ozso said:

How should I know? You do realize I didn't write the CBS news story or any other news story about it don't you? Rather than going after me, discuss the topic. As if I personally don't have anything to do with it, which I don't.

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Asking how a controversy started is hardly about you.

Move along.

ThatRobGuy said:

In your honest opinion, if Westernized/Euro culture hadn't been become the global powerhouse... would the slavery situation have been better/worse/same today?

Based on the fact that they're still practicing it in several regions of the world... I'm not confident that they would have come to the "this is bad, we should outlaw and stigmatize it" conclusion on their own.

We both know the real answer to that question... So why is there an insistence on fixating on only one culture's complicity in the process?

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Because this is mainly about American history and culture, how we came to be in the state we are in.

Perhaps youre right about "Western" Euro moral heritage. Too bad the USA took so incredibly and brutally long to adopt it.

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What I have read and heard is costumers are calling it woke. It's losing business because the customers think it's gone woke. Adding it to the 'go woke go broke' trend. If you insist on exploring my personal feelings about it, I've never been anywhere near one. I'm only in the position of exploring why others have a problem with it. Since I've never been in a Cracker Barrel, on a personal level I couldn't care less about changes I've never experienced.

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Fair enough. Woke is over used and now just means “I don’t like it” as far as I’m concerned. I’m sure they’ll lose some customers but not updating also risks stagnation and decline as loyal customers die off.

I admit I have never been in one. It doesn’t appeal to me to dine in a cluttered country store motif with a country diner menu. No loss or gain to me either way.

sarsaparilla

ozso said:

Are you going with the idea that some anonymous office staff member is making those absurd X posts?

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I understand there's a small staff, and I saw the name of its head float by on the socials. I expect Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) and his political staff have veto power and influence, but yes, there is a staff handling these tweets (and doing the monumental work of reading and responding to other people's comments). Newsom actually does have plenty of work to do, rather than sitting on the loo, rage-tweeting.

I expect he also has staff of some sort also helping with his personal feed. Most big stars and favorite governors have social media managers.

I do note that some of the Press Office (@GovPressOffice) posts are 'signed' "GCN". I don't know if that means Newsom personally wrote them -- it seems doubtful.

New Mexico:

Voters 44% Republican - Representatives - 0

Hmmm......

essentialsaltes said:

There are several reasons.

Congresscritters (or state legislators) are meant to represent a district. A place. So the residents of that place can bend their ears about local needs. A blenderized smoothie of all California is not going to give you that.

Voters currently vote for candidates for these offices. If all we know is that 40% of the people voted 'Republican', and therefore 40% of the pols are 'supposed to be Republican', how are the actual politicians determined? Presumably party bosses would assign them like party favors.

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and if instead they are voted in by the - you know - voters. It certainly is not a fair representation when one party has 45% of the voters - but 7% of the representatives - that is one parry being under represented.

BobRyan said:

The Catholic Document "The Faith Explained" makes a very powerful argument for the change of the Sabbath.
The Catholic Commentary on the Baltimore Catechism post Vatican II - argues two key points.

1965 -- first published 1959
(from "The Faith Explained" by Leo Trese page 243

"we know that in the O.T it was the seventh day of the week - the Sabbath day- which was observed as the Lord's day. that was the law as God gave it...'remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.. the early Christian church determined as the Lord's day the first day of the week. That the church had the right to make such a law is evident...​

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The reason for changing the Lord's day from Saturday to Sunday lies in the fact that to the Christian church the first day of the week had been made double holy...​

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nothing is said in the bible about the change of the Lord's day from Saturday to Sunday..that is why we find so illogical the attitude of many non-Catholic who say they will believe nothing unless they can find it in the bible and yet will continue to keep Sunday as the Lord's day on the say-so of the Catholic church"​

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Good grief! You have been victimized by the lie. For Christians, the Sabbath has been put to bed (Galatians 4:9, 10, Colossians 2:16). READ GOD'S WORD THE BIBLE DAILY

Always in His Presence said:

Why? because it represents the voters fairly?

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There are several reasons.

Congresscritters (or state legislators) are meant to represent a district. A place. So the residents of that place can bend their ears about local needs. A blenderized smoothie of all California is not going to give you that.

Voters currently vote for candidates for these offices. If all we know is that 40% of the people voted 'Republican', and therefore 40% of the pols are 'supposed to be Republican', how are the actual politicians determined? Presumably party bosses would assign them like party favors.

Valletta said:

ICE notifies Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawyers of possible deportation to Uganda after Tennessee jail release

Illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be deported to Uganda after his release from jail in Tennessee on Friday, ICE told his lawyers.

www.yahoo.com

Hopefully this soon will be the end of a waste of U.S. taxpayer money.

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...you mean the tax dollars the government spent deporting this man...illegally?

Valletta said:

It is rather obvious that Garcia was involved in human trafficking and the Biden people ordered local law enforcement to let him go. I doubt if the U.S. will extradite him from Uganda for trial.

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Stop disparging Garcia with unfounded lies.

NxNW said:

So we're going to stop school shootings and provide funding to eliminate infant mortality, and avoid having children die in floods? Or are we just pretending to care by passing symbolic laws that make the problem worse?

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Judging by Mississippi, I can guess the answer.

Mississippi declares public health emergency over infant mortality rate​

Apple Sky said:

The King James Version (KJV) does not directly mention the word "planets,"

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2 Kings 23:5.

Apple Sky said:

as the concept of planets as distinct celestial bodies was not understood by the people who wrote the Bible.

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The concept of the earth revolving around the sun was not understood by those who wrote the Bible - which is what we have been trying to tell you. But your position seems to be "if it's not in the Bible (KJV) I don't believe it."

Apple Sky said:

However, biblical texts refer to "wandering stars" and potentially names like Chiun and Meni,

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These are the names of idols.
Did you read the links that you posted? Chiun - an idol associated with the planet Saturn; Amos 5:26, Meni - a symbol of destiny; Isaiah 65:11.

Apple Sky said:

The Bible focuses on the Earth

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The Bible focuses on GOD - is nature, his will, his plan, his salvation and his desire for a relationship with us.

Of course it talks about the earth rather than other planets, stars etc - we live on the earth and the Bible is not a science textbook.

public hermit said:

This is silly. Why does it matter if they change the logo? For all the conservative complaints about whining liberals, they sure do get upset over stupid stuff. I think conservatives need a big hug.

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Just another cheese situation.

ozso said:

Even though the article I posted was from CBS?

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How did this "controversy" start?

ozso said:

Contemporary is the opposite of an old country store.

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It strikes me as more "farmhouse" style than contemporary. The same farmhouse style that is so prevelant in new homes recently. Who wants to eat in a dark, cluttered dining room?

ozso said:

Well you gotta see it from the customer's point of view.

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I can’t sit through that much of Shapiro. 3 mins in and nothing about woke. Businesses rebrand, redecorate, update, change logos all the time. How is that woke (your word) is my question?

Bondi: 465 arrests, 68 guns seized since Trump’s DC crackdown began​

In a post to X, Bondi said 52 arrests were made Monday night alone, including an alleged MS-13 gang member. Nine guns were also recovered.
"Since our mission began, there have been a total of 465 arrests, 68 guns seized, and charges for homicide, narcotics, and firearm offenses," Bondi wrote. "Nearly half of these arrests occurred in the high-crime areas of DC."

It’s not the end.

SNOT

Hi Richard
thank you for your reply sorry about my punctuation put it down to a very bad education.
what I am saying is after the flood the only thing missing on the ark was man in the image of God so God began again to create one.
the first one he created was Israel the man of flesh who must come first he did not turn out so well so God began a new creation in Jesus Christ it would be a new creation and would be completed at Christs second coming when he would gather together all believers in his body this is man or I should say mankind in the image of God it would be created after the creation account in genesis and follow the same pattern as the creation account for Israel
the word man should be understood as Mankind and is Based on Israel Noah represents God Aaron represents Christ the tribe of Levi represents the church those chosen by God other tribes the children of God all pretty simple really

Don’t respond evenings after midnight.

SPOND

For my sides could I have the uncollared greens and the fried woke-ra please.

ozso said:

Well you gotta see it from the customer's point of view.

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As with any company updating their image, I don't doubt it was based on customer feedback...as the CEO noted.
I would add, companies that fail to keep up with the changing demographics will eventually go out of business..

IMO, this dustup has less to do with offended cutomers than MAGA social media types looking for hits.

Valletta said:

Do not underestimate the power of prayer.

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