia supposed to be held for?

I believe GA law requires a 2 year retention for most records. The FBI did seize many records so that was not followed in every case.

chevyontheriver · 2026-02-24T13:02:34-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found
(story from January)

All told, these computations produced 12 billion detections—"momentary blips of energy at a particular frequency coming from a particular point in the sky," according to computer scientist and project co-founder David Anderson.

After 10 years of work, the SETI@home team has now finished analyzing those detections, winnowing them down to about a million "candidate" signals and then to 100 that are worth a second look. They have been pointing China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, a radio telescope referred to as FAST, at these targets since July, hoping to see the signals again.

Though the FAST data are not yet analyzed, Anderson admits he doesn't expect to find a signal from ET. But the results of the SETI@home project—presented in two papers published last year in The Astronomical Journal—provide lessons for future searches and point to potential flaws in ongoing searches.

Despite its failure to find ET, was SETI@home a success?

"I'd say it went way, way, way beyond our initial expectations," Anderson said. "When we were designing SETI@home, we tried to decide whether it was worth doing, whether we'd get enough computing power to actually do new science.Our calculations were based on getting 50,000 volunteers. Pretty quickly, we had a million volunteers. It was kind of cool, and I would like to let that community and the world know that we actually did some science."

Most current SETI searches—including the 10-year-old Breakthrough Listen project—are targeted searches rather than all-sky scans. That is, they look for technosignatures from specific nearby stars or more distant stars that have been found to harbor planets. The radio telescopes used, such as the Greenbank Telescope in West Virginia and the MeerKAT array in South Africa, are still only capable of detecting an Arecibo-sized transmitter relatively nearby, in galactic terms.

Several years ago I signed up with seti@home so my excess CPU capacity could be used for this. I later shifted to folding@home, which analyzed protein folding. Both were worthy endeavors. I am a bit sad that SETI hasn't yet found anything yet, and I'm hoping they do keep it up.

We hope the site problems here are now solved, however, if you still have any issues, please start a ticket in Contact Us

New Posts

New Posts

Democrats Have Settled On How To Rebuke Trump At This Year’s SOTU​

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump​

Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found​

Filter

Forum statistics

Share this page

Democrats Have Settled On How To Rebuke Trump At This Year’s SOTU

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump

Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found