Timothy Capps

@WmWeedon " The Irish are a race that God made mad. All their wars are merry and all their songs and sad." After Aughrim's Great Disaster always brings a tear & it's tough to get through The Parting Glass. Irish are the world's bards.

When it comes to the music, the Irish do everything even better…

@TheMuppetPastor @YeFutureSaint Faith doesn't require "add on" works. It produces produces them. I never understood this debate or the "cooperation" argument. So, yes to faith & works, reframe cooperation as "free won't." Faith results in works. Works without faith dubious folk religion. Seems we might agree?

This is because Paul calls it a “phronema” in Greek; right thoughts which will lead to right actions. Not exactly works alone; not exactly faith alone, but a mix of the two conceits. Faith alone, but faith is never alone, because it always accompanied by works. Otherwise it would be belief, and that doesn’t save. Faith does.

A person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

@aaronsibarium Do they? I did when I was commissioned. Anyway, of course we support the constitution. I protected the 4th, 5th & 6th amendments one case at a time. *Nothing* obligates us to right societal wrongs. But does helping to end IL death penalty count? You're barking up the wrong tree.

@aaronsibarium Lawyers are paid to represent clients' legal interests. They owe 100% to their client. They owe nothing to society. This person is unfit to have anything to do with the law because she has a fundamental misunderstanding of the lawyer's role.

NEW: In a mandatory anti-racism class, Penn State told 1L law students they must "acknowledge the reality of systemic racism" and "dismantle systems that racialize, subordinate, and oppress." One student withdrew from the law school over the class. We obtained shocking audio.🧵

@shebringsjoy A fee? This shocks the conscience. I can't imagine this in my congregation. I've heard of voluntarily giving a pastor money which seems okay, but a set fee is a new one to me. That's like selling indulgences without even bad theology to justify it.

The Lutheran church I belonged to at that time was upper middle class, despite being located in an area with a socially diverse population. All of the Lutheran churches I’ve communed in have tended to be upper middle class congregations. This is a demographic I have never belonged to. Even now, as much as I love my congregation, I often feel out of place. Certainly not to God (well, most of the time), but to the people I worship with. It makes church somewhat of a trial when you feel like you’re a burden.

One thing that bothers me about the $250 baptism fee floating around. In the past - in Autumn 2010 to be exact - I had a related event (for want of a better word) in a Lutheran church: while carrying Beatrix I inquired about a funeral for her, and the first word out of the pastor’s mouth involved cost. I want to be clear- we had not discussed any special arrangements for the funeral. The situation was so unique, and mostly I was just asking about whether she should even have a funeral. We didn’t end up having one. We had four other children to feed. Paying for something I understood to be as “unnecessary” as a funeral service was out of the question. (Over the years I have grieved over this more than I’d like to admit.) But maybe I was expecting something that just wasn’t for us. I mean- only one person in my memory had ever had a church funeral, in my family. Maybe a funeral was a luxury item.

@JewishWarrior13 Raylen has a decent account with a perspective. Re: comments--we get it if you don't like Trump, and yeah, this needs to be finished. But now he could bomb every bridge, power plant & oil facility & Iran will never agree to no nukes. finishing it with bombs is going to be brutal.

🚨 Trump on the Iran deal: “An unacceptable sentence. Because they are fully agreed, no nuclear, and if they have any nuclear of any form, I don't read the rest of it.”

@DeniseCoyle1320 @EricLDaugh It sounds like he offered a lowball plea that would accomplish *something* and the defense called his bluff (which is significant). The whole thing screams unprosecutable case. Defense has no choice on loser cases; state does & hates wasting time & cred for a not guilty verdict.

@DeniseCoyle1320 @EricLDaugh I'm not familiar with the case. Was the girl abused or otherwise harmed? The fingerprints are something but if that's all the prosecutor needs something more to prove home invasion or something. I was mainly on defense but was a prosecutor, too. They should have let him talk.

🚨 OMG. Democrat Fairfax prosecutor who released a child sexual predator just got NUKED FROM ORBIT by Rep. Brad Knott "Be QUIET!" "He yanked a 4 YEAR OLD GIRL out of her BED with the intent to harm her, you wanted to CAP him at 2 YEARS! Then when the plea agreement was rejected, WHAT DID YOU DO?" "He walks free. A DISGUSTING, PERVERTED individual preying on children, you dismissed the case!" "I've prosecuted cases, when you EVADE like that, that's a sign of GUILT!" "You dismissed the CASE!" "As the father of 2 young girls, one of which is 5, that is as SHAMEFUL as anything I have ever seen." DESCANO: I have a daughter too! Don't talk to me that I don't care about people in my community. KNOTT: "You clearly DON'T! You dismissed the case, and it's SHAMEFUL. You're a COWARD!" Now hold them criminally liable!

@DeniseCoyle1320 @EricLDaugh I think plea negotiations are inadmissible. Prosecutors assess the likelihood of conviction. Child cases are difficult to prosecute. It was an apparently a practical decision & we never learned the weakness of the cas because of Outrage Theater. I'd like to have heard the reason

After the plea was rejected by two judges for being too lenient, prosecutors dismissed the charges. Their office said there were “multiple evidentiary issues” and that the plea deal was viewed as “the best opportunity for accountability.” 2 years His reasoning was - The child victim’s very young age, difficulties tied to eyewitness identification, and concerns about proving the case beyond a reasonable doubt at trial. They had his fingerprints on the child's window. Plus the fact that he was willing to accept a plea.

@JewishWarrior13 Trump looks stupid. He knows he looks stupid. People around him know he looks stupid. Therefore (A) he's really stupid; or (B) he knows something we don't. Going with B on logic.

🚨WATCH: President Trump: Either the leaders of Iran will make the right decision, or we will finish the job.

@ConceptualJames Taylor has a point: according to Lumen Gentium, the only person who cannot be saved is a Catholic who leaves the Catholic Church. Everyone else can be in the invisible Catholic Church.

I got bad news for you, buddy, based on how you walk that walk.

@ConceptualJames Fr. Feeney call your office.

@JackTDecker @Cat5SMASHICANE Dry humor from a lawyer but most of the stories I heard were BS & if I'm going to get locked into a defense I'd rather a client not commit us both to nonsense that the first whiff of discovery is going to explode. But most lawyers probably do ask. Better a lawyer than cops.

@CorbiniansBear @Cat5SMASHICANE No, you should always tell your lawyer what you think happened and your lawyer will always ask this BUT do so privately and definitely not in the presence of law enforcement or anyone else.

If its big enough, all you need is one. 🔥💥💯

@JewishWarrior13 U.S. bet on a quick win. Now all Iran has to do is wait. The longer this goes on, the more likely friction, unexpected events and politics tip the decision of the side with the choice to declaring victory and going home. There's no deal. Infrastructure & economy is what's left.

⭕️It is time for the Trump administration to stop using an "American" approach and begin speaking the language of the Middle East. In the Middle East, if you obsess over negotiation, you are perceived as weak. Instead, you must use overwhelming force—then greater force—and, finally, use super-overwhelming force. Only after unleashing such destruction will Iran come to the table. It's time to unleash hell and end this charade.

@CSH_Picone @Clint_Davey1 Officially triggered. Four kids + dad = FIVE painted armies (x 40K, Warmachine, Confrontation, etc.). Bear's Law: When company produces minis AND rules expect bloat & madness. (Song of Blades & Heroes is a cheap DL pdf -- great flexible rules, but more for warbands.)

@Clint_Davey1 Yup. I was always a Fantasy rather than 40k player but the gameplay issues are the same. Conceptually good, miniatures and art are amazing, fantastic world-building and lore but the gameplay? Absolute cheese fest.

Imagine how good Warhammer 40K would be if it was actually a good game.

@MetzUAC1530 Six. One to change the light bulb, five to bring the hot dishes.

We now know how many Lutherans it takes to change a light bulb.

@DrFrankTurek Rubicon by Tom Holland.

What book are you reading right now?

@Cat5SMASHICANE @JackTDecker Also don't try to tell your lawyer what happened. Memories formed under stress are unreliable. He needs to determine the facts objectively & clarify with questions to determine the best defense I mean accurate sequence of events.

@JackTDecker This is some damn good advice. 🔥🔥🔥

@JewishWarrior13 This was never about military advantage or negotiation. It's a contest of wills that Iran gets & the U.S. doesn't. Even bridges & power plants don't change that now. Choice favors the side that has none; a trap for the one with an incentive to quit with some victory narrative.

🚨 i24NEWS: Saudi Arabia has limited US activity due to fear of non-assistance in the event of an Iranian attack, as happened in the United Arab Emirates. According to Saudi Arabia's understanding, the regime in Iran will be weak but will survive after a deal with the US, and they do not want to get into a fight with the Iranians.

@becomelutheran As someone coming to LCMS as a Catholic is I often feel like, "um guys? I've seen this movie before and didn't like the ending." It's really O'Sullivan's First Law in a religious setting. Even the LCMS must deal with the Zeitgeist & has the perfect weapons hanging on the wall.

I wanted to share an analogy that helped me express what I've noticed so far as a convert to Lutheranism m.youtube.com/watch?v=MkGcmM…