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tick tock___There goes a large chunk of Trumps base.

Evangelical magazine Christianity Today calls for Trump's removal after impeachment

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What Jack means is

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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
He's a Californian, first off...

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Six Things To Do after the Supreme Court Decision on Gay Marriage

We lost this one.

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Kennedy’s words anticipated some of the key themes found in King’s soaring March on Washington address two months later. And that shared moral force, that commonality of thinking between the two speeches, is the most important reason to remember the president’s address, 50 years ago today: it reminds us of a forgotten moment of the civil rights era, when presidential leadership and grass-roots activism worked in creative tension to turn the narrative of civil rights from a regional issue into a national story promoting racial equality and democratic renewal.

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Many media outlets are expressing shock, unable to concieve of a God or a world in which God might actually make something good from something horrid, that the child of rape or incest could be considered a divine gift. Note the tone and disgust of the Atlantic Wire summary of the story.

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The problem is that the behavorial sciences like psychiatry are not really sciences; they are semi-sciences. The underlying reality they describe is just not as regularized as the underlying reality of, say, a solar system.

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The goal of a political party is to win 51 percent of the vote and govern effectively, and as Rubio suggests, the ordinary work of politics can proceed even if some national politicians decline to take public views on the geological age of the earth.

It is not Marco Rubio’s task in life to solve this problem. But it is a problem, in our age even more than in Augustine’s, and his answer didn’t help.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Hey, chin up there, buckaroo! If we remove Trump we can get President Mike Pence in there and he can put an Amendment in the Constitution that everybody must recognize that the Earth is only 6,000 years old and punish them with jail time if they say otherwise! Maybe even death for repeat offenses if we're really lucky!

And we can force MyFace and Twatter to report anybody who doesn't believe, and then they will be safe places for Christians to use! And the best part is the Democrats already made that possible by saying censorship isn't a problem when major companies do it and they've already given their full blessing and support to the CIA, FBI and NSA to do mass surveillance on people because Orange Man Bad!

Never in American history have we been THIS CLOSE to having a Christian authoritarian President in office. With the Lord behind us, we are unstoppable!

Church and State, here we come!

In God We Trust!

You knuckleheads see what is happening here?

Not that it matters, this all will have fallen down the memory hole in two weeks.

But I'll keep reminding you.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Hey, chin up there, buckaroo! If we remove Trump we can get President Mike Pence in there and he can put an Amendment in the Constitution that everybody must recognize that the Earth is only 6,000 years old and punish them with jail time if they say otherwise! Maybe even death for repeat offenses if we're really lucky!

And we can force MyFace and Twatter to report anybody who doesn't believe, and then they will be safe places for Christians to use! And the best part is the Democrats already made that possible by saying censorship isn't a problem when major companies do it and they've already given their full blessing and support to the CIA, FBI and NSA to do mass surveillance on people because Orange Man Bad!

Never in American history have we been THIS CLOSE to having a Christian authoritarian President in office. With the Lord behind us, we are unstoppable!

Church and State, here we come!

In God We Trust!

You knuckleheads see what is happening here?

Not that it matters, this all will have fallen down the memory hole in two weeks.

But I'll keep reminding you.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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6ix, it would take 3/4th of the State Legislatures to make the changes you think President Pence can do all by himself.

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6ix: The facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral. The reason many are not shocked about this is that this president has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration. www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-re
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In the Trump trial, Giuliani needs to explain this interview, under oath:


"Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him," Giuliani said. "Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros is. I probably know more about — he doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist DAs in the United States. He’s a horrible human being."

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Republican Group to Run Ad on Fox News Demanding Testimony from Key White House Officials in Trump Impeachment Trial

A Republican group is launching an ad campaign to demand that several key White House officials, such as chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, testify in the impeachment process against President Donald Trump.

Republicans for the Rule of Law, a conservative organization whose stated purpose is "defending the institutions of our republic," will air the 30-second video on Thursday during Fox & Friends and Lou Dobbs Tonight.

"Key witnesses in the Ukraine scandal must testify," the ad states. The group goes on to demand testimony from Mulvaney, Pompeo, Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former national security adviser John Bolton.

The group is also targeting four Republican senators who could be the key to Democrats getting additional witnesses in the Senate trial: Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. These lawmakers are the Senate's most likely Republican members to rebuke the president and support his removal.

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Graham warns Giuliani: 'I hope you know what you're talking about'

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned on Wednesday that if Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, is going to publicly suggest a "cover-up" involving the Bidens and Ukraine "then I hope you know what you're talking about."

"If he comes, you gotta be willing to ask questions about your conduct. It's just not good for the country to make these accusations on cable television without them being tested," Graham added.

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Six Things To Do after the Supreme Court Decision on Gay Marriage

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Kennedy’s words anticipated some of the key themes found in King’s soaring March on Washington address two months later. And that shared moral force, that commonality of thinking between the two speeches, is the most important reason to remember the president’s address, 50 years ago today: it reminds us of a forgotten moment of the civil rights era, when presidential leadership and grass-roots activism worked in creative tension to turn the narrative of civil rights from a regional issue into a national story promoting racial equality and democratic renewal.

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Many media outlets are expressing shock, unable to concieve of a God or a world in which God might actually make something good from something horrid, that the child of rape or incest could be considered a divine gift. Note the tone and disgust of the Atlantic Wire summary of the story.

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The problem is that the behavorial sciences like psychiatry are not really sciences; they are semi-sciences. The underlying reality they describe is just not as regularized as the underlying reality of, say, a solar system.

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The goal of a political party is to win 51 percent of the vote and govern effectively, and as Rubio suggests, the ordinary work of politics can proceed even if some national politicians decline to take public views on the geological age of the earth.

It is not Marco Rubio’s task in life to solve this problem. But it is a problem, in our age even more than in Augustine’s, and his answer didn’t help.

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Editor quits after Christian publication backs Trump amid evangelical divide

Napp Nazworth's decision to quit comes amid a divide among evangelical publications concerning President Trump. Nazworth, who had been at the outlet for more than eight years, announced his resignation on Twitter Monday night, calling the decision a "difficult choice" and adding that he "can't be an editor for a publication with that editorial voice."

"Like so many other media companies, they've chosen to silo themselves," he continued. "They've chosen to represent a narrow (and shrinking) slice of Christianity. That might be a good business decision, short term at least. But... it's bad for Democracy, and bad for the Gospel. It means there will be one more place where readers can go for bias confirmation, but one less place where readers can go to exercise their brains on diversity of thought."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/editor-quits-after-christian-publica
tion-backs-trump-amid-evangelical-divide/ar-BBYiXsy?ocid=spartandhp

Plenty of time for this to unravel enough to really hurt Trump in the coming elections.

tick tock folks


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The promise and perils of a secret impeachment vote in the Senate

A trial in the US Senate, whatever evidence is presented, will end with Donald Trump’s acquittal. Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell has promised it. But if the vote were conducted in secret, 30 or more Republican senators would find the president’s dealings with Ukraine violated the Constitution. Or so said former Arizona senator Jeff Flake in September.

Republicans who believe Trump acted improperly should be willing to say so, even if it means falling out with the in-crowd. However, it seems there are 30 senators who do not have the courage of their convictions. Ever since, academics and pundits have been discussing the merits and drawbacks of a secret vote, while laying out the logistical path for approving cloaked ballots.

Senators could approve a secret impeachment vote if they wanted to. Impeachment trial rules are up to the senators and must pass by a simple majority — 51 out of 100 members.

Republicans are now in the majority and have 53 votes. Still, it wouldn’t take much GOP resistance to force McConnell to cede to a secret ballot. If just three Republicans premised their approval of the rest of the rules on a cloaked vote, they could make it happen.

If the only way senators can fulfill their constitutional duty to objectively judge the evidence and decide on guilt or acquittal is under the cloak of secrecy, it’s fair to ask whether they are up to the task of governance. Do they have the moral fiber to lead? Or, as one Twitter user crudely put it in response to talk of a mystery posse of Republican resistors, “profiles in pisspants.”

More at https://qz.com/1774850/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.

Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal….

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A secret vote second means Trump goes. The man has nothing but enemies in the senate.

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The promise and perils of a secret impeachment vote in the Senate

A trial in the US Senate, whatever evidence is presented, will end with Donald Trump’s acquittal. Republican majority leader Mitch McConnell has promised it. But if the vote were conducted in secret, 30 or more Republican senators would find the president’s dealings with Ukraine violated the Constitution. Or so said former Arizona senator Jeff Flake in September.

Republicans who believe Trump acted improperly should be willing to say so, even if it means falling out with the in-crowd. However, it seems there are 30 senators who do not have the courage of their convictions. Ever since, academics and pundits have been discussing the merits and drawbacks of a secret vote, while laying out the logistical path for approving cloaked ballots.

Senators could approve a secret impeachment vote if they wanted to. Impeachment trial rules are up to the senators and must pass by a simple majority — 51 out of 100 members.

Republicans are now in the majority and have 53 votes. Still, it wouldn’t take much GOP resistance to force McConnell to cede to a secret ballot. If just three Republicans premised their approval of the rest of the rules on a cloaked vote, they could make it happen.

If the only way senators can fulfill their constitutional duty to objectively judge the evidence and decide on guilt or acquittal is under the cloak of secrecy, it’s fair to ask whether they are up to the task of governance. Do they have the moral fiber to lead? Or, as one Twitter user crudely put it in response to talk of a mystery posse of Republican resistors, “profiles in pisspants.”

More at https://qz.com/1774850/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.

Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal….

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