Lance Venable

Southside Chicago native, ASU Alum, patent attorney, electrical engineer, cyclist, jazz guitarist, cool dad, baseball historian, D-Backs/White Sox/SunDevil fan

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

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[Chicago History ™️ @Chicago_History]

What's the difference between me and you?

#ChicagoHistory ☑️

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

I’m sure there are better catches that have been made in a game. But I challenge anyone to find a better catch or play that was ever made to save a no hitter, let alone a perfect game like Buhrle’s. And the fact that it happened in the ninth inning, makes it 100X more impressive.

[Pope On 35th @SoxOn35th]

The Catch

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

@K_Dodd3 Tru dat! Just don’t ever ask him to get any work done on an airplane. 😂

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

It's hard to know what to make of the Vice President's bizarre, almost nonsensical, comments here. It sounds like he is equating the use of these "hideous signs" to an alternative version of the Nicene Creed.

A little background: The Nicene Creed, formulated by the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, is an essential profession of faith used by the Catholic Church (among other churches). It is also the familiar creedal formula spoken by Catholics during Sunday Masses: "I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth..." It's a statement of belief, mainly about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It obviously doesn't talk about "hideous signs" welcoming people.

However, the Nicene Creed does affirm belief in the church as "one, holy, catholic and apostolic." (These are the four traditional "marks" of the church.) This means, among other things, believing that the church comes to us directly from the apostles (it's "apostolic"). Thus, it derives its authority not only from Jesus Christ, but also through the "apostolic succession," an authority passed down from the apostles in the early church to the Pope and to the bishops today.

It's ironic, then, that the Vice President is mocking things like love and the church's teaching on migrants in the same breath that he is professing his faith through the words of the Creed, which includes belief in authority of the church. Because this "one, holy, catholic and apostolic" church has long proclaimed the Gospel message of love and care for the stranger, which Jesus himself preached during his public ministry.

So a butchering of the Creed would mean, in fact, not listening to the church's teaching on these matters and, even worse, not listening to Jesus's own teaching on love and loving the stranger.

Because, in the words of the Creed, we also believe in "one Lord, Jesus Christ."

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

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[Herb Lawrence @Ecnerwal23]

Great fight by the #WhiteSox

But Maybe stop giving up outs by sacrifice bunting! Drives me crazy

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

@K_Dodd3 @JoeHealey42 Congrats my man! Very happy for you and Taylor.

You dodged a bullet by avoiding the yearly matchup with the Devils. 😬

[Kyle Dodd (KD) @K_Dodd3]

Proud Dad!! 🥹 happy tears today!!! I also want to thank the great coaches at Rice, ASU, Arizona, UCLA and others!! All were very good to Tay!!

Extremely excited for him to play for an incredible staff at SC…grateful for them believing in him!! FIGHT ON!!! ✌️

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

@tltyrrell @baharkarakrt X=6
Y=1/2
XY=3

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

@K_Dodd3 😂

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

Man this team is so fun to watch! Go SOX!!

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

WHAT A FUN 5TH INNING 😤

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

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[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

The legacy of this @POTUS won't be the monuments he builds to himself but the destruction of faith in public institutions for his own power and profit.
He wants to rewrite or erase history because he knows it won't be kind to him.

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

Way to go Lady Devils Softball!!! Finish those Horns mañana!

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

@DougTammaro I think you guys are arguing a point that Doug was not trying to make. He expressly stated he was not arguing who was the best, he was arguing the point about it was “not even close.” And on that point, I think he is correct.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Sincere question: do Trump supporters who genuinely want to reduce political violence actually think that lobbing transparently hypocritical accusations about the left's rhetoric is in any way effective?

Are we really gonna go through another cycle where MAGA folks point out incendiary rhetoric on the left without ever acknowledging that some of the most violent and incendiary rhetoric in America comes from the President and his supporters? Do you not think the rest of the country has eyes and ears?

It's truly awful that President Trump has been the target of political violence. It's also truly awful how he's frequently talked about his political opponents: accusing them of treason, amplifying calls for their execution, publicly celebrating their death, calling them scum, garbage, vermin, animals. It was like 3 weeks ago that he threatened the annihilation of an entire civilization! It was just a few months ago that he and his White House knowingly smeared two Americans who'd been killed by federal agents as domestic terrorists!

I hate political violence. I hate what happened last night. Probably 99% of Americans agree. But let's not insult everyone's intelligence by pretending that the most powerful person in the world isn't a huge part of the problem here.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

I’ll save you some time on the Iran address:

• It’s Biden’s fault
• 48 hours
• Two weeks
• Some incoherent gibberish
• We’ve won
• We are way ahead of schedule
• It’s a little excursion
• We have obliterated them
• We’ve knocked out all their ships
• I could open up the Strait of Hormuz
• Go get your own oil
• They gave us a present
• NATO are cowards
• Something about Nuclear weapons
• Allies are useless
• We need allies
• Nobody’s ever seen anything like it
• Fake news
• DEMOCRATS
• Obama
• More gibberish
• I know more than the generals
• Greatest foreign policy ever

Am I missing anything?

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

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[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Donald Trump may well be the worst human being who’s ever lived. He’s certainly in the team photo. And this great, good, decent country put him in power again. Just shameful.👇

[MARK GIANGRECO @mark_giangreco]

@xLauren_Mx The crudest, rudest, most classless, insulting POS who’s ever held public office let alone POTUS . One of the most outrageous diplomatic gaffes ever. He is absolute scum

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

@TheHershAZ @ralphamsden But that’s not why he wants to be here. In fact, I would even go so far as to say this is as risky a move for him as it would be for us. If he fails miserably here, think how that hurts him going forward. And it’s more likely that he would fail here than other jobs.

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

@TheHershAZ @ralphamsden Sure, but weren't there better options? The issue is can we get the right guy for THIS program. You should read his bio. He's in charge of NIL there, he is the offense guy, he recruits really well, and he's talking about bringing J Harden $, and he wants to be here.

[Lance Venable @Lance2367]

@TheHershAZ @ralphamsden Perhaps. But I think no one is going to expect him to do that in year 1 or 2. But as I said, if we trusted a 32 yr-old who never coached a game to match wits with Big 12 coaches, I don't see why it matters. After a couple of years and a good staff, he'd be fine.