My friend Rick sends this link to a site that deals with UFOs and biblical prophecy. The section on the Mark of the Beast reminded me of Acts of the Apostles (the one I wrote, that is, not the earlier version by Luke. . .). Some good, wacky, scary stuff.
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Load More...New poll today has Trump at 35% approval. That's the breakthrough point for me. Now we should see a steady slide towards election day with GOP seeing the worst day in the party's history. Ten @SenateGOP seats could flip. And the court pick will just accelerate the collapse.
its closer to 1986, to be honest. i spent too many years having to watch him, and his entire life story is about reagan meeting with tip oneil and "making a deal." his whole thing is about white guys telling people how its done and how it works. https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1308091575831080960
I swear to god that Chris Matthews never really made it past 1996 in terms of his perception of American politics. The man seems to be stuck in a time when the national discourse was shaped by white men saying things about each other.
I am increasingly struck by the performativity of politics, or more accurately, the performativity of the performance of politics.
It would be like if there was an entire culture based on yelling about Sportscenter, not the sports themselves.(28)
Yet as Keith Whittington argues, the resort to judicial supremacy is not a sign of strength, but an admission of weakness: a beleaguered regime calls upon the authority of the Court only to achieve what it cannot accomplish through electoral politics.Supreme Court: Pres Trump: “We should act quickly because we’re gonna have, probably, election things involved here, you know, because of the fake ballots that they’ll be sending out.” He openly is asking for a nominee to vote for him in election disputes! Staggering wrong.
Check out a good portion of rense.com, and start scanning your shortwave receivers for GCN Radio Networks. GCN carries this kind of stuff (and a lot of Uber Patriot, Militia style gonzo right wing religious nonsense) daily.
I’m working up an article for HuSi on the whole phenomenon. I’ll drop a line if / when it’s complete.
By the way, like the site very much.
In their How to Debunk Just About Anything page (http://www.bibleufo.com/deb… copied from a book called The McDanel Report), this is my favorite quote:
“Equate the necessary skeptical component of science with “all” of science. Emphasize the narrow, stringent, rigorous and critical elements of science to the exclusion of intuition, inspiration, exploration and integration. If anyone objects, accuse them of viewing science in exclusively fuzzy, subjective, or metaphysical terms.”
If one doesn’t have rigor and skepticism along with intuition and exploration, and if one doesn’t use the critical faculty all the time — particularly in the middle of an inspiration — one is not a scientist. Period.
On the other hand, it’s hard to argue with this: “ At the center, rapidly and successfully gaining control of it all, is corporate greed, dedicated to the obsessive, unbridled, and ethically absent pursuit of wealth.”
Wacky site, John.
I guess you guys know that many of us Christian fundie types think this guy’s logic is inverted. It is the bad angels in the UFOs.
Trust me.
Thanks for the link,
wetmachine gets better all the time.