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Guadaloopy

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  1. Series win is nice after a bit of a drought.
  2. Not one of his best, but this one really hits today as well...
  3. I like to imagine that there is a helluva a reunion performance of "Crazy Train" happening in the Great Beyond today.
  4. They cursed and buried him along with shame, and thought his timeless soul had gone.
  5. I don't know how y'all do it. I find this format absolutely unwatchable.
  6. Sorry for the Twitter link, but Talarico's feed on BlueSky is just a few months old and I remembered this particular press appearance from the election days. He's reprised the "WWJD" argument several times since then. I voted for Harris and his approach rubbed me the wrong way then, and still makes me uncomfortable.
  7. That's generally where I land. My biggest beef with Talarico's rhetoric so often is that he will present his preferred policy as THE Christian policy. Which takes me back to the "compel" language... As a Christian, my response to the Gospel and Jesus' teaching is just that... my response. I find it very UN-Christian to force my response on other people. I cannot in good conscience compel my neighbor to give money out of his own pocket to provide for other people. If they are moved to that response by their own conviction, I fully support them and am happy with that result. Now... as a citizen of the United States of America and a party to that social contract, I have no qualms about voting to compel behaviors that I believe are for the good of this society. That's a different arrangement altogether, but I'm not going to use my Christianity as a cudgel against others in either direction.
  8. I don't need to make a religious argument or appeal to Jesus' teachings or the Ten Commandments to make a case for why theft and murder are detrimental to a society. That's my point. My personal beliefs about murder are formed by both my Christian faith and my secular understanding of the political tension between freedom and order. But I don't need to appeal to "Jesus said so" when I can also articulate that in our society, political/legal tradition, and under our Constitution, the freedom to murder citizens at will is both detrimental to order and a violation of an individual's right to life. In the same way, I don't need to make a religious argument or appeal to Jesus' teaching to make a case for feeding, housing, educating, and providing health care for those who are in need. A healthy society provides services for those in need because that is conducive to maintaining good order and promoting the general welfare. A lack of order is not conducive to the exercise and protection of anyone's rights and freedoms.
  9. I really like Talarico, but in all honesty, the way he argues is just the other side of the theocratic coin. There are plenty of good reasons for social programs that feed, house, educate, and provide healthcare to all people in our country. On a surface level, it may look like a good idea to reference the teachings of Christ to support these programs as there is a lot of overlap. I fully believe that our response to God's grace and the sacrifice and teachings of Jesus should be to care for others in all of those ways. But that should be a personal response and call to action. It should be a communal response among congregations of believers. The teachings of Christ should never be leveraged into a response that compels compliance from non-believers or those who otherwise disagree with the response - "I believe so strongly in this teaching of Jesus that I am going to vote for a government program to take money out of your pocket against your will to implement that teaching." Talarico likes to frame political arguments in such a way that is accusatory against Christians who disagree with him politically - "It is not Christian to vote against X program." I just don't think that is helpful. IMO... it would be far more effective to argue the societal benefits of a program rather than tagging on some guilt-laden religious justification. Give the cost-benefit argument and then if you want, personalize it by saying that it happens to align with your own interpretation of how Jesus would respond to the issue.
  10. C'mon, now... I'd wager that this is in the bottom 1% of embarrassing shit that teenage Surlyites did for a little stinky finger.
  11. I'll have you know that at 16, I struck that same pose with my girlfriend at the Southern Star Amphitheater while Debbie Gibson sang "Foolish Beat."
  12. There is only one recommendation and I am surprised that it took this long in the Movies & TV Forum:
  13. The only "evidence" is some unreliable eyewitness accounts of sightings happening months to years after her disappearance and some questionable analysis of online photos. I found none of it credible or interesting at all. At 5:30 am she was seen on the balcony of her family's room. Nothing happened to wake up a room full of sleeping people between 5:30 - 6 am, at which point she was noticed missing. So the kidnap theory is that she left the room of her own accord barefoot in a t-shirt and jeans sometime between 5:30- 6 am, and her kidnappers saw that she had left her room, were able to snag her from a public area of the ship without notice, and then smuggle her unnoticed off of the ship in Curacao. Oh, and the ringleader of this kidnapping effort was the bass player of the ship's band... and the entire ship's crew was in on identifying and assisting with the abduction of young women for Caribbean sex-trafficking.
  14. Still in first by 3 games. Third best record in the AL. Everyone needs to take a breath and light their St. Altuve candles.
  15. Man they are scraping the barrel for “true crime” on Netflix. The Amy Bradley doc is worthless. She went overboard. Either accidentally or suicide. Zero evidence of anything else happening. Saved you an hour and a half.
  16. Buncha katfids round here...
  17. Is it even the internet if there aren't people commenting on shit they know nothing about?
  18. The coldest I have ever been in my life was the upper deck at the Linc for Army/Navy 2010.
  19. Got dusty real fast.
  20. This one belongs on the list as well.
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