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Satchel

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  1. Since when did Deion become a Trump supporter?
  2. It’s telling just how much Trump resents the justice system: He absolutely loves, adores and identifies with criminals. With him, the more criminal one is, the better: https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/michele-fiore-says-shes-been-pardoned-by-trump-after-federal-guilty-verdict-3362518/ President Donald Trump has granted “a full and unconditional pardon” to Michele Fiore, the former Las Vegas councilwoman found guilty of defrauding donors who believed they were giving money for a statue to honor a fallen Las Vegas police officer. “Today, I stand before you — not just as a free woman, but as a vindicated soul whose prayers were heard, whose faith held firm, and whose truth could not be buried by injustice,” Fiore said in a text message statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Thursday. Fiore was found guilty of conspiracy and wire fraud charges by a federal jury in October. Federal prosecutors accused Fiore of raising tens of thousands of dollars through a charity and political action committee for a statue honoring Metropolitan Police Department officer Alyn Beck, who was shot and killed with his partner in 2014. Prosecutors said Fiore spent the donations on rent, plastic surgery and payments on her daughter’s wedding. On Thursday, Fiore’s defense attorneys filed a motion to vacate her May 14 sentencing and included a copy of Wednesday’s order from Trump pardoning Fiore. She was never really punished for the crime,” he said. “That sends a horrible message if you’re an elected official who engages in public corruption.” Return to the bench? Fiore cast the pardon in biblical terms. Her statement began with a phrase lifted from the book of Isaiah: “No weapon formed against me shall prosper” and said she would return to her position as a Pahrump justice of the peace. “On Monday, I will walk back into my courtroom as the elected Justice of the Peace — not because man permitted it, but because God ordained it,” she wrote. Pahrump Justice Court administrator Alisa Shoults said she did not yet know if Fiore, who was suspended without pay by the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, would return to her position Monday.
  3. Don’t they have the same rights as felonious presidents?
  4. I’m glad you offered this. I’ve long sworn off trying to “debate” people into the faith. A major challenge as I see it, is that most Christians are what Catholics might call, poorly catechized. They know very little about their faith beyond the cultural aspects. It might be trite, but it’s also true: people prefer to see a sermon rather than to hear one. So many Christians have all but abandoned the love ethic that sits at the heart of the faith. As my great grandmother used to say, love can change a mule’s mind.
  5. Just imagine how much time Trump spends doing his hair and makeup on a daily basis?
  6. During the ordination of new bishops, Pope Francis encouraged them to look beyond the trappings of the office and to not be beguiled them - but to instead stand in their calling as proclaimers of the Gospel and to always endeavor to “smell like sheep.” The universal church can benefit from such sagacious advice.
  7. Vance ether bored Francis to death or the smell of sulphur emanating from Vance was too much for the Pontiff to overcome.
  8. From Texas Monthly: Tim Dunn grew up in Big Spring, about forty miles northeast of Midland, with three older brothers in a cramped house. He now lives in a mansion, hidden within a roughly twenty-acre walled compound on the northern edge of Midland. Nearby is the nondenominational church where he regularly delivers sermons as a lay minister.
  9. You have a very valid point which becomes stronger when you don’t acknowledge the difference in application of a faith practiced by William Barber, Jim Walls, and that of Franklin Graham or Paula White.
  10. I like to think of myself as one does not practice his faith casually, and as such I still attend church regularly. In most things, I am an advocate of modernity, but the changes in worship, across denominational lines has been dispiriting. One would have difficulty discerning the difference in the music at St.Ann and that offered at Gateway or some such. From the sterile, uninspiring, windowless auditoriums that typify most modern churches, to the annoying, loud, often poorly performed band music, churches have made change the calling card without mapping to anything remotely transcendent. In my tradition (the black church) the fadishness has reached riduculous levels, to the extent that choosing a worship style that motivates and inspires is virtually impossible. While I am theologically and doctrinally in sync with my local congregation, (“Christ centered, Justice Driven, Kingdom Minded), I struggle with the pandering to Gen Z and Generation Alpha that masquerades as disciplining. I believe the church must change or die, but I’m not entirely comfortable with all that’s being done in the name of change Rant over.
  11. We didn’t know about this two weeks ago. This is a new breach.
  12. They can’t blame this in some underling. Hegseth created the chat himself and used his person phone instead of his government secured phone. Are these people just throwing their incompetence in our faces?
  13. Damn. This guy… https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/hegseth-yemen-attack-second-signal-chat.html Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat. Some of those people said that the information Mr. Hegseth shared on the Signal chat included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen — essentially the same attack plans that he shared on a separate Signal chat the same day that mistakenly included the editor of The Atlantic. Mr. Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, is not a Defense Department employee, but she has traveled with him overseas and drawn criticism for accompanying her husband to sensitive meetings with foreign leaders. Mr. Hegseth’s brother Phil and Tim Parlatore, who continues to serve as his personal lawyer, both have jobs in the Pentagon, but it is not clear why either would need to know about upcoming military strikes aimed at the Houthis in Yemen.
  14. Trump watched those old codgers light up Grassley at his town hall, and it gave him pause, which rarely happens. Of course he gave the okay.
  15. Since it is a well known and established fact that criminals commit crime where they roost, race related crime is not all that common.
  16. The billionaire preacher who bought this bill is the founder of Midland Classical Academy. Now, all of his friends get a 10k break on tuition. A lot of skulduggery was necessary to create this coincidence.
  17. They’re getting closer:
  18. “Oops” is the standard response for the Trump regime, followed by “so fucking what?”
  19. Ten grand is gonna put a nice dent in that Jesuit tuition bill.
  20. Mass Shootings that don’t end in death get a “meh.” We’re in Texas.
  21. Farxiga treats redness and bacterial infection between the anus and genitals.
  22. Let’s face it. Resonant messaging for Democrats will always be an issue because Republicans can and do craft easy to understand lies formulated for people who want to be lied to.
  23. After losing to the AP in court, this is how Trump and the Pep Sec’y are responding: The White House is making changes to which outlets are included in the press pool covering President Trump, and doing away with the spot normally reserved for wire services covering his daily activities. A source in the West Wing confirmed the changes to The Hill on Tuesday evening and said moving forward, the press pool will be made up of the following group: one print journalist who will serve as the “print pooler” each day, one additional print journalist, a crew from one of the major television networks, a crew from a secondary television network or streaming service, one radio journalist, one “new media” or independent journalist and four photojournalists. The White House official said eligible outlets will be chosen for the pool on a rotating basis, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will retain day-to-day discretion to determine composition of the pool.
  24. Trump’s DOJ has sued Maine because their governor has the nerve to talk back to him: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/military-contractors-prison-plan-detained-immigrants-erik-prince-00287208 It is unclear how many transgender students are currently participating in school athletics in Maine. The Maine Principals' Association, MPA, which governs the state's athletics, has said there are just two transgender athletesinvolved in girls' high school sports this year. The DOJ's suit refers to at least three transgender athletes.
  25. People dislike immigration except for all the times when they directly or indirectly benefit from it. Let’s keep it 100.
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