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I'm fine with this, I just wish this was how it was preached. I was at my aunt's funeral last week, she was very devout Catholic, we did a Rosary, full mass, etc. I haven't attended Catholic church in more than 10 years except for family stuff when necessary. I got the feeling that the prayers were to help those in the room feel better during a tough time and I appreciated that part of the ceremony. I just hate that its not taught that way and that religious people especially in the US not only act so shitty to each other but expressly mention their religion while doing so. The last Catholic church service I attended was my neice's confirmation a few years ago. The priest included a lecture on how they will be persecuted for their beliefs and called outcasts for standing by them and to be strong. This was of course directly related to signs all over the lobby to vote against a state constitutional amendment on abortion rights. The last Catholic service I volutnarily attended included a recorded lecture from the Bishop not so vaguely urging support for a state constitutional amendment on fetal "personhood" which of course means anti-abortion. It made me physically ill having to listen to that bullshit in both circumstances. The US Bishops Association (or whatever its called) is pubicly supportive of laws in Oklahoma allowing for taxpayer funded Catholic charter school. Fuck all of it, bunch of fucking charlatans.
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I listened to it and was puzzled myself. Are we all the colonizers she talked about? When she says destruction of America does she mean it literally like we all go back to our immigrant root countries? Or just destruction of the current American cultural and social architecture in favor of something more inclusive?
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Some of these freshman are going to rake Lawson was the best player for Iowa Premier last week against Texas Bombers (Cat's team) 4 hits and scored the winning run in the 8th after a leadoff double. In the 18U Future Stars game: Stevie South (2027) had a HR Wells issued a walk but had a GO, FO, K in her inning of work, and had a HR in her at-bat Abdullah (2027) was hitless but played a good SS, as did Crabtree
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Colorado Vacation Destinations - Not Quite So Crowded, But Still Cool
Chewbacca replied to Dbeasy's topic in Food and Travel
I'd pick an area and stay there for the week. There are no wrong choices, but it's a lot of driving to go from Crested Butte to RMNP, for example. There is hiking and fishing everywhere. Crested Butte and Breck are probably more fun to just hang out in than somewhere like Grand Lake. -
USMNT 2025 - Easy English, hard ones Spanish
GoldAppleCorps replied to Captain Ron's topic in Futbol
That was absolutely a handled ball in the area that should have been a PK. No excuse for brushing that away. Saying that, Mexico controlled the game. The US back line just gives away possession. Tim Ream was the only decent passer. Everyone else simply had no idea where to go with the ball once they won a defensive battle. Just booting the ball upfield would have been annoying, but less dangerous than simply fumbling it back to Mexico in their attacking 3rd. Several times, I saw clearing passes that were lazily aimed into the middle to no one in particular. Mexico happily collected these and recycled their attack. For the 2nd game in a row, I saw an opponent dribble around 3 stationary defenders - each of whom made no attempt whatsoever to stop the goal. Conversely, the US attack needs to purge themselves of the Berhalter ball safety and stop trying to pass the ball into the net. The other team just isn't going to move out of the way and let them do it. The USA defused their own dangerous chances by quickly cycling the ball back out and retreating into their half to slowly begin to switch fields. Losing possession in a feckless attempt is bad soccer, but never pressing the issue won't lead to goals. The 2-1 result was fair given the totality of play. The USMNT got some options for roster building. Nobody declared themselves as absolutely the starter, but several should be 1a options that, over the course of a tournament, will help manage the workload. A competent manager should be able to mix and match these skill sets, combined with the missing first teamers, to game plan against opponents. -
I read a case study about the response to the Pentagon Sept 11th attack a few years ago. So many "cowboy" fire departments responded there was no way for Arlington FD to control what was going on at the site. Best part: people were parking everywhere without much thought about access for everyone else. I was amazed at some of the footage I've seen. Looks like the Delaware River (but the Delaware looks like that all the time). It also reminded me of the speed and debris from the 2004 tsunami.
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I don't mingle with any of you riffraff in real life. Besides, I don't remember going through a selection process, acceptance ceremony or any of that other weird shit to participate here.
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I’ve been going to Mo Ranch since I was 8 - stayed in Guest Lodge and River Dorm (the evacuated lodgings closest to the river) multiple times. Mo is more corporate than the family-owned camps (I don’t mean that pejoratively) so they have a plan for everything and know how to execute it well. Having said that, I bet the folks that run the place take no comfort or pride in being featured like this, as their hearts are with their neighbors down the road. I will be away from the state for a few weeks but damn, I wish I were down there helping. The need will still be there next month, and the month after and so on.
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The same man who said we should all be doing is praying, is the same man who unilaterally authorized billions for a border wall project that has since been abandoned unfinished. There's money available, but that would be admitting that the climate has changed and become more dangerous for Texans. But I'll leave further comments for a more appropriate thread.
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Cosigned. So sick of all the fake bullshit wannabe cowboy posers. Where do we start?
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Prosecution side of the table in support. Commercial/private jet pilots from what we’ve experienced like to avoid paying taxes and have shown a tendency to privately and sometimes publicly hate the IRS and govt. Lots of money being stashed in foreign bank accounts etc. The teacher thing for me/us is… most elementary teachers are women who spend their days controlling and managing a classroom full of wildass kids who can’t agree. In a jury room that can be a risky proposition (or helpful if they believe the evidence). Also on gun cases we often wanna kick gun nerds/ east Texas know it alls… I don’t need them wasting time focusing on why this defendant put a 7-20x40 chinesium scope on a sawed-off street sweeper…(it’s happened, kinda) It’s really just starting points, flag them and if they talk their way off, all good. If they are silent then we go back to their profession… It doesn’t always work but it usually plays out correct. Although now that we’ve had this swing where now maga is on a the govt sucks, white collar crimes aren’t really crimes! We are finding new problems we’ve never had before
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no matter what he says it is going to be the wrong answer
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I'm surprised how many posters are not familiar with summer camps. Its not like they only occur in Texas. My parents sent me to a YMCA camp when I was in elementary school. Camp Cullen. I hated it. Was just not for me. Definitely was not a "rich" camp as I remember a mix of everyone being there including once kid who had to get dialysis while camping. Olympia was across the lake from us and I think that was the "nicer" camp. They had one of those giant air bags like stuntmen use to jump into the lake. I went to boy scout camp at El Rancho Cima near the Devil's Backbone. That I liked better but camping still really wasn't my thing. At least that camp was beautiful - really pretty countryside and swimming in the Blanco (watch for the leeches). Our tents were mostly elevated up from the river... I want to say we were just below that ridge on the Blanco: AKA Ironically, the camp was severely damaged during the 2015 Memorial Day floods but was not yet in session because summer had not started. Just another example of a camp destroyed by flash flooding. Glad to say much of that will now be Hays County parkland (https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/texas/stories-in-texas/hays-park-bond/). You wouldn’t know it looking at the serene landscape now, but the 2015 Memorial Day weekend flood that devastated Wimberley also dealt a deathblow to the nearby historic Boy Scout camp, El Rancho Cima. Sweeping away entire structures along the banks of the Blanco River, the flood obliterated a camp that has been owned and operated by the Sam Houston Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America since 1954. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2018/03/15/boy-scouts-selling-historic-el-rancho-cima/10005450007/
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We have a siren system in Lake Charles mainly to alert for plant emergencies but also tornado, flooding, etc. It pops off for testing every Monday at 12:15pm. If you hear it anytime other than Monday 12:15, it's time to get your shit together. They also just upgraded it last year to include recorded voice message capability. If fucking Lake Charles can do it I know Kerrville is capable.
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Based on what? This is basically the same team they have been running with for the last 5-7 years. Their core is in their late 20s. Jimenez is 34. The only youth they are really running out there is Mora, who's 16 and very impressive. But this team, AS ASSEMBLED, isn't going to improve that much. They need an infusion of youth and outside of Mora, I don't see an obvious next generation. Does this mean they don't have that youth ready to go? No, but it isn't obvious next generation ready to take over.
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I pray. I pray by acting. Because Christianity isn’t a faith, belief, or label. It’s a fucking WAY. It’s not something you say, it’s something you DO. The most meaningful prayer isn’t done with your hands folded. It’s done with your hands in motion, feeding, helping, holding, DOING. What we have in American Christianity? It’s 99% performative bullshit done to absolve the powerful of any responsibility or obligation to actually use their hands to HELP others. Prayer is doing “for the least of these.” In America, prayer is saying meaningless words while working to hurt the least of these. In other words, the opposite of “the way.” I hate American prayer.
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Aggy has an influencer side hustle on break. Aggy on clock, cleaning up mess from influencer side hustle! Win/win/win ya dern sip!
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Shelton has been fun to watch this tournament. About to go up 2-1.
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Extreme events like this are going to become more common and we must learn how to deal with them. This includes improving infrastructure to withstand more intense precipitation as well as upgrading our warning systems so people can evacuate at-risk areas safely. Both of those cost money, which people don’t want to pay for. From the NYTimes article: In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said. Asked if people might reconsider in light of the catastrophe, he said, “I don’t know.”
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I received my first jury summons despite being eligible for 20+ years. Texas has a nice online form to try to dissuade you from having to go in. I am hoping that I answered correctly and won't have to go in.
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they used the word "ATROCITY" so no, he didn't wow this is going poorly for the regime this morning...... ATROCITY
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tl;dr: here’s what you need to know: We have added a lot of carbon to the atmosphere, and that extra carbon traps energy in the climate system. Because of this extra energy, every weather event we see now carries some influence from climate change. The only question is how big that influence is. Measuring the exact size takes careful attribution studies, but basic physics already tells us the direction: climate change very likely made this event stronger.
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Maybe a dumb question - how much does Texas have tied up retaining the current roster? How much "salary cap" do they have for this incoming class? Do we have any idea? I guess I'm wondering how all these programs are reconciling the new "cap" with what has already been committed to the current roster. I had assumed we were already well over $20m with just the current guys on the team.
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And we thank you and your four friends for your service.
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It's flat because it's esentially a creek bed for when the creek floods, which is what creeks do when it torrentially rains upstream. In the past, people avoided putting anything permanent in these areas. Now it's premium real estate. And that's how we got here.
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