He'll decide on a Deficit Spending Tax Cut skewed towards himself and his big money donors.

Just like last time.

It's a long tradition of accusing the other guy of what you are doing.

"Accuse the other of that you are guilty." " Joseph Goebbels

"Hundreds of people protested in Niger's capital city of Niamey over the weekend, demanding that U.S. troops leave the country in demonstrations whipped up by Niger's junta.

Russian anti-aircraft defense systems and 100 instructors arrived just two days before the protests, following a defense pact signed with Russia in December. The Russian troops are part of Africa Corps"Moscow's state-recognized replacement for the paramilitary Wagner Group."

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"Last month, Niger ended its military agreement with the United States. Niger's military spokesperson, Col. Amadou Abdramane, cited reasons including the "condescending attitude" of U.S. officials in attempting to lecture Niamey over ties with Russia and Iran.

The decision followed a visit by Molly Phee, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, and Gen. Michael Langley, the chief of the U.S. Africa Command.

More than 1,000 U.S. soldiers are stationed at a U.S. military air base in Agadez, a desert city nearly 600 miles northeast of Niamey, where the United States operates drones in order to monitor jihadi activities."

Niger's junta had been hostile toward most Western nations"except the United States, which it considered a key partner until this month.

Washington had invested millions of dollars on its air base and in the training of Niger's troops, including Nigerien coup leader Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, who was trained by the U.S. military.

Niger's junta now perceives the U.S. military bases as being more beneficial for the United States than they are for Niger, which has been fighting jihadis for over a decade.

Since 2017, the U.S. military has stopped joint operations in the country after four U.S. soldiers were killed while hunting for an Islamic State leader."

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This is SO much like an old movie... lessee what was it?

Oh, yeah, Animal House.

"Gaetz accused government officials of delaying the inevitable departure of U.S. forces from Niger to spare the Biden administration the embarrassment of having to close facilities that cost the United States hundreds of millions of dollars to build only recently " a charge officials denied."

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"There's a very narrow path here to finding an accommodation that addresses their interests and concerns and our interests and concerns," said a senior State Department official, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the Biden administration's diplomatic efforts.

"It may not work, but the fat lady hasn't sung yet."

Yes, but what do Gaetz's female victims have to say about this obviously non-partisan, concerned citizen report?

10 States With The Lowest IQ

- He didn't say do what you wanna do...see ya next week so we can refresh it.

He said that if you even think an imperfect thought it is a sin.... the point being that no one is perfect on this earth.

#89

He said not to condemn others who miss the mark, because everyone does.

He also said that no one is 'good', but One.

- the weak minded

There are minds better than many here that belong to real Christians.

... Oh, mamma mia, mamma mia
Mamma mia, let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me

... So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?

Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here

... Ooh
Ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah

... Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me

What JC and Paul supported, as they both said the same thing, is to not condemn those people who you consider to be, "condoning and supporting (or living) sinful lifestyles.".

Much less try to use the Gov and the force of Law to enforce your beliefs.

Because you are not perfect either, in whatever ways, and all imperfection misses the mark of perfection. Also, that with whatever condemnation you use against others, you will suffer the same condemnation yourself.

My old Pastor had an example of God's view: Shaq and Danni DeVito are standing at the bottom of the Empire State Building. From the view on the top floor, you can't tell which is which... their height, or their sin, all look pretty much the same.

I just hope Bill's doesn't have the pages stuck together when he gets it.... ewwww!

werking

RLR... I like it that the link also shows that:

"The Book of Mormon mormon paq in progress"

so they are wekin' on it

Gal... and as I understand it, these first ones shipped are literally the old originals he had in storage, many of which have been said to have, um, pages stuck together, and a bad smell, lol.

#44

I said the complaint in #3 was silly, not the importance of the translation.

The complaint was that since God "wrote" it, there couldn't be any problems with translations... or something.

#41

The NT is quite precise; the form of Greek it was written in died not long after, so it didn't change over the centuries.

But understanding the concepts the words reflected of the people who wrote them is what made Prof Wright the leading scholar on the subject.

It was put together years ago by a musician to help sell an album, lol.

The complaint about multiple translations is silly; historians specializing in ancient texts modify translations as they get new information, usually copies that are older than what they had before.

BUT if anyone really wants to know understand the NT, for instance, it would behoof them not to get caught up in 500 plus year old translations, which aren't very good to begin with, and also incorporate 500 plus year old concepts in understanding the texts.

Probably considered the best modern scholar of the NT, by other scholars of ancient texts and theologians in general, is N. T. Wright.

He has written many books and there are videos of his lectures and interviews on yt.

"Vladimir Putin's false war claims

Shortly before launching a full-scale war on Ukraine, Vladimir Putin outlined his reasons for the attack. Russia, he said, must "defend itself" and "denazify" Ukraine.

Much of this is false.

Putin's statement is a propaganda narrative that lacks any basis.

Putin uses the term denazification, which refers to the Allies' policy for Nazi Germany after World War II. They wanted to rid the country of Nazi influences and remove incriminated individuals from their posts.

However, the comparison with Ukraine is wrong, Andreas Umland, an analyst at the Stockholm Center for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS), told DW:

"This talk of Nazism in Ukraine is completely out of place," he said.

"The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is a Russian-speaking Jew who won the last presidential election by a huge margin against a non-Jewish Ukrainian candidate."

While there are far-right groups in Ukraine, Umland said, they are relatively weak compared to those in many European countries.

"We had a united front of all radical right-wing parties in the last parliamentary elections in 2019 where they won 2.15% of the vote."

Ulrich Schmid, professor for Russian culture and society at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, describes Putin's claim as "a perfidious insinuation."

It is true that there were individual far-right groups during the Euromaidan protests in 2013 and 2014. Today, however, they play a subordinate role, said Schmid, who researches nationalism in Eastern Europe.

"They exist, but in Russia itself there are at least as many far-right groups as in Ukraine."

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I hear that he's having his lawyers try to dismiss female jurors who are, "not his type".

- A hill where global wealth inequality is the fault of US tax policy.

The fault of human greed using crony capitalism that FDR controlled at least somewhat... using US tax policy, among other things.

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So... have you put your name into the hat for Republican Speaker of the House?

'Cause you and them are best buddies on surrendering Ukraine to an invading force.

But hey, "partition Ukraine" may be your best Neville Chamberlain imitation yet.

Besides which, the thread article is about China not being the same kind of trusted ally that Russia has in, oh say, North Korea or Syria, lmao.

I mean, you can tell a lot about a country by their, "friends".

"In early 2014, the Euromaidan protests led to the Revolution of Dignity and the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. Shortly after, pro-Russian unrest erupted in eastern and southern Ukraine, while unmarked Russian troops occupied Crimea.

Russia soon annexed Crimea after a highly disputed referendum.

In April 2014, Russian-backed militants seized towns in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and proclaimed the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) as independent states, starting the Donbas war.

The separatists received considerable but covert support from Russia, and Ukrainian attempts to fully retake separatist-held areas failed.

Although Russia denied involvement, Russian troops took part in the fighting.

In February 2015, Russia and Ukraine signed the Minsk II agreements to end the conflict, but they were never fully implemented in the years that followed.

The Donbas war settled into a violent but static conflict between Ukraine and the Russian and separatist forces, with many brief ceasefires but no lasting peace and few changes in territorial control."

lol

muchlike since Somalia exists, dirt poor 'Muricans should just stfu.