Ánridda/Culver

For for anyone who finds this post, I was CulverDrums on here until the beginning of July. I left abruptly, as I was really just overtaxed with media and such. I went and sought my peace, largely finding it. While back, I am just not getting into the depths I did earlier. Not putting X on my phone. Not checking it all day. I learned to enjoy being alone, realizing it was not really all that lonely. There I found my peace- a minimalization of needs and wants easy to manage and maintain. I found myself- my true self- and it is the wanderer, the lone-rider, hence the new X handle from Old English án (lone, singular) + ridda (rider). I came back mostly, because I did miss a select few people who I enjoy and consider friends, and my knowledge of the current news cycle was wanting of late.

As I have said before, he'll slowly return to Clintonian center-leftism, where he started, as a matter of saving what he can.

Not shocked in the remotest on this. Jordanes I believe noted stories of Danubian and Crimean Goths receiving delegations from the old homelands requesting people to return from royal stock and lead. I have long theorized that the Vendel shift materially was due to an Alano-Gothic influence moving backwards on the migration pathways, given that many things seem to mesh well with Iranic material, especially the famed Vendel and Välsgarde armor, though centuries later.

Not in the slightest, because the act is a sign of contrition and submission to the will of a foreign entity. Anyone who goes, does so to prove allegiance. It is not a necessaqry act to these men, most of whom are Christian. If they knew anything about the theology and history of the faith, the new Temple is the church and the host of the church the new Israel. In Christianity, there is no longer a need for the Judeo part. Then against it really is just Messianic Judeo-Platonism so made that is what's wrong with it.

Means they only have to flip 4 more to have a veto proof Senate. Not that they'll need it, because, if that happens, it likely means a full Dem routing of the 2028 election. Let's just hope they do not get to 3/4 of the house/2/3 of the Senate levels with a Dem POTUS and enough states to start jacking with the Constitution by Amendment, which surely would mean doing to the 2nd what happened to Prohibition, plus severe limits on the 1st to include anything that hurts feelings as hate speech.

So, if true, in short we need to strip executive staff members of any power over governance and leave them as mere secretaries, doing what they are told, instead of the other way around. If you are not elected, you should have zero say over policy and what goes in front of POTUS, either party. So, we went from a demented senior whose staff used the autopen almost exclusively to another demeneted senior who is a bit sharper but extremely prone to influence from executive wonks. I guess it works that he actually signs them.

Frankly, every politician should be taken to the Library of Congress and made to swear on nothing but the Constitution under pain of perjury and prosecution. That is the only "holy writ" our government must uphold. No Bible, no Quran, no Havamal, no anything else. You swear on the Constitution or you do not have a position.

Honestly, I will say the thought crossed my mind. No way Premium, which I was routinely paying 4.30ish to 4.50ish for dropped to below 4 dollars in that span of time and with the markets otherwise tanking, which usually spikes supply fears. Not soon, but in about 50 years, I think we'll be able to analysize these election with some distance and realize how little it matters to have voters as much as it is the illusion of voters.

I detest government controls of economy, but I agree with the sentiment of her position, as I detest the data center boom. ERCOT, the official Texas grid, is woefully ill-prepared for taking on that surge of electrical usage and would be devastated in an artic blast trying to bear that load. I can agree that load-heavy businesses should have to contribute to infrastructure costs, IF they draw from citizens. Again, I do not agree with the means of doing it in this case, just agree with the sentiment. Of course the best fix ERCOT could do is quickly adopt and approve micro and regular nuclear reactor development, which benefits everyone. Then you can have a realistic talk about energy consumption and boosting technology.

SCOTUS already approved it for a case of Voodoun practioners in Florida nearly 25 years ago or so. Also, in many customs, it is just a ritual to thank the animal before killing it, instead of the modern American Thanksgiving way of doing it after it hits the table. It is customary killing for food. Despite Hollywood and Catholic hagiographic fiction, it historically and in reality was mostly about blessing food and thanking one's divine for the bounty. rarely was it just senseless slaughter. Given that the word "fee" comes directly from the Germanic word, fehu, meaning cow, which was used as payment, you do not "waste" such resources. I'm assuming she is talking about halal exemptions, but SCOTUS already ruled on it, so long as animal abuse and cruelty laws are not broken. I attended such a thing at @TheLordBoard stead many years ago (damn my youngest was still in a car seat- way long ago), and the swine was the most honored guest there, handled humanly, and dispatched quickly without a stun. That said, I have heard about plenty of bothced ones as well. In early Theodish Belief, which did a number, just to make sure it was quick, they usually used smaller pigs and had handmade swords specifically designed to behead the animal cleanly as to make sure the death was swift. Also plenty of rural Hispanic families around here but whole cows and dispatch them on sight and eat them that day. Nothing different, save prayer is involved. Spoiler alert, in many rural cities in the early days of this country, slaughter time often involved church activities, just like with harvest. When is it a bounty and blessing and when is it just a "pagan" sacrifice?