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U.S. national debt hits $33 trillion for the first time
The federal government faces a potential shutdown if Congress is unable to approve funding authorization in coming weeks.
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Ray Epps Charged with a Misdemeanor over Capitol Riot
https://www.breitbart.com/news/ray-...ged-with-a-misdemeanor-over-the-capitol-riot/
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Keep track here:U.S. national debt hits $33 trillion for the first time
The federal government faces a potential shutdown if Congress is unable to approve funding authorization in coming weeks.
Bullshit.
This is a smoke and mirrors show - just like Biden Jr's gun and tax charges.
NOTHING will happen to the man.
Lots of people claim to be Christian but do not hold to the tenets of the faith. Being Catholic doesn't make one Christian by default - believing and submitting one's life to Christ and His commands is the defining factor. There are lots of wolves in sheep's clothing. This includes many in the Protestant faiths, as well as Jews who dont hold to thier faith. I would argue that this is one of the few advantages of the woke movement - it has called out many who want to identify as something outwardly but their actions show them as either ignorant of their faith or are opposed to it. In that regard it has been helpful to identify these charlatans.
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What if I told you 4 of these 5 books lay out exactly the why and how?
Love me a good copyright 1939 1st Edition print.
Are we talking about the pope or those Christians who complain that Jesus is too woke?
I have a few ideas.
First of all, anyone performing an abortion could be charged with and convicted of murder.
Second, the baby killers would be pushing for a constitutional amendment to redefine a "person." Now imagine what that would be like when the leftists can't even provide a definition for a woman and believe in a multitude of genders.
Thirdly, like I said before, the baby killers would probably start a civil war as well as targeting pro-lifers and pregnancy distress health centers with terrorist attacks.
Fourth, the baby-killers would probably target pro-life members of the SCOTUS for assassination as well as any other pro-life politicians.
Fifth, if you thought cheating during the 2020 election was bad, you haven't seen anything yet.
Sixth, maybe the fence-sitters will choose a side. The SCOTUS has been viewed not only as the final opinion on matters of law but as the arbiters of morality. So for a time, many believed that abortion was moral and a constitutional right. After all, the SCOTUS said so. Then it must be true. In other words, people's moral compasses were directed by SCOTUS opinion.
Maybe some people's opinion would change for the better if an unborn baby were giving the legal definition of "person."
Finally, and hopefully, more babies will be saved.
What do you think will happen?
I was referring to the communist Pope and those who deny portions of Scripture while proclaiming to hold fast to it. They only hold fast to what they want others to adhere to so that their sin is not called out and exempted from scrutiny. Either you are or you aren't. This is not a mystery - every group has a set of standards, and trying to ease those standards so that one can fit in doesn't make someone a member, it makes them dishonest.
There would be legal uproar over citizenship, due process, child support, taxation, plus any number of other areas. Not even Alito wants to take up that discussion. If you’re only interested in ending abortions then I can see how you have developed your point of view, but this sort of declaration would have wide ranging effects.
And that's just like the Dred Scott decision in 1856. The SCOTUS didn't want to consider the issue of slavery then but had to do something.
The Dred Scott might have been the legally correct decision but not a morally correct decision. Notice what I said, it was the correct legal decision to make but morally repugnant.
From the decision with emphasis added.
"The words "people of the United States" and "citizens" are synonymous terms, and mean the same thing. They both describe the political body who, according to our republican institutions, form the sovereignty, and who hold the power and conduct the Government through their representatives. They are what we familiarly call the "sovereign people," and every citizen is one of this people and a constituent member of this sovereignty. The question before us is, whether the class of persons described in the plea in abatement compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them."
In the next paragraph the SCOTUS deflects any responsibility. They basically say "Don't blame us. Congress make the laws, We don't."
"It is not the province of the court to decide upon the justice or injustice, the policy or impolicy, of these laws. The decision of that question belonged to the political or law-making power; to those who formed the sovereignty and framed the Constitution. The duty of the court is, to interpret the instrument they have framed, with the best lights we can obtain on the subject, and to administer it as we find it, according to its true intent and meaning when it was adopted."
IMHO, the SCOTUS didn't go far enough in the Dobbs decision. The 14th amendment clearly rectified the Dred Scott decision. The SCOTUS could have ensconced the term person to mean anyone, living or dead as well as in or out of the womb.
Like the Dred Scott decision, the SCOTUS threw the conundrum back on the states. I pray to God that one day they will grow a spine and do the right thing regardless of the cost.
Is it worth an unborn baby's life to achieve a fragile peace among a polarized citizenry? Remember what the gun grabbers always say about banning guns; "If it will save one child's life it will be worth it."
Is political expediency worth the life of an unborn person?
Both and then some. Any "Christian" that complains about Jesus is absolutely NOT a true Christian. Even the demons He cast out were in awe of Him and knew exactly who and what He was. The demons of hell did not bad-mouth Jesus but rather begged Him for mercy.
DHS Announces Establishment of New "Homeland Intelligence Experts Group" | The Gateway Pundit | by Brian Lupo
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security led by the failed Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced a new “group”: the “Homeland Intelligence Experts Group.” The “Experts Group” will operate under the Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Ken Waintstein, as well as Counterterrorism...
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We know who they are using this to go after, and its not their friends in the cartels.
LIVE-STREAM VIDEO: House Subcommittee on Oversight Hearing Interviews Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund - Outspoken Critic of Nancy Pelosi's Failures to Secure the US Capitol on Jan. 6 - LIVE VIDEO | The Gateway Pundit | by Cara Castronuov
On Tuesday, September 19, 2023, at 3:00 p.m.
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Zelensky Upset To Hear One Of His Jets Ruined
NEW YORK, NY — As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in the U.S. to petition the U.N. for additional funds for the ongoing war with Russia, he was angered to learn one of his F-35s had been carelessly ruined by the American military.
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On it’s face I’d say “no”, but I have uncertainties about the various viewpoints on abortion. Should the government even be involved in the process/decision? At what stage does personhood come into effect? If the unborn couldn’t survive outside the womb should it be granted personhood and all the inherent rights? If yes what about the rights of the mother? In my opinion it’s much more complicated.
My answers are in RED below.
Should the government even be involved in the process/decision?
Yes. There are laws on the books that protect the rights of people in all stages of development. There are laws against assault and battery, murder, rape and robbery. In some states, it's still against the law to commit a mercy killing. If a country cannot or will not protect the most innocent and vulnerable among us the how much less will it care about the rest of us?
If the unborn couldn’t survive outside the womb should it be granted personhood and all the inherent rights?
A person's level of development should not be used to determine whether they can live or not. I have a friend that is paralyzed from the neck down. He could not survive on his own without 24/7 care. Even though he's an adult does it give anyone the right to kill him or neglect his needs because he can't even wipe his on ass let alone feed himself?
I knew a boy in grade school, who was mentally retarded and suffered from epilepsy. He was born a normal child. When he was five another five year old smashed a brick on top of his head. That fractured his skull which caused the brain damage leading to the retardation and epilepsy.
Not quite to the level of inability to care for himself like my paralyzed friend, the boy I knew would require constant adult help for his entire life. So just because he required constant assistance did that make him any less deserving of life?
On a side note and nothing to do with this discussion, the five year old attacker grew up to be a nasty evil prick. To make a long story short, I beat him up when I was a high school freshman. Not a teacher was to be found. That was probably intentional. The rest of the kids in the hallway kept yelling for me to kill him. And I darn near killed him. I had blood on my clothes for the rest of the day. Nobody, even the teachers, asked why I had blood on me. I wanted to do to him what he did to the poor mentally retarded kid with epilepsy. Sometimes, what goes around does come around.
If yes what about the rights of the mother?
Baby killers have used that argument for several decades, One analogy is if you are involuntarily connected in someway that gives life support to another person. Or if you were forced (not asked) to donate one of your kidneys to another person who will die without the transplant. Imagine being forced to donate a kidney to Michelle Obama. Well that's one way we would know if she's a tranny.
Anyway, being forced to hook up to another or have a kidney removed would be a violation of your right. You should have your right to refuse that service to the other person who would most surely die as a result of your decision.
The baby-killers have used the same argument to "detach" the unborn baby from the mother. There is a stark difference with the two situations.
By refusing to be attached or be a donor to another person, their death is a predictable but unintended. Remember that your refusal has a foreseen but unintended result. You don't want him or her to die but you also have a right to keep your kidney.
The argument for a mother's bodily autonomy would be logical if the death of the baby was unintentional. However, the result of a successful abortion is the intentional death of the baby. A baby that survives an abortion is a result of a failed procedure. That's why the baby-killers were opposed to the Born Alive Protection Act.
There are some rare instances where the death of the unborn baby is foreseen but NOT intended. In an ectopic pregnancy, the fertilized egg is stuck in the fallopian tube. If it remains there and continues to develop, the mother will die. There is no uncertainty about it.
The only way to save the life of the mother is to abort the unborn baby in the fallopian tube.
With a normal pregnancy, there is already a moral relationship between mother and baby before the decision to abort is already made. Also consider this, the woman has already consented to sex voluntarily. There was a moral decision to engage in an activity in which a new life is a predictable outcome.
What about rape or incest? The pro-abortion Guttmacher institute estimates that only 1% of the abortion cases are the result of rape. The rest are due to consensual sex.
I've met a couple of women with children conceived as a result of rape. Both of them had a wonderful relationship with their children. I'm not mitigating the awful experience of rape. A pregnancy is a heavy burden to go through for a woman, especially if she was raped.
However, two wrongs don't make a right.
What some men mean for evil, God can turn it around for good. The rape of a woman didn't escape God. He wasn't surprised by it and has a plan for that baby. A woman that's pregnant because of a rape and decides to keep the baby is a real hero. If she doesn't want to keep the baby but put it up for adoption to a loving couple, she's still a hero because she chose life.
The "pro-choice" crowd wants us to think that there is only one choice. There are two choices, one results in life.
In my opinion it’s much more complicated.
You are correct, there are complicated facets to this subject. That's only because we, as a nation, have made it complicated. The solutions are simple if we determine to what's right by the Almighty and Giver of Life. Just like the Sunday school song says, "God loves the children, all the little children of the world."
If He loves the children, then how can we justify killing them because they haven't relocated outside the womb?
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It's sobering and heart breaking to see how poorly a government (and its state agents) will treat their own countrymen.
Patriots fan dead after apparent altercation with Dolphins fan: reports
A New England Patriots fan was rushed to an area hospital Sunday night where he was pronounced dead after an altercation in the stands at Gillette Stadium, according to reports.
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Your error is that you think he cares about Christianity.
BREAKING BIG: Via House Judiciary Committee Republicans - FBI LOST COUNT of How Many Paid Informants They Had in the Trump Crowd on January 6! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
The House Judiciary Republicans sent out an explosive letter on Tuesday night that CHANGES EVERYTHING!
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I finished it a while ago, it can get rough.
PELOSI LIED! Former Capitol Police Chief Sund Testifies He Had 3 Calls with Pelosi on Jan. 6 - Pelosi Said They Never Spoke - But Sund Says He Has the Receipts! (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
On Tuesday, the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing titled, “Oversight of United States Capitol Security: Assessing Security Failures on January 6, 2021.” Rep.
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India and Canada Expel Each Other’s Diplomats - Crisis Between the Countries Escalates in the Aftermath of the Assassination of Sikh Separatist in British Columbia | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran
The diplomatic relations between India and Canada continue to unravel in a big way, as the two countries announced ‘tit-for-tat’ expulsions of diplomats.
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Canada/Trudy making their contribution to WW3.
Conservative Bond: Italian Salvini and French Le Pen United Against Mass Migration, Ahead of EU Elections Next Year | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran
The US and the EU have been dealing with uncontrolled mass migration from poorer countries in a level that would be considered impossible just a few years ago.
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Do something NOW. Meloni esp. has been a huge disappointment - she has a largely conservative government to work wth instead she is "honoring" her EU ties. Just like Abbott here in TX,she is making a conscious choice to let the "new residents" in.
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HERE WE GO: Pennsylvania's Democrat Governor Announces Switch to Automatic Voter Registration (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
The steal is on in Pennsylvania.
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I'm sure this will allow us to continue our fair and honest elections.
Biden Uses NY Times To Send Zelensky An Unpleasant Message | The Gateway Pundit | by Larry Johnson
If you have not figured it out by now, Government is like Kabuki theater — i.e., it is an event characterized more by showmanship than by content.
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China, Russia, India and the Global South: The era of revenge
Today’s geopolitical relations are marked by demands for a change to the world order, historical revisionism and reproaches against the West
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MacCallum is a media puppet and rino stooge. She's controlled opposition. Her obsession with the British crown is also telling.
Any state that allows illegals to vote needs to have ALL of their ballots tossed out! Fucking crooks!HERE WE GO: Pennsylvania's Democrat Governor Announces Switch to Automatic Voter Registration (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
The steal is on in Pennsylvania.
I'm sure this will allow us to continue our fair and honest elections.
BREAKING BIG: Via House Judiciary Committee Republicans - FBI LOST COUNT of How Many Paid Informants They Had in the Trump Crowd on January 6! | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
The House Judiciary Republicans sent out an explosive letter on Tuesday night that CHANGES EVERYTHING!
Confirmed: It Appears Former FBI DC Supervisor D'Antuono Was Lying to House Investigators About the Number of FBI Operatives Embedded in Crowds on January 6 | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
As reported earlier on Tuesday, The House Judiciary Republicans sent out a letter Tuesday that includes transcribed testimony from former Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Washington Field Office (WFO) Steven D’Antuono.
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In the meantime, we're dumping taxpayer dollars and American weapons in a black hole called Ukraine to protect their border instead of ours.Cartel FOB
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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zerowww.zerohedge.com
solves the issue they had in 2020 when they counted more votes than registered voters.Any state that allows illegals to vote needs to have ALL of their ballots tossed out! Fucking crooks!
This way legit voters on either side get pissed and revolt against their overlords!
We have fallen a long way when these are the happiest employees.
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The No. 1 employer for happy and fulfilled workers is a truck stop and convenience store chain
Indeed ranked the top 20 companies on its platform where employees report feeling happy, satisfied and stress-free.
