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Google Search —> Bush immigration 2006 https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060515-8.html May 15, 2006 — “I believe that illegal immigrants who have roots in our country and want to stay should have to pay a meaningful penalty for breaking the law, to pay their...

I’d urge you to adopt one type of conservative position — No jarring changes. Let’s look at our state of Georgia around 2010 or 2011. They changed some state laws and were too successful at getting illegal immigrants to self-deport [ at least to other states] . And there was a real question...

Okay, in both 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump did better in the actual election than he did in the polls. I’m guessing because some of his supporters don’t participate in polls. So, this election could very much go either way.

I think of CBS as solidly middle of the road, along with ABC.

Yesterday Thursday, I think Trump made a mistake in saying no more debates.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/ They take median income for a given year, meaning half of American adults are below that income and half are above it. And then you just make a judgement calls — people...

I half-listened to the debate in a dive bar. There were about 7 people around a TV with the sound on. The part before the closing statements, Trump said, are selling our country down the river [ to that effect]. This guy said “Hoooooo.” Like someone just said something outrageous outloud...

At age 61, I’m very open to finding a wife, if and when this magic happens. And I feel that I’m good at distilling down ideas. I try to give the executive summary in which I make the working assumption that my reader is slightly smarter than I am, because I feel my writing then turns out...

Co-workers who are dedicated, talented, and appreciative is what we all dream of. And adventures. And/or a boss just as good. School weirdly goes both too fast and too slow. And it’s forever deferring the good stuff. * scenes from the movie Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, April...

A lot of religious persons will say, “Relationship with God” as first and foremost. I’d add helping others, or trying to help others in respectful ways, adding skills and getting better at this over time. Plus, just the sheer wildness of life. Another movie posting coming! :)

The above conservative acquaintance used to be a range master. And talking with him has convinced me that “appendix carry” is best. Although you’ve got to go to the range on a regular basis.

Of course, there’s love, even later in life. And sometimes just some good appreciative sex. — from the 2021 movie “The Good House”

https://abcnews4.com/amp/newsletter-daily/training-prepares-columbia-sros-to-respond-within-seconds-to-school-threats-shooting-guns-knives-panic-response-police-officer-training “We try to make it a point to be anywhere in our school within 15 to 20 seconds.” said Markilo Anderson, who is a SRO...

I agree. I think securing weapons is a big part of responsible gun ownership. Especially in a household with children. Especially in a household with teenagers. Yes, teenagers often are sneaky and will make efforts to get into things. So be it. Doing a good job of securing weapons puts the...

No, not very common. Common in the news. But we’re a big country of more than 300,000,000 people. As a conservative friend / acquaintance of mine said, Trying to prevent something which is already rare may not be the greatest idea in the world. A similar idea from law is “Hard cases make bad...

In skeptical books I’ve read — Jesus was just one of many “end time” preachers in that 1st century AD. Okay, does Josephus talk about sone of these other preachers or about mystery cults, etc, etc. ? ?

Let me gently step away from group consensus. Josephus was maybe decades away from Jesus’ crucifixion by the Romans traditionally dated at 33 AD, leaving plenty of time for lore and legend. And in the age of hand-written manuscripts and monks and others slowly making copies, I don’t know how...

This does raise an eyebrow. I guess I’d ideally want a scholar who specializes in this time period of the Hebrew language to take a good long look.

But if he was talking about the equality of human beings and quoting another part of the Declaration, it would make you wonder. [ to the best of my knowledge, Abe Lincoln never did this ] And with the United States Declaration of Independence, we have the original copy.

But Origen was using Josephus as one line of evidence for the Christian faith. And he leaves out the best part. People notice and think, Weird . . . And then it’s just too juicy. supposedly Josephus said — “Jesus . . . . . a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly . . . . . He...