Yeah, that’s gonna’ turn it all around 🙄

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large waves crashing against the bluffs at Shore Acres Park. Waves can exceed 100 feet. there is a railing on the bluff to keep people safe, but we have seen many climb over to get a closer look.

powerful waves hit the bluffs at Shore Acres State Park. during King Tides the waves are even higher and exceed 100 feet. 🌊🌊🌊
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Nyahh, nor do they think Christians come from that part of the world either

Getting them over to travel from Oklahoma was partially due to the work folks at the college radio station I worked at who thought they were pretty awesome. I just wish I had the foresight then to see how big they’d become (I was there mainly for the local yokels)

It’s kinda’ like saying members of your <insert favorite bad sports team of your choice> aren’t really professional sports players because they suck at it.

No human-organized system is automatically good simply because of its existence. Bad humans can ruin ANY system if given the chance

Followed by “Penis Man: Infinity Bones” and “Penis Man and the Legend of the Cock Rings”

Rachael Denhollander speaks with MinistryWatch on sexual abuse in the church – MinistryWatch

Good Lord - I mean look up church sexual abuse. Then minus out “Catholic”, then “Southern Baptist”. More religions & megachurches pop up.

Gymnast Rachael Denhollander, whose efforts led to Larry Nassar conviction, spoke of her own struggles with her churches. ministrywatch.com/rachael-denh...

Totally this: so few politicians of any party are from the (I hate this phrase, mind you) “pulled up by the bootstraps” folks.

Big money selects big money, which then selects bigger money. I could probably count with my fingers how many politicians had to deal with the word “layaway” to buy things

Does that come with doggy cocktails with hangover free alcohol?

Or Malaysia. Yes, Islam is the dominant religion, but bias there tends to occur along nationality lines (Malay tends to get more preference vs Indian vs Chinese vs everyone else)

This was the Heaven’s Gate (movie) of military parades.

Bonus: the two cost more or less the same ($45M)

Keyboards clacked in D.C. on Saturday, thesaurus pages riffed to & fro, Melania documentary film fumes infused half-empty newsrooms, and capitulation resounded as a prime example of rotting traditional media hyped up the most boring use of $45 million in four decades since the 1984 release of “Dune”

Not only is this so flimsy, but people flip all the time. Pundit Tim Pool started off covering the Occupy movement, while Howard Lutnick did fairly “woke” stuff for his employees after 9/11.

Nowadays the vibe from both men is very much right-leaning

Agreed. Millions of adherents have essentially filed a patent on what is a “real Christian” and that their patent is more valid than anyone else’s. It makes no sense that anyone is going to claim they’re following a “fake” Christianity

Saw The Scorpions walk in front of me from their tour bus into a building to do a radio station interview as I was headed to work. One of the band members (Mattias Jabs, probably) smiled at me & gave me the Devil’s Horns wave.

A screenshot of the cast of “The Shawshank Redemption”

After years of deliberation, two friends decide Zihuatanejo is the ultimate overseas destination for ex-con ex-pats.

I do a variation on J. Kenji Alt Lopez likes to do: I slice the bagel, but I don’t split it apart before putting it in the toaster. Get the crunch on the outside, and the inside stays at a temp that doesn’t send the cream cheese to melty goo

Screenshot from battlefields.org detailing disagreement by Founding Fathers on Boston Tea Party: text reads “Though his role in the event is ambiguous, Samuel Adams worked tirelessly to publicize the Tea Party. He ardently promoted it as an act of defense against British taxation and a last resort to save colonial rights. His cousin John Adams praised the Tea Party as a brave “exertion of popular power.” Other colonial leaders like Benjamin Franklin and George Washington disapproved. Franklin felt the interlopers should compensate the East India Company for the damaged tea, while Washington believed the Tea Party to be a flagrant overstep by the Sons of Liberty.”

Weird little history tidbit: founding fathers were split on the action. John Adams & Samuel Adams were all for it, while George Washington & Benjamin Franklin thought it was a step too far (Franklin even thought the perpetrators should compensate the tea company) www.battlefields.org/learn/articl...

I mean, look at the dilemma of this Oklahoma City family, who are now looking at the seizure of their house along with everything else kfor.com/news/local/h...

True enough

Assuming things are somehow put back to 2022 or thereabouts, I’d also argue for a “How Government Works” weekly show or similar. It's been made obvious to me how many really not only don't know what the government does, but also the reasons why it does what it does.

This relates to another notion I got disabused of over time: running government like a business.

Businesses go out of business all the time. Your fave bakery going kaput may mean your favorite scone is no more, but a government following the same path is simply disastrous

Exactly this - I wish someone would calculate how much loss on investment this all ends up totaling because I don’t think most people have a clue.

I’m guessing that Ms. McArdle never had to use things like The Green Book to avoid being harmed by someone else’s “ideological bubble”

Even better, their money earned gets recirculated into local communities in the form of sales taxes, gasoline taxes, school taxes, property levies, etc.

The wealthiest people’s money getting down to benefiting your local community? Practically nil

Ugh! I’ve had to peek at some stuff like that myself recently

The Flaming Lips, who opened up for the locally popular Thin White Rope (a band actually worth checking out if you haven’t)

Not that the overall effect is great but it’s indicative of how corporations will wear the clothing of whatever for however long is needed to gain the most visibility/profitability/favorability possible.

I don’t even know why Target even tried with their BS Pride offerings this year