ScottBrandywine

Traditional Catholic, Husband, Father, Chicagoan

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My greatest Twitter success.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

this might be the first splitting-hairs on one of my polls that I agree with and is a reasonable distinction

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@ItsMeghanLHall I need just that bit clipped out for a meme

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

I don’t condone soccer, but I cannot wait to send the Australians back to Vienna where they belong

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@FreddyLA7 Get any flight you can that's heading north east of you and drive from there - Detroit, Rochester, Toledo, Cleveland - even Chicago! You can drive the rest of the way

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@Richard_Harambe First it was deep fried apple pies at McDonalds and now the Beef Meximelt returning... dreams really do come true.

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@Curious_Rum The propoganda to support him was UNRELENTING

You can't imagine how much we were promised that if he was elected it would solve racism and create world peace.

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@iowahawkblog You know 90 in early June in Iowa is VERY different from 90 in August while the corn is drying out by making everything as humid as possible.

[lecoder 🇺🇲 @lecoder]

America to brits after reading the rape gang reports.

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@xnoesbueno In 1994 (last time FIFA has the World Cup here) there was no social media and very little internet to allow the amplification of the experiences of our visitors. This has been a triumph in cross cultural communication.

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@disneytipsguy Germany is a nice dark break in the middle of the hot sunny world showcase.
Entertainment is fun and the food is surprisingly good too!

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@W_B_Rick I'm a lifelong White Sox fan but it was still a great time. My whole office went as a group and called it an 'off site team building exercise'

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History doesn't repeat, but it sure does rhyme

[Anna D. West 🇺🇸 @SlimWiggy]

This seemed timely:
In 1646, after years of raids by the Islamic Barbary Pirates, Britain finally signed a treaty and sent an envoy to Algiers to free the estimated 2500+ British people then held in slavery in North Africa.

Parliament appointed envoy Edmund Cason on a special mission to buy the enslaved Christian Brits back from their Islamic captors. He would die in Africa still begging Parliament for enough funds complete this mission.

Cason negotiated an average price of 30 pounds per man but found many slave holders refused to sell. There was another problem: women were valued much higher and many were held in s*xual bondage.

Only a handful of women were among the 242 Cason managed to ransom, and those cost an inordinate amount of money. One woman, Mary Ripley, cost 225 English Pounds (roughly $57k today); he also managed to buy back her children as well.

While this led to a huge popularity in "captivity narratives" regarding the harems and s*xual slavery women were being kidnapped into by the Islamic slave trade it didn't move Parliament nor the people to do much more. Worse, the slavers realized they could profit off the ransoms, more discouragement for the British public.

Cason would spend the last 8 years of his life in Algiers still lobbying for the funds & support to free the captive British slaves of the Barbary Coast. Thousands were simply abandoned to their fates, along with the children of the women held in s*xual slavery.

Again, the British public was content to write and read narratives on the topic. Politicians were willing to debate it. But in the end a tiny party with almost no budget was ultimately unable to fend off the unholy industry of Islamic enslavement of their own people.

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@TimurNegru As an American from the Midwest who drives everywhere - this makes perfect sense.

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@scr0sX Looks like a glacier in the sky

[Ryan Haecker @RyanHaecker]

"Two of the six sermons are previously undiscovered writings by Augustine," says Professor Tornau, delighted with the unexpected find. He is currently working with Professor Dorothea Weber and Dr Clemens Weidmann from the edition company CSEL (Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum) on an edition of the two Latin sermons."

https://t.co/L3UqFE4h8q

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@ThePosieParker Our cutoff is 1999 - we don't have the kids reading anything before then without good reason.

There is a lifetime of good old books out there.

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@SuzytheFox @LisaJeanine @MrAndyNgo A temporary span of time in foster care before being put into the care of a loving grandmother is not ideal - it is much better than being murdered.

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@ryanhallyall When?

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@bobbyfijan This is why I question statistics that say the country is becoming 'Hispanic' lots of people have learned there is no cost to checking that box and it's impossible to prove or disprove.

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@JoshuaLisec My wife and I have an agreement that if a friend divorces, we distance ourselves.

A quarantine from divorce is sad but necessary to protect ours marriage from the contagious nature of divorce.

We have both seen this kind of thing spread like wildfire

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@McFranchisee I am excited to bring my kids to McDonalds and share the experience of a real McDonalds apple pie.

My wife might not understand the valuable life lessons they will learn by burning the roof of their mouths but it will teach them about fortitude and patience.