@kevcvs57 said
This will be their window of opportunity, imagine getting evicted from your home based on someone’s religious delusion guide.. Even Jared has started eyeing up a waterfront development project
What’s happened in the Knesset is the down side of proportional representation

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/21/opinions/jared-kushner-gaza-israel-palestine-property-bergen/index.html


Yeah, Jared is looking to build massive hotels there, if he can convince Deutsche Bank to finance them ... where have we heard that before, I wonder.

Figuratively speaking, in this case. Hurrah for AK:

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/24/politics/lisa-murkowski-done-with-trump/index.html



PS Pence won’t support the orange buffoon either, and Pence oughta know. He was in the room with the other adults.

@wildgrass said
... to impeaching Xiden?

This committee has been at it for 6 months. I think they only held 2 public hearings. They interviewed hunter and all his henchmen. Republicans were easily tricked by false info from foreign agents and convicted conmen. They showed graphic pornography on camera. They produced nothing of substance.

And now radio silence. Unable to suggest any c ...[text shortened]... demeanors connected to biden. No evidence, no deposition summary, no indication of future direction.

The case was never more than tit-for-tat. Democrats impeached Trump, so the Republican'ts retaliated. It never had anything to do with actual evidence. It was merely political harassment.



PS every politician knows well enough, if you poke around long enough, you're bound to turn up some dirt even on Mother Theresa. The only question is, does it rise to the level of "grave crimes and misdemeanours". Republican'ts are loathe to impeach Joe Biden for the few misdemeanours they have so far uncovered because that would set the bar so low that no one else in Congress would keep his seat.



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@mwmiller

I just went to your profile page

https://beta.redhotpawn.com/chess-player/mwmiller

and clicked on View Games. It showed this:

https://beta.redhotpawn.com/chess/chess-game-directory.php?isminiboard=on&uid=16

All current games at RHP. Not what I expect from your profile page and not at all useful when judging a player's strength for a potential challenge.

When I go to your profile page in the old version:

https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-player/mwmiller

and click on View Games, it shows me this:

https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess/chess-game-directory.php?isminiboard=on&uid=16

Only your games, both completed and running. This is what I expect, and much more useful.

@BigD00 said
What causes a player to be banded?

If you are referring to banded, and not banned, it depends on your rating. A banded tourney, for example, is open to players with a rating within a certain range, or "band", for example 1300-1700.

@Russ

Old version: going to a player's home page and clicking on View Games leads to a page showing only that player's games, which is what one would expect.

beta: ... leads to a page showing all running games on RHP, not what one expects.

@KingFischer72


PM me, I will try to walk you through the procedure.

Cheers,
moonbus

@athousandyoung said
Are you really bragging about California's accomplishments?

It hasn’t fallen into the sea yet. That’s quite an accomplishment I think.

@josephw said
There are "priests" of all sorts, but there are only real ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ, i.e. Holy Spirit ordained pastors and teachers.

I'm talking about biblical Christianity. Not organizations developed for ecumenical feel good tax exemption purposes.

But let's not go down that road. You can do whatever you like as long as it's legal. Just don't pretend it has anything to do with the real deal.

I have no interest in preaching the gospel which biblical Christians typically attribute to their namesake, so why would I bother to get myself ordained as what you are pleased to call "a real minister" ? That is merely a minister in one particular religion, nothing more.

"The real deal"? If you think that only one religion is the real deal, then what you worship is religion, not God, and that is a definition of idolatry.

I suggest you review the parable of the centurion who asked Jesus to heal his (the centurion's) servant. Jesus says the most remarkable thing to him: he says that his (the centurion's) faith has healed the servant, not that he (Jesus) has healed him by miracle. Now, one has to ask, in what did the pagan's "faith" consist?

We are safe to assume that the centurion was no Christian himself, since there was no such religion in the world at that time. We are safe to assume that the centurion had no beliefs whatsoever about Jesus being the sacrificial lamb who would die for his, the centurion's, sins and be resurrected, because that doctrine hadn't been invented yet. If even the Apostles did not know or expect such a fate of their lord, then the centurion cannot have known or suspected it either. Nor did the centurion have any beliefs about a virgin birth. Nor did the centurion hold scripture to be inerrant (since the gospels hadn't been written yet), and it is highly unlikely that a pagan Roman soldier would have familiarised himself with the Jewish OT. So all of the Christian dogma in such matters counts for zilch.

Yet Jesus himself says that the pagan's faith has healed the servant. The obvious question is whether adhering to some religion, any religion at all, is the necessary condition of receiving Jesus's blessing. Jesus could simply have turned the centurion away (after all, the centurion was part of a deeply resented occupation army, rather like the Americans in Iraq or Afghanistan until recently), but he didn't. I understand the moral of the parable to be that Jesus won't turn anyone away simply for not adhering to one particular religion (which hadn't been invented yet).

@josephw said
What's there to like about an organization that poses as spiritual, but lacks the substance necessary for genuine faith.

mlb62's OP sounds like your ULC. Thought there might be a connection.

What’s there to like about an organization which has been lying to people for the last 2,000 years?

@josephw said
In Biblical Christianity, ordination is by the Holy Spirit, and not by man.

Something I'm certain you know nothing about.

Do you think only Christians can be priests??

@josephw said
You happen to know that mlb62 was ordained by the ULC?

The ULC is not a Christian organization. Quite the opposite.

I never said it was a Christian organization. You asked where I was ordained; I told you. Now you don't like it, or what?

What's this got to do with mlb62?

@sonhouse

All sizzle, no steak. Donald J. Trump, that’s him: only a ‘brand’’, no substance to back it up.

@kevcvs57 said
lol you think that young earth evangelical mongrel will still be the house speaker in January 25 with the job the gop house has done leading it.
Even if Trump manages to pip Biden with voter suppression and apathy on the part of the young and left wing it’s gonna be 4 more years of a divided and politically choked off Washington.
The US is done as a proactive or even react ...[text shortened]... s of trump and his fellow kleptocracy to bring about a truly progressive backlash government in 2029

There is already a move to oust Johnson. The Right is revolting.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-mike-johnson/index.html

I knew they would rue the day McCarthy acceded to demands from the former TeaParty to change the procedure for challenging the Speaker.

@David-Burton said
as a white van man of 40 years plus there was a code of conduct observed by most van drivers to give way to 1 vehicle at a time,in effect it helped everyone because it kept the traffic moving.

In Germany, this is not politeness; it is the law: where two lanes of traffic merge down to one, drivers are required to follow the 'zipper principle.' There are sometimes signs posted with a diagram illustrating this (for the benefit of French drivers who may have strayed have over the Rhine onto the German side).