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Chicago principal claims teacher who made sick Charlie Kirk gesture is the victim

Congratulations. You've obviously never been a criminal defendant in our federal court system.
Trump has, because he's a criminal.
No, he's wrong, and his untruthiness is blatant and overwhelming.
Every word I posted is true.
If they're lower working class, one wonders how they were able to obtain an arsenal costing "hundreds of thousands of dollars".
They didn't each spend that much.
I'm not a lawyer, but I worked within the legal profession, including with the federal courts, for a long time. Federal prosecutors can pretty much do what they want. They have unlimited money and resources. They are not beholden to the voters as county District Attorneys are. They can drag the process out and turn the process into your punishment, even before the official punishment. Yes this happens.
Your anecdotes are irrelevant.
And remember, these attorneys are employed by the deep state the Oath Keepers were in effect protesting.
There is no such thing. The Oath Keepers were trying to overthrow the government because they couldn't handle the fact that Trump lost to Biden.
The defendants were charged in a court in D.C., where the citizenry is 92% liberal Democrat. (92%, that's not a typo.) They had no hope of receiving a fair trial.
In every case they all agreed the jury was fair.
And if convicted at trial, which they certainly would have been, they each would have been hammered with punishment worse than what got by pleading guilty.
That's because the guilty deserve to be punished
There was no hairy stuff.
Trying to assassinate the VP & Speaker counts.
You want hairy stuff? Remember when the inside of the State Capitol of Wisconsin was occupied by thousands of Leftists for two weeks?! They were met with no resistance, and were hailed as heroes in the news.
Start your own thread on that. Stop trying to change the subject.
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Chicago principal claims teacher who made sick Charlie Kirk gesture is the victim

I don’t that is the job of authorities, military or otherwise.
I wonder if you can explain how that works.
But that is the result. Dead none the less.
Irrelevant. People eat and smoke themselves to death, too.
Open your eyes!
To what?
Numerous terrorist, globalist, radicalized Islamist, political murderous crazies (examples: those who threatened Trump , Bondi, Noam and actually killed Charlie Kirk).
You're changing the subject now, which is shooting fishing boats and falsely claiming they're drug boats.
Again open your eyes. Deporting and arresting murders, gang members, human traffickers, rapists and recently going for cartel members kidnapping pregnant women for baby organ harvesting and selling babies. If you can’t see how this saved lives I don’t know what to tell you.
They're arresting US citizens and deporting innocent migrants who are here legally.
Seriously? Just watch and listen to the unhinged actions of many protesters and liberal politicians.
There are no such actions.
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OSAS - I was wrong...again

1 Peter 1:6-9 is describing Daniel's 70th week.

Christ himself said you have to endure to the end before you can be saved (Matthew 24:13), and 1 Peter 1:9 is repeating the same point.

One can, if he choose to, take the mark of the beast before the end of the 7 years. That means he failed the test, and did not endure to the end, and hence will not be saved (Rev 14:9-10)

There is no point asking people to endure if one is "forever secure".
You're wrong, but good luck with that anyway.
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

I guess getting a cohesive argument from you is out of the question. Bye
How about this for cohesion: if the Scripture says "death". ir probably means "death". If the Scripture says "die", it probably means "die". "Destroy" means "destroy". That, whether your rbubish doctrine says you should belive that ot not. Those who die in sin and without Christ die. If you don'r see that as suffient punishment, then perhaps it's more a matter of your own human viciousness than God's justice., I'm sorry, but if you believe that infinite torment evinces Divine Love, then your understanding of "love" twisted out of all recognition.

God Himself came, and suffered, and died, for His sinful creatures. He begged God, His Father, to have mercy on us, because we knew not what we did. But you believe that was all a sham, and that as soon as our Lord sat don at the right hand of His Father, He said, in effect, "OK, that stage is over, now it's time to start torturing the sinful scum who don't get with the program, forever. That'll teach 'em!" That's your teaching; that's your understanding of God.

I find it unutterably vile. God Humself came here.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

But your lot would have us believe that He's done with all that, and that now He's all about eternal torture of everyone who doesn't believe. Have any of you ever read the new Testament of our Lord Christ? It certainly doesn't sound like it.

That is, IMO, a shameful, monstrous corruption of what our Lord taught, and the mercy He paid for by His sacrifice on the cross.

Shame on you!
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What is currently on your mind?

How to replace a board on a wooden ramp. I think it's decking. I used to work construction in the summer, but that never involved decks. The hand rails are set on a plate like studs on a wall on 24 inch centers (60 cm centers would be a close equivalent). Was on the way home, dreading finding the screws holding the handrail in place, then remembered how we repaired stud walls. I think we would have cut out a section of plate over the bad board; removed the screws that are under the plate and in the center; cut a new board to fit; drill pilot holes; screw down the board; then cut new plates to replace the cut-out sections.

At least, I think that's how we would have done it.

Intend to use pressure treated wood for the plate. Maybe decking is pressure treated. The reason I think the board is decking is that it's an odd dimension. It could have been 1 1/2 x 6 inches before dressing, Have seen 1 x 6 and 2 x 6, but never 1 1/2 x 6.

Also debating whether to chance a circular saw (which I have), or use a reciprocating saw (which I'd have to buy). We used both repairing stud walls.

Blame the Babel tower project, I have no idea what the terms you are using mean, :)
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I can't handle it, is there any way to avert this mentality?

Praying for you during your next appointment and your discernment with the medication. Lots of people need to be on meds for these issues. You just need to find the right ones that work for you. Don’t give up! :heart: :praying:
I’m on meds and they’ve really helped my OCD. I used to be opposed to taking pills but now I’m glad I did.
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