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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration
« on: October 26, 2021, 09:37:04 PM »
Is the percentage of cops that are unvaccinated greater than the general population?

Not aware of an overall number, but definitely in some states and cities.

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Baseball / Re: The World Series!
« on: October 26, 2021, 09:35:01 PM »
Another long start by an NL pitcher.

I hope Morton is okay and can return later in the series.

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Baseball / Re: The World Series!
« on: October 26, 2021, 08:13:25 PM »
No shutout tonight.

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Baseball / Re: The World Series!
« on: October 26, 2021, 07:52:45 PM »
Astros in 6

Go Braves!

I went with Braves in 7.

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Football / Re: National Football League
« on: October 26, 2021, 01:08:06 PM »
Good trade.

Newton was the better move.  Not sure if he'd have signed.

You should just propose to him, already.

Surprised you're not upset they didn't go get Kaepernick.

If he can still play even as well as Cam, I would be surprised.

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Football / Re: National Football League
« on: October 25, 2021, 10:24:00 PM »
Good trade.

Newton was the better move.  Not sure if he'd have signed.

You should just propose to him, already.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration
« on: October 25, 2021, 10:18:31 PM »
There is a lingering controversy around prosperity megachurches and their charitable giving. When a church that places enormous theological weight on tithes and offerings is not a leader in charitable giving, the most obvious question is about who is the primary beneficiary of the prosperity gospel? The everyman or the man at the front?



There really isnt.  Congress did a huge investigation.

That's like using the Mueller report to claim Trump was exonerated. The churches they investigated refused to cooperate and therefore the "huge investigation" had no ability to turn up anything.

Kind of like how Trump is trying to block the Jan 6 documents from seeing the light of day - their secrecy was as self-serving as his is. "The truth shall set you free" is not something Osteen practices.

https://religiondispatches.org/senator-punts-televangelist-inquiry-for-self-reform-within-the-community/

Grassley at the end pushed for voluntary changes in how the mega-churches do things. We all know what that results in.

Maybe if there had been a liberal mega-church to investigate, the GOP would have taken the probe seriously. Maybe not.

There was nothing in that report or that investigation that allows an honest conclusion that there is no controversy.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration
« on: October 25, 2021, 09:47:27 PM »
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/25/politics/executive-privilege-donald-trump-joe-biden/index.html

More trumpian executive privilege claims denied by the Biden administration.

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Football / Re: National Football League
« on: October 25, 2021, 09:40:28 PM »
Pitchers duel tonight, with the Saints winning in the top of the 9th.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration
« on: October 25, 2021, 09:36:09 PM »
Kid, I dont care whether you compare yourself to him or not. But your being honest about him would be useful.


I am no expert on Osteen, his goals or his finances

I put forth only that he does help people.  If its not the people you prefer, I cant argue.  But I also guess you are missing details.

He helps himself, first and foremost.

And I have provided more details than you have.

If he spent as much as 10% of his expenditures on "mission" - on helping people - I would have simply said "I'm wrong," and shut up, Kid.

But you were among those attacking the Clinton Foundation with far less cause than this.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration
« on: October 25, 2021, 09:07:55 PM »
I will be okay, and the past year was hard on everyone because of the corona crisis.

I live right by Chapman film school. I have a movie script and I need to find a way to get it made and turn it into money. If I get Ariana Grande to star in it then I can earn maybe $200,000,000 the first year.

You need a different plan than Ariana Grande, I think.

I am glad you will be okay.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration
« on: October 25, 2021, 08:35:42 PM »
And Joel Osteen is fake, and he does not help the homeless and he does not do the things that God asks us to do in Matthew 25: 31-46.


I like you, Tony

This is a poor take.  Don't hate him because he got rich.

He claims to be a Christian, but he does not help the poor and the needy and the fatherless and the people in prison, etc, like the Bible says in Matthew. If you do not help the homeless people, then you are not a Christian, plain and simple.

Salute,

Tony V.

Who does Osteen help, Tony?

Find out and post it here.

Himself, Kid.

Never compare yourself to others, as it will cause you to become VAIN or BITTER.

"Comparison is odious."
~John Donne

Of course, somebody else said it better.



Your ostensibly pointed comment makes it clear that you have no counter to the truth.

In 2017, his "ministry" spent $87 million dollars. $1.2 million of that was on "mission and outreach." Under 1.4%.

He's the guy who originally refused to open his church's doors in the face of disaster, even though under pressure he finally relented.

Kid, I don't care whether you compare yourself to him or not. But your being honest about him would be useful.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration
« on: October 25, 2021, 08:17:31 PM »
Speaking of conspiracy to defraud,

http://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpe4m/january-6-planners-outed-congressional-accomplices

The ship of fools is losing its rats.

Wow.

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The two sources say they were in direct and regular contact with Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, Louie Gohmert of Texas, and Lauren Boebert of Colorado

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