Calvin writes
Free will [is a] term fabricated out of nothing. Scripture everywhere declares that man is captive, servant and slave of the devil, is carried away by all his inclinations into vice, and is unable to understand what the things of God are, let alone perform them.
He’s not wrong. You’ll not find the notion of free will in Scripture.
The increasing number of details leaking out proving that the Trump White House wanted the riot and insurrection to occur almost guarantee that Trump will face a massive criminal investigation into his role in the entire matter, including the White House’s failure to do much of anything to intercede after inciting the insurrection. … On Friday, CNN reported that amidst all the violence and danger, Melania hosted a photoshoot of the furniture and rugs she has had restored in the White House for a coffeetable book she is writing.
But now we find out that White House staff begged Melania to intercede and force Trump to go on TV and get the terrorists to stop. Melania is one of the very few people left in this country that has any pull at all with Trump. She refused to even speak to Trump about it and moved on wiping a vase. According to the Daily Mail:
The heart of US government was under siege, our very democracy on the line, but Mrs Trump was calmly arranging porcelain figurines for the photographer,’ the source continued, saying even the most loyal remaining Trump staffers were left ‘dumbfounded’ by her actions.
Indeed, the First Lady’s closest adviser, her chief of staff Stephanie Grisham, tendered her resignation later that day.
Melania was even asked to intercede, to force her husband to publicly decry the insurgency, but she refused. ‘She said nothing. She remained silent and carried on arranging a vase for the shoot. She checked out of this presidency and her marriage a long time ago.’
She is who she married. If you were of the opinion that she is a good person, you are sorely and sadly mistaken. Melania cares about one thing: Melania.
How else to explain the evil? Seriously. What kind of person does such a thing unless they’re simply evil. Not sick. Not emotionally disturbed. Evil.
A Milwaukee pharmacist was arrested Thursday and accused of “tampering with and causing the destruction” of more than 550 doses of the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus last week, Grafton, Wis., police confirmed.
In a statement, Grafton Police Department officials said the pharmacist — now fired from the Advocate Aurora Health hospital system — was arrested on recommended charges of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, adulterating a prescription drug and criminal damage to property.
Officials did not release the individual’s identity “pending formal advisement of charges.” However, a licensed pharmacist named Steven Brandenburg was booked Thursday for the same charges, according to the Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Department.
Officials said that in a written statement to Aurora Health public safety officials, the pharmacist responsible admitted “to intentionally removing the vaccine knowing that if not properly stored the vaccine would be ineffective.”
Evil.
Nathan Larson, a known advocate of child sex abuse, incest and white supremacy, was arrested this month for “grooming a 12-year-old girl and allegedly coercing her to run away from home and fly across the country to meet him,” according to Buzzfeed News.
Nathan Daniel Larson of Virginia is currently being held in Denver County Jail and faces a misdemeanor charge of harboring a minor. He also faces felony charges in Fresno, California — where the girl lives — for kidnapping, child abduction, soliciting child pornography from a minor, and meeting a child for the intention of sex.
Police believe that Larson has victimized more children in the past and are urging anyone to come forward if they have information.
Law enforcement rescued the girl, who authorities said was uninjured, after investigators discovered she had been talking to an older man online and was coerced into running away with him, taking a flight to Virginia.
Investigators then found out that a man, who was later identified as Larson, and a young girl had boarded a plane heading to Washington, DC. The flight was scheduled for a layover in Denver, where local police then arrested him.
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“There was some activity including at the airport that was inappropriate between her and the suspect,” law enforcement said. “That’s going to help bolster the current charges that we have through the DA’s office.”
That Larson would engage in such behavior should come as no surprise, given his ongoing support for pedophilia and sex abuse.
The Washington Post detailed Larson’s extreme views in 2018, when he ran for Congress.
That’s what the far right is.
A cruel prankster decided to play a joke on a struggling restaurant in Melbourne by ordering AU $170 (£95) of food before giving over a fake address and refusing to pay for any of it. The man ordered 21 meals’ worth of grub from a restaurant in the Yarra Ranges area of the Victorian city with free delivery and the option to pay up on arrival. However, because he’d given them a dodgy address, he obviously never intended to pay up on arrival of the food. Now, it’s never a good idea to do that sort of thing, but especially as Victoria has been one of the worst hit states of Australia due to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s just really mean-spirited. In text messages that were shared with the driver, the man responded with a thumbs up when he was told that his food was on the way to him. Except it wasn’t on the way to him at all. It was on the way to a bogus address.
I hope they find him and he loses his job. Who would want such a person working for them?
A sheriff’s deputy working for a fugitive task force shot and killed a Black man trying to enter his own home in Columbus, Ohio, last week in a case that has his family asking for answers.
Casey Goodson, 23, was fatally shot on Friday by a 17-year veteran of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, identified as deputy Jason Meade. Meade was working for the US Marshal’s fugitive task force looking for violent offenders at the time, but Goodson was not the person being sought by the task force, Columbus Police said.
Goodson had put his keys into his door before he was shot and fell into the kitchen, where his 5-year-old brother and his 72-year-old grandmother saw him lying on the ground with a Subway sandwich, family attorney Sean Walton told CNN.
Goodson, an Ohio concealed carry permit holder, was legally armed at the time of the shooting, according to the Columbus Division of Police, which is investigating the incident. Goodson was not alleged to have committed any crimes, has no criminal background and was not the target of any investigation, Walton told CNN.
The message being sent by law enforcement in this country is that if you are Black, you may be gunned down just for going home.
In any civilized place this kind of behavior doesn’t even occur to people. In Texas, though, football is religion and the adherents see violence as a means to solve disagreements.
A Texas school district has removed a high school football team from the playoffs after one of its players charged onto the field and bowled over a referee Thursday night after being ejected from the game.
Senior defensive lineman Emmanuel Duron of Edinburg High School came running from the sideline area after the referee announced the ejection, slamming into the official during the first half of the zone play-in game against Pharr-San Juan-Alamo. Duron was escorted from the stadium by police officers.
On Friday, the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District decided to remove the entire Edinburg High School football team from playoffs.
That player should be in jail for assault. Period.
From a friend on the facebook…
I can’t express with civil words how outrageous this is. I can express it. Just not with civil words.
The hypocrisy of government officials is why people aren’t taking the pandemic seriously. They’re like the reprehensible dad who says ‘do what I say, not what I do’.
In early November, as health officials warned of an impending COVID-19 spike, Austin Mayor Steve Adler hosted an outdoor wedding and reception with 20 guests for his daughter at a trendy hotel near downtown.
The next morning, Adler and seven other wedding attendees boarded a private jet for Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where they vacationed for a week at a family timeshare.
One night into the trip, Adler addressed Austin residents in a Facebook video: “We need to stay home if you can. This is not the time to relax. We are going to be looking really closely. … We may have to close things down if we are not careful.”
In hosting the wedding and traveling internationally, Adler said he broke neither his own order nor those by Gov. Greg Abbott.
But at the time, the city was recommending people not gather in groups of more than 10, and, the day after Adler’s departure, Austin’s health authority warned that “it’s important that we drive the (COVID-19) numbers down in advance of Thanksgiving.”
‘Do what I say, not what I do’ is the motto and rallying cry of the deplorable hypocrite. Also known as the American Politician.
A mum who killed her six children has been released from prison and will serve the remaining half of her sentence on licence. Mairead Philpott, 39, was sentenced to 17 years in prison, but has now been released, leading crime prevention experts to claim that ‘justice has not been done’.
Philpott and her husband Mick killed their children in an arson attack at their home in Derby back in 2012. David Spencer, of the Centre for Crime Prevention, told The Sun: “It makes an absolute mockery of the UK’s criminal justice system. Justice has not been done. “Child killers like Mairead Philpott should not be free to roam the streets.
Britain’s injustice system is as pathetic as ours.
The fact that the Sackler family wasn’t held criminally responsible just shows the benefit of being White and billionaires and having senators like Marsha Blackburn in your pocket.
A poor White guy who sells one oxycontin gets worse treatment from the laughable criminal justice system than the White rich folk who sell literally billions of oxy.
Drug dealers who are White and rich:
Drug dealers who are White and poor:
Guess which ones the criminal ‘justice’ system treat more harshly?
Utterly appalling. I’m speechless.
Whatever we’ve become, it is horrific.
A wrongful death lawsuit tied to COVID-19 infections in a Waterloo pork processing plant alleges that during the initial stages the pandemic, Tyson Foods ordered employees to report for work while supervisors privately wagered money on the number of workers who would be sickened by the deadly virus.
Earlier this year, the family of the late Isidro Fernandez sued the meatpacking company, alleging Fernandez was exposed to the coronavirus at the Waterloo plant where he worked. The lawsuit alleges Tyson Foods is guilty of a “willful and wanton disregard for workplace safety.”
Fernandez, who died on April 20, was one of at least five Waterloo plant employees who died of the virus. According to the Black Hawk County Health Department, more than 1,000 workers at the plant — over a third of the facility’s workforce — contracted the virus.
The lawsuit alleges that despite the uncontrolled spread of the virus at the plant, Tyson required its employees to work long hours in cramped conditions without providing the appropriate personal protective equipment and without ensuring workplace-safety measures were followed.
Vile. Vile and demonic. I’ll never buy any Tyson product again. I won’t support that level of despicable.
Why are there so many of these sorts in America?
BREAKING NEWS: Erie, Pa. #USPS whistleblower completely RECANTED his allegations of a supervisor tampering with mail-in ballots after being questioned by investigators, according to IG.
Via the Washington Post.
And
@ElginCharles- A postal worker that has been heavily featured by Republicans (including Lindsey Graham) as evidence of vote tampering, admits he LIED. He made the whole thing up at the behest of GOP donors who gave him $130,000
There are a lot of people who need to remember the fact that Revelation 21:8 is pretty clear in its denunciation of liars and their ultimate punishment.
And they prove it over and over again.
Hillsong founding pastor Brian Houston sent out an email to church staff and members of Hillsong East Coast on Wednesday afternoon, announcing the termination of Hillsong NYC’s lead pastor, Carl Lentz.
In a statement, which was sent to The Christian Post by Hillsong, Houston revealed that Lentz’s termination was due to “leadership issues and breaches of trust, plus a recent revelation of moral failures.”
Mega-churches are shady. Add to the fact that there are celebrity pastors at the helm and the love of money and power moves and motivates them, it is utterly unsurprising that they are hotbeds of ministerial depravity.
No large dogpile, no champagne and a mask on nearly every face — the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated their first World Series title since 1988 in a manner no one could have imagined prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
They started the party without Justin Turner, too, after their red-headed star received word of a positive COVID-19 test in the middle of their clinching victory.
Turner was removed from Los Angeles’ 3-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 6 on Tuesday night after registering Major League Baseball’s first positive test in 59 days. He wasn’t on the field initially as the Dodgers enjoyed the spoils of a title earned during a most unusual season.
He returned to the diamond about an hour after the game, hugging longtime teammate Clayton Kershaw and sitting front-and-center for a team photo next to manager Dave Roberts with his mask pulled down under his bushy beard.
Selfishness. That’s what it looks like. Caring only for yourself and your particular wishes. And unconcerned for those around you. Selfishness. Nothing illustrates the truth of total depravity quite as much as selfish behavior like this.
The idea that anyone who wants a gun should have a gun is stupidity itself. Some people should NOT have guns. Like the guy who took his to a kids party and didn’t even have the sense to secure it. He should be in prison for homicide.
A Texas child is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the chest during his birthday party, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were dispatched to a home in Porter, Texas — about 25 miles north of Houston — on Saturday for a wellness check, according to a press release. When the officers arrived, they were told the child, 3, who has not been identified, had been shot in the chest. Family and friends had gathered at the home for the birthday party.
A three year old is dead because gun toter was exercising his second amendment rights. If that is cool with you, you are an instrument of Satan.
While playing cards they heard the gunshot go off. The child found the gun, a pistol, after it fell out of a family member’s pocket, according to the press release.
This country… it’s simply doomed.
