So it seems the facts are different than you suppose.

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Sunday January 21, 2024 · 5:47 PM PST

2024/01/21 · 17:47

This needs to be said every time ‘Great Replacement Theory’ gets mentioned:

In1870, 14.4% of the US population was foreign born.

In1890, 14.8% of the US population was foreign born.

In1910, 14.7% of the US population was foreign born.

In2020, 13.7% of the US population was foreign born.

There is not now, there never has been and probably never will be given the historical trend, a Great Replacement. It is obvious from these numbers that the foreign born have always been assimilated. They are not replacements. They just become like us. That’s who we are, that’s who we’ve always been through every wave of immigration that has come to us.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ

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Sunday August 29, 2021 · 9:07 AM PDT

2021/08/29 · 09:07

I got a new phone the other day. While waiting for a new folio case, I dug out an old wallet to carry my cards until the new case arrived. I found a card that I had put in my wallet many years (20? 25?) ago to remind me of things.

If you have friends in faith, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, please share this verse with them.

15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

16 As free, and not using your liberty as a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God,

17 Honour all men, Love the brotherhood, Fear God, Honour the king.

1 Peter 2:15-17

This is additional instruction to the more commonly known ‘Render unto Caesar’ admonition to keep the Church out of State business.

Remind them that as members of the brotherhood, they are servants of God.

Remind them that there is a long history of constitutionally certified civil safety regulations that are of benefit to all only if they are followed by all.

Then ask them if they are perhaps ‘using your liberty as a cloke of maliciousness’ or selfishness and beseech them ‘in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.’

Be ye not foolish

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Sunday October 28, 2012 · 1:06 PM PDT

2012/10/28 · 13:06

There has been a great deal of talk in political circles lately on the topic of rape and abortion. Several persons of note have publicly stated that there should be no exceptions for use of the medical procedure which was guaranteed by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. The most recent statement was by Indiana Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock who said that rape should not be an exception because if a pregnancy resulted from rape, the fetus should be thought of as a gift from God. Missouri Senate Candidate Todd Akin recently made a similar remark, arguing in the case of a "legitimate rape" a woman's body will prevent conception so there is no need for a rape exemption. And of course, during the Presidential Primary season, former Senator Rick Santorum opined that life begins at conception so abortion is murder.

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Tuesday February 14, 2012 · 3:49 PM PST

2012/02/14 · 15:49

Requiring insurers to provide birth control coverage without co-pay or additional costs does not require any individual with conscientious objections to use it. If you are opposed to the use of birth control {snicker} don't get a prescription for it.

Where, exactly, is the contravention of religious belief? It is strictly voluntary for the individual. If you don't like it, don't do it.

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Monday November 21, 2011 · 8:32 AM PST

2011/11/21 · 08:32

Leaving the unemployed to fend for themselves, as some pundits and political leaders have recently proposed, would be a radical departure from the American past.

Real radicalism would be to abandon these traditions and instead leave ailing private markets to nurse themselves back to health while jobless Americans needlessly suffer without government aid.

Really.

It Can't Be Said Better

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Sunday September 18, 2011 · 10:56 PM PDT

2011/09/18 · 22:56

I have this irregular feature on my personal blog which is labeled "It Can't Be Said Better...." wherein I quote a pithy quote from somewhere, along with it's attribution. The latest installment set off some actual thought and explication so I cross post it here where more people than my mother might read it....

It can't be said better.....

Social Security is not a retirement account, it’s an anti-poverty program that provides some dignity to seniors.

via Balloon Juice... Nicolas Wilbur at Muddy Politics

That hooked up in my head with a great Census Department graphic that was part of a front page post by Joan McCarter and led to what is below:

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Saturday November 13, 2010 · 3:55 PM PST

2010/11/13 · 15:55

There were several initiatives on the ballot in Washington state this election. Washington state voters got two of them exactly wrong: Ballot Initiative 1052, sponsored by Tim Eyman was passed. Ballot Initiative 1070, endorsed by Bill Gates, Sr. was voted down.

These two ballot choices as made will have profound and detrimental effects on YOUR schools.

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Sunday August 29, 2010 · 1:55 PM PDT

2010/08/29 · 13:55

For nine and a half years, I have hung onto my first laptop, a Compaq with a 486 processor (that's pre-Pentium) and Windows 3.11, because it was the only place that my eulogy for my Father existed. The floppy disk drive has been out of alignment for a long time, it had been dropped heavily from the top of a bookcase that had fallen over and the battery falls out, the hard drive opening cover won't close, but it still boots and runs Word for Windows, but there was no way to install drivers for a network card, reinstall a modem driver or copy the file to a floppy disk, even.... So yesterday, I plugged it in and booted it up and hand typed the eulogy into my Thinkpad T510 and saved the file in various formats in various locations, never to be lost again. I am posting it here and on my blog 'The Oldest 14 Year Old' at kimalanus.blogspot.com so the Internet will save it well-nigh forever. There is much more that ccould be said. Below the fold:

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Saturday August 22, 2009 · 10:08 AM PDT

2009/08/22 · 10:08

OK, as I have said before, I Am Not A Lawyer, I just read stuff they do.

So, apparently according to Betsy McCoughey (pronounced McCoy, May God Rest DeForrest Kelly's Tortured Soul) the reason to fear the 'end of life' consultation provisions of H R 3200 (Link is to the actual text of the bill in PDF format, it will require a bit of bandwidth to load....) is because Medicare reimbursement for doctors is tied to performance criteria....

More after the jump (crossposted from my own blog, Oldest 14 Year Old at kimalanus.blogspot.com)

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Monday July 27, 2009 · 5:47 AM PDT

2009/07/27 · 05:47

This is the page that Josh Marshall quotes at TPM:

A layman's description of the regulations

So, I googled up this one:

eCFR, an updated electronic, searchable copy of the Code of Federal Regulations, which the above link interprets in layman's language

More after the fold

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So it seems the facts are different than you suppose.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ

Be ye not foolish

I just don't get it.

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It Can't Be Said Better

I am not a parasite, and your neighbors aren't either

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IANAL I just read stuff....