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Carmine Pescatore's avatar

Count your blessings and share them.

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Anthony Belenchia's avatar

To all my fellow Boomers who Erick so frequently disparages for being out of touch with reality, might I suggest you make your donations to The Salvation Army at https://www.salvationarmyusa.org or Operation Turkey at https://www.operationturkey.com or your local food banks.

I’m sure Erick doesn’t want Boomer money! Donating, particularly at this time of year is greatly needed and appreciated. If you make donations to these organizations or your local food bank, I promise I will not be patting myself on my back nest week.

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Mark Malcolm's avatar

We donate every year, and every year your bringing this around makes me want to do more at the local food pantry. I really need to get off my butt and produce more fruit in this regard. Thanks for what you do on the radio. You really do put your money where your mouth is concerning your faith and how you do your job. Don't ever change, Radioman. God bless and Godspeed.

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Teresa Parham Lane's avatar

Just donated for Thanksgiving and Turkeys are 46 cents a pound at Ingles.

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Joe Black's avatar

Erick is right, but this is the best it will ever be. Human government was never meant to succeed, it’s just a babysitter until the Lord returns. It’s a bit scary to know that this is probably the best government in the world. It makes me think of all of those who think that the government can run healthcare better than private business. Just look at Medicare, and the VA and say, “this is the best the government can do.” Does that encourage anyone? I was reading something this morning concerning the Lord’s return. A verse in James speaks of a farmer in long-suffering waiting for his crops to mature. We pray that the Lord will return soon, but the Lord is saying I will return when my people mature. We need to be mature citizens and see what the enemy is doing in our presence and resist it. We should pray that the Lord would subdue our will and then we can resist the enemy. We need a sober mind and a subdued will to get through this craziness! And, Lord knows it is crazy!

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Southern Planter's avatar

Who, exactly, is “the enemy”?

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Joe Black's avatar

God’s enemy, Satan. The ruler of the world. That makes him our enemy as well . . . If we are believers.

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Southern Planter's avatar

Understood now. Thanks, Joe.

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Bob P.'s avatar

Yes Joe, very well said. Amen!

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Bob P.'s avatar

Hungry for a day ✅

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Kathy's avatar

We have no budget, no executive orders are being codified into law, nothing that is actually the job of congress is getting done. But by dang they are messing around with Epstein, dead, sports gambling, and other nonsensical issues. Good grief.

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Southern Planter's avatar

So, I take it you have zero concern for Epstein's victims?

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Kathy's avatar

As you full well know, this has zero to do with the victims. It is purely political to distract and keep republicans from doing what they are supposed to be doing. These same files have been in the hands of government for a very long time but only now does anyone want to try to use them. There is literally nothing that will be accomplished but dumbass finger pointing. You have no more concern for victims than the democrats do.

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Southern Planter's avatar

Based on the comments of the victims and/or their families, I would say that it is important to them. So, not “purely political.”

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Kathy's avatar

You haven't spoken to a single one of them.

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Southern Planter's avatar

Saw them on TV. Fake news again?

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Kathy's avatar

Sounds like your interpretation of what they said. Which is always off base.

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Unaffiliated's avatar

I care about them, but this isn’t about his victims. This is gotcha politics. Once the right people are got the MSM will move on to the next thing and the victims be damned. I say open the whole thing up and burn it down and move on. There will be many an innocent caught up in this. For example, I saw Jeffries hit up Epstein for $$$. Jeffries doesn’t seem like a perv, but just a decent guy who happens to be a progressive. However, there he is with his name tied to Epstein.

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Southern Planter's avatar

Hopefully, everyone who deserves to be got will get got. As for the innocent, they will be proven as such. Let the chips fall. Justice, not politics, demands it.

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Unaffiliated's avatar

You can always count on Republicans to waste their opportunities. $40 trillion in debt, ACA growing stronger and America’s military needs massive investments in arms, ships, subs and some aerospace, but we have Epstein and MTG instead. Did you hear about the big beautiful ballroom?

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dan's avatar

Perhaps a "conservative" can explain it to me, but the whole idea of creating and supporting economic policies that provide virtually no protection or safety net for struggling Americans - with healthcare, with education, with food security, with a living wage - and then asking for charity for these same Americans, seems an exercise in hypocrisy rather than compassion. Let's all but ensure that a significant number of Americans go hungry, but then we'll do our darndest at holiday time to provide a Thanksgiving meal.

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Mark A. McCall's avatar

Respectfully suggest you review what happened at the village of My Lai in Vietnam in 1968. Sometimes, bad / stupid / evil people issue unlawful / immoral orders. I was a commissioned Army officer, and, at North Georgia College (and during other training) we were taught about what to do when told to murder people who are not part of an armed conflict. Didn’t you attend seminary? Aren’t you an attorney? This is not “cut and dried.”

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Mark A. McCall's avatar

Remember: the POTUS is a convicted felon who has lost a civil suit where he was found liable for sexual assault; he stole classified documents - that is not debatable; he says he wants the same types of generals that Hitler had; he has called for the “termination” of the Constitution - something commissioned officers take an oath to uphold. We know Trump is immoral - he pardoned a J6 criminal who had child porn on his phone just last week, and makes excuses for Saudis who dismember Washington Post journalists with chainsaws.

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David Darnell's avatar

In all fairness Mark, Trump Inc. is negotiating a real estate deal with the Saudis that may need a bit of a push with F-35 plane sales and a bit of nuclear technology.

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dan's avatar

Mark, you, like those 6 Democratic military vets on the video standing for constitutionalism and the rule of law, might be a traitor as well. Clearly there is nothing illegal or unconstitutional with dropping bombs on suspected drug boats that

1. may or may not be transporting drugs

2. pose absolutely zero immediate threat to the United States

3. could easily be apprehended by the navy or the coast guard 1000s of miles away from US territory

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Mark A. McCall's avatar

I hope you mean that (“traitor”) sarcastically. I reread about My Lai again, this afternoon. It might have been stopped, had some officer had the integrity and courage to say: “Sir, I don’t think what you are ordering is lawful.” The Army made changes because of the war crimes that were committed at My Lai.

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dan's avatar

Yes, straight sarcasm. I would think there is still an incredible amount of pressure in the military hierarchy to follow orders, even if the orders themselves are questionable.

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ConservaPublican's avatar

“We get the government we deserve” never rang truer.

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Southern Planter's avatar

I am sure you will discuss it today, Erick, but I was relieved to see, by the almost unanimous vote to release the Epstein files yesterday, that Republicans are still capable of doing the obviously right thing. Too bad it is only when Trump tells them they won't be primaried for doing so. I am sure that if the tariffs were put to a similar vote, as they would be if proposed in the constitutional manner, the results would be the same.

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dan's avatar

SP, after the FBI supposedly spent 1000 man (or woman) hours redacting Trump's name from said files, what are the chances that the files, if ever shared publicly by the DOJ, actually reflect Trump in a negative light? The probability has to be less than zero.

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Southern Planter's avatar

Well, since the DOJ under Pam Bondi acts as Trump's personal law firm, that is a distinct possibility.

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Linda Gray's avatar

Today’s politics are nothing more than Shi….t show. It’s like they are competing to see who can be the most outrageous. Personally I’m sick of it.

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