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Is President Trump Corrupt? Three Stories.

So you are ok with millions from foreign entities coming to the Biden’s while Joe was in public office. Tell us what legitimate service did he provide?
The Republicans who investigated all 14,000 pages of bank records couldn't find anything illegitimate at all, which is why Biden was never impeached.

You should stop trying to felon. Biden with false accusations. He's a far better man and President than Trump the felon.
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Criminal Illegal Alien Who Offered $10,000 Bounties to Murder ICE Agents Arrested in Dallas, TX

Why would they want to do that?

I'd probably feel intimidated too if I believed lamestream news. Do not succumb to its indoctrination! It's just the politics of fear, which your side has used long before Trump was around. Remember the TV commercial with a Republican pushing a grandmother in a wheelchair off a cliff to her death? Trump's going to serve for life as a dictator, and Trump wants to do this, and Trump's trying to do that. It's always something. You guys are scared of your own shadow. We've only had two decent presidents in my lifetime, and Trump is one of them. You should really relax and enjoy it.
Are you seriously going to sit there and explain away my experience with some bulldust reference to "Lamestram" news? Let me return the favor

All your news sources are lying to you and your entire understanding is malarkey easily explained away because I don't view things the same as you.

What a pathetic excuse for dismissing my entire POV.
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The law, the commandments, and Christians.

God is our Father in every way, and is the Father of all, and we are all made of one blood.

Adam the first man, and the second is the Lord from heaven.

Christ confirmed the promises, they were His all along and He confirmed them.




Isaiah 43:27 Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.

Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

1 Corinthians 8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

1 Corinthians 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Interestingly the idea of Christ as the New Adam is foundational to Orthodox (Eastern and Oriental)/ Patristic theology, and the theology of traditional liturgical churches more generally (although in the West sometimes the heavy reliance upon on Anselm’s Satisfaction theology and variants thereof, such as Penal Substitionary Atonement, both of which in their forms as articulated by Anselm and Aquinas and others in the case of the former, and by Calvinists and Evangelicals in the case in the latter, did not appear in Patristic soteriology, even though the idea of Christ having atoned for our sins, and of Him having sacrificed His life for our salvation, and of Him ransoming us from the bondage of death, were well established).

God is our Father in every way, and is the Father of all, and we are all made of one blood.

Adam the first man, and the second is the Lord from heaven.

Christ confirmed the promises, they were His all along and He confirmed them.

This is an elegant expression of the doctrine of the Incarnation, that in the person of the Son and Word, God became incarnate, putting on our fallen human nature in order to save us from sin, as demonstrated by the parable of the Wicked Tenants.
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Heating up down under

And they're doing it again without much thought to hurricanes. So let's say the AGW alarmists are right, and hurricanes are going to become, on average, stronger and more numerous. There will be a lot of property and infrastructure damage that must be repaired, over and above whatever emergency and short term aid is provided. Hurricane damage is already costing us 150 billion per year and the curve is said to be rising rapidly. That's a lot of money. Diverting it from more productive use slows the economy; just a little, but then there are the wildfires out west to think of--how many billions is that going to cost us? Yes they were foolish to build there may be but the bill is due, and in the end it will come out of our pockets. Sea level rise a little bit? No big thing? But every year the wave damage comes a little farther inland. I don't know if you saw on the news the last hurricane that came close to us in NC, but there was lurid footage of beach houses being swept into the sea. The thing is, those houses were already abandoned due to the waves gradually coming farther up the beach. More money for remediation. AGW is going to start costing us more money than we can afford. For us, that's the armageddan
There's a place on the East coast known as the Millionaire's Village. It's a small settlement of grand vacation homes that belonged to some of the wealthiest families in America at the time. It's on Jekyll Island. The interesting thing is that it's on the side of the island facing the mainland, not on the beach. It's more protected. As a consequence, the homes still exist today, even though some are over a century old. Had they been on the Atlantic side, it would probably be a different story. There's erosion on the beach side. Apparently there was erosion when the millionaires built their vacation homes. Over on St. Simon's Island, part of the fortifications of Fort Frederica, also on the mainland side of the island, are gone, eroded away long ago. Even on Jekyll, the millionaire's homes aren't built on the very edge of the island. Further north, have seen photos of period homes on barrier island up on huge sledges, pulled by teams of horses or mules as they were dragged back from eroding beaches.

That's the thing about barrier islands: they move back and forth. Have seen photos of places on the East Coast where barrier islands have rolled back, exposing the remains of forests. Further inland there are barrier island sequences of what was beachfront property. If it was possible to look under the silt toward the continentals shelf, there very well may be the remains of forests, courtesy of the last glaciation period.

People used to know that. People used to realize that building on a sandy beach was short-term at best, unless you could move the house back. Have often wondered about how someone could think that this was a good idea. Whether a house is on a beach or the banks of a river, it's subject to get washed away. That was the case before AGW was considered a thing, and will be the case after all of us here are long gone.

Now, since you brought up hurricane damage, look at this: It's a track of recorded tropical systems. It only dates to the latter part of the 19th Century.

Historical Hurricane Tracks

Go there and enter "North Atlantic Basin." Look a the storm tracks, and know that hurricanes like the one Aaron Burr rode out on St. Simons aren't listed because there were no official records. Look and ponder. Then reflect that houses today are a far cry from houses of an earlier time, filled with expensive do-dads, and the effects of inflation.

Whether there is warming and whether it's caused by humans is one thing; blaming every event on it is quite another.
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AI and I stumbled on something huge that could change the world in the next few years

Things like this often require some level of partnership to focus on the project full-time. That’s challenging when your livelihood takes precedence. The early period is usually self-funded, aided by family and friends or a small loan. Investors arrive later on when the idea is tested and proven. This is why laddering is a popular approach to scaling in business. Research and development is expensive and you need to have revenue to fund it. He needs a partner that can put that in place while he focuses on the other.

~bella

You nailed it.

No one's coming until after I make a working prototype and I still need to bring food to the table so I'm still alive and sane by the time I have the chance to do real work on the concept.

There are many inventions that never see the light of day. That's reality. The world is rigged against change and cooperation. It's rigged to make us fight and hate each other.
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Should Trump have been banned from running for president?

What I said was what I heard from the author of Project2025 from his own mouth about Sunday needs to be a national rest day and when asked about Sabbath keepers, his answer was there is no room to please everyone (for those who wants to keep the Sabbath according to the commandment.) They have to service the majority. I'll find the video, I just don't have hours to go back and look for it right now.

There is no single "author" of Project 2025. There's a bunch of them. In any event, what Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership itself says--not one person who was maybe involved, but the actual document--was that the rules would be different for anyone who considered Saturday to the Sabbath, and also mentions as an "Alternate view" that maybe the whole time and a half thing isn't a great idea because they shouldn't be erecting barriers. So the document itself doesn't do what you said it did, and even if someone did (somehow) arrive at that interpretation, it immediately acknowledges that others--presumably including some of its authors--disagree with that approach. Project 2025 does that on a number of occasions, giving one suggestion but offering an "Alternate view" that maybe that suggestion isn't so good. Heck, some parts of it are outright arguing essays, like on the subject of tariffs where one person wrote about why they're a good idea and another person wrote about how they're not.
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Stranger Things

Look at the phrase "rigid rules", it sounds like exaggeration -- to make modern lifestyle look "normal" and "humane".
Having Rules is good, the fact that the film producer doesnt like it - doesnt make it bad.

Let's look at the fruits of 2 different lifestyles, as Lord Jesus taught.
The modern era - literacy rate going down, more divorce, more drug addictions, more crimes, more suicides.
1950s - higher literacy rate, less divorce, less drug addictions, less crimes, less suicides.
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Hamas now executing Palestinians who tried to help peace.

I didn't propose public executions; I said I don't think private executions are so much better. It is you who wants executions, not I.

Animals are a part of society.

No, you didn't say why then, but you have now.

Why is that a fail? You're comparing a battlefield execution - which is not necessarily either illegal or without cause particularly in a place without any courts or courthouses left standing - nothing but rubble. Most private places have been blown to smithereens. I thought the cause given was collaborating with the enemy, which, as treason, would be cause for execution here as well, theoretically.

How is being shot in the head more barbaric than South Carolina's firing squad? Is it really so much more civilized to shoot them in the torso? Texas still hangs people - how is that less barbaric?

And I want to see world peace. I condemn Hamas for executing their own citizens just as I condemn all nations that do so.

Apparently, it's not the "executing their own citizens" that is the real sticking point, as you support it when it's done "properly". Again, I think executing neighboring citizens or even citizens from the other side of the world is more egregious than executing one's own.

Yeah, a lot of people here don't get several decades worth of appeals while others do. Three decades is the record so far for longest and less than a year the record for shortest in Texas:

According to TDCJ's Death Row Facts page, the average length of time spent on death row prior to execution is 11 years, the shortest time on death row prior to execution was 252 days and the longest time spent on death row before an execution was 31 years. The average age of inmates executed is 39 and the youngest man executed was at age 24.​

There is also a difference between a [somewhat] stable, first world country at peace and a occupied, war torn country that's been largely destroyed. Even the US has separate laws for peacetime and wartime battlefield executions.

Do you think the situations of the two governments are equivalent? Does Gaza even have courts now?

The US with all its courts and lawyers have nevertheless executed innocent people even if it did take its own sweet time with it. Remember, the Supreme Court ruled that actual innocence is not sufficient cause to stay the death penalty if procedure was followed.

Please note, I am not defending Hamas' executing its own citizens but equally condemning our doing so. "Its own citizens" is not the sticking point; obviously, the actual problem with so many are defending executions per se, it's perhaps the lack of due process?
Your point regarding capital punishment is noted. As an individual who identifies as pro-life and maintains the belief that life begins at birth and ends at death, I do not endorse capital punishment. While this issue warrants thoughtful discussion and debate, it should be recognized that—despite my personal stance—capital punishment remains a component of the United States legal system. Additionally, the U.S. judiciary upholds a comprehensive review process prior to the execution of any capital sentence.

Capital punishment remains a subject of debate, with some states having abolished it while others retain the practice. Although my perspective may differ from those Americans who support capital punishment, I appreciate our nation's commitment to fostering substantive dialogue, advocacy, and democratic participation through voting on legislation. Given current political circumstances, significant changes to national policy on capital punishment are unlikely in the near future. The principles of debate, voting, and advocacy are important elements of society. In a democratic system, the majority determines whether to maintain or end capital punishment, making it necessary to respect collective decisions regarding the judicial system.

In contrast, this is not the case in Gaza, where a non-elected governing entity exercises power without representing the population's will and enforces capital punishment absent due process. Drawing parallels between this approach and the U.S. judiciary is therefore preposterous.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

GT is studied by archeologists, they are publishing their findings in normal archeological journals. Those digs will enrich our understanding of their material culture.
Yes and they are saying that these discoveries are as they say rewriting and reshaping our understanding of human evolution and development. Being far more sophisticated in knowledge than we thought.

Echo from the Past: How Göbekli Tepe is Reshaping Our Understanding of the Neolithic
How Gobekli Tepe Rewrote the Origins of Civilization

Articles in journals!!
Yes its all covered in journals and archeology.

Geometry and Architectural Planning at Göbekli Tepe, Turkey

Representations of calendars and time at Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe support an astronomical interpretation of their symbolism
No, what you are putting forward is at best a possibility, now they have to find something that makes it into an actuality.
I thought I was lol. I sure have linked a lot of amazing stone works. Many of these seem to have risen around the same time period. Like a peak in magnificant stone works. We see similar signatures of these stone works all over the world such as the pyramid. Is that not evidence.

Actually not just stone work as not all cultures had access to stone. Its really about megaliths and stone seemed to have been the main works. But there were also land glyphs and works such as in south America. Massive monuments, shapes in the ground that can only be seen from above. Other works that used the landscape itself such as large natural rocks being worshipped or used as monuments ect.
Or humans were perhaps not those harshly affected? Do we find many human remains from the time period?
The logic is if there was a flood and we have strong evidence. That most humans lived by water such as rivers and coast lines. Then it is logical that quite significant numbers were lost. Cities flooded or washed away. We see evidence for this flooding especially in the northern hemisphere.

Such as the Channeled Scablands in Washington carved by the Missoula floods, the Black Sea deluge hypothesis supported by findings like ancient shorelines and drowned river valleys, and other evidence of large-scale floods in locations like North Africa, the Middle East, and Siberia.

Its ongoing research. But there was definitely a big melt of the ide cap at the end of the last iceage and big flooding.

Ice cores reveal rapid Antarctic ice loss in the past

Most important we have the testimony of just about every culture on earth who tell us over and over again that there was a great disaster like a flood that actually wiped out their ancestors. This is also evidence of a different kind. Testimonial evidence from lived reality that was passed down. But science relegates this as myth because it cannot be tested in a lab.
Are you calling me a moron lol. Oh sorry Muron lol.
I'am familiar with electromagnetism, what about it? SAR, synthetic aperature radar?
Well you will know of the research into electromagnetism and these sites around the world. Especially the pyramids. Something to do with some sites being aligned in locations of higher electromagnetism. Or that some sites can generate electromagnetism.

Study Reveals Electromagnetic Properties of the Great Pyramid of Giza

The Possible Relation Between Ancient Monuments and Geophysical Anomalies
There seems to be some indication that ancient people had some awareness of magnetism; maybe they were led to built temples upon what we can recognize today as geophysical anomalies.
Yes, and it'll be the normal view until someone can show it to be false. In journal articles.
Hum I did not think there was suppose to be an orthodoxy to begin with. Thats not science. Whenever science gets dogmatic about orthodoxy like anything its going beyond science and into belief.
So where are all the roman books about the big stones that you believe they moved?
Nowhere to be found. Except the modern narratives that insist the Romans built them. But not the Romans themselves. You would think that considering they liked to detail all their works and achievements that moving the biggest blocks in the world would have been something to brag about. But more importantly describe in being able to achieve this as it would have required the greatest cranes ever built. Surely we would hear of such a feat.

I noticed even Ai which is a review of many findings acknowledges the Romans built the temple on an existing platform that was already there. Which though not evidence does show that at least a large number of articles say the same thing. The evidence seems strong its not made by Romans. Different style, old looking, eroded far more than the Roman work, not typical lifting holes, no crane capable of lifting such weights, no records of them moving them even though they mention the temple.

But this is an example of many sites and a bit like the vases where theres disagreement about origina and who made them. Which has not been resolved though there is growing evidence for earlier dates.
Tell them to publish their findings, get the experts looking at it.
Why is it always those who propose an alternative idea. It is the orthodox narrative that has no evidence and relies on assumption. I never see anyone calling for their evidence. They just acept it as fact without any evidence.

So lets say theres no concrete evidence. Does the rational I just gave of the erosion, age, lack of physical ability of the Romans, completely different signatures that align more with other ancient megalths and that there was a site before hand, ect seem a stronger case. Than the no evidence from the orthodoxy based on whoever built last on a site built it.
Many more experts believe them to be natural formations.
Is expert itself the qualification. Who is more an expert lol. Is it a competition of experts. Which scientists is more an expert on a site. One who visits once or 150 times and has more detailed observations because they have been there many more times to be able to properly examine it.
You haven't even showed that the under water features is anything but natural yet.
And you have not shown it is natural. Funny that. How about we say it may or may not be. We cannot rule either out at this stage.
The Yonagumi monument is east of Taiwan. Mount Nokogiri is at the mouth of Tokyo bay. The quarry there is from the Edo period if wikipedia is to be trusted.
No Wiki8 cannot be trusted. Once again they just don't know and there is evidence its from an earlier time. Once again the signatures are different. But the point was regardless that there is evidence of very similar architecture from the same area.

The Yonagumi monument as the name suggests is Japanese. The Mount Nokogiri quarry is Japanese. The similar signatures in other works such as at Peru are from a similar time if not also earlier works.

This is the problem. The orthodoxy keeps relegating these works to people who themselves say their culture did not make them. We just don't know. But to assume they are from X culture when we don't know is wrong. Or that there is evidence they are earlier and just ignore this.
If they are from the Edo period they had access to versions of steel tools.
What like circular saws. How do they even get up there to use the tool. You would need a saw 20 foot big. Even then they are cut into the face and not across. How does a saw move.

Seems the good old orthodox methods can mimick everything from circular saws, lathes, giant graders, heavy lifters, almost magically.
Wasn't cuneiform the first written language dating back to 3000-3500 bce?
Yes but the other forms like the Egyptian hyroglyphs were forms of written communication.
Why not? If it is demonstrable and you can form hypotheses (amenable to possible falsification) about it you can test it.
Alternative knowledge by its very nature is not testable by science. Its alternative because it cannot be tested by science. Like conscious experiences cannot be tested by science. They belong in a different paradigm.

Science can tests for the physical manifestations of brain activity. But the brain activity is not responsible for the experience. Thats like saying the wires in a computer are responsible for consious experience. Or alternative knowledge from God. How do you test for that. Say someones prayers are answered. Or God gives a revelation of knowledge. How do you test for that.
Why, would a "science worldview" make it impossible to test someones deep knowledge about nature?
Because the deeper knowledge of nature may be experiencential which is a qualitative phenomena and not a quantified one. Science can only measure the quantified stuff. It will relegate the experiences or beliefs that bring the knowledge as something physical rather than immaterial. Belief is immaterial but brings knowledge.
We do forest baths in Sweden too, no need for any lost knowledge.
In this case then its not lost. Its still happening. But it was a knowledge from the ancients. It was discovered by the ancients without science. It was part of their beliefs and experiences of being immersed in nature that they came up with it. They didn't have degrees in science where they worked out that this would be beneficial. ONly now we are beginning to understand this.
That is not ancient technology or lost knowledge. It is the epitome of "we tried things until we found something that worked".
The point is they had medicines without the science. Its because they were immersed in nature. It was not just that they tried stuff. They understood nature as well and became aware of what worked and what did not.
Most of the astronomical significance of the places in that pdf, is at best our best guess. What conclusions do you want me to draw from going through it?
That they understood the workings of nature. The cosmos was associated with crops, and seasons and movements of wildlife and other aspects of nature. They were living synchronised to nature. They worshipped the sun and moon and stars. They were their guides. This was part of what gave them secrets of nature.

Like how the pyramids and other works are aligned to the sun and moon and stars. This brought knowledge and actually influenced their world. Do you think they just aligned these works to stars for nothing.
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Is President Trump Corrupt? Three Stories.

I was interested in what you said about voting machines. I once did a letter to the editor about voting machines. If you go into a Las Vegas casino, for every slot machine, the software has to be on file with the State of Nevada, the Gaming Commission. For Diebold voting machines, we are told that the software is proprietary, a trade secret, so the public has no right to know.

On the voting machines they were using where I live, at that time, you press a button on the machine and you can see the ballot drop into a box, but you can't actually see where the mark is on the ballot. They have changed the system since then, though.
Yes, I used hear bad things too about how the vote tabulation can be changed in the software. Hopefully they have fixed that.
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Is President Trump Corrupt? Three Stories.

We were always going to have to fix it.

We don't just trust a plane from Qatar for goodness sake. We have to take that thing down to bare metal just looking for bugs and bombs.

The point isn't that we are going to spend some of our money on it when the world isn't looking, it's that Qatar is making overtures towards our country that are diplomatically positive.

This is called diplomacy. Smile. It's what we want; to try and have positive relationships in rocky places.

You all are globalists aren't you? Why squeamish about diplomatic relations? I'm not even a globalist but even I can handle diplomatic relations with foreign nations.
OK I will rate it optimistic though it seems opportunistic to me, that some pay to play schemes are in play between Trump and Qatar. I remember too, how Carter got quite a bit of money from the Saudi Arabia.
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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

Did you know that he was a minister in our Labor government (equates to the Democrats) between 2004 and 2013? My son in law stood against him in the...2010 election I think? And lost badly.
No I didn't know that. Was he able to do anything about those burning beds down there?
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