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ICE officers to attend Super Bowl after Bad Bunny halftime headliner announcement, Lewandowski says

Lewandowski, who worked as Trump’s campaign manager during the 2016 election, slammed the NFL for picking Bad Bunny to headline the event next year.

“It’s so shameful that they’ve decided to pick somebody who just seems to hate America so much to represent them at the halftime game,” he said.

Last month, Bad Bunny told i-D Magazine that he is not performing in the U.S. during his forthcoming world tour due to, in part, concerns over ICE raids at his concerts.

“There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” Lewandowski said Wednesday on “The Benny Show.”

Corey's really missing a trick here. Join ICE for a chance to win free Superbowl tickets!
He’s an American, though?
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Charlie Kirk on Mary

But as I wrote in Post 6: "That is not an intercession. She would have had to have said something like, "Please give them some wine," for it to have been an intercession."
She essentially did. And Jesus obeyed her. So, yes, it is intercession from the perspective of the ancient apostolic Churches :)
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

Christians trying to eliminate God's Words remain under the influences of the adversary

Nothing personal
The adversary uses out of context verses to fool Christians.

Nothing personal.
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For People With Far More Money Than Brains

In the '90s and early 2000's I augmented my income by building large, liquid cooled gaming computers with hand tuned, over clocked motherboards for people with too much money. I charged them a lot. Or, at least, I felt it was a lot.

I thought I was fleecing people.

I wasn't even in the minor leagues.
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Trump sends troops to the 'warzone' of Portland...

That's nice, but the military are not police, and it is not a warzone by any definition unless you are severely mentally deluded.
Young folks today don't remember the real riots of the past.

If there was today the kind of violence that required mobilization of the National Guard in the past, the news would be filled with images of burning buildings every day.
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Average consumer now carries $6,329 in credit card debt. 'People are stretched,' expert says

Because stupid is as stupid does?
As of July 1, 2025, gold will officially be classified as a Tier 1, high-quality liquid asset (HQLA) under the Basel III banking regulations. That means U.S. banks can count physical gold, at 100% of its market value, toward their core capital reserves. No longer will it be marked down by 50% as a “Tier 3” asset, as it was under the old rules.


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That doesn't explain why the smart money is, not only buying, but taking physical delivery of gold.

...But who knows? Maybe those guys who print the fiat currency, don't know as much about money as we do.

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"Gold is money. Everything else is credit." ~J. P. Morgan








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J.P. Morgan's tool shed
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Evolution conflict and division

Genesis 1:1-2 NRSVUE
1 When God began to create the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.

The Bible doesn't say how long the earth was formless and empty before God began to create it in those 6 days. Only that it was so when God began to create it by giving it form.
Why would or do people refer to something that was formless and empty, a planet called earth? That which we presently refer to as planets are not formless and empty. No, but there was no earth until God created or formed it, according to scripture. Nor of courser does the fourth commandment address any of that. It simply states that the creation transpired in six days, and God rested the seventh, and correspondingly intends that His chosen people shall do so as well. In commemoration of the creation. This is what so many do not believe, while worshipping the God who spoke and wrote the fourth commandment, claiming too have done exactly what they choose not to believe. I just do not understand why those who do not believe what He said, don't just choose another God. Although I do suppose, that they already have. They just still want to believe many other portions of the same bible the Lord of the Sabbath inspired, just not certain things He said or taught. So be it.
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Trump sends troops to the 'warzone' of Portland...

It's not the only place they are and not yhe only place they have been violent. Heck we have leftist politicians talking about putting bullets in opponents brains and wishing their children are killed. We have a LARGE amount of leftists who support political violence and assassinations.

So Im really wondering who should be considering leaving and why and who is really causing problems here.
You know the info in here is a big nothing burger...support and talk.

1 block in a 135sq mile city.


Why do you keep listening to this admin?
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Average consumer now carries $6,329 in credit card debt. 'People are stretched,' expert says

Europe is mostly done with Russian fossil fuels.
Exactly
Suppressed how?
Like I said, it boggles the mind. Energy drives the world. As prices for products continue to climb; the cost of the energy behind creating and delivering those products doesn't correlate.

You do understand that the markets are manipulated?
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The law, the commandments, and Christians.

So the same concept must hold for the other things we are discussing too since they all go together. Is it correct to say that in Catholicism, one may not have absolute certainty that...
  • they are one with the Father and the Son (Jn 17:22),
  • they are in Him and He is in them (Jn 17:23),
  • they are joined to the Lord and are one Spirit with Him (1 Cor 6:17),
  • they have eternal life because Jesus lives in them (1 Jn 5:11–12), and
  • they shall not come into judgement because they have passed from death into life (Jn 5:24)?
Yes, and we must remain Him in order for these to remain true for us. This is the way it is: salvation is directly related on our nearness to God, our unity with Him. To the extent that we care about that relationship, we remain grafted into the Vine producing good fruit, being one with Him.And that graft union then becomes stronger yet along with our righteous, grace leading to more grace as it's accepted and "invested": expressed or acted upon.

Salvation is dynamic, not static. And not ever unrelated to personal righteousness that we've received from Him. We're to do the best we can with everything we've been been given, with some given more and some less and more demanded from those given more. Luke 12:48
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Average consumer now carries $6,329 in credit card debt. 'People are stretched,' expert says

I thought the sardonic 500 eyerolls were implied but...
Central bank purchases have been the main driver of the sharp rise in gold prices, Struyven said. “Central banks are now buying roughly 80 tonnes per month. That is about five times faster than before 2022. Several important Asian and emerging market central banks are still underweight gold and have significant room to increase their reserves,” he explained. He expects central banks to continue buying at a rapid pace for the next three years, pushing gold prices even higher.

Growing expectations of additional US Federal Reserve rate cuts later this year have further supported the safe-haven demand for gold. Prices have also been buoyed by concerns over a possible US government shutdown.

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Israel is losing Americans (support)

I guess that it is the wrong time to congratulate Trump, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey.

I would note that for the last two years, the Arab states have celebrated the demise of the terrorists in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza (and celebrated the bombing of Iran).

By this time next year, Israel will have completed the Abrahma Accords and signed an agreement with Saudia Arabia.
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And I pray that we will have a new Israeli government that will fully withdraw from the West Bank and allow peace within Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank). Never have the Arab states been so united in a cause, except when they have opposed Shiite terrorists.
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