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@FelixJMiller "his wife allowed Archabbot Nowicki ... to administer the Last Rites to him. At this point, Mr. Rogers could no longer speak so we cannot say that he had a deathbed conversion. "

@TechCrunch Microsoft was largely convicted based on the inclusion of mp3 player and cd reader software to the windows os. Like buying a car with a radio already installed. Apple clearly is well past that bar.

Apple’s iPhone is not a monopoly like Windows was a monopoly tcrn.ch/4a3dId8

My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share

@jessesingal @RudelyStampd @ThinSkinFatDude @jeremylottdiary No. The state has no legitimate authority unless it has been granted to the state by the citizens. To do that, the citizens must have the right first. Citizens have the right to defend themselves naturally. They don't have the right to compel service from other private citizens.

@RudelyStampd @ThinSkinFatDude @jeremylottdiary your neighbor doesn't like when you argue for/against abortion, so he punches you when you talk. you don't have a right to free speech, or to not be assaulted (another negative right!), unless there's someone you can complain to

I hear conservatives say this a lot but I have never understood it. There are a lot of rights that are guaranteed by the state and require labor to uphold!

@EithanHaim The mini series starring Anthony Hopkins is very good

I just so happened to be reading Leon Uris' QBVII, published in 1970. The main character is accused of war crimes while he served as a surgeon in a prisoner camp. Interesting that the immediate defense is "I never operated on a healthy person." What can we learn from this?

@BillMelugin_ The president has the authority to overrule the automatic trigger if it ever triggers. Appeals are routed to the DC court for no apparent reason.

@BillMelugin_ How can you be so confidently incorrect? The trigger is based only on Mexican migrants. Others from South America (the majority) don't count toward the limit. The trigger doesn't close the border, it sets a mandatory minimum and changes venues.

NEW: My initial highlights from the border deal. - No amnesty/legalization of anyone already in the U.S. illegally. - Funds an increase in ICE detention capacity to approx. 50,000 from the current 34,000. - At 7 day rolling average of 5,000 encounters per day, or 8,500 encounters in a single day, DHS is *required* to shut the border down, and turn away anyone who crosses. No new asylum claims will be allowed and anybody crossing will be removed. Would end the whole idea of "I made it to U.S. soil, you have to process me." That would be over, Border Patrol would not process the illegal crosser and they would be removed - no asylum claim permitted, unless its made at a port of entry. - This does not mean 5,000 are "allowed in" before this authority kicks in. Single adults would be detained, families would be released via ATD (alternatives to detention), and asylum cases would be fast tracked to months rather than years under a new rapid/expedited expulsion system. Those who fail would be quickly removed from the US. Those who initially pass would be released with work authorization and 90 day supervision until final asylum claim is determined. - The shut down authority doesn't drop until crossings decrease significantly in the days following the shut down. - Significantly tougher asylum requirements, and a higher credible fear standard, including three bars to eligibility. 1) Criminal history, 2) Could they have resettled in another country on the way to the US? 3) Could they have resettled somewhere else in their own country? Just saying you're scared to return home will no longer be enough in initial interview. - It *appears* that the legislation would move asylum claim decisions away from immigration judges, and instead have them be handled by USCIS. - $1.4 billion in FEMA funding available for disbursement to NGOs/municipalities, but some of that money doesn't unlock until key border security metrics are hit with ICE detention beds, ICE & Border Patrol new hires, and at least 1,500 deportation flights. - Ends use of parole releases via CBP One app, and ends parole for illegal crossers between ports of entry. - Keeps humanitarian parole as it was originally intended (medical procedures, court cases, etc), and keeps the current Biden admin parole program in place for Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans. - 50,000 new visas over 5 years. - Fuding to hire hundreds more ICE deportation officers, Border Patrol agents, and USCIS asylum officers, and greatly increases number of deportation flights. - No unaccompanied minors can be removed, and some of these minors will receive attorneys, either pro bono or taxpayer funded. - Ends some catch and release, but not all (families and unaccompanied minors not detained). - DHS will have 90 days to set this new system up before it takes effect. - There is a provision in the bill that would allow the President to suspend the "shut down" authority. It says: "Authorizes the President to suspend the border emergency on an emergency basis for up to 45 days if it is in the national interest." Context: The border has seen at least 5,000 encounters almost every single day the last couple years under Biden. If this bill were signed into law, the border would likely be shut down on the first day it takes effect. FOX is told by the architects of this legislation the status quo right now is when the border is overwhelmed, "release everyone". They say this bill switches that to, when the border is overwhelmed "remove everyone." This legislation has provisions in it that will upset border hawks and immigration activists at the same time. Now we wait to see how both Democrats & Republicans respond. So far, many House GOP members have expressed displeasure, and at least one Democrat Senator (Padilla) has as well.

@UncleHotep The Thing Commando Lawrence of Arabia The good, the bad and the ugly Seven Samurai

Top 5 Man movies Conan the Barbarian First Blood Gladiator Dirty Harry Shaft

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BREAKING NEWS: Wayne LaPierre announces resignation as NRA chief trib.al/rkcUiXC

@jesawyer Yep, that's the show (and books)... it's great.

I finally watched an episode of Reacher and it's entertaining but lol. He is bigger than everyone and better at fighting than everyone, better at law than the police and Harvard lawyers, better at science than the nerds. Chuck Norris memes from 20 years ago but an actual show.

He was cool as shit

Drop something ILLUMINATED 🔦🖤

@ChivalryGuild Economic policy is an extension of philosophy of rights in a far as wealth and income are identified as personal property. Monarchists and communists would deny inalienable rights vs subject to the governments authority and reach the same economic policies for different reasons.

"Making ideology out of economics is dumb." I wish someone would have conveyed that to me long ago and saved me from my Ayn Rand phase. Fixation on marginal tax rates is for controlled opposition. Economics takes care of itself when people live right.

@Agent_Dutch Christ's condemnation while he was on earth was most especially focused on the corruption of the church he had established 1500 years earlier.

What gets me about this is the pride You have to believe that, after Jesus ascended, the Apostles IMMEDIATELY got it COMPLETELY wrong, and the Church continued in that wrongness for like 1500 years till Luther, but Luther didn't get it exactly right either

@garylfrancione If you thought animals were sentient, you would seek a judicial response, not offense. If you're such a libertarian absolutist that sentient life isn't overriding, you would be unable to intervene in anything not absolutely frivolous.

I *completely* understand that many women are offended by men who dress as women. But merely being offended--without more--is not what determines what one can do in a liberal, pluralistic society. I am *really* offended by people eating meat and animal products. But I have no choice but to try to persuade people that exploiting sentient nonhumans is wrong. As long as men stay out of female-only private/intimate spaces, stay off of women's sports teams, do not attempt to declare that same-sex attraction must be transformed into same-gender attraction, stop trying to get women fired if they embrace gender-critical views, etc.--as long as they don't demand that we accept their beliefs as true--let them dress the way they want to.

@wichman_matthew "But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “ ... "What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory" Romans 9:20 and 23

Calvinists, Why does God call those that He chose not to elect and instead created them unable to respond to His call? And why does the Holy Spirit go out to the reprobate only to be resisted by them? Both seem pointless.

@cremieuxrecueil The economists are not better at preventing a recession.. they've convinced the government to borrow massive amounts of money to buy their way out of immediate discomfort, at the cost of overall economic growth and exponentially escalating debt pressure.

This is such a great chart for showing off how good economists have gotten at stabilizing the economy.

@baseballcrank You're not wrong, but we're here in part because from 2008-2016 we lost a generation of ground of conservative advances and the Republican party largely assisted it happening. At some point you have to excavate the rot with the tools you've got.

Battles are not always won by imitating the tactics of the enemy. We didn't beat Imperial Japan with kamikazes. MLK didn't beat Bull Connor with firehoses. Lincoln didn't impose slavery.

I don't believe in fighting fire by burning down my own house just to join the arsonists. You do. I like winning. You prefer losing. Hence we disagree.