Not Catholic, but attended a Jesuit high school, and was raised Episcopalian. Perhaps this explains my understanding of this situation. Nevertheless, my belief is common enough that AI offered the following to a question about transubstantiation and contransubstantiation:
Edited to add the definition of contransubstantiation:
Unlike transubstantiation, consubstantiation maintains that the bread and wine do not change their fundamental nature (their substance). They remain bread and wine, even after consecration.
Catholic concessions to alcoholics and celiac sufferers belie the Catholic doctrine that holds wine and bread transform into blood and flesh of Christ. Accordingly, Catholics now say that one need not consume both bread and wine to fully partake in the sacrament.
Your math maths. The other factor is the assumptions underlying how much rainfall is considered a 100, or a 500, year event. If rain falls more heavily (as climate scientists have been saying) in 2025, than it did for the years upon which those benchmarks were established, then those flood plain maps are likely behind the times.
I know Austin updated their flood maps maybe seven years ago, give or take. Part of the reason for the update was construction. More impervious cover, more run off. But, the premise that heavier rain falls more frequently was also a part of the matrix.
Sirens are a last line of defense. There were a myriad of actions that would have saved lives, at the camps and parks, before sirens would have been needed. Utter failure of government, from top to bottom. Still, sirens are needed. Obviously.
About time.
https://www.msnbc.com/chris-jansing-reports/watch/major-medical-groups-file-lawsuit-to-stop-rfk-jr-from-making-changes-to-vaccines-242955845702
I had a different take away. Mine was that communication between city, county, and state sucked ass. But, we are veering away from reported fact (the mayor’s claim, and the state’s claim) to opining on those claims, and I will stop here.
My purpose was to highlight your distrust of “biased reporting.”
Bluesky post is a post from the Texas Tribune, which has a reputation for factual reporting with a left center bias. So, no, not bias much. Your defense of the mayor is no defense at all if he said what was reported, and the report was a direct quote.
Holy shit, dude.
Balancing killing as many citizens as possible, while spending as little as possible on their care, sure seems like the current governing principle. We’ve skipped death panels and have empowered death departments.
Then why isn’t his other book similarly expensive? I suggest that he not only gave Epstein a start, he offered a blueprint, and that the blueprint is more appealing to the incels of today than the notoriety of being Epstein’s mentor.
Whatever it is, it can’t be good.
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Yep. Not good. Fetishizing rape as a tool for controlled reproduction. That’s satan is alive and well and living in that book evil.