Daniel Brum

Love God, family, flying, football and rugby

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@USARugby U!!
S!!
A!!!!!!!!!!!

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@LombardiHimself How desperate are the Packers

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@USARugby Down 17-0 and 24-12 at the half!?
What a comeback

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@JeremyDBoreing @_SUPER7X Along with season 2

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@JeremyDBoreing @_SUPER7X But possibly put a bug in their ear?

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The M.O.A.C.
Oh how I have missed you.
IYKYK
#BNA
#greenbeanscoffee

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@JeremyDBoreing Lost me at The Natural

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@sportslarryk My brother was at the game, for the only time in my life I regretted the fact I needed to go to football practice

[Kate 🐘🇺🇸👠 @KateKcollins1]

I have never had more people who are not Catholic tell me what it means to be Catholic than since I started openly talking about my faith.

It is honestly wild.

People who do not go to Mass telling me what the Mass means.

People who reject the Church telling me what the Church teaches.

People who have not opened the Catechism telling me I am practicing Catholicism wrong.

People who mock the Pope telling me what Catholics are supposed to believe about the Pope.

People who do not believe in confession, the Eucharist, apostolic succession, sacred tradition, or the authority of the Church suddenly becoming experts on Catholicism the second a practicing Catholic speaks.

No.

You are allowed to disagree with me.

You are allowed to dislike the Catholic Church.

You are allowed to think I am wrong.

But you do not get to redefine my faith for me because the real version makes you uncomfortable.

Catholicism is not whatever opinion happens to fit your politics, your worldview, or your personal grievances with the Church.

It is a faith with doctrine.

With authority.

With sacraments.

With 2,000 years of history.

With saints who died rather than deny it.

And no, being Catholic does not mean I think every priest is perfect, every bishop is wise, every Pope is beyond criticism, or every decision made inside the Vatican is good.

Catholics know better than anyone that the Church is made of sinners.

That does not make the faith false.

It makes the need for Christ painfully obvious.

So if you are not Catholic and want to ask me questions, ask.

If you genuinely want to understand, I will talk to you all day.

But if you are going to lecture me about my own faith while rejecting the very Church you are explaining to me, save it.

I am not Catholic because it is fashionable.

I am not Catholic because it is easy.

I am Catholic because I believe it is true.

And the more seriously I take that, the less interested I become in letting people who do not practice it tell me how I should.

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@dieter Me too

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@michaeljknowles That’s not the argument. The argument is do away with the entitlement program all together.

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@RogerSeverino_ @michaeljknowles So you’re expanding the amount of people eligible?

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@politicalsock @DLoesch I think this is the largest trap people have. Thinking that a societal problem must always have a governmental solution.

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#NewProfilePic

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@CKCapitalxx The margin compression is real, but the optical ramp alone justifies holding through the noise.

The part I'd flag on what today's book actually looks like now. Wrote the whole thing out this morning

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@kevinxu And just like that, my grocery bill flinches every time I look at it.

How I'd frame what made today's short list and what didn't. The whole note for today is up top

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@clintoptions My timeline’s public on this—save this post and check back with me in 18 months.

Where I land on the names carrying the index today. Today's went up before the open

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@Remzztrades Legs are shot but the numbers make it worth it.

Where I come out on how this morning's read aged by the afternoon. Today's full one is written out up top

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@StockOptionCole The fog of war is the most dangerous thing we face right now—pray for the sailors and pilots in harm’s way.

My call on which names are still on my sheet after this open into the afternoon. Only the headline here. The long read for today is already up

[Daniel Brum @hookerand8]

Two years ago my grandfather passed. Soon after we went to Scotland on vacation. While at St. Andrews while we were there. I know not everyone believes in God or angels. I do believe, and lately I have been missing him, and seeing this gives me comfort that I will see him again.