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Maine elects woman convicted of killing Canadian tourist to city council: ‘So broken’

I don't see anyone having a problem with Trump's legal eligibility for office, despite his felony convictions.
Anyone? I’ve heard quite the opposite from the liberals here.
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Israel is losing Americans (support)

Support for Israel among U.S. conservatives is starting to crack. Here's why

Opposition to Israel on the right isn't new, but younger conservatives appear to be rapidly moving away from supporting the close U.S. relationship with the country. Among several polls, one from the Pew Research Center out earlier this year showed that conservatives under 50 were increasingly skeptical of Israel. Over the past three years, the group's negative views of the country jumped from 35% to 50%.

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Cracks over Gaza​

But Israel's war in Gaza has challenged that [traditional pro-Israel evangelical] view. "Over the last two years, there has been this kind of gnawing away of support of Israel among evangelical Christians," Lahmeyer said.

The polls support that observation, said Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, who tracks public opinion about Israel. He says that since the war in Gaza, support has plummeted among young conservatives.

[Not to mention, of course...]

Resurgent antisemitism​

A desire for American isolationism and outrage over how Israel has conducted the war have driven some to speak up. But other influencers are using the war as an opportunity to peddle antisemitic conspiracies.

The idea that "Jews control the media" is a long-held antisemitic trope. Owens has made other antisemitic remarks in the past, though she has repeatedly said that she does not hate Jewish people.

White nationalist Nick Fuentes used his appearance on Carlson's show to promote numerous antisemitic ideas: including that he believed Jews naturally dislike Europeans and that Jewish people prevent America from unifying around a common vision for itself.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

Because it's not a misrepresentation in the slightest.
There you go again. With another extreme and exaggerated claim that its "Not in the slightest a misrepresentation". Nothing said is fact, its all whacko.

But all I have to do is go back and find the stuff thats obvious fact. Or qualified. Which I can easily do. I mean I did post some peer review to back up what I said or does that not count. So you are obviously misrepresenting things yourself.
The topic of advanced ancient technology that no-one has been unable to find is pseudoscience and pseudo-archaeology and pseudo-history as well.
Thats your opinion and you are welcome to it. But don't tar everyone who happens to believe the case as whackos. Theres some good people. I see your a Desit. Do you think Deism is pseudoscience.
What you said was an outright misrepresentation of what I said.
No you make extreme and absolute claims. Its not a misrepresentation. I have never said that anything is absolutely fact or truth. Only that there is more than one way to gain knowledge. That there is alternative knowledge that is real and different to how the scientific material worldview sees things. Thats it.

Let me ask. What do you think of the recent UAP phenomena. I ask this because its not religious, its not some fringe group. But mainstream, official and there is good testimony from credible people. Yet its classed as advanced knowledge beyond what we can understand. Is this all pseudoscience.

How is proposing that there may be alternative knowledge and stuff going on equates to absolute whacko when many, many people believe in such things. Your casting many good people as deluded. How is this not a misrepresentation and grossly demeaning.

Whats your criteria for pseudoscience. Is making the claim that theres a God who created the world pseudoscience. Isn't proposing theres some Deistic God somewhere overseering reality pseudoscience. It seems you are willing to allow some alternative ideas but not others.
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ICE officers to attend Super Bowl after Bad Bunny halftime headliner announcement, Lewandowski says

Is there an option C here?

It's either A) something that's a genuine interest that he wants to portray in his art form (as you stated), or B) something he's doing for shock value to get attention (as I stated)


Are there any other rationales that would make sense for that?
I cant really go any further than this as it would require me to actually encounter mind numbing plastic reggaeton music.
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ICE officers to attend Super Bowl after Bad Bunny halftime headliner announcement, Lewandowski says

They were wearing tube socks on their "manhood", and nothing else.

It wasn't a case where they were wearing socks the normal way lol.
^_^ That's an important detail to leave out. ^_^ Nevertheless, that's more funny than shocking as long as the socks were secure.
Are you familiar with any of Bad Bunny's music videos?
Nope. Do you think that the SuperBowl performance will have anything shocking?
I personally don't get "shocked" by it (I was a fan of RHCP back in the day...as well as Black Flag, Iggy Pop, etc...)

But I an easily see how it's considered a bit "much" for a lot of middle America.

Even with example you cited...biting the heads off bats, or perhaps an even more "over the top" one -- GWAR with a big fake piece of male anatomy on stage that shoots at the crowd...

Nobody deflected on those and said "what's so offensive or shocking about biting bat heads? Sounds like a 'you problem' if you're offended by that" -- they were more direct and honest in their intent. "You're shocked/offended by that? Good, because that's the point...to give a middle finger to your traditional norms"
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But now they don't "own it" like they used to.
They're doing things that are intentionally designed to "push boundaries" and "challenge norms", but then play the defense of claiming that the things they were doing were already normal.
While what is normal in one group is not in another, attention is necessary for fame and fortune. I just don't see getting all het up over this.
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Multiple immigration sweeps reported across Los Angeles, with a tense standoff/protest downtown; SEIU union leader arrested

DHS ‘erroneously’ told watchdog group it had no Noem text messages

American Oversight said the admission raises questions about whether officials are following their obligation to manually save their messages and that they have yet to receive the public records it requested.

The disclosure came in a public records lawsuit brought by the group to obtain text messages sent by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during immigration raids in Los Angeles.

Court documents also show the National Archives asked the DHS to investigate the potential destruction of records and report back by Nov. 3. However, by Oct. 30, a National Archives official said they had not yet received a response from the DHS.

“After misleading us for months, DHS wants us to trust that the law is being followed. But the agency has not turned over the records we requested nor has it provided details about whether senior officials’ text messages have been preserved in accordance with the law. It’s time for transparency — not more empty assurances.”
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Trumps interactions with global leaders

US grants Hungary exemption on Russia sanctions after warm (some might say flattery-filled) Trump-Orban meeting

Hungary has maintained its reliance on Russian energy since the start of the 2022 conflict in Ukraine, prompting criticism from several European Union and NATO allies.
and what does the link actually say?

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No mention of flatter-filled that could very well be tribe speak added to skew the link to a specific goal


If the President is short and concise - he is rude
If the President is warm and welcoming - he wants flattery

The man cannot do anything that will not elicit a negative reaction.. And that is what is being exposed.

From the link:

Orban said the issue was vital for Hungary, which is a European country, and pledged to lay out "the consequences for the Hungarian people, and for the Hungarian economy, not to get oil and gas from Russia."​
Trump, aiming to put pressure on Moscow to end its war with Ukraine, appeared sympathetic to Orban's position.
"We're looking at it, because it's very different for him to get the oil and gas from other areas," Trump said. "As you know, they don't have ... the advantage of having sea. It's a great country, it's a big country, but they don't have sea. They don't have the ports."

GASP! the president listened to the leader of another nation and was sympathetic to his issues, so helped him?
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Do you believe a Christian can no longer be a believer?

So you understand and agree with the point I originally made about 1 Corinthians 10:13 (coppied below for convenience)?

12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it. (1 Co 10:12–13)​

Do you see in 1 Co 10:13 that every time a person succumbs to temptation that it reprepresents a failure to take the way of escape that God provided?​
He does provide a way of escape ... but often people don't take it ... this is true.
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Christian nationalism in Catholicism

As a faithful Catholic, I can only consider myself a very, very moderate conservative, and resisted Republican. Neither political party has my "allegiance."

Christ comes first. Always.

Very well said, my friend. :)
Whether one is Right or Left the Catholic Social Teaching will be a challenge. The challenge is consistency. Our political biases are usually pretty inconsistent.
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Maine elects woman convicted of killing Canadian tourist to city council: ‘So broken’

Lol was waiting for the inevitable. The problem is that most leftists here don’t see anything wrong with a killer being elected but have big problems with non violent white collar crime being elected. :doh:
What is the problem with someone convicted of manslaughter 20 years ago, whos done her time and expressed repentance, going for elected office?

I thought this sort of scenario fits exactly within the Christian view of redemption. As to whether shes genuine, thats best decided by the voters in her vicinity.
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Trumps interactions with global leaders

US grants Hungary exemption on Russia sanctions after warm (some might say flattery-filled) Trump-Orban meeting

Hungary has maintained its reliance on Russian energy since the start of the 2022 conflict in Ukraine, prompting criticism from several European Union and NATO allies.
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Right-wing media expresses concern about young women voters following Democratic election wins across the country

Yeah, I can't imagine why women aren't supporting these guys. :rolleyes:

On a more serious note, that early-marriage idea may not be the solution they're hoping for. Most of my conservative young female classmates who married in their late teens / early 20s after graduating from my conservative Christian high school became divorced women by the time they were 30. They emerged from the conservative Christian bubble and encountered the wide range of possibilities that are open to modern women, and, well.
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ICE arrests illegal immigrant in Massachusetts accused of stabbing coworker with scissors, trash bin attack


DHS says the crowd shouted obscenities at the ICE agents, saying that they were "going to kill you and your kids."

Witnesses at the scene painted a different picture

...Fitchburg police officers remained positioned between the agents and the crowds, repeatedly telling concerned neighbors that they could not interfere in the arrest.

...Ojeda-Montoya was taken into custody around 9 a.m. and transported to Cumberland County Jail in Scarborough, Maine, according to a DHS spokesperson. She will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings

"The role of the Fitchburg Police Department in this type of situation is to keep the peace. Keeping the peace includes making sure both the public as a whole as well as the federal law enforcement agents are safe," police said. "The Fitchburg Police Department does not enforce federal immigration laws, nor do we interfere with the lawful actions of other law enforcement agencies."

Fitchburg's mayor, Sam Squailia, released a lengthy statement on Friday, saying in part:

"As outlined in the Fitchburg Police Department’s press release, our officers were called after the stop had already escalated. These unannounced federal actions place our local officers in an impossible situation. When federal agents report they are 'in danger,' our officers are obligated to respond. Our officers do not participate in federal immigration enforcement, they respond to keep the peace, to prevent escalation, and to protect the safety of everyone on scene. Our officers’ have a limited role: scene safety, de-escalation, traffic control, and people’s rights protection. "

Ojeda-Montoya was arrested back in August of this year. She has not been tried or convicted.

Kudos to the Fitchburg police.
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the "blue wave" last night and the government shutdown

Mamdani should be hailed as a paragon of fiscal efficiency.

With Cuomo garnering just under 855,000 votes, that amounted to the would-be power brokers spending $65 per vote for a losing candidate.

Meanwhile, independent committees that included backers such as the Working Families Party dropped a relatively paltry $16 million to either support Mamdani or go after Cuomo. Mamdani snagged a little more than 1 million votes, making their investment come in at $15.81 per vote.
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