Marty is a great movie. I encourage all to see it that have not seen it already. It often played on TCM.

The petition appeals to Danes to pay their share of the money because—among other positive attributes—California “has 300 days of sunshine a year,” it “grows 90% of the U.S.’s avocados,” and “we’ll never run out of avocado toast.”

Lol!

I usually do Not give Praise & Thanks when someone or something faces a crises but when it comes to Planned Parenthood, I think it's alright.
Praise & Thank Jesus Christ for Weakening & causing Havoc at the wicked organization called Planned Parenthood:

disgusting!

That’s incredible!

Joshua 2 1 Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.”

So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there. 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, men have come here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country.”

3 So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country.”

4 Then the woman took the two men and hid them. So she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. 5 And it happened as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went I do not know; pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them.” 6 (But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.) 7 Then the men pursued them by the road to the Jordan, to the fords. And as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

8 Now before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof, 9 and said to the men: “I know that the Lord has given you the land, that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you. 10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted; neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you, for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. 12 Now therefore, I beg you, swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father’s house, and give me [c]a true token, 13 and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.”

We see from this text that the citizens of Jericho knew God and feared Him. They heard what He has done to Egypt, and His protection of Israel. Despite them fearing Him, they foolishly sent men to kill the 2 Israeli spies.

Except for Rahab, who in faith responded that she needs God's mercy. She not only knew God and feared Him, she also accepted Him as a Saviour. That was the difference between her and everyone else in Jericho. She acted in faith, others did not.

Many today they say they know God, but not all accept Him as a Saviour. Sin holds us in bondage. There is no other than Jesus Christ who can free us and give us life. You need to know Christ as your Saviour.

Verse 18 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.

Scarlet in the Bible represents sin. In Isaiah, sin is described as menstrual blood. Isaiah 64:6 We have all become contaminated with sin, and you see our self-righteousness as nothing better than a menstrual rag.
Just before Christ was crucified, He wore red garment, symbolizing that He took our sins. Saints will wear white garments, whiter than snow, because Christ has washed their sins away. Christ took on our sins, so we might take on His righteousness.

Serial entrepreneur and author Magatte Wade lambasted Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and other Democrats for making it "clear" in Congress that they are "not working for the American people."

Wade, who was serving as a Congressional witness during a February 11 Judiciary hearing, went viral for calling out Rep. Jamie Raskin's inflammatory comments around Elon Musk and his DOGE force.

"Do we really need to hire a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk to go out and do it for us?" Rep. Raskin had asked the room on Tuesday, calling Musk and his DOGE team "mutant teenage racist computer hackers." Rep. Raskin was claiming that Musk and his team had taken "possession" of financial payment systems at the United States Department of Treasury and had access to the private financial records of Americans.

Magatte Wade sounded off in Congress at Rep. Raskin over his "complaining" about Elon Musk, asking Congressional members what their "endgame" was by attacking DOGE's process.

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The U.S. Army is redirecting millions of dollars it has collected from the Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) pay for soldiers living in barracks away from food services, according to a report.


The money is supposed to help soldiers with food costs, but a Military.com investigation found that of the $225 million collected from enlisted soldiers’ BAS pay last year at 11 of the Army’s largest bases, $151 million was directed elsewhere.

Enlisted soldiers receive around $465 dollars in BAS each month, according to the U.S. Army's website, and the deduction, essentially a tax on troops, is taken from that, the outlet reported.

"It's just returned to the big pool of Army funds, and it's used someplace else," an official told the outlet of the redirected BAS pay in an interview that was scheduled by the Army public affairs office.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a message to employees saying he was "incredibly relieved" that Alexander (Sasha) Troufanov was released from Hamas captivity after being held hostage for nearly 500 days.

"I’m incredibly relieved to share the news that our AWS teammate, Sasha Troufanov, who had been held hostage since the October 7, 2023, attacks in Israel, has been released from captivity," Jassy wrote in a message to employees.

Jassy says that the company had a team of experts working with Troufanov’s family "behind the scenes" to secure his release. The exec explained that Amazon "painfully" could not comment on Troufanov’s abduction publicly "for fear that we would negatively impact their ability to be released or how they were treated in captivity."

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After quiet weeks on fertility treatment coverage, an advocacy group expects developments soon.

The White House is now determining how best to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to ensure in vitro fertilization treatments would be paid for, after Trump repeatedly branded himself the “father of IVF” over the last year, NOTUS has learned.

There are signs that the White House is moving to address the issue sooner rather than later, after IVF has gone virtually unmentioned publicly in Trump’s first weeks. His promise drew splashy headlines during the campaign, as Trump and the Republican Party overall wrestled with how to talk about fertility, abortion and women’s rights. Some GOP lawmakers had previously indicated to NOTUS that the focus on IVF in 2024 was just to campaign, not necessarily to pursue after the election.

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prodromos said:

No mother creates their offspring. All people other than the person's of the Holy Trinity, are created by God.

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I can surly agree with that statement. It's not that she created him, she entered the world through her. From my understanding, it's theonly way a human can enter the Earth.

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"Mother of God" is a christlogical title. It is about who Jesus is, not who Mary is. It is purely in defence of the Incarnation. Jesus is human because He is the offspring of a human, His mother Mary. But because He is also divine, it means His mother is the mother of God, otherwise you divide His person and run into all kinds of heresies.

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Agreed

Praying they shut down for good! I would love to see that! Evil organization!

Lord have mercy!

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The LGBT are not the subject of this. It's the recipients of $1.8 billion dollars in USAID to Catholic Relief Services who will lose clean water, food in times of famine, malaria and other disease protection.

Why, Riley, did Musk have to close an entire agency that milli, ons of desperately poor in the third world depend on for survival in order to close one Los Angeles agency helping LGBT youth?

But Michie was right. Others will help. China, a country who is potentially America's most dangerous enemy, has a huge presence in Africa. USAID used to give 20,000 university scholarships to promising African men and women. Those people are now in leadership roles in African and South American countries.

China is giving 40,000 scholarships now--and at the moment we're not giving any. What will Africa look like fifteen years from now, when the leaders of the country are China-friendly and U.S. enemies? USAID gives more than food. It insures their friendship in the present and the future. And China, potentially our greatest enemy, is ready to step in and make Africans our enemy as well.

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To be blunt, I don’t like nor trust Elon Musk.

A federal judge handed Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency a major win Friday — saying it could access sensitive data across three major government agencies.

Musk’s budget-slashing team had made efforts to rummage through the finances of the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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Michie said:

Since its launch, Elon Musk's DOGE has uncovered billions in wasteful spending across the federal government​

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's efforts at President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have revealed a number of examples of government waste that have dominated headlines in recent weeks, as his team continues to audit the federal government despite Democrat opposition.

Here are some of the top-lines from DOGE's findings:

Musk reveals ‘Iron Mountain’ mine nightmare​

Musk revealed this week that DOGE is investigating a limestone mine in Pennsylvania where federal employee retirements are processed manually.

"Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process takes multiple months," Musk announced on X.

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'Wasteful and dangerous': DOGE's top five most shocking revelations

The Trump administration's DOGE efforts have found several controversial and highly publicized examples of spending it says are a waste of taxpayer funds.

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We had my dad's memorial on Valentine's day. It was really nice to see everyone, uncles I hadn't seen in a while. It's sad because we probably won't see each other much now. But, it was a nice celebration and I enjoyed it.

Multiple prisoners connected to Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a foreign terrorist organization​

Palestinians linked to suicide bombings and attempted murders are among the 369 released Saturday by Israel in its latest exchange for hostages captured by Hamas.

Thirty-six of the detainees were serving out life sentences in Israeli prisons, but only 12 of them were allowed to return to their homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The other 24 are being sent to exile.

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Arizona and New Mexico’s fire season is set to begin, and Forest Service personnel have typically sent staff from California to help respond this time of year. But according to a Forest Service employee in the West, that’s not possible with these layoffs and the hiring freeze.
That means work — including mapping the spread of a fire, preparation for where it’s safe to conduct prescribed burns and even sending non-fire personnel in so-called “militias” to help combat a blaze — won’t happen.

Rep. Jared Huffman, a California Democrat, said that the Forest Service layoffs will have “devastating” impacts on wildfire mitigation efforts. “Fire safety projects are already frozen and being canceled all over the West,” he said. “We’re on track to lose an entire season of critical work, and this will only compound the problem.

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Cuts of that scale [at the Park Service] wouldn’t just impact park-goers or workers who suddenly won’t have a paycheck. It could also imperil Trump’s own plans to boost energy production on public land if there aren’t enough employees in place to steadily process oil and gas drilling permits, said Steve Feldgus, Interior’s principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management under the Biden administration.

One Interior employee said he was told up to 800 staff could be let go at the agency’s Bureau of Land Management, the branch in charge of overseeing oil, gas and other energy production on federal land.

The parents of recently released hostages Karina Ariev, Liri Albag and Naama Levy shared details of the suffering their daughters endured on Oct. 7, 2023, and during their 477 days in captivity in Gaza.

Ariev's father, Albert, said Karina is still not ready to talk about the traumatic events of Oct. 7, when Hamas terrorists attacked her military base and brutally murdered most of her colleagues in cold blood.

"She just doesn’t talk about it," he said. "What happened in that shelter was horrific. It makes her rehabilitation even harder — I can see it. Something terrible happened to my daughter on October 7. The captivity wasn't easy but the nightmare is split into two parts," the father continued.

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I can only post one sentence of AP articles. It is a good read. It is interesting that the right likes to claim Christianity but voted in someone who is hurting what I consider God's work. Those Christian workers are trying to spread the gospel and Christian love. Why am I not surprized the Trump administration will not cooperate with them?

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Thwre is no sensible reason foe this.


I think Trump had a bit of a vendetta against Trudeau after Trudeau was caught on mic making fun of Trump during round 1

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And there were photos of Melania making eyes at Pierre.

Tried this the other day. It’s good and can be tweaked for individual tastes. Great with some salad and crusty bread.

Musk wrote on X Saturday that DOGE and the Treasury Department have agreed to take the following steps:

• All outgoing payments must have a categorization code in order to be paid. That’s supposed to already happen, but Musk has found the code is often left blank, making audits nearly impossible.
• All payments must have an explanation attached — another procedure that has been routinely ignored, making it hard to determine what or who federal payments are actually for.
• Every payment must be checked against an up-to-date “Do Not Pay” list of known frauds, terrorist groups, deceased people and expenditures that do not match congressional appropriations

It's taxpayer money. Democrats should not be fighting this.

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ORR faced criticism in 2023 after The New York Times reported that 85,000 unaccompanied children had gone missing after being placed with sponsors. During a congressional hearing, then-ORR Director Robin Dunn Marcos did not confirm the accuracy of this figure, though former acting ICE Director Tom Homan estimated the number to be closer to 300,000.

Government Watchdog: HHS Spent over $22 Billion on ‘Giveaways’ to Illegal Immigrants Under 4 Years of Biden | Joe Pags

The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a sub agency within the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Children and Families, has allocated over $22.6 billion to support various services, including Medicaid access, credit-building assistance, home and auto loans, and...

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All of that money spent and they did not bother to keep track of the children.

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Seems to me a good place to look for those children are those red states who have a habit of hiring undocumented children. Arkansas would be good place to start.

Isaiah 60:3 says, “And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.” This Passage is said to refer to Israel.

There are many Passages in the Bible that tell of what will happen. God determines the future, so it is with certainty that God has spoken to Isaiah the Prophet of the event that will happen in the above passage. There is no date certain for what will happen, so people look for any earthly signs and other indications. People make annual pilgrimages to Israel, and statesmen visit its powers that be. People, regardless of status, have paid their visit to Jerusalem. But as Revelation 21:23 says, “And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb,” do these people actually look for and see a divine light shining via the spirit of Jesus?

To paraphrase Shakespeare, ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.’ But it seems that those who come away from Israel, regardless of status, have come in their own darkness and left in their own darkness if such a divine light exists. Certainly those who’ve attacked Israel are fogged by their darkness.

In other places, the Light seems to cynical minds to flicker with uncertainty, like a candle that is threatened by a light wind but continues to stay lit. Seems there are enough earthly problems that cast people into darkness, and all their religious school learning and attending houses of worship have not done much to ensure that they look for and see the Light of the Lamb.

But the Light does exist, as David testifies to it in Psalms 27:1. Our salvation is guided by the Lord, and the path is lit toward it. If only we can remove the fog that others want to keep over us...