In particular, it’s the kind of wheat featured in the classic Star Trek episode Trouble with Tribbles.
This is not necessarily accurate. Typically when a seat in the House becomes vacant the congressional staff stays in place. They will be able to assist constituents with pretty much anything they need.
I want that on a t-shirt. Or maybe a bumper sticker.
Triticale is a real thing, a hybrid of wheat and rye.
I remember finding bread in the grocery store (70’s) that included triticale. It had a distinctly different flavor than whole wheat.
What is ironic is that if he’d acted the least bit presidential when the crisis started he would have won the 2020 election in a walk.
I like the bumper sticker that says:
JESUS LOVES YOU
Everyone else thinks you’re an asshole.
I’m reminded of a quote misattributed to Gandhi about how it would be nice if Christians were more like their Christ.
I’d just like to say that this is my favorite name for her.
Well, Christians do. People CALLING themselves “Christians” are another matter entirely.
Their ‘Prosperity Gospel’ preachers have been teaching them to despise Jesus since that branch of “theology” arose. After all, Jesus walked around in sandals instead of being carried everywhere in a solid gold litter. What a loser!
Kind of surprising. She was well past her teen years by the nineties.
Yes, this is the true horror. Trump we expect to be revolting and awful. That his fans are so numerous continues to be hard to take.
There are other groups that believe the same thing about your particular group, so as far as I am concerned you are all “calling yourselves Christian”.
Can you expand on that? Are you saying that the Trumpites calling themselves Christian believe that those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus are non-Christian? Or what?
They probably feel they are following the teachings of Jesus…as relayed by religious figures that know what to say to keep them in the pews. I’m sorry, but the exact rules to be a “real” Christian are not set in tablet.
Yeah, reasonable people can disagree about what it means to ‘be a Christian.’
We’re not really talking about that level of disagreements, though. The Trumpites enthusiastically embrace and celebrate Trump’s adultery, greed, gusto in exploiting and cheating others, lack of respect for the law (Caesar’s law, as it were), and love of violence.
I don’t see how all that could be considered a ‘reasonable’ view of how to be a Christian.
Suddenly throwing the word “reasonable” into the “Real Christian” conversation does not help, since “reasonable” is even specific than “Christian”.
It’s very much a classic ‘No True Scotsman’
However ‘reasonable people’ is defined - and that’s a nebulous term indeed, there’s a significant number of people who consider themselves Christian. That may not fit your definition of ‘reasonable’ but they are de facto Christians because they consider themselves to be so and there’s enough of them that it is ridiculous not to accept their claimed label for themselves. Likewise, I’m sure they feel that way about others they disagree with who call themselves Christian, and they are also ridiculous for trying to deny that label to others.
Several wars have been fought over such distinctions just within Christianity (much less other religions), so it’s also a very human trait to want to claim or deny membership in a particular in-group over such grounds. Maybe they will have a ‘come to Jesus’ moment (heh) and repent the beliefs/practices that contradict yours but that’s neither here nor there as to whether or not they should be considered real ™ Christians
Today on Trump Vs. Reality;
Minnesota Republican votes against gun safety bill for fear that requiring locks or safes would put farmers at risk from homicidal cows.
Here’s the bill. If I’m reading it correctly, it looks like it’s changing “you can’t leave your gun laying around in a place where kids might find it” to “if you’re not carrying your gun, lock it up”. And, if you don’t have kids and don’t lock up your gun, no one’s going to know. It’s not like the cops are going door to door to check on this. Just like how I can leave a loaded gun on my kitchen table and, even if that’s completely illegal, it’s not like the cops are magically going to know it’s there and show up at my house to arrest me.
To be honest, I am surprised there isn’t a carve out for farmers, but less about defending themselves against rogue cows and more about defending their livestock from predators. Something along the lines of allowing people with farms to keep an unloaded long gun in an accessible place. Do other states have any type of carve outs for farms WRT firearms laws?
Then you’d hae to define a “farm”.
Yes, we would, and I understand that, but it seemed well beyond the scope of this thread. I had actually started to add some of that detail in, but it didn’t seem worth the trouble for a hypothetical carve out.
Also, Minnesota is, what, half farmland, so it’s likely safe to assume they already have legal definitions for farms, different types of farms, different sizes of farms, ownership structures etc. The definitions they have in place could probably be adapted to close up loopholes that might, for example, allow every homeowner to keep a handgun by their front door as long as they have a few tomato plants growing somewhere on the property.
I didn’t mean you, specifically; but whoever writes the law governing gun handling would have to define a farm. I suspect that’s where the legal chicanery would take place. “I’m allowed to carry this gun on my farm, officer; I have two begonias growing in a windowbox.”