@LongTimeHistory So the FAA does mechanical service on planes now? Who knew !
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Delta airplane engine explodes after takeoff—flying from Brazil to Atlanta.
U.S. FAA is gov't authority to last certify this plane safe to fly.
Trump Administration got rid of 1200 FAA workers by firing or buyout—including maintenance mechanics.
"We're going to die!" kids cry.
"The plane is on fire!" passengers yell out.
Pilots declared an emergency, kept the climb low, and returned safely to São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport—with no injured passengers.
Brazilian government agency, CENIPA, has now taken charge of the official safety investigation and post-incident inspection of the aircraft.
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I just had the strangest conversation with someone I’ve known for years.
I said that Muslims were known to attack and destroy Christians and Jews, or others who do not believe in Islam. I said I don’t understand why the good Muslims don’t stand up and condemn the bad Muslims.
And she said well, Christians have guns —then I said I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here I’ve carried a gun for years and I’ve never harmed anyone. I carry for self-defense not for offense. I don’t carry a gun to go around harming people who don’t believe what I do or for living a lifestyle that I don’t.
Can someone explain to me what I missed here because I really don’t understand her analogy?
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It's rare that sports fans agree on anything.
But everyone seems to be in agreement today:
Duke got robbed this weekend.
Dan Hurley and UConn have been flagrantly ignoring the rules for the entirety of the NCAA Tournament.
Sunday was no exception.
There were still 0.4 seconds on the clock. The game was live.
Dan Hurley walked toward a referee on the sideline. He got in the official’s face. Then he pressed his forehead directly into the ref’s forehead. SI called it a “menacing forehead tap.”
No technical foul was called.
If it had been, Duke shoots two free throws. Down one. With an 86% free throw shooter at the line.
Here's what actually happened and why this should be a much bigger story than it is.
Braylon Mullins hit a 35-foot three to give UConn a 73-72 lead with 0.4 seconds left. It was the shot of the tournament. Nobody is disputing that.
But in the seconds after the shot, Hurley walked toward a referee, got in his face, and pressed his forehead directly into the official's forehead. Sports Illustrated described it as a "menacing forehead tap."
The clock still showed 0.4 seconds. The game was not over.
A technical foul on a head coach for making contact with an official during a live ball is one of the easiest calls in basketball. There is no gray area. Contact with a game official is a technical.
If it's called, Duke's Isaiah Evans steps to the free throw line, trailing 73-72. He shot 86% from the stripe this season. Makes both? Duke wins 74-73. Makes one? Overtime.
That wasn't the only violation.
When Mullins' shot went in, UConn bench players ran onto the court to celebrate before the game was over. They caught themselves and ran back, but they had already entered the playing area during a live ball. Duke's radio announcers immediately called for a technical.
That wasn't called either.
Two separate technical foul violations. Zero calls. In the span of 0.4 seconds.
And here's what makes the Hurley part impossible to ignore.
Three weeks ago, on March 7, Hurley was ejected from UConn's game at Marquette in the final second for getting in a referee's face. He was chest-to-shoulder with the official. Double technical. Ejected. The Big East fined him $25,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct.
In the Sweet 16 against Michigan State on March 27, Hurley challenged an out-of-bounds call, got it overturned, and then sarcastically offered his glasses to the ref who got it wrong. Lip readers caught him asking about Lasik. Nothing was called.
Two days later against Duke, Hurley was officially "warned" during the game for leaving his coach's box. Told to stay put.
Then after the buzzer beater, he went forehead-to-forehead with a ref.
Ejected and fined $25,000 at Marquette. Taunted a ref to his face at Michigan State with no consequences. Warned during the Duke game for leaving his coach's box. Then physical contact with a referee in the biggest moment of the tournament.
The full breakdown of every missed call and what would have happened if any of them were made is here:
itsgame7.com/news/duke-got-…
UConn came back from 19 down. Mullins hit one of the greatest shots in tournament history. That part was earned.
But two technical foul violations in 0.4 seconds, and neither one called, on a coach who was ejected for the same thing three weeks ago?
That's not intensity. That's a pattern. And last night, it changed the outcome of a game.
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DAN HURLEY AND THE REF 😭 Hurley's reaction to UCONN's game-winner (via @MarchMadnessMBB)
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@TimHannan Yet you can provide none that is real. You people are literally nuts.
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There’s more evidence Donald Trump raped kids than there is evidence the 2020 election was stolen.
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There are certain globally widespread cultural practices that should never be a part of American culture:
1. Treatment of women as chattel property with no decision making in their own lives.
2. The practice of husbands lightly beating their wives as a means of justified encouragement.
3. Mandatory female genital mutilation.
4. Using subterfuge and violence to impose your religious beliefs on others.
5. Mistreating dogs.
6. Young boys as objects of sexual gratification for older men.
7. Tribal loyalties trumping the Constitution and the rule of law.
When people from such cultures come to the USA, they do not assimilate to American norms. They expect US to assimilate to THEIR norms.
I challenge anyone to tell me what is morally incorrect or unjust about what I just wrote.
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The flags flown at the No Kings Rallies were pretty representative of the Democratic coalition: communist hammer & sickle, trans, Hezbollah, Hamas, & all being waved by weirdo boomers. If you want to know where the energy on the left is - they showed you.
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Noah got drunk.
Jonah ran away.
Moses stuttered.
Abraham was old.
Lazarus was dead.
Peter had a temper.
David had an affair.
Zaccheus was short.
Martha was nervous.
Paul was a murderer.
Jacob was a cheater.
Sarah was impatient.
Elijah was depressed.
Thomas was a doubter.
Dear son,
God doesn't call the qualified;
He qualifies the called.
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Lendeborg is really good at basketball.
Lendeborg is also really unlikable as a player.
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The bodies of dead Americans
Have started ariving the US in black body bags.
31 dead in bahrain..
42 dead in Qatar
63 dead in ..Dubai....all by Iranian missiles.
You will never see this on CNN.
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Today is Holy Monday. The day Jesus kicked the money lenders out of the Temple.
Modern Christianity wants to paint Jesus as a harmless pacifist who just wanted everyone to get along.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
He doesn't write a strongly worded letter. He doesn't ask them politely to leave. He physically braids a whip of cords, flips the heavy wooden tables, scatters the money and expells them from His Father's house.
The Lord is not pleased with mere appearances, trees without fruit, rituals without prayer, temples without reverence. He calls for authentic worship, conversion of heart, and fruitful holiness.
Today He asks each of us:
1) "Am I a fig tree full of leaves but no fruit?"
2) "Is My heart a house of prayer, or a den of distractions?"
Let Him cleanse the temple within you. Let Him overturn the tables. Let Him cast out every idol.
Because where He cleanses, He heals. Where He purifies, He restores.
Follow Him with all your heart and BEAR FRUIT! “I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without Me you can do nothing.” - (John 15,5)
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Ray while I like your post I think you missed the point. Do we really act daily like we’ve really met him? Like really met him. Sadly I think not. Me included, but if we truly did and we can, that we’d be different, we’d lie in ash, fall down and realize without him we are nothing. And I believe we should all be chasing that.
May the lord bless you and keep you my friend.
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What you are doing here is cherry-picking a handful of intense biblical moments and forcing them into a universal narrative that the broader witness of scripture does not support.
Isaiah, Peter, John, and Job are overwhelmed, yes, but even in those accounts collapse is not the point in itself. Isaiah is undone and then sent. Peter recoils and then is called. John falls and then is told to stand and write. Job is confronted and then restored. Paul is struck blind, but the point is not blindness. The point is what he becomes after. Moses encounters God, but again the point is not merely the moment of encounter. The point is what follows from it.
And once the wider scriptural picture is allowed to speak, your framework becomes even harder to defend. Samuel hears God while lying down and thinks it is Eli. Elijah meets God not in the wind, the earthquake, or the fire, but in a quiet voice. The disciples spend years walking, eating, and talking with Jesus in ordinary life. On the road to Emmaus they do not even recognize him at first. Mary sits and listens. Zacchaeus has a conversation and his life changes. Those are encounters too, and they do not fit the rigid template you are trying to impose here.
You are taking the most dramatic examples, isolating one feature of them, and then treating that feature as the standard by which everyone else’s experience should be judged. The text does not do that. And I do not think it is the role of one Christian to look at another and declare that they have not really encountered God because they did not visibly respond in the same way.
Across the text, what actually carries weight is not how measurable the intensity of the moment is, but what comes after it. If there is an encounter with God, it shows up in repentance, transformation, and a changed life. That is the pattern that repeats, not a single emotional response that can be measured from the outside.
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John leaned on Jesus' chest at supper.
Stayed at the cross when every other man ran.
Outlived all twelve. Beaten. Boiled in oil. Exiled to a rock in the ocean.
Thirty years later, Jesus appeared to him in glory.
John didn't worship. Didn't kneel. Didn't lift his hands.
He fell at His feet as dead.
As dead.
Peter did the same thing. After the miraculous catch — boats sinking under the weight — Peter didn't celebrate.
He said: "Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord."
Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up. Seraphim crying, Holy. And the prophet said: "Woe is me! for I am undone."
Job argued with God for 37 chapters. Then God showed up. Job said: "I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes."
Every tough man in the Bible who saw the living God had the same reaction.
Not awe. Not worship.
Collapse.
Now look at us.
Walking into church with coffee. Nodding at sermons. Shaking hands in the lobby. Forgetting it by Tuesday.
We think we've been in God's presence.
If you'd been in God's presence, you wouldn't walk out the same way you walked in.
The men who saw Him couldn't stand.
We can barely be bothered to sit.
When Jesus returns, there will be no more heroes. No more performers. The hero and the villain will stand equal at last — empty-handed, bare-faced, finally free to be merely beloved...
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@IsaacHayes3 This is blatantly false and you know it and if you don’t, WAKE UP! Johnson still leading you along even in death.
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What Nick Cannon said is exactly how misinformation spreads.
Yes, the KKK was tied to Southern Democrats in the 1800s. That part is true.
But leaving out what happened next changes the entire meaning.
In the 1960s, after Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the racists who supported segregation did not just disappear…
They left the Democratic Party and shifted politically. That is a huge part of the story that keeps getting left out.
AND THAT MATTERS.
Because when we, especially Black voices with big platforms, repeat half stories, it does not just stay a conversation. It spreads and it can be used against us.
We cannot afford to be loud and wrong at the same time, especially right now.
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In case you were wondering what NYC looked like yesterday for No Kings.
📹Vuralelibol
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@AU_Godfather You ever hear of Wimp Sanderson? Have you seen the list of SEC champs?
You must be 15
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