The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Assuming nothing changes and that Americans allow it to happen, Zohran Mamdani will likely be elected as the mayor of NYC. Just remember that its constituents, both foreign and domestic, are ready for him to take office.
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Just a warning to the people of NYC, forgetfulness is death. What one group of Muslim terrorists did then is only different in detail and means to what Zohran Mamdani will do if it’s allowed to become the Mayor of the city. And the world has already seen how it will start now that they’re emboldened by one of their own being so close to a position of power.
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That’s essentially what these three Democrat Governors are screaming. They hate and fear President Trump so much that they’re more than willing to fight against crime being dealt with in their major, crime-ridden cities.
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I’ve written before how tyranny will happen here in America. And, sadly, I was right, because it did happen here and large swaths of those living within our borders cheered it on.
A radical, Democrat judge, Arthur Engoron and a far-Left Attorney General, Letitia James – who got elected on her promise to persecute President Trump by any means necessary – colluded to manufacture a civil fraud case against President Trump even though their were no plaintiffs and no damaged parties in the case, and all the supposed victims of President Trump testified in his defense. Engoran even went so far as to arbitrarily assign monetary values to President Trump’s properties to make the case against him.
The result of this kangaroo court was a $355 million plus interest penalty, and President Trump being banned for three years from serving in any top roles at a New York company, including his own. Engoran is also appointing his people to oversea and possibly dissolve President Trump’s NY businesses.
Again, let it be written a read – Democrats convened a court with no plaintiffs or complaining witnesses except their own DA, decided by fiat the basis of the cases – President Trump’s real estate values, ignored the testimony of the supposed victims of fraud, and simply stole President Trumps wealth.
Government Tyranny – the reason for the 2nd Amendment – can and has happened here now. The only question is who will be the Democrats’ next victim of their weaponized judicial system.
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‘Tis odd but true; New York, thanks to actions by the state’s legislature and NY’s Governor, Kathy Hochul – most likely as a sop to the climatards and/or due to getting kickbacks from Recompose – has legalized the composting of human remains, euphemized as natural organic reduction, terramation, and/or recomposition. This makes New York the 6th Democrat-controlled state, following Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, and California, to allow the controversial practice.
To my mind and irrespective of the reasons Democrats had for putting for and then passing this into law, in so long as it is a truly voluntary choice – i.e., the Dems don’t “regulate” and tax burials and cremations to the point that they’re no longer valid choices for most people – I not only don’t mind this, I like it. I have a normal American man’s love of family and have always been an avid gardener. Having my composted remains added to my family’s gardens suits me quite, quite well. Christian groups, especially Catholics hold a quite different opinion though, one which makes no historical or Biblical sense to me at all.
This Is About As Biblical As One Can Get
Despite what certain Catholic across the country have proclaimed, composting the remains of a dead person is about as biblical as it gets.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
That makes it pretty clear to me, and that is in English. If we move to a closer source, Classical Hebrew, “dust” in Genesis is aphar adamah (dust of the soil), which would be the soil and the soil alone, whereas the beasts were created from the haāeres (the land as a whole). So, Man was created from the fertile soil and shall eventually, after a life of labor wresting sustenance from that soil, return to it. Amen.
Snarky Sidenote: Yes, to my fellow linguistic enthusiasts! Adam’s name was “Dirt.” š
This is the basis for why Talmudic law forbids both cremation and embalming the dead. We are soil and we must be returned to it and become it again.
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As for the Catholics odd-seeming over-veneration of corpses? It creeps me out a bit – relics! š® – but it’s their thing andt they’re welcome to it. It is, however, a false argument in this cases. Buried in the ground, buried at sea, cremated, or composted – he 1st three all being allowed by Church doctrine – intrinsically carry with them any veneration or sanctification of a person’s mortal remains. But, nor do they carry and intrinsic profanation of those remains.
Frankly speaking, I find it closer to spirit of Catholic teachings to have a tree growing from one’s composted remains or to have the value left in one’s flesh feeding the garden that helps sustain one’s family than to have one’s meat chemically treated so that it both can’t rot for ages and would poison the ground (adamah) it was “returned” to if the vault it was placed in failed; or one’s ashes consigned to a columbarium and swiftly forgotten; or buried at sea and just as swiftly forgotten and more unreachable.
And hey! Those Catholic clergy and their Church have a lot of properties with a lot of green space. There’s nothing to say that their faithful couldn’t bequeath their no longer needed, composted dead flesh to bring life to them. š
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“You donāt have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.” A Canticle For Leibowitz Walter M. Miller (1959)
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