Etymology of Words and Phrases, Part 4:

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No country has a closer association with the language of Olde Englande than the USA. From the days of the first Puritan settlers to recent cross-Atlantic tweetings, the two countries have shared in the development of English.

Many words and phrases used in the USA have retained their Elizabethan English meanings and pronunciations that have long disappeared in England itself. There are many American phrases which are used in the USA but haven’t been adopted anywhere else. Example of this are:

BLUE PLATE SPECIAL: Webster’s Dictionary defines ‘blue plate’ as a restaurant dinner plate divided into compartments for serving several kinds of food as a single order and a main course (as of meat and vegetable) served as a single menu item.

One early citation of the phrase is in this advert for the Young Women’s Christian Association, printed in the Illinois newspaper The Decatur Daily Review, September 1924. However, it is believed that the term blue plate special first appeared on menus of the Fred Harvey chain of restaurants in 1892. These were located at stations along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The blue plate special was designed to allow passengers to grab a quick bite to eat when the train stopped.

LEAD-PIPE CINCH: The ‘cinch’ that this expression derives from is the Spanish/Mexican word for a horse’s saddle-girth – cincha. The word is recorded in English, as ‘synch’ and later ‘cinch’ in various Canadian and US sources from the 1860s onward. From the 1880s the use was extended into a verb form and things which were tightly secured were said to be ‘cinched’ – for example, this piece from The Manitoba Daily Free Press, December 1882: “The next movement was to throw the bull, and then cinch a lasso and rope tightly around his body.”

The word cinch was also used in the USA as the name of sturdy fixing brackets, which were secure and unlikely to come loose.

The figurative use of cinch, meaning to tie-up or make certain, in non-animal contexts began around the same time. The usage was often in contexts where the rich and powerful used their status to form monopolies or indulge in insider trading in order to cheat the general public. An example of this comes from the Illinois newspaper The Morning Review, December 1889: “The briber and bribed would sit down to a game of poker and a lead-pipe cinch was nothing to the sure thing the legislators had.”

The common usage of ‘cinch’ now, that is, to mean ‘easy’ rather than ‘secure’, comes from this ‘easy money’ association. In October of 1891, The Daily Morning Republican, listed a number of ‘cinch’ superlatives to describe a punter’s certainty that his horse Firenzo would win the next day:

“The track will be heavy tomorrow, and I’ve got a copper riveted, lead pipe, copyrighted, air tight cinch. Firenzo in the mud – she swims in it.”

EIGHTY-SIXED: The term is American and originated in the restaurant trade. Both meanings loosely refer to something that was previously okay becoming not okay. The earliest known example of the expression in print is found in the journal of the American Dialect Society -American Speech, 1936: “Eighty-six, item on the menu not on hand.”

The actual origin is uncertain but is often suggested to be one of these: (1) Chumley’s Bar and restaurant at 86 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village NYC; (2) a reference to article 86 of the New York state liquor code which defines when bar patrons should be refused service; and (3) from Delmonico’s Restaurant in New York City. Item number 86 on their menu, their house steak, was often unavailable during the restaurant’s early years.

PRESTO CHANGO: Presto chango is a variant of the earlier exclamation ‘hey presto,’ which is used primarily in the USA. Before either expression was coined, conjurers and other stage performers simply said ‘presto!’ to draw attention to the culmination of a trick.

Presto is an Italian word meaning ‘quickly’ and it was used in England with that sense from the 13th century. “Hey Presto” began being used in England in the 18th century. The English writer Henry Fielding used it in 1732 in his farce The Lottery.

We go forward to the 19th century and ‘presto chango’ began being used in the USA. It took various spellings – ‘presto change’, ‘presto changeo’ and ‘presto chango’. ‘Presto! change’ is recorded in England in 1824 and it soon migrated to the USA and became ‘presto chango.’ One early US example can be found at the Pensacola Gazette & West Florida Advertiser April, 1824: “A tailor cannot drop his bodkin, a brick mason his trowel, or a grocer his cent per cent on coffee and candles; and become my Lord Coke or Hale by a presto change” Another was in the Ohio newspaper The Huron Reflector, February 1844: “Hey! presto! chango! as the juggler says – Kitty Grimes was not to be married to James Duncan after all.” Although ‘presto change’ was first used in the UK, the ‘presto chango‘ form can be said to be American – in fact, few people outside the USA would know what it meant.

Considering the debacle of an election we just experienced, I thought the following words were appropriate!!!!

CHEAT: Under medieval law a title to real estate could lapse in many ways. Property affected by such a lapse was called an “escheat” and became forfeit to the king. These cases were so numerous that some rulers employed escheators to look after their interests. Usually working on a commission basis, these fellows seized property at every opportunity. If they didn’t violate laws, they certainly trifled with justice. Because of the questionable practices of these royal agents, it became customary to call any dishonest person a cheat.”

Cheater Leader in the House

CON MAN: Hard times following the Civil War forced criminals to resort to all sorts of tricks to gain relatively small amounts of money. One of the most common was the sale of fraudulent mining stock. Investors were reluctant to advance funds without examining property, so swindlers adopted the practice of asking a victim to make a small deposit “just as a gesture of confidence.” The full amount was to be paid only after a trip to the West on the part of the purchaser.

Con-Man in the Senate

A swindler would take the money advanced and decamp. This type of trick became known as the “confidence game” because it worked only if the victim had confidence in the proposal. Anyone who practiced confidence games came to be called a con man. This title was applied to many types of swindlers and is now used to describe a shrewd thief who finds suckers [voters] by means of the Internet or e-mail.

FEET OF CLAY: Nebuchadnezzar II was the Babylonian king who captured Jerusalem in 587 BD, destroyed the city, and took the Hebrew people into captivity, ending the Judean kingdom. The book of Daniel tells how the young Hebrew captive explained one of the king’s strange dreams. Nebuchadnezzar had seen a giant image with a golden head, silver arms and breast, brass thighs, and iron legs. Every part was metal except the feet, which were compounded partly of iron and partly of potter’s clay.

Daniel said that his feet made the metal figure vulnerable, meaning that Babylon would be broken into pieces. Impressed by this dramatic story, English readers of the Bible seized upon the weak spot of the strange figure as a symbol of weakness in general. Today, any noted person with a vulnerable point is still said to have feet of clay.

Feet of Clay Crenshaw

KANGAROO COURT: When the English explorer Capt. James Cook returned from Australia in 1771, he was branded a liar. People disbelieved his reports of a strange animal that hopped about on two legs and stood as high as a man, which he reported the natives called a “kangaroo.” Many who heard his accounts doubted their truth and there was great joking about kangaroos.

When a few specimens were brought to Europe, they created a sensation. Anything marvelous or unusual was likely to be termed “kangaroo.” For example, an 1835 issue of the Gentleman’s Magazine described an eccentric horseman as holding his reins with “kangaroo attitude.” Settlers in the New World used the word to stand for any type of irregular gathering. During Reconstruction following the Civil War, a “kangaroo convention” held in Virginia made national headlines.

Criminals who adopted the odd word applied it to a “court” held by inmates of prisons. In such a proceeding, old-timers charged newcomers with such offenses as breaking into jail or being lousy and trying to scratch. Influenced by the prominence of irregular political gatherings, any extra-legal sham hearing came to be known as a kangaroo court.

SMARMY: “Smarmy,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, dates back to 1909 as an adjectival form of the word “smarm” or “smalm” which had been around for 100 years. Originally just a verb for smoothing, especially of hair, its meaning gradually moved to include the implication of a real smoothie. If you describe someone as smarmy, you dislike them because they are unpleasantly polite and flattering, usually because they want you to like them or to do something for them.

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  1. OK – today is perfect for chili, both eating it and making more! Since I just took my last container out of the freezer, and still have 3 containers of bean soup, the chili comes first! The ham is all frozen and waiting for another day…..

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  2. From Libs of TikTok:

    “This is how they block apartment doors in China to stop people leaving home for the “zero” COVID policy. A fire accident happened, and three kids died because they couldn’t escape.
    The CCP’s official comment: “It was because resident’s weak survival skill.”

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  3. “Belgium ‘fed you, gave you jobs’ and you ‘ransack it?’ – Belgian influencer rages after Moroccans riot over World Cup win — “To see such things in our f**king country, in our Belgium, which has taken you in and which you trash as much as possible after winning against Belgium?”
    November 29, 2022
    editor: REMIX NEWS author: JOHN CODY AND DENES ALBERT

    EXCERPT: “After Morocco’s shock World Cup victory over Belgium, a Belgian TIkTok influencer is questioning why fans of Morocco’s national football team, who live in Belgium, rioted and destroyed the cities that took them in as migrants.

    “Morocco has won. It has won against Belgium… You live in Belgium, but you are ransacking Belgium after your team won. Well done! Respect! But why? Why? I fail to understand,” TikTok user Nanavk3 said. “To see such things in our f**king country, in our Belgium, which has taken you in and which you trash as much as possible after winning against Belgium?

    “In the very country that has accepted you, given you f**king lodging, fed you, gave you jobs, and you, you win, and you have nothing better to do than to trash Belgium and ransack it?”
    (TikTok Video)
    The woman’s video, which has nearly 200,000 views and almost 5,000 comments, was posted after Morocco’s shock 2-0 victory over the Belgium team brought thousands of supporters of Morocco onto the streets of Brussels and Antwerp; many took part in large-scale rioting that saw police attacked, vehicles burned, and shops looted.

    ——————
    In one video, a Morocco fan scales a high-rise building to rip down a Belgium flag as a crowd cheers him on.”

    https://rmx.news/crime/belgium-fed-you-gave-you-jobs-and-you-ransack-it-belgian-influencer-rages-after-moroccans-riot-over-world-cup-win/

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  4. “After nurses fired across France for refusing Covid-19 vaccine, 71-year-old dies alone on stretcher in hospital hallway — 15,000 healthcare workers lost their jobs for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine”
    November 29, 2022
    editor: REMIX NEWS author: JOHN CODY

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “A 71-year-old man’s body was found lifeless three hours after he was admitted to the emergency department of Saint-Malo Hospital in France, with critics pointing to the mass terminations of French nurses who refused Covid-19 vaccines as a contributing factor in the man’s death.

    The emergency room admitted the 71-year-old man just before 9 p.m. on Nov. 17. After he received routine examinations, he then waited three hours on a stretcher in a hallway. His body was then discovered there by hospital staff. Now, a sign in front of the hospital’s emergency room reads, “Saturated emergency department, patients in danger,” which serves as a warning to all patients being treated in the ER.

    The death comes amidst a healthcare crisis in France, with 15,000 French healthcare workers suspended during the Covid-19 crisis after their refusal to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The resulting shortage of medical staff may just be one factor in France’s healthcare crisis, but the sheer number of workers let go over vaccine refusals means it is a major one. In the hospital where the 71-year-old man died, in total, 70 positions are now vacant in various departments, according to France 3 Bretagne.

    So far, the government of French President Emmanuel Macron has labeled it “completely out of the question” to lift sanctions on healthcare workers refusing to be vaccinated. The remaining staff in hospitals and clinics across the country are stretched thin and exhausted, which has in turn led to a large number of personnel quitting due to poor working conditions.

    In many ways, Saint-Malo Hospital has it better than many other locales, as several emergency services have closed their doors throughout the country. France’s rising immigrant population, while also filling some roles inside hospitals, has been a major burden as well, increasing the load on healthcare workers and leading to longer wait times in clinics in hospitals.

    Nurses are striking but still must work: Now, the management of the hospital faces a potential investigation, with the Public Prosecutor’s Office ordering an autopsy, reported the Ouest France news outlet. Since Nov. 2, Saint-Malo Hospital’s nursing staff has been on strike, but the law requires them to continue working. The Health, Safety, and Working Conditions Committee has declared that a “serious and imminent danger” is occurring at the hospital due to worker shortages and long working hours. The union has met with staff and the director of the hospital to address the crisis.

    The hospital management says it is premature to claim that the man’s death is connected to the “current situation” regarding hospital staff.”

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  5. “Anti-Science Right-Wingers Protest Common Sense COVID Restrictions”
    WORLD · Nov 29, 2022 · BabylonBee.com

    “SHANGHAI — According to sources, thousands of right-wing, anti-science extremists have converged in Shanghai to protest Chinese President Xi’s common sense COVID restrictions.

    “These science deniers are extremely dangerous,” said CCP Propaganda Minister Yin-Yon Yangalong. “Our benevolent President Xi has locked thousands of people in their homes for several weeks for their own safety. This is a very compassionate and pro-science policy and anyone who questions it is a right-wing bigot.”

    The minister went on to explain that thousands have already been saved from COVID as they have starved to death or burned to death locked in their own apartments. “After extensive scientific research, we found that dead people are completely safe from being infected with COVID,” he said, smiling.

    Biden has offered his support to protestors in a public statement, saying: “Come on, man! Flarpjack mibbymufflins! Lardledoo!” The administration, however, quietly pledged support for President Xi, promising they would work with tech companies to silence dissent whenever possible.

    At publishing time, Canadian PM Trudeau had also offered to help President Xi, citing his experience with trucker protests.”
    —————–
    “Progressive Family Adds New Planned Parenthood Location To Christmas Village Display”
    LIFESTYLE · Nov 28, 2022 · BabylonBee.com

    “WESTON, MA — In a powerful statement on women’s reproductive rights, a local family has added a Planned Parenthood location to their elaborate Christmas village display.

    “As we looked at the quaint little village we had created, we realized there was something missing: a place for the little porcelain villagers to go when they need to get rid of an unwanted baby,” said Karen Loudstone, while adjusting the sign on the 1:32 scale abortion clinic. “Everyone knows you can’t make holiday wishes come true without abortion access!”

    The clinic comes complete with a tiny figure of a pregnant woman as well as a biohazard waste dumpster for the clinic workers to dump discarded children for the cute little porcelain garbage truck to pick up on Thursdays. To give the village a more realistic feel, the Loudstone family also removed 1 in 5 children from the festive display.

    “Sometimes in the hustle and bustle of the holidays, we forget what this time is all about,” said Loudstone. “This time is about family, friends, and the children we abort for our own personal convenience.” At publishing time, the family had also added a drag queen to the little library building down the street.
    —————–
    Man Hits Fitness Goal Of Only Gaining 9 Pounds Over Thanksgiving Weekend
    LIFE · Nov 28, 2022 · BabylonBee.com

    “ANNAPOLIS, MD — A local man is celebrating after his bathroom scale confirmed he had met his ambitious fitness goal of gaining only 9 pounds over the Thanksgiving weekend. “Yessss!” exclaimed the man as he adjusted the scale with one hand and demolished a leftover turkey leg with the other. “Less than 10 pounds of Thanksgiving weight gain! NEW RECORD, BABY! WOOOOO!”

    The man then did a celebratory jump in the air before immediately clutching his sides, as they were extremely cramped from the bowl of stuffing and sweet potato pie he had just consumed. Sources say that although the man ate over 182 pounds of Thanksgiving cuisine over the last several days, his stringent exercise plan and hard work resulted in an astonishingly small 9 pounds of additional body fat.

    The man confirmed his next goal is to lose 5 of those pounds before gaining another 15 pounds at Christmas.”

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      1. All done! My nose and cheeks were cold but all 4 feeding stations are now refilled and ready for plundering! I even put the extra tidbits of suet out for the squirrels, and put up another suet feeder that I know they will get into easily.

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  7. i just opened a fresh bag of walnuts so I could grind them up to make more kinds of cookies and after I ground the first handful, i smelled them–they smelled rancid. I bought this bag weeks ago at walmart and the expiration date says Oct 12, 2023 on it. I kept them in the freezer so they’d be fresh…but gees…they smell really bad! won’t be using this whole one pound bag!
    dang–

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      1. i asked him…cuz he rarely lets me throw anything out–I’ll still eat it, he says…when i get the chance i toss it anyways–he forgets about it. but even said they smell bad.
        we’re debating throwing them out for the animals–you think they’d get sick???

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  8. “Air Marshall Union Expresses Concerns After Marshals Reassigned To Southern Border”

    (A US border patrol helicopter overflies the US-Mexico border fence as US President Donald Trump visits Calexico, California, as seen from Mexicali, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 5, 2019. (GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images)

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “OAN Newsroom
    UPDATED 11:51 AM PT – Tuesday, November 29, 2022

    “The Head of an Air Marshals Union said that the Biden administration is risking ‘another 9/11’ type event by diverting marshals to work at the southern border. When speaking to Fox News on Monday, Sonya Labosco called on the White House to stop taking air marshals out of the sky. The executive director of the Air Marshal National Council clearly noted that marshals were only able to be present on about 1% of flights this month.

    Labosco pointed to a slew of recent incidents which could’ve be aided by the presence of a marshal, including a recent level-4 incident during which someone tried to access the cockpit of a commercial flight.

    “There have been numerous incidents, a level 4 threat which means someone tried to breach a cockpit two days ago on a Southwest flight,” she stated. “So, the message is, Sir, please replace the air marshals on the border. Stop taking them out of the sky and let us do the job that we were trained to do. We have been decimated. We have been depleted. We’re on less than 1% of flights. These ground-based duties that they’re pulling us out of the sky to go to the border are just demolishing our chances at stopping another 9/11.”

    Labosco also claimed that the President Joe Biden has not answered a letter she sent expressing concerns over flight safety risks. The majority of Marshals were reassigned to the border by the Department of Homeland Security. Air marshals were previously on-board about 5% of American flights.”

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    1. do you remember what happened after the last time the pentagon (rumsfeld iirc) admitted they lost track of trillions of $$?
      I’ll give you a hint…rumsfeld revealed the info on September 10, 2001

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  10. Pepto Bismol can beat cv…LOL
    fta
    The CDC and WHO have deemed the COVID-19 virus a global pandemic of unprecedented severity in modern times. In 2019, this novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged from the Asian continent and has now caused upwards of 1million deaths and over 6 million infections globally. Currently, the estimated global economic impact is over 5 Trillion dollars. Understanding the host response to pathogens, specifically the cellular and humoral responses, has played an important role in new non-antibiotic therapies. Bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol) has a potential role in the clearance and/or recurrence of enteric viral infections.

    Detailed Description:

    Readily available over-the-counter (OTC) medication for symptomatic relief and appropriate oral hydration can be health saving measures of great convenience for those affected by enteric bacterial and viral infections. BSS is a non-proprietary monograph product that is available in the USA and abroad, over-the-counter (OTC). Of all OTC medications for traveller’s diarrhea (TD), bismuth subsalicylate (BSS) has the greatest antimicrobial activity against pathogenic bacteria .BSS has also exhibited significant inhibition on viral invasion of host cells and viral efficacy. Both BSS and bismuth oxychloride (BiOCl, which is formed in the stomach after ingestion of BSS) at low concentration (0.004-0.13mg/mL) significantly reduced NoV RNA levels, suggesting an in vivo antiviral mechanism. BSS has also been shown to have antiviral activity since it inhibited replication of 4 strains of rotavirus in tissue culture cells and caused a dose-dependent reduction in the growth of several enteric viruses.

    Historically, BSS has been indicated and effectively used for the treatment of TD or enteric infection, mainly when vomiting occurs. Although the safety and efficacy of BSS is well known, some of the research done with BSS resides within the industry and have not been published. We have recently completed an extensive meta-analysis using unpublished clinical studies regarding BSS safety and efficacy. Meta-analyses of randomized controlled clinical trials were performed with studies specifically designed to capture prevention of manifestation and relief of diarrhea.

    https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04811339

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      1. IMO, they should have stood on their principles and forced them to charge them – would they have even gone thru with it? You don’t know since no-one challenged them…..force them to go to court and, if nothing else, it would have delayed the certification. They are too afraid of lawsuits!

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        1. iirc kari lake said the certification has to proceed BEFORE she can file or go further with her law suits…perhaps she discussed this with these people–broadcast what was really going on so they can document it and get it in the law suit. that way EVERYONE is aware of the coercion going on before the lawsuits even get to court?
          but what do i know?

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          1. Well, it wouldn’t BE Kari Lake filing anything – it would be the people on the committee filing felony charges against those on the committee who refused to vote yes – let them go ahead and charge them with a felony……

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          2. Granted, I’m not speaking from any legal experience – just common sense and seeing what has happened in the past. Often, they make these threats and then, when someone stands up to them, they back down…..just spitballing, as usual.

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  13. illegal alien pervert attacked several underage people (all men?) and when arrested, he claimed he was a minor from Morocco. but he was on file–a 24 year old from Algiers…I AM SHOCKED an illegal would LIE…
    entire story
    An adult illegal migrant with a criminal history told authorities he was a minor when he was arrested for a series of sex attacks on underage victims in Paris last week, according to reports.

    The rampage began at around 7 a.m. on Friday in the 15th arrondissement of France’s capital city.

    An 18-year-old male was on his way to school when the suspect accosted him on rue de Lourmel.

    “This man told the high school student that he needed help finding his way. He then dragged him into a corner, then exhibited a six-inch metal hook to threaten him, all the while saying he also had a gun,” a police source told Actu 17.

    The suspect then reached inside the victim’s underwear and proceeded to sexually assault him before the student could escape and alert police, who were unable to locate the predator.

    At around 7:45 a.m., a suspect with the same description was reported for prowling around St. Elizabeth’s School.

    “He tried to approach several minor students and tried to snatch the bag of a 15-year-old teenager, but finally gave up when several people witnessed the scene,” the source said.

    Half an hour later, the suspect struck again, this time dragging a 16-year-old boy off the street and into a secluded area.

    He forced the student to touch him sexually while brandishing the hook and offering the child cocaine.

    The victim managed to break free, and the suspect fled.

    The next day, transport police observed a suspicious man at Gare du Nord station.

    “He had a strange attitude and watched the dozing passengers waiting for their train,” the source explained.

    Officers began following the African and reportedly watched him try to attack at least three underage victims on their way to school.

    Finally, when the suspect sexually assaulted a young man aboard a train, officers arrested him in the act.

    Investigators later determined he was the same suspect implicated in the previous day’s attacks.

    “The examinations showed that he had indeed consumed cocaine recently,” the source said.

    “He maintained that he was a 16-year-old Moroccan minor, but the investigators ended up identifying him as a 24-year-old Algerian, since he was already known to their services.”

    The Algerian was quickly sentenced to four years in prison, expulsion from France, and a ten-year ban from entering the country.

    https://europe.infowars.com/paris-adult-illegal-migrant-claims-to-be-underage-after-slew-of-sex-attacks-on-minors/

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  14. another crypto guy dies mysteriously
    FTA
    Vyacheslav Taran, 53, died after the helicopter he was travelling in crashed near the resort town of Villefranche-sur-Mer after taking off from Switzerland 
    They mysteriously crashed in good weather – and after another passenger reportedly cancelled last minute
    Taran is third cryptocurrency entrepreneur to die unexpectedly in recent weeks
    It comes just days after businessman Tiantian Kullander, 30, died ‘in his sleep’ 

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11480711/Russian-billionaire-53-killed-helicopter-crash-near-Monaco-latest-crypto-mystery-death.html

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  15. “U.K. Prosecutors: Some Bible Verses “No Longer Appropriate” to Be Quoted in Public”
    by Michael Tennant November 29, 2022

    (Daniel Tadevosyan/iStock/Getty Images Plus)
    EXCERPT: “British prosecutors declared recently that certain Bible passages are “no longer appropriate” to be uttered in public. “There are references in the bible which are simply no longer appropriate in modern society and which would be deemed offensive if stated in public,” lawyers from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) told the court.

    The statement occurred in the course of CPS’ prosecution of street preacher John Dunn for the alleged crime of offending two lesbians by quoting Scripture to them. Despite having lost his voice box to throat cancer, Dunn, 55, preaches regularly on the streets of Swindon, a town in southwestern England. According to Christian Concern, whose legal arm represented Dunn:

    ‘On 1st November 2020, Mr. Dunn was preaching when two women walked past holding hands. Mr. Dunn said: “I hope you are sisters.” They replied that they were in a same-sex marriage.

    In line with biblical beliefs on human sexuality, Mr. Dunn said out of genuine concern for the women that: “It says in the Bible that homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God,” which is a verse from 1 Corinthians 6.’

    “When I preach, I only ever say what is in the Bible,” said Dunn. “When they told me they were in a same-sex marriage, I was concerned for them. I had to communicate the consequences of their actions based on what the Bible says. I wanted to warn them, not out of condemnation, but out of love. I wanted to them to know that there is forgiveness through the love of Jesus.”

    The women reported the incident to the police, alleging that Dunn “shouted that [they] would ‘burn in hell’ and called one of them a ‘devil woman,’” reported the Northern Ireland-based News Letter. Dunn denied having said either; and, of course, he couldn’t possibly have shouted anything given his lack of a larynx.

    After a voluntary interview with the police, Dunn was charged under the Public Order Act.”

    https://thenewamerican.com/u-k-prosecutors-some-bible-verses-no-longer-appropriate-to-be-quoted-in-public/

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  16. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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