Brad Ammon

We've got 80 ft at the waterline; Nicely making way. ** Do more things that make you forget to check your phone

[frogein @frogein]

your single container of toothpaste has arrived

[Brad Ammon @bejammon]

@Olaszn_ Please people stop posting clips without movie title!!!

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

I always think of this quote on memorial weekend.

[Brad Ammon @bejammon]

@JoosyJew

[Brad Ammon @bejammon]

@JoosyJew I love the one cop standing at the rail looking like a bored usher at a Phil Collins concert while the mayhem goes on behind him.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

[wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat]

As I remarked elsewhere, while most politicians deal with Christianity by ignoring it or uttering pieties they neither mean nor understand the exchange between Pope Leo and Donald Trump forces the thoughtful reader to understand the Just War theory, which underpins the mainstream Christian approach to conflict.

Inevitably it requires us to consider not only what Christians believe but what the Islamic equivalent to Just War -- the doctrine of Jihad -- actually teaches. In many ways the two are as different as chalk and cheese. In the first place Christianity is a nonstate religion while Islam aims to be a “universal religion and a universal state”. From this arises a host of differences.

In Just War, the core intention of hostilities is the “righting of wrongs.” Bellum has an earthly origin. Heads of states do not to go to war with the intention of pleasing God but to do particular things. This is not the case with the Jihad, which clearly states that the core intention to wage war must be to please Allah. Just War is a human creation while Jihad is a divine one.

Perhaps not even one in a hundred has ever given these foundations any thought. Ever since September 11 there has probably been no topic as important to understand yet so desperately ignored as this one. Part of the reason modern Western culture is so wishy washy is that is studiously ignorant of the nature of the peace it purports to love, relying instead on popular culture like the lyrics of a John Lennon song.

Surely if the Western world sincerely wishes to transform itself into a multicultural world it must at least do Islam the courtesy of understanding the doctrines of Jihad whose power has upheld the thoughts of Muslims for centuries.

These are questions that perhaps no major modern politician, with the exception of JD Vance, is prepared to seriously address, either pro or contra. Yet no subject is perhaps as important. If Western Civilization is founded on Christianity it ought to understand what it aspires for and what its rival the Islamic world believes. I have attached an article which, although it contains arguable points, can serve as a starting point for further reading.

https://t.co/XAJQPHtcE3

[wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat]

The corruption of charities and nonprofits. The love of money, especially tax money, is the root of most evil.

https://t.co/xhYb2to1l8

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

They already did this. Five times. Clinton, Obama, Biden. Every hike was supposed to fix healthcare, housing, poverty.

Every time the revenue came in and the spending ate it whole and the problem got worse. The IRA raised $739 billion.

The deficit that year: $2 trillion. Healthcare: $5.3 trillion. Same loop every decade: collect the money, grow the bureaucracy, declare it unfinished, ask for more.

[Brad Ammon @bejammon]

@HansMahncke Good example of both sides being right. More dialogue!!

[Brad Ammon @bejammon]

@IWackadoodle @FromKulak Right? And the corduroy pants. Haven’t heard that much rubbing since ‘79

[Downtown Scott Brown @trapcoscott]

@DataRepublican @TimothyDSnyder "It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron."
H. L. Mencken 1920's

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

Being a guy is not easy. You turn 12 years old and now you're competing with CEO's, bankers and politicians for girls your age.

[Brad Ammon @bejammon]

@VigilantFox So what’s another thousand years added to the 1400 already on the books. End this shit

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I find it bleak how many people seem to have given up on having any kind of intellectual life. Depression is rampant because we’ve abandoned books & hobbies in favor of joyless amusements. The single most attractive thing a person can do is read often & delight in learning.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

"Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Stephen A. Smith cuts straight to the bone: Politics has become a machine that manufactures doubt—lobbyists pull strings, sides demonize each other, truth becomes a permanent question mark.

We end up paying for unnecessary meds, endless division, even global chaos... all while they feed the system.

His wake-up call? "The challenge is for us to do it ourselves"—rebuild faith, choose unity, bridge divides around what actually benefits society.

When leaders refuse to show unity, the real revolution starts with ordinary people refusing to stay divided. Faith in each other can outlast any question mark.

What part of Stephen A.'s fire hit you hardest?

[Brad Ammon @bejammon]

@TaraBull Love is the only solution, the only way in

[Brad Ammon @bejammon]

@ericswalwell So how are you fixing it legislatively? You’re still a legislator aren’t you? Or are you going full Spartacus? Is there legislation re the underlying cause? You call for resistance against the enforcement of existing law, but do nothing to change the law. Cmon

[Brad Ammon @bejammon]

@Vinod_r108 @DudespostingWs Could have provided a Bentley with driver and saved ¥

[Brad Ammon @bejammon]

@Vinod_r108 @DudespostingWs Inefficient