This one sums up everything.
Standards make a culture go.
Especially objective standards - to enjoy this ride you must be at least this honest, at least this capable, at least this self-controlled - so pull yourself together, get skillz etc.
When a culture has enemies, they attack & destroy its standards.
Some enemy of the West figured out that in modern West, the very notion of standards could be re-branded as "white supremacy" - thus destroyed.
The Gorilla Channel(tm) is BACK!!
Fairy tales for libs....All the time. 
We are so back.
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PS. Reason doesn't work on conspiracy crackpots like @hubrys but, for the record:
Sources tell CBS News there is no indication former President Trump shared sensitive records with an Australian billionaire
@raphjd Court says she's not 'competent' & her child must die... except if trans, to get breasts hacked off, she'd be competent correct?
Demonic.
"When the many risks of continuing with the pregnancy were explained to her, AZ said she was ‘happy’ to be pregnant and wanted to continue with it," the judge said.
"Her views involved ‘naive magical thinking’ in her approach to the pregnancy," the judge added.
If another girl goes "Oh, I can be a Real Boy if the magical masked grownups cut me enough..." - but that wouldn't be naive magical thinking, correct?
Gerhard Schroeder of the Social Democrats, former Prime Minister of Germany.
Biden cashed a $200k check from brother James Biden's "business dealings" -
Let's face it, USA Regime is about ready to dump Biden.
Leadership of USA Regime is a continuing dogfight between factions & crime lords - Clintons, Bidens, Bushes, Obamas, CIA, FBI, Iranians, Chinese, drug cartels both legal & illegal, defense contractors.
They all rake in corrupt money & have blackmail on each other.
Hillary failed as candidate, worst candidate ever, so Biden got a leg up on her.
But most libs never wanted Biden. They lied & pretended. Even by libs' low low standards, Biden has always been uninspired, a nothing. And now he's aged, demented.
Libs are finally letting word of Biden Crime Family scandals to spread somewhat, because
good excuse to bring in Newsom or Big Mike
excuse to keep jailing Trump - "Oh see? We're kinda hard on Biden too - Sort of"
USA Regime casts about for a new "face" now as they continue their normal everyday work:
Regime ever closer to jailing opposition leader.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/10/20/judge-threatens-trump-with-jail-mid-trial-after-democrat-pac-complained-he-breached-gag-order/
If they did it...... if USA peeps elected Trump from jail..... spectacle would be AWESOME! 
i SO hope!!!
New vid clip where Mike Cirillo appears detransitioned: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1715335839209681224
"Joseph Findley, 43" - looks white - so - patsy for real culprits? FBI asset? or classic lib? enviro-wacko?
Current info: Hamas fired the rocket, it hit parking lot, Hamas staged a grisly production - arranging corpses & whatnot.
Not saying it's true. Only that it's current.
Douglas Mackey made a meme back in 2016 about Dem voter stupidity. It pretended to misdirect Dem voters. In obvious way, meant to be seen through, type of joke that only a crackpot like @hubrys could pretend to believe.
No USA voter was affected. None.
But Mackay just got 7 months in jail.
Some Democrats did same meme - just flowing other way. None of them was charged.
51 USA "intelligence" officials & hundreds of media people conspired to suppress true information, the 100% true "Hunter Biden Laptop" as it revealed Biden Crime Family corruption.
That lie, that suppression of true & relevant information, affected millions of USA voters, helped (along with vote fraud) USA Regime to pretend it won 2020.
Needless to say, USA Regime delighted with that election interference & has indicted no one.
Regime recently put a gag order on its 2024 opposition leader, as latest step in efforts to jail him & other dissidents.
That's where once-proud USA is at.
No legitimacy.
No Rule of Law. No claim to democracy.
No moral authority - to bomb anyone.
"4k Video Downloader" from 4kdownload dot com, works.
Ctrl-C on a Youtube URL, start 4k app, hit its "Paste Link" button - it guides you the rest of the way.
Fat-and-Trans isn't a look that "sells", after all.
Note: I thought to post this in Straight News - but there isn't any - or maybe Jokes n Funny Stuff.
Because HAHAHAhahahahahahhaha
https://thespun.com/more/top-stories/victorias-secret-has-made-a-big-change-to-its-strategy
@lololulu19 "Too much reading" - Agree - I skimmed most of it - only responded to @raphjd original piece - which was thoughtful & interesting - whereas other comments here tend to change subject or be a different level.
Bible clearly grates on some people - which is OK in big picture, like "you do you" - but I slightly wonder why such people are in the thread, except maybe just to piss in it.
Background:
Studies show, vaxxed & unvaxxed people have similar likehood, over time, of covid infection
or sometimes that vaxxed may have GREATER likelihood; possible explanations continue to not be explored
in other words, vaxx protection is transient at best - or negative (appearing more like attraction than protection) in some studies & some time frames
Studies show that covid is airborne, as people exhale viral particles
Studies show that masks do little-or-nothing to stop the airborne spread
New (preprint) study shows that, when people have covid, their vaxx status makes little or no difference to how much airborne virus they exhale.
Vaccinated and unvaccinated patients exhale similar levels of virus over the course of infection, the research shows.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.06.23295138v1
Here, we collected exhaled breath specimens from COVID-19 patients and used RTq-PCR to show that numbers of exhaled SARS-CoV-2 RNA copies during COVID-19 infection do not decrease significantly until day 8 from symptom-onset. COVID-19-positive participants exhaled an average of 80 SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA copies per minute during the first 8 days of infection, with significant variability both between and within individuals, including spikes over 800 copies a minute in some patients. After day 8, there was a steep drop to levels nearing the limit of detection, persisting for up to 20 days. We further found that levels of exhaled viral RNA increased with self-rated symptom-severity, though individual variation was high. Levels of exhaled viral RNA did not differ across age, sex, time of day, vaccination status or viral variant.
All pieces in place now to show that covid vaxxes cannot reduce spread of covid. & therefore, never did.
If anyone needs to remember Fauci, Biden & many others claiming vaxx do stop the spread, or lessen it, & MUST be taken for love of others: let me know.
I'd be happy - except I'm not. Really it's sad, when libs face consequences they brought on.
Williams declined to prosecute 65% of all criminal cases in New Orleans in 2021
@raphjd Never complimented you on this article. Here goes. I agree with main point, though not with all side points.
Sodom was derived from the Hebrew word "S'dom," which means "burnt."
That's interesting because "faggot" has a meaning of "A bundle of sticks and branches bound together" - that you throw on a fire ie. burnt.
Various stories say how "faggot" came to mean "sexually subordinate male" but I figure it's another time homophobes connected gay bottoms to Sodom.
Why is it that we are told that the bible is an accurate written copy of the precise oral tradition when they can't even remember the actual names of the 2 cities?!
Easy to explain: the disaster made an impression. Bible has many times when something is renamed after big event; and sometimes, old name forgotten or left out.
bring them out so they could "know" them. Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing exactly what "know" means in this situation
To me, "interrogate" them - like "get to know them, with undertone of suspicion & questions, potential violence" - is most natural & plausible reading.
No where does it say what the sex of the angels are
That's interesting. Bible usually represents angels as male, when on Earth. But as you say, it's unspecified here - and IF the angels were represented on Earth as female this time, then Lot offering his 2 daughters under a sexual interpretation starts to make more sense.
"anshei ha'ir, anshei S'dom" means "the people of the city [not only men]
Very interesting, if true.
You'd think that with all the fire and brimstone raining down...
This gets us to the scientific part. Sodom's destruction was more a 3900C flash event. (Could have rained stones in outlying areas.)
First - Bible's internal geographic indicators strongly put Sodom at North East end of Dead Sea.
https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-City-Sodom-Fascinating-Testaments-ebook/dp/B008J2BQTA
Known to 19th century scholars. Then 20th century scholars decided to put Sodom at south end of Dead Sea. That view still lives among 21st century scholars - but not all - pendulum begins to swing back.
And indeed there is a key ruin at NE end of Dead Sea, now called Tall El Hammam.
And it was destroyed roughly 3700 years ago by meteor airburst like Tuskunga of 1908.
Here is the paper, written by astrophysicists (NOT Steven Collins):
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3
The question is not whether it happened. The paper went through unusual extra rounds of peer review after people kept questioning it. And survived.
The question, rather, is whether it is correct to move Abraham & Lot into same era & location & thus identify Tall El Hammam with Bible's "burnt - a ruined heap" city.
I say yes. Arguments exist on both sides. But arguments on the "no" side tend to be regressive misunderstandings of the "yes" side by people who simply hate Bible & want it to be 100% myth.
In a generation or two, I think identification of Tall El Hammam with Bible's "burnt - a ruined heap" city will be taken as obvious.
Thus, it will be (or maybe is already) impossible to call Sodom's existence & destruction a myth.
Still the question remains of WHETHER GOD destroyed Sodom and if yes, WHY. Let's get back to that.
Ezekeiel [sic; Ezekiel] 16:49 says "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy." Again, no mention of homosexuality.
Yes. Well, you must continue into verse 50 which mentions people doing "detestable things". But again, that could mean anything. Still no specific reference to homosexuality.
Matthew 10:14-15 is a quote from Jesus...
Correct. Christ's quote links Sodom to the idea of deep inhospitality - cruelty to the needy & stranger - not to sex.
Judges 19:13-27...
That story, to me, is a little more obviously sexual.
Homophobes often forget how NORMAL, yet still potentially-disgraceful or sometimes-disgraceful, male-homosexual acts are in ancient & Middle Eastern cultures.
Guys will toss each other off, may even fuck each other secretly. But public rape - str8 rape or gay rape - Very disgraceful to the rape victim (female or male), and, since it shows cruelty and inhospitality, somewhat disgraceful to the rapist.
In other words: If Judges story is sexual, then it's a story about cruel public rape.
We can agree that all rape is wrong - whether it's adults having sex by force, or people molested who just can't give a meaningful consent (kids, needy subordinates, the dead).
Seems Frank Biden is a character. https://jonathanturley.org/2023/10/09/the-biden-family-tree-how-investigations-are-exposing-the-bidens-influence-peddling-dynasty/
Frank’s need for money was not only great but known to his brother. In 1999, at age 43, Frank was involved in a car crash in Cardiff-by-the-Sea near Encinitas, California. He was accused of responsibility for the death of single father Michael Albano and then of evading service and responsibility in lawsuits by Albano’s surviving children. He only recently began paying what he owes.
Having had his driver’s license suspended in Florida, Frank nonetheless rented a Jaguar and had a younger man [cough] whom he had met at a Whole Foods [cough] driving him. Biden, sitting in the passenger seat, reportedly shifted the car into manual gear and encouraged Jason Turton, 25, to “punch it,” at which point he hit 80 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone.
Turton was later reportedly found to have twice the allowed level of alcohol in his system. Witnesses said everyone in the car was drinking that day and Frank was accused of telling Turton to “keep driving” after killing Albano. Frank would ultimately remain at the scene after Turton ran off by foot.
The police report suggested Frank was uncooperative with police on key points of the investigation.
Frank Biden defaulted in the action brought by Albano’s daughters, but he left California and spent decades evading payments. When attorney John F. Hayter, representing the daughters, garnished Biden’s Wells Fargo bank account in February, he found it virtually empty.
It took 20 years to get him to pay any of the $1 million he owed in damages. He was also reportedly dodging creditors.
The daughters had repeatedly asked Joe Biden to intervene, but nothing occurred for years until he was running for the vice presidency and the media began to pick up on his brother’s evasion of liability.
When Biden was still a senator, Albano’s daughter did finally get a response from Joe Biden’s staff that explained, “As you are aware, however, Frank has no assets with which to satisfy the judgment. The senator regrets that this is where matters stand and that he cannot be more helpful.”
