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@Saintonge235
Sep 21, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Whenever I see an ellipsis like the one in the quoted tweet, I get to wondering what was left out. #EditingIsLying, after all.

Turned out Mr. Charles was himself quoting a secondary source. After some work, I found the words were from an address to the Notre Dame law school
graduating class of 2006. She said to them that "I decided to talk to you today about what it might mean for you
to be a different kind of lawyer." But different how? After four paragraphs on what she didn't mean, she laid it out.
"So what then, does it mean to be a different kind of lawyer? The implications of our Catholic mission for your legal education are many, and don’t worry—I’m not going to explore them all in this short speech. I’m just going to identify one way in which I hope that you,
as graduates of Notre Dame, will fulfill the promise of being a different kind of lawyer. And that is this: that you will always keep in mind that your legal career is but a means to an end, and as Father Jenkins told you this morning, that end is building the kingdom of God.
You know the same law, are charged with maintaining the same ethical standards, and will be entering the same kinds of legal jobs as your peers across the country. But if you can keep in mind that your fundamental purpose in life is not to be a lawyer,
but to know, love, and serve God, you truly will be a different kind of lawyer."

She then made three suggestions about how to do this. When faced with a career choice, pray on it BEFORE deciding. Tithe 10% of your income. Seek out fellows with whom you can share your faith.
It will be fun, in a dark way, to see the #Democrats trying to turn this into an assault on the U.S. Constitution.

#TheBorkingHasBegun for Amy Coney Barrett.
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Feb 20, 2022
🧵Reading about the latest #TuckerCarlson vs. #AOC incident, I’m amazed at some recurring themes.

Note, I am NOT commenting on who is right or wrong. The two of them can handle that without me.

But the twitter commenters . . . ¡Aye, Carumba! Do none of these people think?
Theme 1): ‘I get my own legal code’.

Lots of people making announcements on what is and isn’t “protected speech” without taking a few minutes to do a quick search on what the law actually is. All kinds of pronouncements about “that isn’t protected” are just wrong.
2) ‘We should just reinstate the Fairness Doctrine.’

Never occurs to these people that the FD was proclaimed in the 1950s, when there was no cable or satellite TV, a country of three to seven television channels. There’s a real good chance the Supremes would squash this.
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Jan 19, 2022
#TranslatedIntoHonest: Not if he can help it.

The “harm” was a teacher telling the truth. She pointed out that “Some of the books filling our libraries make it seem simple, or even cool to take puberty blockers or opposite-sex hormones.”
She later said “This book is misleading because it does not take into account how Shane might feel later in life about being infertile. This book makes very serious medical interventions seem like an easy cure for emotional and social distress,” the teacher said.
She saw them as age inappropriate and (apparently) untrue.

Piatkowski ruled that saying these things is “transphobic” violates “the human rights code” and does “harm” to someone.

Canada is headed for dictatorship. It has been conquered by the forces of #evil.
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Jan 19, 2022
It helps if you look at the history of the word “race” in the OED. It is a very vague term that meant at various times “family”, “ethnic group,” “nationality,” “species,” and the current meaning of “major human anatomical group based on skin color and other cosmetic features.”
I should also mention for completeness sake the political mean associated with Noel Ignatiev, “evil oppressors who must be overthrown to create the communist paradise.” By this definition, the Irish were not white till they came to the U.S. and discriminated against blacks.
It’s something Ignatiev and other socialists made up to attack contemporary society. Historically, the Irish were always “white” in the U.S. Till the 14th Amendment was passed, immigrants could not be naturalized a citizen unless they were white. The Irish had no trouble there.
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Jan 17, 2022
It’s because of them thinking World 2 is the entirety of reality.

“World 1,” World 2,” and “World 3” are terms from Sir Karl Popper, one of the great philosophers of the 20th Century. Worlds 1, 2, and 3 are respectively physical reality, social reality, and logical reality.
The thing is, Worlds 1 & 3 are not under are control, but World 2 is. We can’t alter the law of gravity by human will, or the Pythagorean theorem. But we can alter the govt. of the U.S.’s fundamental structure by will, and we have, twice, in 1781 and 1788.
But people have trouble keeping the three straight. They think they can change human nature and the societies it gives rise to by just wishing for it to happen.

There’s a lot of talk about following #science, but little realization that science frequently leads you places
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Jan 10, 2022
#Propaganda #protip: Never underestimate the power of the Big Lie. There have been NO studies about the implications of this, long term, because there CAN’T be. They would have had to sit on the #vax for YEARS to conduct them. We’ll find out the implications in future years.
Did you know the word “cisapride.” It’s the name of a drug introduced to the U.S. market in 1993, and ‘voluntarily’ withdrawn from the market in 2000. (It’s still available for vet use). Why was it withdrawn? It kills people. OOPS!

How did it ever get approved?
There were deaths among the test subjects in the clinical trials. But there didn’t seem like a lot of deaths, it was plausible that they were coincidental, so the regulators made a judgment call and approved it.

That is not a scandal. The scandal came later.
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Jan 8, 2022
#Propaganda #protip: Never forget that #Editing is #Lying.

Read this #WaPo story: web.archive.org/web/2022010808…. Than look at this 3-tweet thread by Michael P Senger: . Almost NOTHING of what Senger points out as misinformation appears in the WaPo piece.
And of the one or two claims that do make it in, there is no hint whatsoever that the claims might be false.

The CDC has stated that the vaccinated can catch and spread the disease, e.g., but Kagan’s statement to the contrary is not challenged.
Another egregious example is in this Vox story; vox.com/2022/1/7/22871…. The #Biden administration apparently claims that covid is more deadly than smallpox, yellow fever, or cholera. That is complete nonsense, unbelievably wrong.
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