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Oh. I thought you were suggesting something nefarious about the trump winery, which would be idiotic. It's a fine place with a very good product, and well respected in the area. The link you provided was written in 2017. That is a lifetime ago in that business. The guy who ran it after Kluge's wife bankrupted the place, Gabrielle Rausse, and sold it to Trump is an acquaintance. When I went through viticulture/enology class here, when I started my vineyard, he was the principal "teacher." Absolutely fabulous guy with a fantastic, respected reputation who helped me a lot in my first three years. Always answered the phone. I spent an afternoon in that very vineyard learning the finer points of pruning. Regarding that winery, D. Trump has nothing to do with it. His kid runs it and is doing a fine job. They were very successful at the recent Governor's Cup, and as I said, 2017 is a long time ago. Different folks, different grapes. Speaking of Virginia wines, the Monticello AVA, was named last year's "Wine Region of the Year," by Wine Enthusiast, competing against regions in California, Italy, France, South Africa and Australia, so something is going OK. https://blog.virginiawine.org/virginia-is-home-to-wine-region-of-the-year/ 2017 was a long time ago, and they were still getting over the Mrs Kluge ownership. In a brief self congratulatory weakness, my 2017 grapes produced a Petit Verdot which was awarded a Governor's Cup Silver Medal in the 2121 competition.

What's your issue with the Trump winery. I'm quite close to that property and in the wine grape buisness, so I'm wondering what your issue is?

Just a random observation. You have achieved a rare accomplishment here. Your regular posts are often so bizarre, off target, unsupported and weird, that when you are intentionally posting sarcasm as a joke, a lot of people don't know. I call it "postal relativism," when the judgement of the sincerity of a post or series of posts is based more on what the author has stated in the past than on the current post. Well done.

Certainly the astronomy community will be resting more comfortably. She's the one who claimed that the moon was a planet and it consisted mostly of gas, that wondered whether the Pathfinder, having landed on Mars, would be able to take a picture of the flag that Neil Armstrong planted there. And that the US Constitution was 400 years old, and...... Oh well, rest in peace.

So he uses some stupid claim by an ex analyst; not agent, an analyst, so state that: "The reality is that their all a bunch of hag bags like this." Ya. That passes for sound, discerning judgement. I wondered who this Beattie guy was, so I looked up his little bio to check his bona fides to make such a preposterous generalization. I that bio, he claims to have been an "ex White House official." His bio claims that he was actually a member of the "United States Commission for the Preservation of American Heritage Abroad," who was fired when Biden took office. Ya. for sure that makes him a White House Official and credible source to judge the entire CIA. That's the kind of nonsense that gets put out by these goofs every day, and you can do that little red X thing on this post again if you like. Either way, his broad brush claim is ridiculous and it's Bidenesque BS.

Whoever this goof Darren Beattie is, he's evidence of really ignorant people saying really stupid things. Happens every day.

Honestly, no offense, but you should apply for endangered species status. Almost nobody who's honest shares that view. Every day it gets worse and worse.

Vance wasn't a tip of the spear guy in his active duty assignments, but he received enlisted Marine Corps training, and that is nothing to sneeze at.

Already has.

The incapacitated lame duck uses the Venezuela strategy,

As an ex Catholic through high school. I have intentionally studied that faith and rejected it, so any claim of papal authority is lost on me. Judas betrayed Jesus to the Jews, not the Romans. They tried him, against their own rules, then pleaded with Pilate to have him killed, which he ultimately agreed to. It isn't complicated.

In my humble view, better than either parties candidates.

Merit has made this country stronger. That is why the business world and the financial system has worked so well.

I doubt it, but your post to God's ear, as the saying goes.

I am not going to get into a broader discussion of the Bible with you. I have spent hundreds of hours on it, and still do so weekly. I am simply sticking to the issue. The Jewish church officials, who were incredibly powerful during that time, persuaded a reluctant Pilate to have Jesus executed. They wanted him gone prior, but once he became a financial/ideological threat to them, they played their hand. Judas betrayed Jesus to the Jewish authorities. They arrested him. They tried him, against all Jewish trial rules. The Romans did not precipitate this. Pilate did it to appease the Jewish authorities because he feared a backlash from Rome if any trouble occurred in his area of responsibility.

I have absolutely no interest in defending the accuracy of the Bible with you, nor "blaming" anyone. There is uniformity in the three synoptic gospels regarding the events of Holy Week, which is when the Jewish authorities decided that Jesus had to go, and made their case to a initially reluctant Pilate, who was in Jerusalem solely because of concern over a potential Passover insurrection. They had wanted this done for some time, as Biblical records clearly indicate. Once Jesus seemed to be getting into their wallets, they could wait no longer. He gave Caiaphas what he wanted in order to prevent a schism with the Jewish religious authority.

Your claim is in conflict with the Bible, both in prophesy and the gospels. The Romans had a history of allowing occupied lands to keep their traditions, as long as it didn't disrupt Pax Romana or threaten the emperor. Jesus' ministry was upsetting to the Jewish leadership at the time. The Pharisees despised him and repeatedly tried to get him. The Sanhedrin ultimately decided he needed to be killed. It started slowly, but when he trashed the Temple money schemes, that was the last straw for them. There was a relationship between them, specifically Caiaphas, and the Roman occupation forces. Caiaphas convinced the Romans that Jesus' presence during the Passover, which meant thousands of additional Jews were in Jerusalem, represented a threat. They had to do this becasue under Roman law, they had no authority to execute, and they expressly stated they wanted him dead. Thus the fake "trial" by the Jews, completely at odds with their own laws, and the fake sedition charge, which was created by stating he claimed to be king, over Caesar. The Romans didn't care a whit about him. Never attended any gatherings etc. Only the Jewish authorities did.

Leave God out of this. Absurd.

And some people believe the earth is flat. In a forum of preposterous posts, claiming the right believes God has anything to do with Trump is idiotic, noteworthy and deserves response.

No. That is a dumb post.

I don't have a clue about this woman, and I certainly don't blame this event on the Secret Service. But.....It is undeniable that this administration has submitted appointee candidates based on identity politics rather than best qualified. Some have been so incompetent they have not survived hearings and gotten to a vote. Some have. Some have gotten through and been approved. But, there is no doubt that best candidates have not been selected because they weren't quota types.

This is not an accurate claim. The Jewish Sanhedrin did not have the authority to have people executed. Only the occupying Romans did. The Romans didn't care about blasphemy, but they did care about sedition, and that was a capital offense. The Sanhedrin wanted him killed and held a "trial." During that, they concluded that he needed to be killed, so they presented the issue to the Roman authority with the demand that he be killed as he was guilty of sedition, and Pilate authorized it. Matthew 26: 65-66 "He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now[o] you have heard the blasphemy! What is your verdict?”[p] They[q] answered, “He is guilty and deserves[r] death.”

The Churchill War Rooms, aka the Cabinet War Rooms is well worth a visit. Cabinet War Rooms It is where Churchill and staff ran the war from. Evidently they just walked out after WWII, and the rooms are exactly as they were then. In the Whitehall District, I believe under the Treasury Building. Very easy to get to.

He has never "looked good." Sometimes he's just bad, like last night. Sometimes he's frighteningly disassociated.

What happens makes sense. The IRS audits those whose returns are either wrong or suspicious. If you misstate earnings, they send you a notice of payment due with a penalty. The chances are that lower income returns are not professionally done, and would be more likely to contain errors, or have the return prepared by someone not well versed in tax law, thus they get noticed. Higher income folks have their returns professionally prepared, and are much less likely to have obvious errors. They don't audit just for fun, they do it when they think they are going to get a return on their time.