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TIL In the biblical story of Peter, Jesus did not rename the man called Simon/Simeon with the name Peter. He called him "rock". Petra is just the Latin/Greek version of the word "rock". It was later anglicized to "Peter"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pe
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MAGA FILTH!

The Sarasota Police Department is investigating a sexual battery allegation against Florida GOP Chair Christian Ziegler, a political bombshell in the home state of former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis.

news.yahoo.com/report-florida-

The Florida Center for Government Accountability, citing anonymous sources, says police are investigating Ziegler and have seized his cell phone.

Funny how English has phrases where you can swap in the opposite word and they sun mean the same thing.
They went all in
They went all out
Are you down for it
Are you up for it
Slow up
Slow down

I was wondering where Atticus was and I sit up to see him like this. 🤣 #CatsOfMastodon

FWIW, the Bible has the same frustration you and I do about war criminal Henry Kissinger living, unjailed and wealthily, to 100. Job 21:7-17 NLT:

“Why do the wicked prosper, growing old and powerful? They live to see their children grow up and settle down, and they enjoy their grandchildren. Their homes are safe from every fear, and God does not punish them. Their bulls never fail to breed. Their cows bear calves and never miscarry. They let their children frisk about like lambs. Their little ones skip and dance. They sing with tambourine and harp. They celebrate to the sound of the flute. They spend their days in prosperity, then go down to the grave in peace. And yet they say to God, ‘Go away. We want no part of you and your ways. Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him? What good will it do us to pray?’ (They think their prosperity is of their own doing, but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.) “Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished. Do they ever have trouble? Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?"

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If you ever visit Cambodia or Laos, which I have been lucky enough to do, you will learn a lot about why all of SE Asia is ecstatic about Kissinger's death.

There's a reasonably direct line from the illegal bombing of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge's takeover, enabling their reign of terror that killed 1/4 of the Cambodian population and drove out or killed most folks who were educated.

There are still "bombies" from cluster munitions all over Laos, which kill or maim people on a regular basis.

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