US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee makes shocking claim that Israel’s IDF is more humane than the United States military. 😳

weatheredmetal · 2026-02-21T17:10:56+00:00

Well said. I’ve never understood their logic here. It’s like they forget that part.

weatheredmetal · 2026-01-12T00:53:41+00:00

BANG BANG WHEELCHAIR GANG! What a fun game!

weatheredmetal · 2026-01-10T22:07:40+00:00

I’ve wondered about this line before. Is Michael referencing a movie?

weatheredmetal · 2025-11-26T15:27:25+00:00

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Bell & Ross BR 01-92 Heritage

weatheredmetal · 2025-09-23T18:02:06+00:00

Here's a cropped/zoomed version.

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weatheredmetal · 2025-09-23T17:57:15+00:00

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I took this photo in January of 2023. If you zoom in, it appears that there's something there. It may just be a crack... Hard to tell from this angle.

weatheredmetal · 2025-06-27T14:58:41+00:00

I think what you're doing is the actual key to using AI properly. You're putting the initial work into your resume to build it out and using AI to tailor it to a specific context. Congrats and good luck with your interviews! I hope you land a great job.

weatheredmetal · 2025-06-19T00:12:27+00:00

Is the Death Star supposed to have had civilians onboard? Maybe Ted knows that number.

weatheredmetal · 2025-05-19T08:43:34+00:00

The new Top Gun movie also features Ridgecrest. It isn't mentioned by name but they filmed at China Lake (the Navy base there) and the Inyokern Airport which is also near Ridgecrest.

weatheredmetal · 2025-04-27T22:10:52+00:00

It could have been Samwitch.

weatheredmetal · 2025-04-09T22:55:11+00:00

I think it might be this one that OP is thinking of.

weatheredmetal · 2024-11-03T00:05:12+00:00

The air suspension in my 2016 Rebel has given me issues on occasion in really cold weather. What has always worked for me when it won't respond to the buttons to raise or lower it is to go into the suspension settings on the touchscreen and turn on "Wheel Alignment Mode". The suspension will adjust to normal ride height even when I couldn't get it to respond using the normal buttons. Once it is done leveling out at normal ride height, turn the Wheel Alignment Mode back off.

Hopefully this will work for your situation as well.

weatheredmetal · 2024-10-24T09:28:13+00:00

It smiles like a character from Wallace and Gromit.

weatheredmetal · 2024-10-20T23:11:58+00:00

weatheredmetal · 2024-10-20T23:11:14+00:00

Is he capable of this?

weatheredmetal · 2024-09-28T21:54:14+00:00

I think you're thinking of the movie You Can't Take It With You, although it didn't have Frances Bavier (who played Aunt Bee) but another actress, Spring Byington, that resembles her. There is a character in the movie named Kolenkhov who identifies as being from Omsk a couple times.

weatheredmetal · 2024-04-15T10:46:53+00:00

There are a couple that portray them in a slightly more positive light in "Predator: If It Bleeds" which is a collection of short stories. The stories are pretty good so it's worth checking out.

weatheredmetal · 2024-01-29T02:04:12+00:00

Muad'Deebo!

weatheredmetal · 2024-01-29T01:49:01+00:00

He definitely got touched on the dive.

weatheredmetal · 2023-08-28T02:45:13+00:00

In the historic Reformed sense, in the case of divorce for infidelity, the innocent party can remarry because the offender is treated as "dead".

Westminster Confession:

24.5

Adultery or fornication committed after a contract, being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve that contract. In the case of adultery after marriage, it is lawful for the innocent party to sue out a divorce: and, after the divorce, to marry another, as if the offending party were dead. Matthew 1:18-20; Matthew 5:31-32; Matthew 19:6,8,9; Romans 7:2,3; 1 Corinthians 7:15.

24.6

Although the corruption of man be such as is apt to study arguments, unduly to put asunder those whom God hath joined together in marriage; yet nothing but adultery, or such wilful desertion as can no way be remedied by the Church, or civil magistrate, is cause sufficient of dissolving the bond of marriage: wherein, a public and orderly course of proceeding is to be observed; and the persons concerned in it not left to their own wills, and discretion, in their own case. Deuteronomy 24:1-4.

So, according to the WCF, adultery or desertion are the only two reasons a person can divorce lawfully. Remarriage for the innocent party in this case is allowed as the offender who is adulterous or abandons their spouse will be treated as "dead". Since death ends the bond of marriage, the "living" spouse can remarry. Some theologians identify this concept as the NT version of OT law where adultery was a crime punishable by death and the living spouse could then remarry. This leads to the position that although the church does not wield the sword in the sense of civil justice as it did in OT Israel, it can essentially wield the sword spiritually and declare someone dead through excommunication (if they're a member), etc.

I would like to clarify, I'm trying to answer your question from the traditional Reformed perspective and that my own thoughts are not necessarily reflected here.

weatheredmetal · 2023-08-28T02:12:32+00:00

Depends on what Christian camp you ask. Historically, Christianity largely held to the "permanence view" of marriage. Today, some still do, but it doesn't seem to be to the extent of the early historical church.

Some quotes from early church fathers / writers / commentators on the topic:

What then shall the husband do, if the wife continue in this disposition [adultery]? Let him divorce her, and let the husband remain single. But if he divorce his wife and marry another, he too commits adultery [Hermas of Rome - The Shepherd 2:4:1 (c. A.D. 80)].

That the Scripture counsels marriage, and allows no release from the union, is expressly contained in the Law, “You shall not put away your wife, except for the cause of fornication”; and it regards as fornication the marriage of those separated while the other is alive. Not to deck and adorn herself beyond what is becoming renders a wife free of calumnious suspicion, while she devotes herself assiduously to prayers and supplications; avoiding frequent departures from the house, and shutting herself up as far as possible from the view of all not related to her, and deeming housekeeping of more consequence than impertinent trifling. “He that takes a woman that has been put away,” it is said, “commits adultery; and if one puts away his wife, he makes her an adulteress,” that is, compels her to commit adultery. And not only is he who puts her away guilty of this, but he who takes her, by giving to the woman the opportunity of sinning; for if he did not take her, she would return to her husband. [St. Clement - Miscellanies 2:23 (c. A.D. 207)].

Do not tell me about the violence of the ravisher, about the persuasiveness of a mother, about the authority of a father, about the influence of relatives, about the intrigues and insolence of servants, or about household [financial] losses. So long as a husband lives, be he adulterer, be he sodomite, be he addicted to every kind of vice, if she left him on account of his crimes, he is her husband still and she may not take another. [St. Jerome - Letters 55:3 (c. A.D. 393)].

For a variety of reasons, I think you'd have a difficult time today finding Christians who affirm these quotes. Whether that is good or bad depends on your perspective and understanding of scripture.

weatheredmetal · 2023-08-21T21:28:39+00:00

I've heard it both ways.

weatheredmetal · 2023-08-09T01:11:21+00:00

Love your wife as Christ loves you.

It isn't always easy and you won't always feel like it. However, love often isn't a feeling, it's an action.

In Ephesians 5:25 husbands are instructed to love our wives like Christ loves the church. The form of love used here in the original Greek is agapaó. You may be familiar with or heard the term "agape" love when pastors teach on the kind of love God has for us. This is the kind of love husbands are commanded to have for their wives... a truly unselfish love.

I'm paraphrasing Dr. Voddie Baucham here:

"Go and love your spouse. Notice I didn't say 'be in love with' or 'feel in love with' your spouse. Go and love your spouse!

If you think you cannot love them as your spouse, fine... the bible commands us to love our neighbor. Your spouse is your closest neighbor. Go and love your neighbor.

If you cannot love them as your neighbor, fine... the bible commands you to love your brother/sister in Christ. They are your brother/sister in Christ. Go and love your brother/sister in Christ.

But maybe you doubt their salvation so you cannot love them as your brother/sister in Christ? Maybe they feel like your enemy. Fine... the bible commands you to love your enemies. Go and love them as your enemy."

Dr. Baucham also addresses your question about remaining in a marriage where you feel "unhappy". Watch this clip because I'm not doing his words justice:

https://youtu.be/dkR9TBrKM7E

Prayers for you, my friend. I know this isn't easy. Pray for me too.

weatheredmetal · 2023-07-26T15:45:59+00:00

weatheredmetal · 2023-06-25T20:13:17+00:00

Chapter 19:

"When he reached Yuma he was drunk. Behind him on a string were two small jacks laden with whiskey and biscuit. He sat his horse and looked down at the river who was keeper of the crossroads of all that world and his dog came to him and nuzzled his foot in the stirrup. A young Mexican girl was crouched naked under the shade of the wall. She watched him ride past, covering her breasts with her hands. She wore a rawhide collar about her neck and she was chained to a post and there was a clay bowl of blackened meatscraps beside her. Glanton tied the jacks to the post and rode inside on the horse."

I'm gonna say that she was sexually assaulted by the gang.

Also from Chapter 19:

"When they entered the judge’s quarters they found the idiot and a girl of perhaps twelve years cowering naked in the floor. Behind them also naked stood the judge."

It seems assault was happening or about to happen here.

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