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Joseph G · Nov 5, 2024

Astrid · Nov 5, 2024

Kylie said:
Are you a chemist? Do you have an education in chemistry?

Chemists and English majors know that “sodium” and “chlorine” are not proper nouns.

Oompa Loompa · Nov 5, 2024

Fantine said:
In his heart of hearts he knows that the overwhelming majority of Trump supporters are not "garbage," and that even the extremists should be described more politically correctly.

You are approaching dangerously close to the "there were good people on both sides" conundrum.

Valletta · Nov 5, 2024

The lawsuit came after the MEC announced over the weekend that some precincts may be limited to only one Republican and one Democratic poll watcher on Election Day.

https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/republican-group-sues-milwaukee-for-shutting-out-poll-workers/

Keep an eye out for wrongdoing in Milwaukee and Detroit.

JSRG · Nov 5, 2024

RileyG said:
Yikes!

Yikes... what? That pornography exists? I guess that does merit a "yikes" in some capacity but it's well known enough that it's not exactly new information.

I'm wondering if perhaps you are misunderstanding what I was saying. The poster I responded to asked if it was true that hentai came from anime, or whether it was the other way around, and I pointed out it was the other way around; that is, that hentai came from anime.

To clarify the definitions of these terms: In English, the term "anime"--taken from Japanese--means Japanese animation. So if it's a cartoon and it's from Japan, it's an anime, though sometimes the term is also used to refer to animation from outside of Japan that is influenced by Japanese animation. Hentai is another English word taken from Japanese that, in English, is primarily used to refer to pornographic anime, though it can also be used to refer to explicit comics or video games of Japanese origin. The terms anime and hentai have somewhat different connotations originally in the Japanese language, but that's what they mean in English.

With that in mind, it's obvious that hentai came from anime, because it's impossible to have pornography in any medium before the medium itself. For example, magazines didn't come from Playboy, rather Playboy came from magazines; first you had magazines, then someone decided to use the medium for explicit material like Playboy. That's the same way it is with anime.

ThatRobGuy · Nov 5, 2024

Bradskii said:
If I were voting I'd be doing it based on policies. But if the policy positions were reversed then it's not that I wouldn't vote for Trump. I actually couldn't. Because it would mean that I'd have to ignore the type of man he is and what he has said and done. And that I cannot do. Pick any other Republican and if the policies were reversed, I've vote for them.

But I will not say that the type of man he is can be overlooked. And for a lot of people, excused.

Which is why I went with "couch/pizza"... (figuratively speaking, I did show up to the polls and vote for some state and local stuff, but I left the president one blank)

I don't like Trump's character with regards to how he conducts himself (and only agree with him on about 50% of policy issues), while Kamala's personality flaws (on individual level) are fewer, I don't like Kamala's inability to stand up to more radical element of her base. (and same deal with her, I only agree with her on about 50% of policy issues)

Neither team made a compelling enough case for me in 2024.

If you want me to overlook the flaws, the policy-alignment percentage has to be closer to ~80%...not 50%.

mourningdove~ · Nov 5, 2024

Michie said:
Mark Halperin predicts 'greatest mental health crisis' in US history if Trump defeats Harris

Legos, Cocoa, and Coloring Books for Georgetown Students

On Wednesday, the day after the election, most of us are going to roll out of bed, have our breakfast, and get on with our day—no matter which presidential candidate wins. But students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy—where diplomats and policymakers are molded—have another option: They can play with Legos. Seriously.

In an email to McCourt students, Jaclyn Clevenger, the school’s director of student engagement, introduced the school’s post-election “Self-Care Suite.”

“In recognition of these stressful times,” she wrote, “all McCourt community members are welcome to gather. . . in the 3rd floor Commons to take a much needed break, joining us for mindfulness activities and snacks throughout the day.”

Here’s the agenda (and no, you can’t make this up):

10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: Tea, Cocoa, and Self-Care
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Legos Station
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.: Healthy Treats and Healthy Habits
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Coloring and Mindfulness Exercises
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: Milk and Cookies
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.: Legos and Coloring
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Snacks and Self-Guided Meditation

I wanted to ask Clevenger why college and graduate students needed milk and cookies to recover from their stress—and how being coddled in college might someday affect American diplomacy—but she didn’t respond to my calls or emails.

Of course, Georgetown is hardly the only school fearful that their students will be traumatized after the election. At Missouri State University, the counseling center has set up a post-election “self-care no phone zone space” with calm jars, coloring pages, and sensory fidgets.

And just last week, The New York Times reported that Fieldston, the elite New York City private school, was making attendance the day after Election Day optional for “students who feel too emotionally distressed.” Fieldston has also eliminated all homework requirements that day, and is even providing psychologists for “Election Day Support.”

Legos, Cocoa, and Coloring Books for Georgetown Students

At the McCourt School of Public Policy, officials are offering ‘mindfulness’ options to cope with the election. The only thing missing is a blankie.

www.thefp.com

RileyG · Nov 5, 2024

Michie said:
I think Lila Rose took the (less) abortion stance since stopping abortion seems to be her calling.

Me too. I voted for Trump today.

tonychanyt · Nov 5, 2024

Matthew 13:

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it."

The merchant paid for the pearl. Did he pay to get into the kingdom of heaven?

If we have to literally sell everything that we have to get into the kingdom of heaven, who will do it?

Not many.

But there is good news. Paul said salvation was a free gift in Ephesians 2:

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

We cannot earn our salvation. Only Christ could pay the price.

1 Peter 1:

18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ.

For us, salvation is free.

Isaiah 55:

1Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Revelation 22:

17 The Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come.' And let the one who hears say, 'Come.' And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

Did the merchant purchase a ticket to get into the kingdom of heaven?

No. The parable was not about purchasing a ticket. It is about the worth of the kingdom of heaven. Even if you have to sell everything to get it, the kingdom of heaven is worth that.

Moreover, there is a cost to being a disciple. Lk 14:

33 Therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.

Jesus demands everything from a disciple. Jesus is our Lord.

See also

JUSTIFICATION by works, grace, or faith?

Leaf473 · Nov 5, 2024

Amen

Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 13:5 - New Life Version

But I have trusted in Your loving-kindness. My heart will be full of joy because You will save me.

www.biblegateway.com

mourningdove~ · Nov 5, 2024

Michie said:
Allen Jackson reveals how 'inadequate understanding of Scripture' drives non-voting

Allen Jackson is on a prayer-filled mission to help Christians navigate the complexities of an ever-contentious election cycle, offering advice on how to respond if one's chosen candidate loses.

Jackson, pastor of World Outreach Church in Nashville, Tennessee, saw his church organize a 48-hour prayer event over the weekend, encouraging believers to lift America up to God.

"We've been praying for our nation for weeks and weeks now but, as we approach the election, we wanted to make a bit of a more focused effort," he recently told "Higher Ground With Billy Hallowell." "So, we took out a 48-hour block of time."

Continued below.

What should people do if their candidate loses? Pastor explains

Allen Jackson is on a prayer-filled mission to help Christians navigate the complexities of an ever-contentious election cycle, offering advice on how to respond if one s chosen candidate loses

www.christianpost.com

I think it's good ... healthy ... to start talking about these things.

After the last rally last nite, knowing it would be the last, it felt very sad.

We have now entered into the next 'phase', and soon one neighbor will be happy with the end results, and another will not.

Because myself and many many others have prayed much, and voted (or not), we now leave the rest to God and accept whatever comes. We trust God. That is the journey of the Christian here on earth; this world is not our home. And God will be with us, whether we are happy or sad during this next phase ...

SimplyMe · Nov 5, 2024

Vambram said:
He got targeted by a liberal leftist "justice system" and the leftist liberal judge is showing his extreme bias. This is more evidence and proof of the weaponization of justice and the lawfare waged against Donald Trump and his friends and allies.

Actually, no. The issue you have here is that Giuliani admitted that he did what he was accused of, though he tried to use legal trickery to claim that he didn't defame the women.

If you want to argue that it wasn't the verdict but the size of the damages, then that also largely falls on Giuliani as he has consistently tried to hide what assets he owns and, worse, appears to have taken steps to hide his true net worth. To be fair, he wasn't initially hiding assets from this particular court but from his wife in divorce court, and because he was hiding his assets there he had to keep hiding them here. As such, the court and jurors had to rely on estimates of what Giuliani's net worth was and, since Giuliani refused to say what they are, the courts are typically going to assume the net worth is on the high side of the estimates (why would someone continue to hide their assets if they were lower than what the court is assuming?).

While it may not appear to be "fair," the facts do not support any sort of "law fair," rather just Giuliani bringing it all on himself.

Michie · Nov 5, 2024

A day after urging sex abuse victims of current or former leaders of the embattled Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, to report their abuse to elders, longtime elder at the megachurch, Tra Willbanks, revised his advice on Sunday, urging them instead to “go to the police first.”

The revision of Willbanks’ comments, which was first highlighted on X by survivor advocate Amy Smith, came during the longtime elder’s presentation of an overview of a four-month internal investigation led by the law firm Haynes & Boone into allegations that the church’s founder, Robert Morris, sexually assaulted Cindy Clemishire for more than four years beginning when she was 12 in the 1980s.

After presenting his overview of the report, which led to the removal of multiple elders who knew that Clemishire had made claims that she was sexually abused as a minor by Morris prior to her story being made public on June 14, Willbanks urged members during the church’s Saturday afternoon service to report any claims of sexual abuse by current or former leaders to the church.

Continued below.

Gateway Church edits advice to abuse victims: ‘Go to the police first,’ not church

A day after urging sex abuse victims of current or former leaders of the embattled Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, to report their abuse to elders, longtime elder at the megachurch, Tra

www.christianpost.com

SimplyMe · Nov 5, 2024

Fervent said:
The legislature isn't the only branch of government that needs to be involved in protecting the interests of rural areas, the executive needs to have a reason to as well.

It's not that rural voters are more exceptional, but that serving the interests of those rural areas is essential to having a truly federal government.

And by this logic, serving the interests of Blacks is essential to having a truly federal government. Serving the issues of gays is essential to having a truly federal government.

Again, one person, one vote allows all to have their interests be equally represented.

Fervent said:
And this isn't just my opinion, this is why the founders put the electoral college in in the first place. It was to protect the less populace southern states from having their interests subverted by the more populace northern states.

No, it really wasn't. It was a series of compromises that led to the Electoral College. Some was to make it so states (typically state legislatures) be allowed to vote for President rather than holding a popular vote. Some of it was the 3/5ths rule -- to give a way for the Presidential vote to reflect the fact that slaves were counted as 3/5ths of people, even while not being allowed to vote -- so that the Southern states got to count slaves in the tally for President. It is funny you mentioned the "southern states" not having interests subverted but fail to bring up that it all revolved around slavery (both the 3/5ths compromise and to prevent Northern states from making laws about slavery).

The idea of it being to protect the smaller states was not part of the debate -- it was an idea that they came up with after the fact in trying to "sell" the Constitution, and the Electoral College, and get it ratified (particularly to Northern smaller states that had less power because of the 3/5ths compromise).

Fervent said:
There may be tweaks needed to the electoral college to make it better, but switching to a popular vote would render the federal government even more invested in the interests of populous states and we'd likely see issues from that similar to the precipitating issues that led to the great depression. So its not about giving rural voters more power as a minority, but recognizing that even though there are fewer people in those rural areas their interests are often of greater impact to the interests of the federal government since these areas supply critical goods.

As for other minority interest groups, there do need to be protections in the structures of government for those groups. But those protections come from other areas like the Bill of Rights and judicial system. The interests of rural voters is of critical concern to the operation of government, and would likely be ignored if there wasn't some disportionate power given to the individual voters.

And, again, what is a president going to do to protect those interests? The President cannot pass laws -- he can only sign the laws Congress sends to the White House. Spending bills have to begin in the House of Representatives -- the President's budget can be (and typically is) largely ignored by Congress.

And you keep ignoring the point that the Electoral College really doesn't help the smaller states at all -- the battleground states that get the attention and who the President is interested in are still large states with large urban populations. Though, to be honest, the real issue with elections, that the Electoral College does nothing for, is that "rural issues" that are currently protected by the federal government are those promoted by the groups that donate the most money -- typically companies like Monsanto (now Bayer), Syngenta, Olam, Cargill, Foster Farms, etc -- which is why corporate farms now rule rural areas and are slowly killing off of family farms. The Electoral College does nothing, and has done nothing, to promote the interests of rural voters.

tonychanyt · Nov 5, 2024

No, angels and humans have different natures and purposes. Hebrews 1:

And to which of the angels has he ever said, 'Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'? Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

They inhabit different dimensions of the universe.

Psalm 8:

What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

In some sense man is lower than the angels but only temporarily.

1 Corinthians 6:

3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!

While angels are more powerful now, the redeemed humans will eventually judge angels and be elevated above them in status.

Rather than being "more divine," angels have different roles and natures. Angels serve God as messengers and servants, while humans are adopted as children and heirs.

Are angels more divine than humans?

No.

Are humans more divine than angels?

No.

mourningdove~ · Nov 5, 2024

Michie said:
“I shouldn’t have left, I mean, honestly. We did so well, we had such a great…” before trailing off, reflecting on his presidency and the state of the nation.

I think Trump genuinely feels very badly about what's happened to America under the Biden/Harris administration.
He loves this Country.

Yes, he said too much.
But when Trump is at a rally, he knows that he is amongst 'friends', and he is.
So he lets down his guard, is very open, and does sometimes say too much.

I will personally take Trump's 'too honest' statements anytime, as opposed to the phoney baloney stuff we hear from most politicians. But, that is just me. I've never had a hard time understanding Trump ...

tonychanyt · Nov 5, 2024

Numbers 17:

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers' house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers' houses, twelve staffs. Write each man's name on his staff, and write Aaron's name on the staff of Levi... And the staff of Aaron was among their staffs... On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.'

Aaron's staff was significant primarily because it validated the Aaronic priesthood through a miraculous sign. After a serious challenge to Aaron's authority (Korah's rebellion), God commanded each tribe to submit a staff. Only Aaron's staff miraculously budded, blossomed, and produced almonds overnight, demonstrating God's choice of Aaron and his descendants for the priesthood.

Hebrews 9:

4 Having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant."

The three items in the Ark each symbolized different aspects of God's relationship with Israel:

Tablets - God's Law and moral authority
Manna - God's provision and faithfulness
Aaron's Staff - God's chosen leadership and priesthood

Was Aaron’s staff the same one Moses used to part the Red Sea? If so then I totally get it! Or did Aaron have his own?

No, they were actually two different staffs. Moses' staff was famous for the miraculous signs in Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea. Aaron had his own staff, which budded and was later placed in the ark. It represented God's establishment of the priesthood, while Moses' staff represented leadership and deliverance.

mourningdove~ · Nov 5, 2024

It's encouraging to hear that persons are actually thinking thru their vote, and not voting just based on race.

I'll be happy when we get to heaven, where one's race will no longer be an issue for so many people.

BPPLEE · Nov 5, 2024

iluvatar5150 said:
You’re right, I should have worded that differently. Instead of “enter the country,” I should have said “be present in the country.”

So?

Sure, it’s a different offense, but it’s still illegal. It’s still a violation of the rules that so many on the right profess to hold sacrosanct. Why is this better or more moral than playing loosey goosey with an asylum application?

You’re on his side remember, he was an illegal immigrant, he was doing work no American wanted to do, I thought you were an advocate for people like him. Illegal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes and our economy would collapse without them. Have you forgotten all this?

RileyG · Nov 5, 2024

Fantine said:
A man in my subdivision has a huge banner with a wounded Trump nestled in Jesus' arms.
I've never met him but would just keep my distance.
He obviously has a very lively imagination.

That’s very odd.

RileyG · Nov 5, 2024

Valletta · Nov 5, 2024

essentialsaltes said:
And again for 2024:

Judge denies Missouri’s effort to block federal election monitors
Republican state leaders sued to ban the Justice Department from sending monitors into St. Louis County polling sites Tuesday.

In her nine-page ruling, Pitlyk cited a legal settlement between the Justice Department and the Board of Election Commissioners for the City of St. Louis signed in January 2021 under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

That agreement, which runs through July 11, 2025, outlines remedial steps that the elections board must take to improve ballot access for disabled people and stipulates that federal authorities be allowed to monitor the progress, including inside polling locations.

On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) also filed suit against the Justice Department to block monitors from going to eight counties in that state.

Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd (R) said last week that his office would not permit monitors in four counties in that state.

Legal experts said the federal government lost significant legal recourse in 2013, when the Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the 1965 [Voting Rights] act.

I am glad they worked out an agreement in Texas. There is no problem as long as the DOJ doesn't interfere in the election process. Given that they colluded with social media the last election in deliberately misinforming the public, interference is a big concern for many. Hopefully none will try and sneak in.

"Last week, on Nov. 1, the Department of Justice said it would send monitors to eight Texas counties, including Harris County and Waller County, to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws. The announcement came after more than 60 Democratic leaders asked for them to come."

DOJ says federal election monitors won't enter polling sites after lawsuit filed by Texas AG

The DOJ initially said it would send monitors to eight Texas counties, including Harris and Waller, to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws.

abc13.com

Fantine · Nov 5, 2024

Fulton County. Wonder what voters they wanted to discourage.
Raffensberger is an exemplary civil servant.

Fantine · Nov 5, 2024

If these American heroes need federal support to uphold the law, we need to provide it.

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