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Richard T · May 28, 2025

Aryeh Jay said:
The end result is the same so why waste the money? Deport them all! America for real Americans!

What is a "real" American? A U.S. soldier who served two tours to preserve freedom or those that evaded the draft?
Due process is not a waste of money. Sure you can save on deportations but you could also save if you got rid of the right to an attorney, the right to be free from search and seizure, and even the right to free speech and religion. I would add that sometimes "real Americans" have fought for these rights worldwide, by opposing those nations who fail to offer many of these protections and embracing those that do.

Here is President Reagan defining “the shining city upon a hill.”

“n my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”

Ronald Reagan and "the shining city upon a hill" - Our Lost Founding

On this day in 1989, President Ronald Reagan gives his Farewell Address to the Nation, in which he defined his vision of "the shining city upon a hill."

ourlostfounding.com

Vambram · May 28, 2025

durangodawood said:
You have to name a specific pardon to compare. Of course presidents issue valid pardons sometimes. Im sure Trump even has done some.

I'm talking about each and everyone of The Biden administration’s pardons which happened in the last weeks of his administration.

NxNW · May 28, 2025

Vambram said:
Anonymous sources from a 2023 article which is 3 years after the end of Trump's first term.

Documented in court filings in the case against Giuliani, indicating there are audio recordings.

wing2000 · May 28, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
The pair are both serving yearslong prison sentences for bank and tax fraud.

Also today, The New York Times published new details about the pardon of a Florida businessman convicted of tax evasion.

The message is being sent to DOJ offices across the country: Crimes committed by donors to MAGA should be ignored.

essentialsaltes · May 28, 2025

Gene2memE said:
Hehehe. He's gonna flip when he finds out.

The link is him getting a little testy when a reporter asked him about it.

The Barbarian · May 28, 2025

Joseph G said:
The same individual stated:

"Again, the TOE doesn't say humans are descended from Gorillas or Monkeys (giant or not), only that we share a common ancestor."

And also stated:

"Human beings ARE classified as Great Apes, just as we are classified as primates, as mammals, as vertebrates, etc. It makes as much since to scream "I'm not an ape" as it does to scream "I'm not a mammal."

Is there some way that these seemingly contradictory claims are somehow reconcilable with each other that I'm missing?

Is not the former saying common ancestor, and the latter saying direct descent from ape to ape?

Is there an instance when an ape... is not an ape?

Proconsul. Mixture of monkey and ape traits. Not quite an ape, but pretty close. A perfect transitional form, as even YECs like Dr. Kurt Wise admit. There aren't nice neat divisions between most taxa and as we get more and more fossils, the few neat divisions are becoming fewer and fewer. This is what you would expect from common descent, but is incomprehensible from a YEC belief.

Richard T · May 28, 2025

Vambram said:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department is 'working toward the total elimination of cartels to make America safe again'

The Trump Treasury Department's new sanctions are a "full-frontal assault" on one of the deadliest southern border cartels, a local border official told Fox News Digital.

The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two high-ranking Cartel del Noreste (CDN) members, Mexican nationals Miguel Angel de Anda Ledezma and Ricardo Gonzalez Sauceda, Wednesday.

CDN was one of eight cartels and transnational criminal groups labeled "foreign terrorist organizations" by the Department of State Feb. 20.

Under new sanctions announced this week, all property and interest in properties belonging to De Anda and Gonzalez that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked.
While announcing the sanctions, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department is "working toward the total elimination of cartels to make America safe again" and that the Trump administration "will hold these terrorists accountable for their criminal activities and abhorrent acts of violence."

"CDN and its leaders have carried out a violent campaign of intimidation, kidnapping and terrorism, threatening communities on both sides of our southern border," said Bessent. "We will continue to cut off the cartels’ ability to obtain the drugs, money and guns that enable their violent activities."

Trump sanctions are ‘full-frontal assault’ on organized crime at the border, expert says

New sanctions launched by the Treasury Department are a “full-frontal assault" on one of the most violent cartels at the southern border, an expert told Fox News Digital.

www.foxnews.com

By targeting CDN’s leadership, Perez said the Trump administration is effectively weakening the cartel by creating a power vacuum that will cause infighting that will further sap the organization’s strength.

"The cartels are definitely going to feel it," he said. "So, it's a full-frontal assault from the United States.

"That's the protection that we're bringing to the border that we weren't able to bring under President Biden," he added.

"President Trump, on the campaign trail, and since he's been in office, has repeatedly said he's going to do everything he can to protect the United States, to protect its citizens and make sure that there's nobody around that can do harm to our country. And he's doing that. He's taking on the cartels. He's not afraid of them.

"We want to decimate the cartel activity that's going on in the United States. So, he's done what he said he was going to. We support that 100%."

It is good to try and stop crime that occurs in the USA. Sadly, the cartels will never be defeated in Mexico anytime soon and that will continue to spillover into the USA. Trump offered to send troops into Mexico but the offer was declined not just in terms of violating Mexican sovereignty but also that the premise that it can be fought with troops is wrong. "It assumes that Mexican cartels are integrated networks, like Al Qaeda, when in fact they rely on a patchwork of facilitators—lawyers, accountants, corrupt officials, lookouts—who vary from place to place. “We’ve got four cartels with regional presence across a third of the country,” Guerrero said. “But we’ve also got seventy-eight regional mafias and more than four hundred gangs.” So far more decentralized. Brash targeting too could lead to the destabilization of Mexico. Claudia Sheinbaum is still battling the cartels with raids, drug seizures and arrests going up many times over. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/28/claudia-sheinbaum-profile

Where Trump seems short-sighted is that trade and the economy are related to helping defeat the cartels. Mexico is a great source for American goods and the tariffs likely create more instability than than whatever help Trump could provide to Mexico. I think that if the USA commits to more economic integration with Mexico that they will change positively and the nations can continue in friendship. Sadly, Trump is destabilizing the Mexican economy and we should fear that if this goes too far that any gains Trump tries to make on immigration and the cartels in the USA will be dwarfed by the blowback of a poor Mexican economy.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-inflation-rises-past-central-bank-target-early-may-2025-05-22/

sjastro · May 28, 2025

rockytopva said:
I have nearly 45 years working in chemistry. Back when we had a plating department we had AA, ICP, OES, and various other spectrometers. In each spectrometer was a prism. Each element produced its own individual set of wavelengths. With this I could put together standards, blanks, and QC's and calibrate the spectrometer.

Each element energized produces its own wavelength of light...

M (mass) = Plasma (E/c2)

If each element produces a unique wavelength of light energized... Did it take various wavelengths of light to create such elements? And also noting the Earth's crust is blessed with all kinds of varieties of elements where we can put to good use. And also noting it takes a great deal of chemistry to keep our trillions of cells functioning together as a body.

Ignoring the nonsense of associating E = mc² with creationism, the ‘science part’ of your post is equally bad.
The equation E = mc² is a conversion of units where c² is the conversion factor while E/c² has nothing to with plasma.

For example the fission of Cf-252 (Californium 252)

We can apply E = mc² to the reaction.

Nucleus	Mass (u)	Energy (MeV) using E = mc²
Cf-252	252.082	234,831.017
Xe-140	139.922	130,346.434
Sr-108	107.906	100,521.662
neutron (×4)	4.035	3,758.554
Total Daughters + 4n	—	234,626.650
Binding Energy	—	212.127 MeV

Where is your plasma; the energy E = mc² is taken up by the parent nucleus Cf-252, the daughter nuclei Xe-140 and Sr-108, neutrons and the binding energy which is the energy difference between the parent nuclei and the sum of the products.

Then there is the question of the plasma itself, in the very early universe shortly after the Big Bang a Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) existed which has been produced for very brief periods in particle accelerators such as the LHC and has nothing in common with ordinary plasma.

Property	Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP)	Ordinary Plasma
Constituents	Free quarks and gluons	Ions and electrons
Forces Involved	Strong nuclear force (Quantum Chromodynamics - QCD)	Electromagnetic force
Temperature Required	Extremely high (≥ 2 trillion K or 200 MeV per particle)	High (thousands to millions K)
State of Matter	Primordial state of matter (existed microseconds after Big Bang)	Ionized gas, fourth state of matter
Confinement	Quarks and gluons are deconfined	Electrons are separated from atoms, but nuclei are intact
Color Charge	Present (quarks carry color charge)	Absent
Examples	Heavy-ion collisions (e.g. at CERN or RHIC)	Stars, lightning, neon signs
Theoretical Framework	Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)	Electromagnetism (Maxwell’s equations)
Opacity / Interaction	Strongly coupled, behaves like a near-perfect fluid	Weakly coupled, behaves like a gas
Lifetime / Stability	Extremely short-lived (~10⁻²³ seconds)	Can be stable for long durations

FireDragon76 · May 28, 2025

I tried opening up emotionally last week (I have high functioning Asperger's, BTW) and I just experienced intense fear and grief. Mostly related to climate change and climate grief, and the possibility of having to decide to move in the future to set up a new life (I live in Florida and the summers keep getting longer and more intense). This lead to a series of mystical experiences (I felt Christ's death, I experienced a sense of a wounding also... it was a human death, without any sense of piety, and it was full of gut-wrenching sadness and horror). And I had promptings after this that lead to do Bible study and research online, culminating in meditating on the story of Thomas in the Gospel of John. And when I realized what it meant through Thomas's eyes, it completely rocked my world. Because it was so different from how I had been taught in church, in a moralistic way. Let's just say sometimes peace and joy comes wrapped in shock and awe. This was how the early apostles must have experienced Jesus' resurrection.

After this, I perceived something ripping at me with icy claws. Then it tried attacking my mind. But I was so shook up, I became dissociated and fearful. I continued to feel that my house wasn't safe. But my partner didn't believe me... until I ended up going to the hospital for some ativan and said "this is so strange, it feels almost like a church in here". Then I realized, there was something bad in my house, and I tried to reach out to the local Catholic diocese but never got an answer back. But I did get in touch with a small Independent Catholic congregation that meets at our UCC church, and the priest and the deacon from that congregation came and blessed my home, and the evil presence went away.

Parts of the experience I had lead me to do some strange things, too. I remember getting mad at God at one point because I never wanted these experiences in the first place, and I prayed to get help dealing with them and find healing. I did some things like walk around barefoot outdoors, touch plants, look at trees, or sit and pray barefoot in churches. And we had some other strange things happen, too, around us, coincidences that seemed unlikely, or it seemed like we would receive messages from Jesus on what to do, or answers to prayers.

I have talked to my own pastor, who was bewildered by my story and perhaps afraid for my sanity at first, as well as the Independent Catholic priest that sometimes holds mass at our church, but the best help I got was from a United Methodist pastor- she told me about spiritual warfare. It was a relief to have somebody actually hear my story and believe it. But I am still trying to hold all this stuff lightly, alot of it is very bewildering and alot to take in.

wing2000 · May 28, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
Where do you see the progressive culture displayed in this story about photographs taken by a 19th century anti-evolutionary scientist whose theories of separate creation of the races has been dead for more than a century?

Who's playing the 'victim card' here, looking for a benefit?

Good questions....left unaswered.

The Barbarian · May 28, 2025

BNR32FAN said:
Can you provide just one example of yovm being used in reference to a period of time other than 24 hours in the OT?

Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:

Genesis 1 says 6 yom. Genesis 2 says 1 yom.

Exodus 12:40 The time [yom] that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years

Isaiah 30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time (yom) to come for ever and ever.

Kings 11:42 And the time (yom) that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

How many would you like to see?

d taylor · May 28, 2025

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Ok then explain how Jesus return is not known “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. The rapture is an event that happens in one day and hour, but the tribulation is a 7 year long event.

But Jesus states watch for the signs of His return.
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Oompa Loompa · May 28, 2025

Yarddog said:
Not worth much, coming from Fox News.

Confirmation bias at its worst.

wing2000 · May 28, 2025

rjs330 said:
An invasion is an invasion. One person is not an invasion. Millions is.

District courts (two at last count) disagree with you. Ultimately, the USSC will rule on the matter.

Oompa Loompa · May 28, 2025

BCP1928 said:
Yep. Deporting him is cruel and unnecessary, but at least it's out in the open. Would you rather have a couple of armed men in masks and hoodies disappear him off the street?

I have no clue as to what you are talking about.

Tuur · May 28, 2025

JosephZ said:
This far-right group had a right to publicly voice their opinions, and the physical attacks against them and the police were not justified. However, I agree with the mayor's position. Matt Shea and the organizers of the event knew in advance the response they would get in Seattle and had they held the event downtown as they requested, the outcome would have likely been far worse.

By this argument, the marchers in Selma, Alabama on Sunday, March 7, 1965, were to blame because they knew in advance the response they would get. Sorry: I don't go along with that.

Gene2memE · May 28, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
In related news, Wall Street is talking about TACO as a trading strategy for tariffs: Trump Always Chickens Out.

Hehehe. He's gonna flip when he finds out.

Normandt · May 28, 2025

120. We want what God offers us

This sentence, which makes us smile, allows us to meditate and deepen it:

“No man does he command to sin, to none does he give strength for lies.” Sirach, chapter 15, verse 20

God commands nothing that is destructive to us and to our neighbour: “To none does he give strength for lies.” He does not allow anyone to sin. Sin is not God’s choice. God does not impose anything on us.

Let’s say it like this: “He did not allow anyone to be stupid.” Because the lack of intelligence, understanding and reflection is the sign of a closure to God and to others.

We are free as wind, free as children of God. It is up to us to discern and want what God offers us.

The new American Bible, 2011-2014

Book: … for Love, Normand Thomas

Douggg · May 28, 2025

keras said:
Ezekiel 39:27 When I bring My people out of the nations....... I shall make them exemplify My Holiness for many nations to see.
How can you understand prophecy when you fail to even read it properly?

In Ezekiel 39:21-29, Jesus is speaking in the text having returned to earth. Jesus, in Ezekiel 39:23, reflects why Israel went into captivity into the nations. And in verse 24, says he hid his face from them, because they transgressed against him - i.e. rejected him as their messiah. Which why the Jews have rejected Jesus for the past 2000 years.

Of course, the Jews will become Christians in the middle of the seven years, in Revelation 12:10.

In verse 25 - 28, Jesus says since they bore their shame of their trespasses against him, he will bring them out of the nations to the land of Israel. Verse 28 is the gathering of the elect of Matthew 24:31.

In verse 29, Jesus will no longer hide his face from them, and pours out his spirit on the house Israel.

essentialsaltes · May 28, 2025

She shouldn't have been driving near a car that made an illegal turn. (or been here illegally)

Georgia teen forgives officer who wrongly arrested her leading to ICE detention

[Ximena] Arias-Cristobal, 19, was arrested on May 5 in Dalton, Georgia, when her dark gray truck was mistaken for a black pickup that made an illegal turn. Those citations were later dropped once officials realized there was a mix-up, Dalton Assistant Police Chief Chris Crossen said.

But, she was still detained by ICE after it was discovered she was an undocumented immigrant. She was released on bond last week. [Catch and release!]

Arias-Cristobal said immigrants at the Stewart Detention Center, where she was held, are "treated like we’re the worst criminals ever" and acknowledged that others have also been treated unjustly.

"I know everything that I'm going through is something that's very unjust, and it's not only my case, but millions of people are going through this in the United States. At Stewart, I met a lot of people that are going through tougher situations than me, and I think they deserve justice because they are not criminals,” she said.

"There’s a lot of very sad cases in there, mine is just a speck of what you see and that’s the sad truth," she said.

RandyPNW · May 28, 2025

Fisherking said:
Well is it THE WALL that forgives us, or the AGREEMENT? And, just because Jesus is our Salvation, doesn't men the Prophesy is about Jesus and his Salvation, its about Israel repenting and the 490 years of penance they must pay for disobedience.

The Wall? Please use English we can all understand? It's not just us who read these conversations.

I agree that the 70 Weeks Prophecy is not very clear about Jesus' Salvation. We do see that some things that are positive will be done, but it isn't clear that Messiah does them since he is "cut off."

On the contrary, this Prophecy is about the shortcomings of the Temple Worship, which is to be terminated along with the cutting off of Messiah. This Prophecy, in other words, is to direct hope away from the Temple Law in hope of a "confirmed Covenant."

So we have to ask ourselves, "How was this Covenant confirmed? And what was the Covenant?" I've already answered this, though it's a questionable interpretation--it's just my 2 cents.

I think the Covenant is God's Covenant with Israel, which stands apart from the failing Temple worship. And it is confirmed, indirectly, by the Roman ruler, who puts Messiah to death. In other words, putting Messiah to death is the thing that "confirms God's Covenant with Israel!"

Fisherking said:
Basically, no one agrees with your thesis brother, its very, very fringe stuff. Go check all the major commentaries. No one puts this stuff out that has any cred at all.

I've studied these things for many years. Sometimes I drew conclusions before later recognizing they were the same beliefs held by the Church Fathers. Sometimes, those Church Fathers disagreed. Sometimes they failed to interpret some things, such as Israel's future Salvation, because in their time it just wasn't happening.

I like to stay close to what has been believed because I know God doesn't have prophecy written down for only a few to understand. But this prophecy is unique, and is deliberately vague--understandably so. If we understand why this "vagueness" we may understand what it really meant, as time unfolds more of the pertinent drama that surrounds it.

At the time, the Romans could not by explicitly identified. It would bring charges of sedition in the time when the Church separated from Israel. It would not be just a matter of a big empire against a small nation. It would be a matter of dealing with individual insurrectionists who are growing into what seems to be a large rebellion, doing harm to the Christian testimony.

So how the Roman ruler figures into Dan 9.26-27 is understood as something that cannot be spelled out very much. But after the fact we can see it, that the Roman ruler destroyed Jerusalem, the Temple, and the Messiah. This is not strange doctrine--the Church Fathers pretty much held to it.

Fisherking said:
The Prophesy is about Israel repenting, it still has not happened and can not happen until after the Rapture (Fulness of the Gentiles be come in)

I don't see Jewish repentance in the 70 Weeks Prophecy. What we do see is that Messiah comes to bring an atonement for sin...

Dan 9.24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness..."

Aryeh Jay · May 28, 2025

durangodawood said:
I'm ok with school dress codes. In fact, I think school uniforms would even be a good thing.

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So you want everyone to dress like Japanese school girls? Why not Sailor Moon?

Aryeh Jay · May 28, 2025

The end result is the same so why waste the money? Deport them all! America for real Americans!

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