Landon Caeli said:

Oh, the new analysis says that? Gotcha.

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Again, between 2014 and now a lot of progress has been made, which has lowered the expected warming.
The most accepted analysis is the IPCC roadmap.

joechristianwarrior said:

And many 'Christians' avoid discussions along those lines specifically, as one example.

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I thought fear of McCarthyism which led to an unethical fear of loving all as self was no longer an influence. But I guess the will of man reigns over the will of God.

Democrats will force a Senate vote on a 3-year extension of Affordable Care Act funds​

The legislation is all but guaranteed to fail next week due to widespread Republican opposition and become a key issue in the 2026 elections as insurance premiums rise.

“Republicans have one week to decide where they stand: Vote for this bill and bring health care costs down, or block this bill and send premiums skyrocketing,” Schumer said on the floor. “That’s what’s at stake when we vote next week. It’s going to be one of the most important votes we take.”

The vote is the product of a promise that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., made to Democrats in discussions to end the record-long government shutdown last month. Thune reiterated Tuesday that the Senate will vote next week on any bill Democrats propose — but it will require 60 votes to pass, meaning at least 13 Republicans would need to support it.

essentialsaltes said:

He's certainly not responsible for ALL the problems in Sudan, but he contributed to the humanitarian crisis by folding his arms and doing nothing about it. Food, doctors and medicine are desperately needed? That's why we were sending them some, until you stopped it, shouting AMERICA FIRST!

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And now on the vacuum part:

Sudan offers Russia Red Sea base for 25 years in exchange for arms​

Sudan's government has offered Russia its first naval base in Africa, in exchange for arms, as the military continues to battle the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a renegade militia that Moscow initially supported.

The agreement would see the establishment of a Russian naval base in the Red Sea's Port Sudan, or another facility, that would house 300 personnel and dock up to four naval vessels, including nuclear-powered ones, according to Sudanese officials speaking to The Wall Street Journal.

‘There is no Mamdani effect’: Manhattan luxury home sales surge after mayoral election, undercutting predictions of doom and escape to Florida​

In the aftermath of much well-heeled panic about a potential mass exodus of New York millionaires and billionaires following the election of Zohran Mamdani, the contrary is already happening, and Manhattan luxury apartment buyers are voting with their wallets.

Signed contracts for Manhattan homes costing $4 million or more rose to 176 in November, a 25% increase from October’s 141 deals, according to fresh data from brokerage Douglas Elliman and appraiser Miller Samuel. New signed contracts of more than $4 million increased at more than twice the rate of the overall market, the report noted.

Olshan Realty similarly noted an uptick in Manhattan luxury buyers. In its most recent market report, the firm said the 17 contracts signed in the last week of November for Manhattan homes over $4 million bested its 10-year Thanksgiving week average.

Trump's calls for “remigration,” a form of ethnic cleansing, echo Nick Fuentes' calls to roll back immigration​

On November 27, Trump posted on Truth Social that he would “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover,” adding, “Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation.” Trump’s latest comments come after the Department of Homeland Security publicly called for immigrants to “remigrate,” Trump’s State Department announced the opening of an “Office of Remigration” in April [see below], and Trump pledged during his 2024 presidential campaign to “revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala’s illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration).”

Fuentes has also celebrated right-wing media figures and politicians who have embraced the idea of an end to all immigration or even remigration, boasting in June that “I've never seen the right wing so angry and so explicitly against mass migration, so close to expressing their disdain in racial terms. ... the groypers have won. It's just not even a question at this point.”

In reaction to Trump's Truth Social post about “reverse migration,” Fuentes said that “this is awesome,” and he also called it a “great post,” saying it’s “funny, hilarious, incisive, witty, direct.”

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essentialsaltes said:

According to a post about the summit on the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism’s website, “Remigration is rooted in the thoroughly de-bunked white supremacist ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory, which purports a planned ‘replacement’ of white people by politicians and other ‘elites.’ Jews are often targeted as driving this ‘plan.’”

They continued: “Remigration is a series of policy proposals, drafted by Austrian Identitarian and former neo-Nazi Martin Sellner, to end the so-called ‘replacement’ by purging the continent of non-white people and eliminating all forms of multiculturalism. The goal is to make countries ‘European again.’”

US State Department set to launch Office of Remigration​

... which will “provide a policy platform for interagency coordination with DHS and other agencies on removals/repatriations, and for intra-agency policy work to advance the President’s immigration agenda.” There will also be offices of International Migration/Repatriation and Refugee Processing.

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People pay good money to go to Florida and just sit in the sun. These criminals are just too much.

wing2000 said:

...because blowing up boats with very expensive ordance makes for a good TV show......yet they still have not realeased the full, unedited video to the public.

I would have have loved to be a fly on the wall when the Naval commander of the USS Ford received orders to leave the Mediterranean sea and head to......Venezuela. I'm sure there were a few choice words used.....

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I've seen a rough cost estimate of about $1,000,000 per "narco-terrorist" killed, counting most costs involved in the total operation.

Michie said:

The commission was created earlier this year by Pope Francis.​

Pope Leo XIV has suppressed a Vatican donations commission less than 10 months after it was established by his predecessor Pope Francis.

The Vatican released Dec. 4 a chirograph, signed Sept. 29 by Pope Leo XIV, suppressing the Commissio de donationibus pro Sancta Sede, or Commission of Donations for the Holy See, which sought to raise much-needed funds for the Vatican.

Pope Francis had signed a document establishing the commission Feb. 11, three days before he was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital and 69 days before his death at the age of 88.

The new chirograph suppressing the commission said that the move came as a recommendation of the Vatican’s Council for the Economy, which “devoted particular attention to studying this issue, reexamining it and consulting with experts in the field.”

The chirograph also announced the creation of a working group “to formulate proposals regarding the general issue of fundraising for the Holy See, along with the definition of an appropriate structure.”

Members of the working group will be proposed to Leo XIV by the Vatican’s Council for the Economy, via the Secretariat of State.

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Leo XIV suppresses Vatican donations commission

The commission was created earlier this year by Pope Francis.

www.pillarcatholic.com

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I am beginning to have some hope again in pope Leo now that he is moving to undo some things pope Francis did. If he finally gets around to undo Fiducia supplicans and the like I might even be able to contemplate a donation to Peter's Pence. For now I wait.

While I don't particularly like how he partially undid Traditiones custodes by saying he would grant the exception of any bishop who asks, he did at least make some progress. I have a glimmer of hope there may be more progress if and when he comes into his own, hopefully as a faithful Catholic.

mark46 said:

Let's watch each month and make the 2026 election a referendum on the keeping of those promises.
1) Does inflation go down each month compared to a year ago?
2) Do food prices go down, actually go down as promised?
3) Does the price of eggs go down?
4) Do gas prices go down?

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I don’t expect them to go down but if they don’t go up I would say that’s an improvement.

Always in His Presence said:

Here are the Democrats calling for Schumer to be replaced as leader​

Democrats have been pushing back on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after eight party members voted in favor of a stopgap measure to reopen the government.

The 60-40 vote approving a continuing resolution to fund much of the government until Jan. 30 leaves health care subsidies in limbo, cementing disdain for Schumer, who previously said extending ObamaCare subsidies was a “life or death” provision for Democrats.

In early October, the Senate minority leader said there was “no (obscenity deleted) way” party members would cave on health care demands to reopen the government.

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Well, they get to do it all over again in January.

Judges lash out at Justice Department for still listing Lindsey Halligan on court documents​

One of those judges, Magistrate William Fitzpatrick, said at a criminal case hearing Tuesday that filing criminal charging papers “under Ms. Halligan’s name” at this time “is simply not acceptable,” according to a transcript obtained by CNN.

Both Fitzpatrick and another judge in the district, Michael Nachmanoff, told prosecutors this week they believed the ruling was clear that Halligan wasn’t the US attorney for all cases. They both noted, in separate hearings this week, according to court transcripts, that the Justice Department hadn’t appealed the ruling about Halligan, nor asked any court to pause it for a possible appeal.

The Justice Department’s reasoning for keeping Halligan’s name on criminal filings has been thin, from the perspective of prosecutors appearing in court.

“The Office of Legal Counsel told us to put the name as is as it has been presented on these indictments. That’s what we are going on at this point,” Roberts said in court on Tuesday, according to court records obtained by CNN.

Can the United States Government defraud itself?

essentialsaltes said:

The rise in political menace is even affecting our 51st state.

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Oh, the thread is open to other countries?

Germany: Dozens injured at Berlin pro-Palestinian protest​

Sportswear boss offers his £3billion firm to anyone who can prove Earth is flat​

In a video posted on Columbia Sportswear’s YouTube channel on Tuesday (December 2), the boss, dressed in a casual navy quarter-zip and red and white checked shirt, challenged conspiracy theorists to prove him wrong.

Mr Boyle said: ‘This message is for flat Earthers. You guys claim there’s an end to the Earth?

‘Well just go snap a picture. Send it to us – and you get the assets to the company. All of it.

‘No paperwork, no lawyers, no catches.’

He is then interrupted by a man who appears to be a part of Columbia’s legal team, dressed in a black suit and blue patterned tie, who said: ‘Um, Tim, there is some paperwork.’

Is the Earth flat?​

The first flat Earthers can be traced back to ancient Mesopotamia who thought the earth was disc-shaped and under a dome.

But by about 300 BCE, educated scholars overwhelmingly accepted that the Earth is a sphere

The Barbarian said:

It's odd. The far left generally loves Jews in America, and hates them in Israel. The far right generally hates Jews in America, and loves them in Israel. Only a generalization; there are exceptions.

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Thankfully I am a far center centrist. I can hate Jews in America and Israel.

Maybe we should cane or flog them too? Why have air conditioning? At the cost of 235 a day, the taxpayer is getting ripped.

This guy must have made some huge Trump meme coin purchases or something, timed to be attributable to him.

Oompa Loompa said:

Where do I sign up!

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Seriously, if I could sign up to do it, I would.

It’s commercial pre war. But it is a necked down 7x57 not 8x57

ladodgers6 said:

My comments about prideful egos was encompassing all of fallen mankind, which included me too. Synergistic theologies holds a lofty view of man. I am curious about something if you would indulge me. Can you give me your take on the Fall and Sin and how it affects the human race. Thanks in advance.​

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No, synergistic theologies don't hold a "lofty view of man", they simply don't denigrate man and deny that we are made in God's image. An image that was marred in the fall, but not destroyed.

ladodgers6 said:

I beg to differ. The question Fervent, is Salvation God's Plan to save His people from their sins. Meaning it is a Covenant; a Covenant of Redemption by the self-contained, indivisible, Triniantarian God-Head who fulfills everything to save His people from their sins or is Salvation only made possible for us to make a decision to save ourselves? The latter faces some very difficult questions to address. When I was still an Arminian I ask those very difficult questions to people in the same camp, they could not answer them, they tried but failed.​

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The options are not Arminianism or Calvinism, that false dichotomy is bound to lead to error. There is no saving ourselves, as the "decision" is an act of surrender to God's pursuit, not a seeking of God. Monergists seem to have a place for everything in their theology except themselves, the sin belongs to Adam and the faith belongs to God. No place for the monergist, none at all.

ladodgers6 said:

Salvation is not us climbing up to God; like the attempt in Babel.​

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No one said it was.

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But God who descended down to us!​

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Hallelujah and amen. But again, that's not relevant to the question at hand.

ladodgers6 said:

To save sinners from their sins! Because even our Faith & Repentance are God's gifts. But to contemplate this you must acknowledge what actually happened to us in the Fall. Your position as was mine before I understood. Is that Fallen Man's disposition before a Holy God is hostility, we're God haters, loving the darkness instead of the light. It is God who calls us out of the darkness into His marvelous light. Something Fervent must change fallen man's disposition toward God as sworn enemies to God's children. This Fervent is a Divine act of God himself. Not something we do, understand?​

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Salvation is certainly a gift, but gifts must be received. According to you, God not only gives the gift but also receives it, so what part do you have in your salvation?

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On the nature of will:
“In this way, then, man is said to have free will, not because he has a free choice of good and evil, but because he acts voluntarily, and not by compulsion... his will being bound by the fetters of sin”. John Calvin

Like an addict who willingly consumes their vices without coercion, but is bound by their evil desires; to will or do what they love to do. Arminius himself understood this and held a doctrine of Total Depravity.

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yeah, and the options are not Arminianism or Calvinism. There are more worlds than these, ladodgers6

essentialsaltes said:

Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth’s use of Signal posed risk to US personnel, AP sources say​

[One source] also said the report concluded that Hegseth violated Pentagon policy by using his personal device for official business and it recommended better training for all Pentagon officials.

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Also keep in mind he refused to turn over his phone and all questions about his actions by the Inspector General

Personally I believe that any and all "carry" makes us less safe, and I think that all those who read the Gospels with an open heart and mind would heed Jesus' message about non-violence.

Broken Arrow seems like a great place to live, and I would guess it's an affluent suburb of Tulsa. I think that it's a great place to live because fewer people are carrying--not because they carry.

I once read that people are mourning the end of the "gun 'culture?'" T'hey are growing up in suburban and urban areas and aren't going hunting.

Fewer college educated people own guns. Fewer suburbanites and urban dwellers own guns. People who grew up in a gun-free atmosphere don't own guns. Gun ownership is least prevalent in the northeast.

I'm proof positive. Grew up in the northeast, had a dad who never fired a gun after WWII ended, grew up in the suburbs (was born in the city), college-educated and married someone who is also a college grad. My children never owned guns, either (although they did fish a little as children, they never hunted.)

And so Broken Arrow, although (I'm sure) Republican and located in the south, has lots of demographics indicating non-gun ownership. How fortunate you are to live there.

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Of all the countries, China is the one I'd be least concerned about with CO2 emission growth given what they are trying to do on the ground.

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On top of investing in renewable energy, China is also investing massively in greening its deserts and planting trees.

partinobodycular said:

As for the neighbors, they'll probably be keeping their distance for a while.

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Regardless of party