Tom Merkle

[Rick Barrett-The Armed Papist™️ 🔫 ⛪️ @StradCath]

Here is why you should never buy an appliance from @Lowes

1) Bought a washer/dryer last Sunday- advertised that it would get here last Tuesday. When I purchased- delivery time switch to Thursday. (not convenient, but I can make it work)
2) Thursday comes around and my appointment is between 3 PM and 7 PM - naturally they show up at 5pm (this is important for later)
3) washer connected works fine, dryer does not work. The drum does not spin.
4) I am told that because the delivery was after 3:30 PM. I’m gonna have to wait 48 hours to get an exchange. This is a ridiculous concept because A) I did not arrange for the appointment to be between 3 & 7, B) I did not show up at 5:30 pm C) I did not bring faulty equipment.
5) everyone I talk to from supervisors to management apologizes for the logistics but promise me it’s gonna get there at 8 AM sharp on Saturday.
6) as I am now writing this it’s 10:45 AM, and I received a call from Lowe’s stating that because of a power outage at the warehouse, they cannot deliver anything today. They ask if they can reschedule it for Monday.
7) this is not possible because I am actually on an offsite next week.
8) the Customer Service lady scolded me for being upset about the fact that I haven’t gotten a dryer in a week and tells me that there’s nothing they can do.

I know @Lowes 1) will not see this 2) will not care. But for anybody that does see this tweet and please share it for maximum exposure- do yourself a favor spend a little bit more money at either @HomeDepot @BestBuy or anywhere else because Lowe’s Customer Service is the worst I’ve ever dealt with in my life, they do not care after they get paid about you or your product.

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

Thanks, it was 11 years ago, but I learned not to ignore things like the CO monitor upstairs would occasionally chip, I thought it was broken. No, the furnace was leaking. Also that was the last time we lived in base housing didn’t, we had to threaten to sue the contractor company before they covered smoke mitigation.

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@realfrugalmogul It’s carbon monoxide leaking dummy you’re going to kill your family.

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@OVTweetmarck @WB_Baskerville Is it?

[Eric Sammons @EricRSammons]

I’m going to take a contrary view here.

Obviously, Catholic parents should baptize their children as soon as possible. And if mixed-marriage couples, when getting married, agree to raise their children Catholic (as they should), they should also baptize their children within a few weeks of birth (or even better, within a few days).

However, when the Vances got married, neither were Catholic and so made no such agreement. And JD converted after they already had one children (and Usha was pregnant with their second). So they had to come to some type of new agreement on the religious upbringing of their children, and this seems to be the compromise suggested by the Dominicans.

While the toxic bros on this site (who likely aren’t married) might say JD should have just told Usha what they will do, that’s not how a healthy marriage works in real life, nor would it necessarily been the best way forward. If Usha, the mother of these children, resented having her kids baptized without her consent, she may very well have worked to undermine (whether consciously or subconsciously) their Catholic Faith. And remember, she didn’t initially agreed to raise her kids Catholic when she got married, so it’s not unreasonable that she might have some trepidation about doing that after the fact.

Yes, baptizing the kids immediately is the ideal situation, but we don’t live in an idea world and so sometimes we have to make compromises to eventually reach the goal, and we don’t know all the dynamics in the relationship. In other words, I’m not going to Monday morning second-guess the Dominicans here.

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@Andy_Dyer_NOVA @Andercot @johnkonrad Well the Navy should just take it back over and build ships there again.

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@HansFiene He doesn’t say he rejects infant baptism at all.

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@HansFiene This is ridiculously uncharitable,clear animosity on display. Parents in mixed marriages face tough decisions with regard to respecting their non-Catholic spouse’s parental rights and their Catholic duties. Especially a convert who is still growing in the faith.

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@AlbertoMiguelF5 @tlmarlington Assume this is heading not too far from Front Royal and Christendom? What a great start. Love Fr Audino, we’ll continue to miss him here in Omaha.

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

If there’s a series of tweets where Mr. Feser responds to the current attempt to stop the war with something besides the same “Trump is evil stupid” he blasted for the last several months about the war starting, point me to it. All I see on my feed from him is panting overweening Trump hating, which when he was criticizing the war at least seemed coherent.
But now Trump’s clearly trying to end the war and it’s the same note from Feser. Like, what does he want besides “Not Trump,” which is not happening for two more years?

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@LindyTasteful Hope you enjoyed that Asian food in the airport. You won’t see it’s like again in Italy…

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

This is the most interesting take I’ve seen on the rape gang inquiry, particularly that takes a both anthropological and specific rather than blindly racialist or anti-Muslim perspective.

[Richard North @ollieparrot]

https://t.co/Xe23G13Mak

[Richard North @ollieparrot]

https://t.co/Xe23G13Mak

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@Starvecrowfeast @planefag @GraduatedBen Trump’s grandfather was a German who draft dodged over to America where he made his fortune running a brothel serving gold fever Klondikers… pretty sure he’d be thumbs up to his grandson.

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@CynicalPublius Maybe it really was the wrong decision to start this and this is the least bad way to stop before it eats the rest of the agenda.

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@Wombat11412 @hdpayens Ok, you’re covering your eyes and saying “what he wrote doesn’t matter lalala”

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@FirstSpongebob @CrankyFed If the choice is massive expansion vs the current death spiral, is there really a doubt about what has better outcomes in a world on the cusp of space exploration?

[Tom Merkle @TomMerkle7]

@HumbleFlow no he doesn't, he seems very sincere and constantly points to Jesus even if his priorities diverge from your own. I think you could give him the same grace you're asking for with regard to your preferences.