The interesting story of just one of many true patriots that have been driven out of public service.
When a country begins tormenting those who seek to serve its interests, it is no surprise or tragedy when it falls.
I wonder how many hundreds of dollars the drone that sinks it will cost. It’s like they watched Russia lose the war in Ukraine and said “that, lets do that, but more expensive”
Greetings all, I'm taking my first steps to setting up networked storage in my home. And, unsurprisingly, I've run into a small issue.
I have a TP-Link AX3000 Router and currently have a 4TB HDD (exfat format) plugged into it via an USB 3.0 cable. The drive showed up without issue across multiple devices: I can access files on it without issue. I can even copy files off of it.
The issue comes when I try to add any files to it. I get a weird error about permissions. As best as I can tell, I have all permissions I should need.
Please let me know if there's more information I need to provide. I'm not a super techy person so I expect I left relevant info out. Oh, and I'm on MacOs. Also, not sure I used the right flair. Please let me know if I should change it.
My question is: what are they actually doing to honor Biblical values during this month? Aside from attacking Queer folks I mean.
All these names sound delightful and whatnot. I’d love to see them “honor Biblical values” by pausing efforts to make it illegal to be homeless. Or . Or “honor the nuclear family” by helping folks care for their children. Or, in one case I’ve seen, “honor veterans” by providing housing for homeless veterans instead of just using veterans as political props.
But they won’t do any of that. Because the honest name they should be using is “Anti-Queer month”. There is no substance to their efforts beyond that. It’s not about building anything, it’s just about hate and destruction.
Yes, I’m quite certain it’s the “barracks style housing” that’s the problem, not who’s sleeping in the beds.
Our country is not Christian, it just likes to cosplay.
Periodic reminder that the SBC has still not had time to make any substantive effort to address the massive sex abuse scandal that was revealed years ago.
In truth, it seems they’re really just hoping everyone forgets about it.
I’d call it bread and circuses but that would imply he’s willing to feed folks.
While I’m about as doctrinaire as a Christian can get and no fan of the re-emergence of paganism, I have known plenty of pagan soldiers.
I agree with the Chaplains quoted in this article: this change is nothing more than a thinly veiled pretext to deny atypical soldiers the pastoral care to which they have a constitutional right. It is about creating a “I don’t see that faith on my list, must be nonsense” out.
Any chaplain who took their oath in earnest has a duty to undermine that intent and redouble efforts to support our minority faith siblings. While they follow a faith in error, I can think of no greater show of Christ’s love than to afford them the dignity to which every Child of God is entitled.
This indictment is such an excellent example of the farce this “administration” is.
Aside from how terrible and ill-conceived this is in practical terms, imagine if someone sought to expand this logic into other spheres.
For example, making it legal to use force to defend another citizen from an ICE officer or a LEO. MAGA would lose their freaking minds.
This is just attempting to set up a legal framework for vigilantes to terrorize people. In practice, it will functionally be terrorism by proxy. Especially since a) I’m pretty sure killing someone for seeking an abortion will not, in point of fact, save the life of the child and b) the text of the bill seems ambiguous on whether or not one can legally kill someone after they’ve had an abortion (which would functionally legalize some “blood for blood” revenge killing).
I’m also interested to see if it tries to criminalize acts that occur outside of their state boundaries.
So, this I mainly just a bit of fun and may be skewed a bit towards the clergy on this sub, but I’d be super interested in hearing from lay folks too. Especially if there was a blessing you found particularly meaningful or impactful.
Here’s mine:
You have received the body and love of Christ. Be now, the body and love of Christ: broken and poured out for the life of the world. Be what you receive, become what you already are.
Remember those whom the world ignores: the poor, the hungry, the lonely, those in distress and those who are grieving.
And the blessing of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you this day and remain with you, always. Amen.
So, for the record, I don’t actually believe any of these attempts were fake. I personally would argue that they’re the unfortunate but natural result of his destruction of political norms and normalization of corruption and violence as political methods.
That disclaimer said, I think it speaks volumes about who Trump is as a person and his utter inability to be honest that folks won’t believe him even when someone tries to kill him. It’s got “the boy who cried wolf” vibes. Puts me in mind of a quote from Tolkien: “oft evil will doth evil mar”.
Just a random thought, but I feel like the Iran war is evidence of the ultimately self-defeating nature of evil.
Donald Trump clearly wants to be a “strong man” like Putin and other worldly despots. This weakness of his soul, the ever grasping desire for more power so that he, not God, might rule Creation, is ultimately what led Trump into the same error as Putin.
Iran is the US’s Ukraine. It is a conflict born of an old man’s vain desire for immortality through legacy. And for a crown.