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[Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow]

This

[Jarrett Payton @paytonsun]

Just drove through Clinton, Iowa, and stopped at @Culvers. After Lara finished taking my order, she looked at my sweatshirt and said, “I’m old enough to know who Walter Payton was.”

I told her, “That’s my dad.”

She freaked out!

Then 17-year-old Ze lost it, too. He told me WP was his favorite football player.

Before our food even came out, I took pictures with everyone. What a special, unexpected moment.

Thank you, Lara & the entire team for making my day. 🙏🏽

@WalterPayton, you have no idea the impact you left down here. Your legacy continues to touch people in places you never imagined. 🙏🏽

🐻⬇️ #Bears

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

Data centers are not a fringe industry. They are part of the physical backbone of the modern economy, supporting cloud computing, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, universities, national security, small businesses, streaming services, and the AI tools being adopted across nearly every sector.
Like rail lines, power plants, warehouses, and steel mills before them, data centers are large infrastructure projects that require careful local planning. But their scale should not be confused with inherent harm.
https://t.co/x1Xpwug9Bz

[Dawid Pałka @Dawid_Palka_]

Po 20 latach małżeństwa muszę w końcu powiedzieć to głośno...

Z moją żoną nie łączy mnie już nic.

Poznaliśmy się na egzaminie na filozofię ponad 20 lat temu. Byliśmy młodzi i głupi, nie słuchając rozsądnych opinii szybko wzięliśmy ślub.

A potem życie zrobiło swoje i dziś żyjemy w dwóch różnych światach.

Ona: dzieci, szkoła, dydaktyka, nauka, góry, natura, koty, dramaty.
Ja: firmy, fundusze, inwestycje, biznes, miasto, beton, psy, komedie.

Ona: kreatywna, empatyczna, marzycielska.
Ja: analityczny, rzeczowy, osadzony w faktach.

Zero wspólnych pasji.
Zero wspólnych zainteresowań.
Nie śmieszą nas te same rolki na Instagramie.

Każdy terapeuta ze śniadaniowej telewizji wystawiłby naszemu małżeństwu akt zgonu. Znajomi pewnie się zastanawiają, kiedy ogłoszę rozwód.

No to ogłaszam...

Kocham tę kobietę bardziej niż 20 lat temu!

I kiedy wieczorem opowiada mi o rzeczach, które kompletnie mnie nie interesują, słucham jej z przyjemnością, której nie tłumaczy żaden poradnik.

Bo przez te 20 lat zrozumiałem coś, co przeczy wszystkiemu, co wciskają nam media.

Wspólne pasje to nie budulec związku. To dekoracja. Ludzie po latach idą różnymi drogami, w różnym tempie i to nie jest awaria. Tak wygląda życie.

Prawdziwy budulec jest inny. Chcesz dla drugiej osoby lepiej niż dla siebie. Jej potrzeby stawiasz nad swoje. Wolisz dawać, niż brać. Jeśli tego nie ma, nie uratują was nawet identyczne playlisty.

Więc jeśli twoja druga połówka to twoje przeciwieństwo, przestań to naprawiać. Może właśnie tam mieszka wasz sekret.

Nie musicie kochać tych samych rzeczy.
Wystarczą te same wartości, ten sam kierunek, szacunek do różnic i troska o drugą połowę większa niż o siebie.

I na koniec coś, co zrozumiałem dopiero niedawno...

Przez 20 lat moja żona każdego dnia miała powody, żeby wybrać inaczej. Innego człowieka, inne życie, inny świat; bliższy jej gór niż mojego betonu.
Mimo to każdego dnia wybierała to samo... mnie.

Miłość to nie jest coś, co się czuje. To coś, co się codziennie wybiera.
Od 21 lat jestem czyimś wyborem i jestem z tego naprawdę dumny...

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Shoutout to Los Angeles Dodgers Pitcher Clayton Kershaw, who wrote Genesis 9:12-16 on his Pride hat to remind everyone that the rainbow is a sign of God’s covenant 👏

[Bev Turner @beverleyturner]

If only he'd wiped out his entire immune system with mrna he could have survived....
🤡

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Free for next two days

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting

[𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 @DKH013]

If you are going to quote scripture, understand the context and be mindful of your audience. 👍

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

He is Risen.

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

There are many Easter songs, but Keith Green’s “Easter Song” is one of a kind.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Astronaut Victor Glover delivers beautiful Easter message from space, praises God’s creation.

“When I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us…”

“You're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe, in the cosmos.”

“In all of this emptiness, this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe, you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist together…”

[Brit Hume @brithume]

This is interesting.

[Darren Bailey @DarrenBaileyIL]

Sheridan Gorman is not a statistic. She was a student, a daughter, and a human being.

She is dead because JB Pritzker let sanctuary status, the TRUST Act, and the SAFE-T Act turn Illinois into a revolving door for violent criminals.

REPEAL ALL THREE.

[Janet Parshall @parshalltalk]

Truth. Power. Hope.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Pelosi, 2024: "If we win the Senate, we will get rid of the 60 vote rule & pass it with 51 votes"

Democrats are going to do it anyway

Get smart, GOP

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

.@j_bambrick does my favorite reading of St. Patrick’s breastplate, also known as the lorica of St. Patrick. At 1500 years old, it is one of the oldest prayers in church history not to come directly from scripture. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️ 🇮🇪

[Seth Gruber @sgruber91]

This guy is biblically illiterate. I learned to deal with these “arguments” as a teenager. I’ll try to keep it short.

1. He says life is in the breath (citing Adam) to justify abortion. Very well. The fetus breathes in utero through the umbilical cord! Also, Adam was never a fetus in a uterus. He was created from dust. BTW, at childbirth, there can be a 10-45 second window where the infant is still not breathing through their nostrils. So is James saying it would be ethical to decapitate those infants since they’re still not breathing like we do?

2. James mentions Numbers 5:11-31 which he alleges is a recipe for an abortion, and therefore biblical condoning for child killing. This is an account of how to deal with a woman who is suspected of adultery. If she is suspected, she will be brought before the priest, who will give her a concoction of water mixed with wormwood. He proclaims a curse and if the woman is guilty, her womb will shrivel up and she will become barren. If innocent, she will be unaffected and continue conceiving children. However, if you study the text - it’s clearly not an abortion.

Ancient Jews viewed children and procreation as the GREATEST blessing, as the fruit of the womb! And barrenness was seen as a curse and a sign of disgrace (i.e. Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel). So if a woman was guilty, she would simply refuse to drink the concoction given the possibility that she may already be carrying a child. Of course her refusal to drink the concoction would be her admission of guilt as well. If she was innocent, she’d happily drink it, nothing would happen and she could prove her innocence.

So this is not a case of a priest giving an abortion. Rather it’s simply a way to weed out the guilty from the innocent. A guilty woman would refuse to drink it. An innocent woman would drink it without any compunction.

The drink is just water, dust, and ink. It’s not a drug that would actually induce a miscarriage. Indeed, a drug could not make a distinction between the innocent and the guilty. The water is a symbol. Whatever happens to the guilty woman, it is God carrying it out.

This passage doesn’t meant what pro-choice advocates want it to mean (namely that the passage refers to an intentional miscarriage - abortion - rather than to the intentional onset of infertility.)

Even if this passage did refer to an abortion, James’ case still FAILS. God has the right to take life in situations where we do not. God punished David and Bathsheba for their adultery by striking their son dead after he had already been born. That certainly doesn’t imply that humans have the right to willfully kill their newborn infants!

3. James says Mary (the mother of Christ) is the best example for why the Bible is pro-choice because she CONSENTED to carry Jesus. James says creation should never be forced. How does this justify abortion or the pro-choice position though? If it works at all, it would only work to justify abortion in the case of rape, where one does not consent. At conception, a new creation, a new human being comes into existence. If Mary’s consent to the creation of Jesus is morally relevant, then it would follow she does NOT have the right to then murder the child, whose life she consented to help create. Consider this analogy:

While you sleep in the hospital, a musician prankster plugs himself into you just for the thrill of doing it. He takes precautions to avoid harming you, but in this case the precautions fail. As you awake and move to detach yourself, a doctor yells, “Stop!” It turns out your kidneys were damaged by the prankster and now you need his kidneys for nine months to survive. However, upon waking, the prankster, who put you in this dependent situation, decides you have no right to use his body without consent and he detaches. You die. This is terribly unjust. The prankster engaged in an activity he knew could cause you to need the use of his body. His withholding support is outrageous.

Similarly, once Mary consented to bear the Savior (or when any other woman consents to sex), it would be morally wrong and evil to kill the child whose dependency upon you is due entirely to your decision to create them and put them in that dependent situation.

Consenting to creation is one thing. Choosing to withhold your consent for a baby you created by killing them is another.

Lastly, it should be stated that any “pastor” who sees in the life of Mary an argument and justification for killing babies (instead of the beauty and dignity of LIFE) is a blind guide, a demonic servant, and a wolf in sheep’s clothing!

Hope this helped y’all…

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering.

You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored.

Homer does something far stranger.

Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them.

They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs.

So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits.

Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right.

Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him.

Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads.

In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is.

What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it.

It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

Last November, @ADFLegal sued Chicago Public Schools on behalf of Moody Bible Institute—a well-known evangelical college founded in 1886.

Despite an ongoing teacher shortage with hundreds of open positions, Chicago Public Schools barred Moody’s well-qualified student teachers from observing classes and taking internships in the city’s public schools. Why? As a Christian college, Moody has a longtime policy of hiring like-minded believers—and Chicago said that policy had to change.

In other words, Chicago demanded that Moody give up its faith-based hiring practices to qualify for the student teaching program.

After ADF filed a First Amendment lawsuit, the city reversed course. It has now modified the Student Teacher Internship Agreement, recognizing Moody’s right to hire staff in alignment with its faith. As a result, Moody will sign the agreement, and its students can participate in the program.

This is the kind of story where everyone wins. Moody’s student teachers get internship opportunities, Chicago’s public-school students get more good teachers, and religious liberty is protected for everyone.

We hope this will provide a lesson to school boards everywhere: it’s not their job to police a religious non-profit’s hiring practices. Respecting the Constitution is the far better path—for everyone.