@MatthewModine @alexthechick As a high-school wrestler in that day, I was happy someone put us on the big screen.
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Matt Jamison
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I’m often asked about the pegboard scene in VISION QUEST. That was all me. No stunt doubles or safety measures. I trained for a long time and had to climb it several times to get all the angles. The “trick” is not to over extend, so you’d be pulling up your entire body weight. You have to keep it compact. Arms and elbows tight. 💪🏽
You can support the @FMJDiary project by bidding on a signed VQ poster here: ebay.com/itm/2062521319…
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@Meritocrating @ryanburge Wishful thinking + social media echo chamber = fictitious tradcath surge.
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This survey contacted 6175 people in 2020 and then followed up with the same people in 2022 and 2024.
85% of folks made no change in affiliation.
Protestant --> Catholic: 14 people.
Cath. --> Prot.: 15
Prot. --> None: 125
Cath. --> None: 72
None --> Christian: 157
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@bobbyfijan @Molson_Hart Yep. Moved here from New Jersey to get my kids into a great Classical Lutheran School. Best move we ever made. There's pluses and minuses everywhere but this beats the hell out of New Jersey on every possible metric, including property taxes.
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@Molson_Hart You’re missing a huge part. You cant understand Dallas until you have school age kids. Whether private or public school or other
Dallas also has the greatest density of homeschoolers and homeshool co-ops
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Let me explain Dallas(s)
1. The summers are unbearable and this cannot be understood without moving there. You can't just visit Texas for 3 weeks in peak summer and understand it, because that's not why it's bad. It's bad because it's late October and it's 90+ and you're questioning your sanity as to whether not it will ever end.
2. Dallas' culture, superficially seems good, but once you dig down...
3. Dallas living is about the airport. You save money in Dallas and then fly out all the time because being in Dallas is rough. Airline travel in the US has declined a lot, so this way of life works less well.
4. The driving. It's dangerous. You need a tank and you're going to be sitting in it all the time. Dallas sort of seems like a city but it's not really. It's more like an area.
5. You can trade 3% state income tax for better weather, more trees, and fewer problems.
I think Dallas is a solid place to live in a bigger house with A/C and grind for money aggressively for a short period of time and then move out of.
Other than that, unless you are tied down there (job, family), I can't recommend it.
Amy Nixon@texasrunnerDFW
I am astounded by the number of millennial families who moved to Dallas, bought a home, then turned around and sold the home to move out of Dallas, in less than a 5 year time span Is Dallas just super transient or is this a post-pandemic phenomenon happening everywhere?
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Altar at St Paul Lutheran Church, Austin TX (LCMS)
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@IVMiles @aaron_renn As a GenX conservative, I liked my urban life just fine until I became a parent. Childcare and tuition costs are prohibitive, public schools are unimaginable. Impossible to let little kids free-range, ride a bike, etc. If I were childless, I'd probably still live in Manhattan.
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As always, @aaron_renn is worth reading. One question I’ve asked—as a dispositional urbanite—is of conservatives are even allowed to like cities any more, or think they’re a morally valid space to live in. Or has neo-agrarianism been completely victorious.
Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸@aaron_renn
Cities Without Children - Childless cities, childless young couples, and more in this week's digest. aaronrenn.com/p/cities-witho…
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@countyhwy Now would be a fine time to remind the Muskogeans that they don't smoke marijuana.
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This summer, County Highway will put up billboards in six places whose names contributed to great American song titles and lyrics.
Care to make a suggestion?
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@PhilWMagness @roddreher I see. It's only rigged when your side loses.
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@MattJamison20 @roddreher Indeed. It turns out that using the government to censor opponents, take control of companies, reward oligarch friends isn't politically popular at the ballot box.
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He's right. I'm just completing a manuscript on the disturbing parallels btw Weimar Germany and contemporary America. No, I don't think Hitler 2.0 is coming -- probably not, nor Stalin2 - but that doesn't mean we aren't in real danger of losing our democracy. Signs of the times.
Robert P. George@McCormickProf
I'll probably get clobbered for this, but here goes: Please, can everyone, right or left, MAGA or anti-MAGA, Republican or Democrat, stop catastrophizing and trying to get everyone on your side worked up into a rage? It's not Flight 93. We're not on the verge of fascism. We do not need to take desperate measures. Our fellow citizens with whom we disagree are not devils incarnate or personifications of evil. We need to argue with our political adversaries--passionately perhaps--but with respect for their humanity and dignity. We don't need to destroy them. That mustn't be our aim. We all say we believe in democracy. Good! But democracy is all about persuading, giving reasons, engaging one another as fellow citizens, despite our disagreements. Let's rebuild civic friendship. We can do this. (Thank you for your attention to this matter.)
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@PhilWMagness @roddreher Would that be the same Orban that just got blown out in an election?
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@roddreher Will it contain any self-awareness about the role of JD Vance, Orban, and Postliberalism in eroding those democratic norms?
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@ScottPuglisi @mhp_guy There’s a pretty big garbage dump north of 121 in Lewisville. They’re working on it
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This is the best real estate in the world.
1:1:1 Chipotle to Chick-Fil-A to Crumbl ratio. More HOAs per capita than anywhere on Earth. Only 3.5% property taxes. Only 45 minutes to downtown Dallas. Every house has a privacy fence.
Current entry level price: $1.2 million
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@ScottPuglisi @mhp_guy Paris, Texas has a replica of the Eiffel Tower. Culture!
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@AmyMek The solution is to join a historic Christian church and support it generously.
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🚨The transformation is COMPLETE.
The historic Christian church in Wilmington, Delaware, has officially been conquered.
What once stood as a place of Christian worship for over 100 years is now fully open as Masjid al-Ikhlaas - a mosque where they proudly declare it has gone “from a place of shirk… a place where people worship other than Allah… turning now into a masjid, a place of tawheed where Allah alone is worshiped.”
They are openly calling a historic Christian church a place of shirk, the absolute worst, unforgivable sin in Islam and proudly bragging about conquering it.
They bought it. They renovated it. And now they’re celebrating the grand opening while calling your former church a place of shirk.
This is civilizational replacement happening in plain sight.
Wake up, America. Your churches are the grand prize.
Amy Mek@AmyMek
🚨ALERT CHRISTIANS...WHY IS THE POPE SILENT ABOUT THE ISLAMIC TAKEOVER!? Islam continues to Conquer Churches All Across America! In the video below, UK Salafi preacher Shaykh Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis is standing in front of a newly purchased American church in Wilmington, Delaware, openly BRAGGING about conquering it for Islam: “From the worship of other than Allah and shirk… to the worship of Allah alone and the establishment of Tawhid and Sunnah.” He calls it “joy to the heart.” Alhamdulillah. In Islam, shirk is the single worst sin - worse than murder, rape, or anything else. It means associating partners with Allah. The Quran says Allah forgives ANY sin… except shirk if you die upon it. By calling Christianity “shirk,” Abu Hakeem is openly declaring that Jesus worship, the Trinity, crosses, and every service ever held in that 100+ year-old church was idolatry and spiritual evil. This isn’t mild disagreement. It’s contempt. He admits this is a deliberate pattern: “We have in the UK dealt with a few other projects. I’ve been involved in the conversions of church buildings into masajid. Here we have another one, Alhamdulillah.” Now they’re doing it in America. They bought the historic church, got the keys, and are fundraising for cash + construction workers to finish the takeover. They have succeeded! It is NOW COMPLETE! This happened during his month-long victory tour through red states - Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and more. In his just-published trip report he celebrates the “exponential” growth of Salafi dawah across America and the “bright future” for it. Churches closing. Muslims buying them cheap. Then the victory lap: from shirk → mosque. This is the 1,400-year Islamic tradition of replacing Christian holy places, now running on American real estate and demographics. Abu Hakeem calls it joy and promises Paradise rewards for those who help. I call it civilizational replacement happening in plain sight while most church leaders remain SILENT! Wake up, America. Your churches are the grand prize.
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@cjneuendorf Yes, but the thing they did with pagination was genius. Anyone who remembers the LW "Psalm 23 on page 36" confusion understands.
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A common complaint leveled against the Lutheran Service Book is that it omits many of the Psalms (as did The Lutheran Hymnal before it).
Allow me to point out that the pocket-sized text-only LSB volume *Psalms and Hymns* contains the entire ESV Psalter, pointed for chanting.
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@GroverNorquist You really are a one-trick pony, aren't you?
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Idaho cut income taxes 7 times in 10 years. Income tax revenue doubled.
Mountain States Policy Center shows that tax cuts mean more jobs, more growth, more revenue
mountainstatespolicy.org/post/analysis-…
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@roddreher @nayibbukele As a connoisseur of Louisiana accents, how would you rate his?
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The La governor enraged over gangs who shot up a food court in a Baton Rouge mall this week, killing one and injuring about 10. He's calling for the state to go all @nayibbukele on the criminal class. Up with the carceral state! These kids aren't fit for life among decent ppl.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
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Yes, the novel's descriptions of the Indian migrants is monstrous, but you should read 'Camp of the Saints' anyway, because by far the greater monsters of the novel are ... we. Jamie Sarkonak in National Post:
nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-…
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@walterkirn They will be expertly airbrushed out of the history of the Civil Rights movement.
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Make no mistake, the SPLC collapse is an event in modern religious history. It's like the destruction of a temple or something. That significant.
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I don’t understand the recent U2 hate. I know Bono shifted into loving the smell of his own farts, but the band’s two great albums—Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby—are superior top to bottom:
“In my dreams I was drowning in sorrows/ When my sorrows, they cleaned to swim”
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@HansFiene More elaborate liturgical practices should be introduced gradually and accompanied by a great deal of teaching and explanation.
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If you want to love the ancient traditions of your fathers in the faith, you first have love the traditions you inherited from your actual fathers. Otherwise, "tradition" will become cosplay and doctrine will become entirely secondary to aesthetics.
𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝙶𝙴𝙽 ☦️ 🦬@Degenwillape
Listen, fellow Lutherans, we’ve got to stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Stop rejecting the traditional liturgy, stop being afraid of incense, and stop acting like icons or prayer beads are some kind of "enemy" territory. These things don't belong to the Romanists or the Orthodox. They are ours just as much as they are theirs. Honestly, one of the biggest rhetorical tricks they play on us is making people feel like "real" Protestants are plain and boring. But why are we just handing these things over to them? They aren't their exclusive property. They belong to the whole Church, and they belong to us in the fullest sense.
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