Comments on: Open thread 2/22/23

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:55:37 +0000

@ Banned Lizard & Marv — well, anecdotes are not data, but —
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/02/24/billionaire-thomas-lee-friend-of-clintons-found-dead-from-apparent-suicide-n707895

By: Marv

Marv — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 06:03:53 +0000

Mike Plaiss and others mentioning Vivek Ramaswamy:
I saw him on Tucker, and was also impressed.
Was already familiar with him. His pro-America, anti-woke books are on my reading list.
And his securities — DRLL, and STRV (etf) — on my radar.
Seems he could or should one day be POTUS. And I definitely agree he would be a very valuable person in anyone’s cabinet!!
He reminds me of Elon Musk, in good ways. But even better.

By: Marv

Marv — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:45:37 +0000

Banned lizard
I saw the “suicide” news and had the same chilling thoughts.
Clintons’ curse continues.

By: Marv

Marv — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 05:38:58 +0000

Oh really?

I second Mrs Whatsit!

Now, see if I too can use the magic & send to dear Neo:
♥

Hmmm. What other words work?

A heartfelt sweet photo, and memories I’m sure, Neo.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:12:05 +0000

There is a long tedious story of how computer text evolved from all-caps “ABC…” and “0123…” plus punctuation to a backwards-compatible, extensible system which handles most of the world’s scripts.

We now have Unicode, which solved a very messy problem rather well.

By: Mrs Whatsit

Mrs Whatsit — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:57:24 +0000

“I did that by entering the ampersand, then (without a space between) the word hearts, and then (again with no space) a semi-colon.”
♥

It works! Thanks for the tip, Neo. Here are some hearts for that photo:

♥ ♥ ♥

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 14:04:52 +0000

Meanwhile, a Christian college in Kentucky, Asbury University, became the unexpected host to a Christian revival — or something, some don’t like calling it a revival — after a dozen students lingered after a chapel service on Feb. 8.

Then didn’t leave, as more and more people poured in, overwhelming the surrounding town of 6000 people for two weeks.

Christians came from all over the country and the world, even from Finland, to take part in the whatever.
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“Whether you call this a revival, a renewal, an awakening, or an outpouring, what we have experienced on our campus these last few weeks is unlike anything I’ve ever seen in my life,” President Brown [of Asbury University] said in a video statement.

https://people.com/human-interest/revival-christian-university-moves-two-weeks-overwhelming-kentucky-town/
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So two weeks later they are now moving the services off-campus. I wish them the best.
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The wind blows where it pleases; you can hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.

–John 3:8

By: stan

stan — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:45:15 +0000

This is outrageous. It’s nasty, vile, and vicious.

This is evil. There isn’t any way that a moral person can support this. Or even minimize the moral culpability of those who do it.

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Making excuses for the perpetrators of evil by minimizing the horror of what they do is far worse than doing “nothing”.

https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-new-normal-persecuting-an-expert-witness-because-he-testified-for-the-defense-in-a-political-charged-trial/

Big Brother is evil. Big Brother is here. And he won’t be defeated as long as people refuse to see who and what he is.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:16:45 +0000

…And not just ANY Houston fashion designer….
https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1628611857094217728?cxt=HHwWgMC4sd72_pktAAAA
H/T Jeff Carlson twitter feed.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:12:09 +0000

The people of East Palestine are angry.
(No , actually, they’re furious.)
” ‘We Don’t Know What We Are Breathing’: A Report from East Palestine;
“A train derailment and chemical explosion that ripped through an Ohio town earlier this month has left locals feeling sick, angry—and completely abandoned.”—
https://www.thefp.com/p/we-dont-know-what-we-are-breathing
H/T Powerline blog.

Seems like a good time for “POTUS” to give another “UNITY” talk…