Linda426 said:

As far as anyone else if forced and could defend themselves, otherwise, they become a victim, right?

The whole point is having to feel forced
To defend yourself, thats why those
Officials were forced to do what they otherwise
Would not have to do!

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Smart man, but that is what is not
Being enforced by all the ppl who
Have an issue of Officials forced to
Defend against their very lives?

Bob Crowley said:

I don't know of any reason why you would not be able to marry the lady in question.

Your first wife committed adultery which is sufficient grounds for an annulment anyway as far as I know.

You validly married your second wife in the Catholic Church, but she has since died. As the vow states, marriage is "till death do us part".

As far as I can tell you are now free to marry the lady you are interested in.

But to really put your mind at rest, talk to a priest. They know the ins and outs of canon law as it is part of their training.

PS - I notice one of your other posts has to do with the Eucharist. If you still haven't sorted that one out, then I'd suggest you talk to the priest about that as well.

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Not sure why my prior reply doesn't show up but here goes nothing...

I do not believe Adultery in itself was grounds, it was the pattern of adultery and what they called intention against fidelity. I.E. she had zero intent to be faithful in marriage before or during...

My second wife and I married in the Baptist church, although as I understand it the Catholic Church considers it a valid marriage that was terminated by her passing.

The annulment from my first wife has been granted, still waiting on the final letter but to my understanding she did not nor would she have any reason to appeal / contest it...

Lastly the issue with the Eucharist was explained by someone here in a manner that actually makes perfect sense... (Sorry Father Bob... )

Working through the Catechism in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz and he is answering most of the sticking points well...

Day 144, so I have a long way to go and at least for now, I have some serious questions that need to get resolved...


For what it's worth. The whole marriage / divorce / annulment thing is not high on my recommendation list. Going through this process does open up a lot of old wounds, but as they say, light is the best disninfectant...

Did they miss seeing the videos?

Noone is FOR violence, yet they found themselves creating what led to Officials having to defend against their own life,
So id like to seriously ask Clinton and Obama
( who i respect very much) why not support
The Officials who are out in the streets
Advocating for Peace and finding themselves
In danger for their own lives?

Why wouldnt these brilliant men advocate
Citizens to stay home and allow them to
Do their jobs, btw, are for our Security!

Last night was a wonderful night. My son felt well, was laughing and talking to friends and I am very thankful for it. Tonight he is feeling bad again. Please once again pray for my son Jakeb. Please ask God to heal him mind and body and give him happiness. I'm so sad. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and God bless you.

He served as President of Criswell College, Academic Dean at Midwestern Baptist Seminary,
Dean of Boyce College, and Chairman of the Board at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He was the President and CEO of National Religious Broadcasters (NRB).

What we want is not the same as who we are.


“I couldn’t help seducing my best friend’s wife. It’s just my nature.”

“I’m a hothead. I admit it. I was born that way. Deal with it.”

“You say I’m a liar, but I say you’re a loser. I’m good at lying, and I play the game with whatever nature gave me.”

“I’m a woman in a man’s body. Stop denying my reality.”

Popular culture drums into us the theme that each person’s nature is different. So far, we are oddly selective. For example, the idea of a promiscuous nature is greeted much more warmly than the idea of an adulterous one. Still, if we can have different natures, then how can we be measured by the same natural law?

People are different. From the fact that their personalities are different, though, it doesn’t follow that their natures are different. The virtues are good for all human beings; the vices are bad for all of them. If, for example, I have stronger inclinations to philandering, bad temper or drunkenness than you do, that doesn’t show that I have a different nature or a different virtue than you do, but that I have a character defect. If so, then truly “affirming” me wouldn’t mean encouraging my disordered desires, but encouraging me to keep them in check.


When it comes to drunkenness, most people get this. We don’t say I have a “drunk nature” so that I should get smashed every day; instead we encourage sobriety. Unfortunately, when it comes to certain other areas of life, we don’t get it. To mention just one of them: We call it mean and “judgmental” to encourage sexual purity, because “each person has a different nature.” You may be a one-woman man, but for all you know I’m a 64-woman man. Don’t judge me, bro.

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July 1, 2026 will dawn, and with it shall come either joy or sorrow; the Church shall either rejoice in her greater unity with the new bishops, perhaps even with the participation of a consecrator delegated by the Pope, or she shall be wounded further by deeper division. Iam hora est – now is the time to make a difference.

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At a difficult time for America, Super Bowl advertisers asked viewers to take care of themselves and others — and maybe even crack a smile.

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If you want healthy food, experts say to eat what’s local, organic and in-season. Those foods benefit the planet too, because they are less taxing on the soil and they don’t travel as far.

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Trump voters urge him to tone down the rhetoric and focus more on domestic issues, especially clearer pathways to legal status for law-abiding immigrants, healthcare reform, curbing waste and fraud, and lowering US debt.

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Logically an aging population might indicate a higher homicide rate.

"Don't (anger) old people; "life in prison" isn't that much of a deterrent for them." - George Carlin

rjs330 said:

I think Americans should have a right to take some of their social security payout and put it into an investment portfolio.

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Americans already can invest as much of their SS payouts as they choose. What you want is for them to self-invest their pay in money. What happens when they need that money for emergencies or schooling or housing? We already know what happens.

rjs330 said:

It could even be capped at a certain risk level, so that they could just toss it into some real risky investments.

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Could or couldn't? Qualified retirement accounts already have this stipulation, if I'm not mistaken.

Some people would invest well and wisely; others would not. We already know this as anyone can already invest their loose change. The point of SS is to not end up with a population of impoverished seniors alongside their luckier, more investment savvy brethren.

dms1972 said:

Yeah Michael Polanyi is good. Have read a bit of him, not much though. Actually its writers like Karl Stern I find helpful at the moment. CS Lewis too.

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If Karl Stern and C.S. Lewis are lighting the way for you, then go with them. But Dru Johnson is worth a read, too, I think.

ThatRobGuy said:

If that was what it was being chalked up to, you'd think they would've made some sort of notation, or did a re-issue with the correction in the days following the actual event.

Given intense scrutiny that entire situation was under (one of the highest profile criminals of our generation being found dead in a jail amid security cameras that magically stopped working for a few minutes in the HVI wing of a special protected cell block) seems like the sort of circumstances that would lead to official information releases being reviewed with a fine tooth comb.

Not to mention, a lot of times those documents are generated via templates that automatically populate what the current date is on header for the letterhead. And if it was typed in manually and wrong (it's literally the 2nd thing on the sheet), that's a pretty big flop for reviewers to miss.

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I was just kidding.

It's an epidemic: In the US, Turkey, Greece, France, Romania and probably elsewhere, governments have been using the judiciary to try and get rid of the opposition.

Michie said:

The Left is desperate to make lawful deportation in America a giant, impossible mess to deal with.

According to a new media narrative, President Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security are behaving irresponsibly by conducting more immigration raids around the country, which in turn have allegedly led to violence against innocent civilians and illegal aliens.

And if you’ve been listening to Democrats, you’d think that the reason that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is particularly active in blue states is that the Trump administration is being mean to them for political reasons.

Their reasoning goes that Trump wants to occupy and bully their states with ICE “terrorists” who spend their time murdering innocent American citizens for no reason other than to cruelly “own the libs.”

“This is retribution-style politics,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in a recent CNN interview. “This is drama. This is performance politics at its worst, and it’s hurting people and it’s making us less safe.”

This is projection. It’s Frey and friends who are all about “performance politics.” They desperately want to convey the idea that Trump’s immigration enforcement policies are the real problem.

But the narrative that aggressive ICE enforcement in blue states is just some kind of political retribution is bunk for many reasons. The biggest one is that Democrats have actively pursued policies that would lead to a confrontation with the federal government over immigration law.

This is happening by design.

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Here's Why There Are More ICE Raids in Blue States

Democrat politicians and their activist supporters certainly know that sanctuary policies encourage more aggressive ICE enforcement.

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The chaos is created by "leaders" who would rather promote rioting in their streets than follow the law.
The trump haters are not in favor of anything he does.
Comments such as claiming
Ice going into communities and jails
And finding these ppl have no criminal
Background other then entering through
The Border???
Like that is not a Crime to enter in
Illegally, when crime escalated during
The years illegals were being allowed in
Is a real problem, worse in Sanctuary Cities
And hopefully Trump will take down any
Sanctuary City to no longer abuse the
Initial reason they were created in the first
Place, thats already a proven fact.

Go Trump

A new case before Europe’s human rights court could reopen a long-running fight over Christianity’s place in public life—this time inside Greece’s courtrooms.

For several years now, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has made the presence of Christian images and symbols in public spaces one of its recurring battles. After Italy was pressured through litigation to remove crucifixes from its schools, Greece is now being targeted over the presence of holy icons in its courts. Italy ultimately won its case. Will Greece succeed in safeguarding this essential part of its historical and spiritual heritage?

Some cases have a long life. In 2009, the ECtHR issued a ruling requiring Italy to remove crucifixes from public schools. The unprecedented mobilisation of twenty-one European states alongside Italy forced it to back down, and two years later, in 2011, in the case known as Lautsi v. Italy, it finally handed down a ruling in favour of Italy’s position, allowing it to keep its crucifixes.

The Lautsi case was followed by a period of relative calm in the fight against the presence of religious symbols (Christian, needless to say) in public spaces.

In 2020, a request was filed inviting the ECtHR to take up another contentious case: the presence of Orthodox icons in Greek courts.

The offensive came from an atheist association, the Union of Atheists of Greece. The first appeals were lodged in 2018 and 2019. The applicants requested the removal of Christian symbols displayed in the courtroom during hearings on religious matters. They argued that the presence of these icons was discriminatory, compromised the objectivity of the court, and violated their right to a fair trial, as well as their right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.

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Always in His Presence said:

Did you not read your link?

From the link:

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Across this series of polls conducted through web‑based interviews, Trump’s approval among low-income voters ranged from a low of 34 percent to a high of 38 percent. Disapproval consistently sat in the mid‑50s to low‑60s.

Support from low-income groups is not collapsing; it is eroding. In one year, it eroded nearly 20 percent. Do you think Trump can turn things around?

Good observations, When I read the history of marriage, it seems that thru the centuries there have been many reasons to marry. To keep a kingly line going, so cement business associations, for love. Thru much of history it was a union that really helped people life, a division of labor, the jobs that took more strength (plowing a field) and interaction with nature and other groups of people(trading) and the live stock, crops and house chores.

I've heard of so many marriages that over the years just become friends.

Marriage itself has changed from who authorized the marriage, thru early history it was the family patriarch that defined who married who. Then the church said they were the ones who authorized marriage. Finally, in the 1500 the government became the ones authorizing marriage. Thru this whole period there were couple who just said forget all that and decided for themselves who they lived with and under what worked fro them! So despite the church saying there is one way marriage should be done, it's never worked that way.
That's not to mention all the other ways genders have done relationships thru the years.

They put people in jail for praying in front of abortion clinics, but they do this and walk free.
And then we have to go to their wars?
Wicked world eh.

Media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in Hong Kong​

Lai was found guilty on charges of sedition and conspiracy to collude with foreign forces. He had pleaded not guilty.

It is the harshest sentence delivered to anyone under the sweeping national security law since Beijing introduced it as part of crackdowns in 2020.

The sentence has been widely condemned by human rights groups, with Human Rights Watch calling the length of the sentence "effectively a death sentence." [Lai is 78]

Amnesty International said it was "another grim milestone in Hong Kong’s transformation from a city governed by the rule of law to one ruled by fear."

Meanwhile, Beijing and Hong Kong officials welcomed the penalty, with Hong Kong’s leader John Lee saying Lai deserved the 20-year prison sentence for his "evil deeds."

jacorian said:

It's not the whodunit that one may think. See the folks keep thinking that someone who is adulterous is automatically a pedophile. They are 2 very different behaviors if you open up an abnormal psych text. That goes for Clinton is well. Pedofilia is a much different problem & frankly I don't think Trump or Clinton fit that bill. The reason why it's played up so much is because the people are acting on emotion, not cogent arguments. They want it to be true. Now we do know that some of the victims have already received a payout. If there was an unusually young female, I doubt very much that 25 years later they would remember any particular details.

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So as long as it’s not pedophilia, by which you presumably mean here sex with anyone under 18, it’s really OK? If that’s your standard then Bill was cool too. Maybe. Then nothing sordid happened.

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