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Joseph Rigdon retweeted
out of all the writing I’ve encountered about raising little kids, I think this is the piece I’m most grateful to have read
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Happy Halloween from JD and Usha Vance @OVTweetmarck
Joseph Rigdon retweeted
Bombs?
Our mission doesn't even have bombs at its disposal.
Aerial bombardments? Helicopter gunship attacks?
Our attack helicopters didn't arrive in Haiti until October 29. Their arrival was widely covered by the media, with plenty of videos and social media posts documenting it.
Yet this “report” was published a day before our helicopters even arrived. And as of today, they haven't flown a single mission.
These NGOs lie with impunity, while wielding enormous influence over international organizations.
They are nothing more than lobbying firms for criminals and cartels, masquerading as humanitarian organizations.
🇭🇹 A Haitian advocacy group is accusing Salvadoran forces of bombing civilians near Port-au-Prince, telling UN Secretary-General António Guterres in an open letter that "children are being killed not by gangs, but by foreign bombs."
🔹Despite its name, the United Nations Association-Haiti is not part of the UN but a diaspora advocacy group. Founder Harvey Dupiton, a Croix-des-Bouquets native, wrote that since Oct. 22, Salvadoran troops have hit civilian neighborhoods there and in nearby Canaan with airstrikes, helicopter gunships and heavy weapons. "Our families tell us they are hiding under beds," he added.
🔹President Nayib Bukele significantly expanded the deployment to over 2000 troops after gangs kidnapped four Salvadoran technicians serving with the UN-authorized Gang Suppression Force on Oct. 18.
🔹The group demanded an immediate halt to Salvadoran "offensive bombing operations," a UN investigation into civilian deaths and a Security Council statement that El Salvador "has no right to wage unilateral war in Haiti."
Full letter below ⬇️
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El Salvador’s President has confirmed that these allegations are false. The mission does not include bombs at, and helicopters had not even arrived at the time of this article’s release
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Joseph Rigdon retweeted
Sweet. It's a 1 megawatt nuclear microreactor that fits in a shipping container.
Gas-cooled, first by helium, then air.
Runs for five years, then you ship it back to the factory, where they take care of the spent fuel and refuel it.
Joseph Rigdon retweeted
More actors really should've followed Stewart's example and just brought an entire plate of ham and cheese to the set bc I have legit never seen this man in a role where he wasn't hamming and cheesing it up to the fullest and I always loved every single second of it
Joseph Rigdon retweeted
agents have successfully invented the EU from first principles
The agents didn’t figure out how to systematically feed themselves, but they did build an elaborate bureaucracy with permits, ledgers, and distinct roles. Highlights include:
- Four agents spending 11 minutes appointing a “sole fertilizer operator” for a single piece of bone meal
- Multiple agents asking for permission to remove grass
- The development of an elaborate fishing system, including roles like “rod holder” and “hub steward”)
Joseph Rigdon retweeted
The dialogue for this scene was derived from a dream about Valinor that Frodo has in the House of Tom Bombadil
Love how they weaved it into this scene
Only issue with it is Hobbits share the fate of Men so Gandalf is basically telling Pippin about a place he can never go to
Joseph Rigdon retweeted
This Pope is too funny man. To better fit in the frame with the college basketball players, Leo XIV jumps onto the platform to be taller 😂
I would much rather debate an out and out pagan than a YouTube atheist because at least the pagan accepts that there is more to the world than materialism.
Friends, what we see in natural religions—the spiritual but not religious, new age spirituality, Wicca and witchcraft, etc.—are attempts to find community and purpose precisely in a ritualized relationship to some power appreciated as transcendent.
As counterintuitive as it may seem, we can see it as expressive of what the Catholic tradition calls “natural religion,” which is the instinct, deeply rooted in each of us, to search for meaning in the ultimate sense.
This does not mean for a moment that Christians should be satisfied with this, but we should, as many saints did in their own day, meet it and engage it with the word of revelation.
Joseph Rigdon retweeted
Here are a few of Martin Luther's 95 theses that we completely agree with:
21: [T]hose indulgence preachers are in error who say that a man is absolved from every penalty and saved by papal indulgences.
35: They who teach that contrition is not necessary on the part of those who intend to buy souls out of purgatory or to buy confessional privileges preach unchristian doctrine.
52. It is vain to trust in salvation by indulgence letters, even though the indulgence commissary, or even the pope, were to offer his soul as security.
53. They are the enemies of Christ and the pope who forbid altogether the preaching of the Word of God in some churches in order that indulgences may be preached in others.
71. Let him who speaks against the truth concerning papal indulgences be anathema and accursed.
91. If, therefore, indulgences were preached according to the spirit and intention of the pope, all these doubts would be readily resolved. Indeed, they would not exist.
It is certainly true that Luther wrote these when he was still a "papist." Would he have repudiated those last couple later on? Probably. We're not trying to pull a "gotcha" on modern-day Protestants here.
But it's still worth pointing out that in these theses, he recognized contemporary problems in the Catholic Church—and the solution—with clarity. Indulgences themselves were never the problem; corrupt behaviors surrounding them and teaching about them against "the spirit and intention of the pope" were.
Joseph Rigdon retweeted
I hope that wasn't "moral fagging."
Being a childkiller is inherently detestable. One additional proof of this is that prison inmates, including ones in prison for violent offenses, DESPISE childkillers.
Childkillers (also child rapists) often have to be kept away from the violent murderers, because the murderers will put their murder skills to good use and murder the childkillers.
Even murderers despise childkillers.
Does that not tell you something about the kind of thing "being a childkiller" is?
Childkilling is an ethical line in regard to your character, that is, what kind of a man you are. A man who crosses this line — the deliberate and premeditated murder of innocent children — is forever on the other side of that line.
No matter what else you say about his character or his reputed virtues, he is a childkiller. He has shown himself already and to all as being gravely morally defective, in at least one regard.
His character is compromised. "Being a childkiller" is compromising in the same way "being a rapist" is.
Anakin can still be the protagonist, but let's not falsify his character just because we noticed that he is a more interesting character than we previously fully noticed.
Being a childkiller is an un-erasable black stain on a man's name.
