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Friday, April 24, 2026

There in an important lesion to be learned from this novel written almost one century ago by Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. I draw your attention to this heated discussion between Elmer Gantry and other Bible students taking place in a seminary one evening circa 1904 (page 92, Dell 1960 paperback edition):

  • "Harry Zenz patted his arm. "Oh, you, Don-- you'll always be a monk. But if you don't believe it, Fislinger, look at the statistics of the five thousand odd crimes committed by clergymen-- that is those who got caught-- since the 1880s-- and note the percentage of sex offenses-- rape, incest, bigamy, enticing young girls-- oh, a lovely record! Elmer [Gantry] was yawning, "Oh, God, I do get so sick of you fellows yammering and arguing and discussing. All perfectly simple"maybe we preachers aren't perfect; don't pretend to be; but we do a lot of good."


    The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Ninth Circuit) ruled that immigration laws (AKA the INA) give people the right to apply for asylum at the US border and Donald Trump's executive order is therefore illegal.

    Donald Trump issued this ukase the first day he seized power.


    "For the first time in decades, three aircraft carriers are operating in the Middle East at the same time. Accompanied by their carrier air wings, the USS Abraham Lincoln, USS Gerald R. Ford, and USS George H.W. Bush include over 200 aircraft and 15,000 Sailors and Marines."

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    Donald Trump is considering a financial bailout for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an autocratic state ... read more


    Motorcycles, TVs and Couches: Israeli Soldiers Testify to Widespread Looting in Lebanon: 'Commanders Know and Do Nothing.' The looting has expanded in part because some IDF military police (MP) checkpoints at exit points from southern Lebanon were removed, while others were never set up. IDF soldiers say that 'when there is no punishment, the message is clear.'

    Israel is not a good ally of the US


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    Here's a "frickin intellectual genius," Marine.

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    One day I'm going to raise either a Manx, Russian Blue, or Bengal kitten with a mommy like this.


    Republican and Democratic Senators proudly pose with ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, something NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), Ukraine President Volodomir Zelensky, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, or Canada PM Mark Carney would never do.

    ICC Indictment

    ICJ Rules Israel is Apartheid State

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