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Mole

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  1. I spent years volunteering with an addiction recovery ministry. The hurt back/prescribed pain meds/shopping doctors/lost family/life out of control progression was very common. You start out following doctor’s orders and the next thing you know, you’ve lost everything. Sometimes, the only difference between me and a junkie is circumstances.
  2. Setting aside any concerns for the homeless and only thinking about the librarians, which scenario is a worse day for a beleaguered librarian: 1. a homeless person OD’d and died in the romance section and interrupted the childrens craft day. 2. a homeless person OD’d and was saved by a heroic librarian during the now interrupted reptile demonstration. Given a choice between someone dying at my work or me saving them, I’m anti body bag.
  3. Just when baby.
  4. Not if we drop another 6 runs before the next storm comes through and ends the night.
  5. I didn’t watch last night because it was father-son time and I don’t want to subject him to that kind of conservative degeneracy yet. How much footage of Trump speaking is there? I’ve actively avoided hearing that demonically possessed evangelical whisperer since that day and life is better for it. Maybe vid-angel has a trump filter.
  6. January 6th was a dark and sobering day. No sane person saw those events and reveled in the ability to dunk on a political opponent. If a conservative politician were to be killed — even one of the most odious ones — that would be a dark day, not one for dunking on political opponents. Rising violence is bad and made worse by easy access to guns; the nihilism that permeates the OP poses a different sort of risk, but it’s still bad. If your news sources are turning your brain to mush so that every event becomes another chance to dunk on the other side, fix your news sources and fix your brain.
  7. The only reason I clicked on the thread was to find out if Boosie is a now ex-father or ex-grandfather. I’m not clicking a TMZ link out of Kardashian phobia, so I guess it will remain a mystery.
  8. Charlie Brown satirized the boomer mentality when Sally said: All I want is what I have coming to me. All I want is my fair share. Boomers grew up telling themselves tall tales about how special their generation was and they never stopped telling themselves this. They never grew up. Now faced with death and the smallness of their self-proclaimed special generation, there is a real conflict with the narcissism that is inherent to their identity. And now they rage. Some of what we see in Texas and around the country looks like this rage. Our representatives are terrible because we’re terrible and value being terrible.
  9. Not surprising to me. Them Duke boys weren’t allowed to possess guns, but they always seemed to have plenty of arrows and dynamite at the ready.
  10. Not true. He registered for the draft but was classified 4-F. I've also heard the bullshit story several times that he was a Marine sniper with hundreds of confirmed kills and that his children's show was his way of coping with PTSD. Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister and possibly the greatest preacher of the Gospel in the 20th century. His show displayed more courage and strength than anyone wearing a pro anger tee shirt could possibly fathom. The pro-anger crowd needs to consider what they do with the mad that they feel.
  11. Let’s turn this blasphemy and idolatry into something a bit more redeemed or a least self-aware of its irony with a few potential captions: Isaiah 2:4 He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. Jonah 2:8 Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love. 1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Leviticus 19:4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God. Matthew 26:52 “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Matthew 5:38-39 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
  12. I think Abrams/Warnock will drive good turnout, but Herschel may be tough. Just wait a few years and he’ll be joined by Senator Manziel when Cornyn retires.
  13. I voted in the R primary to vote for Kemp and hero of democracy Brad Raffensperger as well as actually having a say in local races. I’ll be close to straight ticket D in the general. I’m not sure how many crossed over, but there was a sense among many sane Georgians that Kemp and Raffensperger winning were the highest priorities since the leading opponents were Big Lie Trump allies. The statewide D races weren’t very close.
  14. I personally know, or rather knew, one redacted name on the list. At least in that case, everything was handled appropriately: background check prior to hiring (and no history — he was pretty young at the time of the crimes), the kids came forward the day it happened, he was in jail and fired by the evening, and everything was public and in the open (public statement detailing the crime by the institution shortly afterwards and punished in various church-affiliated news sources). I don’t know the details of what procedures the institution had in place to protect against this kind of thing or exactly what went down, but there certainly wasn’t a cover up there at all.
  15. I didn’t click the link until I saw the four stages thing. I assumed there would be some explanation or further context of the “four stages” but I guess not. The top google result for “four stages of dolphin aggression” is the above article. KHOU11 Staff did a poor job with this one. This link talks about stages of human/dolphin interaction: NowThis. Quote below:
  16. Change your smoke detector battery.
  17. Since James 2 (faith without works) was brought up, more gold from that chapter: At this point, could we call prayers without actions for this vain repetitions?
  18. If you visit that church’s website, you’ll see (or would have seen last night before they started changing things) that the entire ministerial staff has the same last name; it looks like (rapey) husband, wife, adult child and spouse.
  19. Her understanding of the Sermon on the Mount is pretty wild. Must be in the Message Bible or something.
  20. Jesus guns babies.
  21. 1. Whenever something becomes a thing in the public consciousness somewhat suddenly, a healthy skepticism seems prudent. There’s no doubt a political element to exposing this stuff as well as the perceived sudden rise in it. “Both sides” are trying to use this; of course one side of an issue like this is by definition a bit more malicious. I can see being skeptical, thinking that this is the left’s version of CRT, but… 2. Besides the increase in political types that are pretty openly preaching replacement theory, I’ve run across it for years in the crazier wings of religious circles. It’s real and somewhat mainstream, even if it only gets uttered in safe company.
  22. From the Abrams non-concession speech: The entire speech: https://qz.com/1468560/read-stacey-abrams-full-concession-speech/ Equating this with the Trump lies and post election activities is well, just another lie. It’s possible to argue against Stacy Abrams’ position without resorting to dishonesty, but that hasn’t happened here.
  23. I’m a big fan of banned books. Thanks for the reading list for me and my kid!
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