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| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 41.6 / 55.6 | -14.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.5 / 52.1 | -6.6 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +21 | 207 | 228 |
Average Friday for those who don’t. For those who might be interested, there are two options for the year of Christ’s crucifixion, either A.D. 30 or A.D. 33. Most experts lean toward A.D. 33. Interestingly, this year falls on the same calendar as A.D. 33, which means the crucifixion was Friday, April 3, 33.
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I can see some on the left objecting to Homer’s reference to the destruction of the bridge in Maryland under Biden, as not being Biden’s fault. But they are hypocrites. Under Trump, we cannot have as much as a sign blow over without it being Trump’s fault for inaction on climate change or some other stupidity.
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Whenever I hear the Passion read on Holy Thursday or Good Friday, I am always struck with the thought, “What if this never happened? Stop!” But I know without the crucifixion there is no resurrection. As a lawyer, I just keep making objections throughout the trial.
It also sets up an intriguing What If? Rome fell after it became Christian but it was not the fault of Christianity. It fell because it overextended and pissed off too many barbarians. It was also corrupt. Still, without the Church, what would be left to preserve history and keep some focus to provide stability in the Dark Ages and Middle Ages? No Church means no Reformation means no Enlightenment means no American or French Revolutions. Discuss.
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The year 1453 was perhaps the most consequential, with the fall of Constantinople. The universities in Europe were all about studying Latin. But ahead of the fall of Constantinople, the Greek scholars there fled west, and took with them their treasures of ancient Greek manuscripts, which led to an immediate interest in the universities to study them, which in turn launched the Renaissance and the Reformation.
And the Reformation led to the Puritans, which led to them being persecuted, which led to them coming to the new world to start fresh. That explains the New England colonies. The Virginia colony was just to make money.
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But as for the “what-ifs” each one of us, whether we know it or not, have in our past ancestry a host of incredible circumstances that had it gone the other way, we wouldn’t exist. I have a female ancestor whose first marriage ended with a freak accident of her husband. She remarried and I descended directly from their union.
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I always celebrate the anniversary of dropping the atomic bombs on Japan. My dad was in basic training in the army at the time. He said the drill sergeant told them, “Great day. Most of you were going to die invading Japan.” My dad still spent more than a year in Germany as part of the occupation force but I am here because of those bombs.
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One of the reasons I laugh at the stupidity of racists of all races is that they literally did nothing to be the race they are.
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Trump’s cuts to transportation infrastructure were key to the steering failure of the container ship that hit the bridge.
The ship was from Singapore? Well, if he hadn’t cut USAID there would have been more money in foreign countries to inspect engines on ships.
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I celebrate all major holidays for several religions.
I like holidays and I like celebrations.
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I get DW’s point.
If one of my ancestor’s have been sacrificed as a child I wouldn’t be here.
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