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The Simpsons star Pamela Hayden RETIRES after voicing iconic character for 35 years

Pamela Hayden is officially retiring from The Simpsons after voicing an iconic character on the animated Fox series for 35 years.


The actress, 70, notably portrayed Milhouse Van Houten - one of Bart Simpson's friends. She also voiced a variety of other characters during her time on the show, including Jimbo Jones and Chief Wiggum's wife, Sarah Wiggum.

In a statement, per Deadline, Hayden expressed, 'The time has come for me to hang up my microphone, but how do I say goodbye to The Simpsons?....Not easily.'

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He Is So UNFAILING

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“He Is So UNFAILING”
Psalm 115: 1 NLT
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name goes all the glory for your unfailing love and faithfulness”

A few weeks back, we sang a song at church called “This We Know” by Vertical Worship. The last few words of the chorus are “Jesus, You are unfailing”. As I pondered that day and still ponder days and weeks after, I think of all the things in life that fail us.

We get our hopes up for so many things in life that end up disappointing us and letting us down. We look forward to things and events that are coming up, but then something goes wrong and we’re left heartbroken. People make promises and then break them. We put a lot of hope into electronic gadgets that we buy, hoping they will never break, but they often do or lose connection. Our vehicles break down and need repair. People break our hearts. We lose our jobs. Moms lose their baby.

The list could go on and on of the terrible heartbreaks that set us back and make us question why God allows so much to happen when we dedicate our lives to serving Him. But remember that Jesus never promised us an easy life if we follow Him. He promised just the opposite. He wants us to put our hope in Him alone. Everything in life and everyone will, in some way, fail us somehow. Maybe intentionally or unintentionally, but still will.

We need to be reminded always that God is 100% loving and faithful. That will never change. His love and faithfulness will remain forever. That’s great news when we look around and see so many horrible things going wrong in life today. We need something constant and that won’t break our heart….again!

He will NEVER fail us. As much as I’ve been hurt by plans failing and by other people, I know that God will never fail me. I may not understand why He allows things to happen as He does, but I know He’s never going to fail me. I can count on Him no matter what.

He is so UNFAILING!
Amen, brother. Well said!
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As a church we have to be devoted to teaching the truth

I decided not to follow catholic church but focus on preaching the good news of the gospel to everyone to declare it that all can be saved even if not possible to do work that one only needs to seek to help just one at a time and always after each person who maybe only those who specially it is their responsibility to help but incase any person who you see needs help that must always seek to help one at a time and God may not let one die if he wants that and if seeking will be possible otherwise will accept to seek to do is enough to not distract others from what is most important to seek to follow christ fully to do works incase you need to do when possible and if others want they can follow catholic or orthodox church.
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Trump Admin’s ‘Pro-Family’ Rhetoric May Face Reality Check in Washington

With hopes for significantly bolstering the per child credit dimmed amid a looming tax battle, conservatives are looking for other ways to boost families under Trump.

The incoming Trump administration’s campaign promises to make having kids more affordable, such as by bolstering the child tax credit, will likely face stiff challenges amidst a forthcoming tax battle, including from fellow Republicans.

Despite the GOP’s “trifecta” of control over the House, Senate and White House heading into the new term, intra-party concerns over government spending, a reshuffling of congressional leadership, and opposition from Democrat opponents are all factors that could limit the new administration’s ability to put robust “pro-family” policies into practice.

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DNC Financial Director lists what led to this 1 billion dollar Harris disaster.

They will be very angry for the next four years.

They should have chose a better candidate, preferably someone who can speak in full sentences.
Kamala always spoke in full sentences, as the sentences she spoke in were full, as full sentences are essential when speaking about full sentences. She will tell you about full sentences, because she knows full sentences are important if you want the sentences to be full.
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Harris lost to Trump. She may have one last chance to defy him.

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party want to put as many progressive leftist judges into the federal courts as they possibly can. It doesn't matter to the progressive leftist that the majority of the voters in the majority of the states in America have rejected progressive left wing policies. The Democratic Party refuses to acknowledge that facts showing most people in most states have voted against their Progressive left wing agenda.
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Did Jesus have to keep the Law to achieve atonement and break it's curse?

Considering that the ongoing Laws were mediated by angels - do you think there is any possible credence to the suggestion that Satan could have been involved in this process resulting in the laws being more binding than what was intended ???
well, of course. how many of those are in the 66 books of the bible i don't know.

what i do know is the oral torah and the case history and the "rules"

--are the length of 4 sets of encyclopedias.
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Scientology asks SCOTUS to give the church freedom to handle rape cases in religious arbitration

So basically, just like Sharia law, but instead of clerics, a bunch of wanna-be actors who think their existence is the result of alien spirits being dropped into a volcano, as told to them by a failed Sci-Fi writer who fancied himself a sea captain.


This is why any request (from any religion, ranging from the well-established/mainstream to the downright comically goofy) to be able to "handle matters internally, in place of the public court system" should always be met with a resounding "Not a chance buddy"
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Homan stresses the need to save 300,000 missing children in border crisis

Should leaders who allowed the illegal entry of these innocent children be charged? They were complicit. They knew these children would not be cared for. They knew the probability of this development was high. They should be investigated. Set up the tribunal. Anyone who hid or helped in this illegal activity should be detained and questioned. Where are these children? What did they do with them? We need to know. They need to be found and rescued. Top of the list for the new DOJ. Stop obsessing over Trump and start enforcing the law.
I am not surprised.

How Will Trump Impact Abortion, Gender, and Migration Policies in Latin America?

Casillas also said Trump could be expected to support policies that restrict abortion funding in other countries.

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Politicizing Hurricane Milton

The Department of Education issued those loans. Biden told the people who had outstanding debt that they didn't have to pay those loans back. The Supreme Court stated that Biden didn't have that authority.
Actually not true. If you believe this you need to read Biden v. Missouri again. What that case decided was that Biden did not have the authority to forgive student loans using the HEROES Act. In other words, this specific tool was not one that could be used that way.
He ignored them and went ahead and erased those loans-funds that we, as taxpayers, will now have to pay to the bank.
He didn't ignore them though. He listened to them, dropped his attempt to forgive loans through the HEROES Act, and looked for and found some other way to reach his goal. He ended up using more targeted forgiveness using some provisions of the Higher Education Act instead of his earlier blanket approach. It's as if the goal to forgive loans was a room and BIden tried to go through one door and was told he couldn't so he just looked until he found a different door he could use.
This was a campaign promise of Biden.
I'm not denying that.
I'm not sure why you are trying to say Biden didn't do this.
I'm not saying Biden didn't implement some student loan forgiveness, I'm just rebutting the implication this was some sort of rouge act instead of Biden using his authority as President as specifically granted by Congress. In other words, if Congress didn't want him to be able to fulfill his promise of meeting this goal, they should have amended the HEA.
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No Meat on Fridays? Some Bishops Say It’s a Good Idea

Proposal that aims to bring back rule that US bishops lifted in 1966 has a following.

A suggestion by an Eastern Rite bishop that Catholics in the United States once again give up eating meat on Fridays throughout the year has drawn interest from more than a dozen bishops in the country.

Several bishops told the Register they hope the U.S. bishops discuss the idea at their next gathering in June 2025.

But an early canvas suggests a renewed practice, if it occurs, might look different from the Church’s previous rule, which forbade Catholics from eating meat on almost all Fridays of the year under pain of mortal sin. Several bishops told the Register they don’t want to go that route.

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Bonhoeffer movie

I definitely want to see this movie but the term “assassin” as part of his description seems a problem. His support of the plot against Hitler was surely solid but I believe he agonized over what had to be done all the same. Of his writings I have read: The Cost of Discipleship ( which I randomly noticed on a Salvation Army used book rack years ago having never heard of Pastor Bonhoeffer), Letters and Papers from Prison, Life Together & some collected pieces.

The pretty good biography by Eric Metaxis uses the words, “pastor, martyr, prophet, spy” to describe Dietrich Bonhoeffer. These words seem much more accurate, I think.
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Parents group wants federal probe of whites-only, anti-racist affinity groups in Boston schools

A parental rights advocacy group is calling for a federal investigation into Boston Public Schools after leaked internal documents show the district organized racially-segregated affinity groups for teachers and parents, which included programs intended for whites only.

Parents Defending Education filed a complaint last week through the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s office in Boston, requesting an investigation to determine whether BPS’ actions violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Boston Public Schools did not immediately respond to The Christian Post’s request for comment.

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Laken Riley's mom confronts killer; Jose Ibarra sentenced to life in prison

The mother of Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant earlier this year, wept as she begged the judge to sentence the killer to life in prison, asking that he not receive mercy when he showed none to her daughter or the family he destroyed.

Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life in prison without parole for Riley’s murder Wednesday.

The verdict by Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge H. Patrick Haggard marked the conclusion of a bench trial that began last week.

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Louisiana can force some schools to display Ten Commandments, appeals court rules

A federal appeals court has limited the scope of a lower court ruling that prohibited Louisiana from enforcing a new law that requires the placement of Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued an order last Friday allowing the law requiring the Decalogue displays to take effect in the school districts that do not have parents challenging the measure. The law is slated to take effect on New Year's Day.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill celebrated the order, saying in a statementshe looks forward to "immediately working with all of our school boards who are not involved in this lawsuit to implement the law soon!”

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