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According to DJT

Jun 21, 2019 6:40AM PDT
We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it,

IF the number of casualties was so important,,,,,it should have been the VERY first question HE asked when making the decision in the first place.

I'm saying he's lying, about WHY the mission was cancelled...IF it was even on.

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Side note.
Jun 27, 2019 3:15PM PDT

The new arrow system can be handy, but doesn't always give expected results on my smartphone, especially on long threads. Y'all do know I use a smartphone, right?
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Oh, that's right, you do know. You just don't care. Sad Sad Sad Sad

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The arrow system
Jun 28, 2019 3:09AM PDT

would be ok if they would go back to including the line of 'replying to' that they eliminated for some ungodly reason.

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Arrow system
Jun 28, 2019 6:22AM PDT

Is kind of clunky.

I've asked Lee to put back that replying to line.

Perhaps if more people ask it might get done.

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I'll fourth or whatever that request! Hey Mr. Koo!
Jun 28, 2019 8:46PM PDT

with all the coin we generate for CNET thru click-thru they should jump at the chance to get the engineers right on it.... Yeah, that's the ticket! :^)

Rick

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This just in.
Jul 4, 2019 9:25PM PDT

Lee says we can demand our money back.

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HAHAHA
Jul 5, 2019 3:44PM PDT

CNET owned by CBS....liberal media. How often do people get their money back when liberals already have their hooks in it?

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Dang, Toni,
Jul 5, 2019 4:52PM PDT

tell us how you really feel! :^)

I think the actual quote "The _love_ of money is the root of all evil" somewhat applies... But then, people say I never had any ambition to make a lot of cash - and they are right, I reckon. In my previous long (33 years at the same company!) career I made a fair living but could not afford things I _wanted_ but usually had plenty for what I really _needed_. Insert Rolling Stones' beautiful chorus here... :^)

Rick " Get your Ya Ya's out " and "Between the Buttons" are among my fave albums - though it's quite hard to choose a "best" from those guys...

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Good catch on the quote.
Jul 5, 2019 5:50PM PDT

The usual version implies Christians can't be prosperous; 'money is sinful'.

The full teaching is at 1Tim 6:9,10. It's aimed at a particular person- who may well be a Christian- and is truthful. Therefore it's not a 'scold scripture' as such, but a wise forewarning. (Our latest Bible says "senseless and injurious things", not "evil".)
Cf. Ec 7:11,12.

Much more about money, all useful.

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I was not aware of the context - thanks!
Jul 5, 2019 7:01PM PDT

Amazing what a bit of fellowship can do, eh?

Here's hoping we all survive to see at least a bit of the future - I've got a couple, maybe three decades left in my "mortal coil" so-to-speak! After _that_ I, well, will have to "see"... :^)

Cheers to you, ya Bible-thumpa! Laugh

Rick

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I've got a couple, maybe three decades left"
Jul 6, 2019 4:29PM PDT

James 4:13,14.
And, that was written for and to "saints", certified so by the Bible.

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and as Fats Waller noted
Jul 6, 2019 5:12PM PDT

in one of his ditties : "one never knows, does one?"

Rick " top _that_ arcane tangential reference for obscurity ! " Jones

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Context is all important.
Jul 6, 2019 4:41PM PDT

Like James 4:13. We know the quick version: 'If the good Lord's willin' and the creek don't rise.'
Context, my saints comment, reinforces the message.

Where did I get it? Fellowship with the right people. Heb 10:24,25. That also was addressed to saints, who were slacking off. Even back then. How much more so, then ...

A certain Ethiopian Jewish convert was a very superior person, as I learned from my Bible teachers. Yet he didn't know everything and had the humility to say so. His humility gave him immortality. Acts 8:26-39.

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Uh Oh
Jul 6, 2019 5:09PM PDT

I always get worried when someone distinguishes "right" people from whatever the rest are called... :^)

Just kidding (mostly). I _think_ I know what you mean by that - though I suppose I could be wrong and need elucidation, similar to your noted paragraphs from Acts
where the eunuch asks for guidance regarding the passages in Isaiah?

And in today's "constant news cycle" being filled with politics, the "right" people rail against the "left" ones, and vice-versa - or so it seems, though of course that ain't exactly "new" either... :^)

Rick " just being my impish self " Jones

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Back in the day I used to threaten to call
Jul 5, 2019 5:28PM PDT

Mr Ziff or Mr Davis. Diane the Mod was at pains to point out they no longer applied. Sheesh. No sense of humor. Happy

Liberal??? That's "someone who throws money at a problem". CBS corporate clings to it.

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Jul 6, 2019 4:44PM PDT