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[–] 52fighters -1 points 5 days ago

Do these real men include all the pedophile priests

No.

Doctors who help the less fortunate should be admired but there was a local pediatrician that was arrested for sex crimes against children. Don't emulate him.

That's not hard to understand.

Catholics got a lot of predatory priests for a time because it was one of the few professions where you could explaine away why you weren't interested in adult women. Most abuse was by homosexual men who had an itch for boys. If you look at their share of the population, these men were clearly the primary problem.

They recruited others like them into seminaries and good men were driven away by their behavior.

It took Pope Benedict XVI evicting them from the seminaries to reach an inflection point. But now any pervert can be rather openly perverted and, if they want boys, they'll be more successful as a teacher, coach, or scout leader.

My local public school has had about a dozen arrests of these men in the past ten years. More are hidden in their ranks because everyone is looking at the priest and nobody is looking at the teachers. The problem didn't go away, it just adapted to other professions.

[–] 52fighters 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

By your source, they resisted 12 years (mostly due to western aid) and then gave-up.

"By the early 1950s, the Soviet forces had eradicated most of the Forest Brother resistance. Intelligence gathered by the Soviet spies in the West and MGB infiltrators within the resistance movement, in combination with large-scale Soviet operations in 1952, managed to end the campaigns against them. Many of the remaining Forest Brothers laid down their weapons when offered an amnesty by the Soviet authorities..."

[–] 52fighters 0 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Now you have to be a troll. First, Russia ruled the Baltics for several generations. Second, it is the most easily conquered NATO territory in Europe today. Many doubt that NATO would respond and Russia would displace native people (who they will forcibly relocate elsewhere) with Russians who will be moved in to Russify the lands.

[–] 52fighters 69 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I'm not a lawyer but the feds claiming it as a federal case because cars could be used in interstate commerce seems lame. Should be a Missouri case, not a federal case.

[–] 52fighters 14 points 6 days ago

I got a very early version of Debian from a friend when I was in college. I had a very old computer gifted to me but couldn't get Windows to install. I ran that badboy with no window manager, just text. I used elinks for my web browser and pine for email. VI was where I wrote my papers. Drivers were a problem, so I had to save papers on a disk to print from a computer at a library.

[–] 52fighters 1 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Georgians recently elected a very pro-Moscow political party. Belarus could revolt but doesn't. During Soviet rule, we had the example of the Hungarians whose little revolt was crushed quickly. They then fell back in line to Russian rule.

[–] 52fighters 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm confused, which bias is this story trying to exhibit?

  1. What an amazing man, to subject himself to measles due out of his heroic care; or

  2. What a dumb man to travel after having been near people with measles.

[–] 52fighters 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, Chinese companies having loads of unsold inventory that they are trying to sell to locals at a deep loss does seem to be part of the tariff story.

[–] 52fighters 1 points 1 week ago

I believe it is because the activity burns everything, including molecules that build up to eventually cause cognitive diseases.

[–] 52fighters 1 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Then what? Then you get the 1950's - 1980's in eastern Europe all over again, including an obvious level of stagnation when compared to those on the other side of the iron curtain.

[–] 52fighters -2 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I know this is going to be unpopular here but I will 100% tell you that there's a lot of people now voting for the GOP because they are upset about pronoun politics. My dad has voted Democrat every election his entire life because he is in a Labor Union. This time him and most of his union buddies voted Trump. My neighbor is hispanic and employs a lot of hispanic contractors. Most of them voted with the GOP because they are upset about how the schools are presenting pronoun policy. There's a lot of this out there. They can agree with the Democrat party in terms of healthcare, taxation, foreign policy, and a whole lot of other things but this one issue really drives at the core of what they think it means to be a human person ... and they don't like it.

 

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ICE agent Brian Sullivan detained Wilson Martell-Lebron last week as he was leaving court. But a Boston Municipal Court judge issued a ruling Monday against Sullivan, arguing that he had deprived Martell-Lebron of his rights to due process and a fair trial by taking him into custody.

 

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"These plans have deep historical roots. And it's clear that the US will continue to systematically pursue its geo-strategic, military-political and economic interests in the Аrctic.

"As for Greenland this is a matter for two specific countries. It has nothing to do with us."

 

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The question will be: Does the president have the power to halt, delay or not spend money that Congress has appropriated for specific projects or agencies?

Article 1 Sec. 9 Clause 7 gives Congress the power of the purse. Congress has the power to appropriate money. Presidents are to carry out the will of Congress regarding spending.

For clarification, Congress passed the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 which provides the president with a mechanics to withhold funding but not cancel it.

However, before delaying or withholding funds, the president must send a “Special Message” to Congress stating the reasons for the impoundment along with an estimate of the fiscal, economic, and budgetary effects.

The bill also says that the president may not withhold Social Security or Medicare funding.

The U.S. Supreme Court also unanimously found in the 1975 Train v. City of New York case that presidents cannot unilaterally withhold or block federal funding.

Yet, with all of this, President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE are cutting federal funding from a myriad of agencies and projects without Congressional approval or notification.

This is setting up battles in several federal courts.

 

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The incident took place Thursday in the 4900 block of W. 72nd Terr., according to a news release from Prairie Village Police Sgt. Josh Putthoff.

Putthoff said the infant was in the care of a “non-parent caregiver” at the time.

Police were first notified of the infant’s condition at around 9:30 p.m Thursday by officials at Children’s Mercy Hospital.

Putthoff said investigators determined the bite occurred earlier in the evening on 72nd Terrace.

Police identified the dog as a pit bull.

“The dog, a pit bull, was seized and impounded last night and, at the owner’s request, was euthanized earlier [Friday],” Putthoff said in his statement. “Currently, there is no threat to the public and all parties are cooperating with the investigation.”

It’s unclear who the owner of the dog is or their relation to the injured child.

“The infant remains hospitalized and in critical condition. At this time, we are requesting that the privacy of the family be respected,” Putthoff said.

Police continue to investigate the incident.

Five years ago, Prairie Village repealed its ban on pit bulls, one of a number of Johnson County cities that have rolled back such rules in recent years.

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Leawood remains the only city in Johnson County with a pit bull ban on the books, though that city tweaked its ordinance two years ago, clarifying what breeds count as a “pit bull” and also removing words like “vicious” from the ordinance language.

 

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