SQL DBA née sysadmin, guitarist, bassist, sitarist, surbahar-monger.

Kansas City
Joined August 2012
Nic Neufeld retweeted
Lord Uxbridge (hit by a cannon ball at the battle of Waterloo): By God, I've lost my leg. Duke of Wellington: By God, Sir, so you have. Surely the greatest exchange in British military history.
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Our memorial stone to the wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was dedicated #onthisday in 1965. The green marble stone, close to the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II on the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Churchill is also honoured with this statue just across from the Abbey in Parliament Square.
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This is indeed the source of so many of our current pathologies
As usual, manias in the West come down to people who exist in a Christian culture but who are no longer Christian, instinctively seeking ways to express their Christianity. HT @holland_tom
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Nic Neufeld retweeted
Every complaint about capitalism devolves into musings about what it would be like to be an aristocrat.
"Capitalism is why people have to work" is very silly thing to say, but it's part of a grand tradition of blaming literally everything, no matter how absurd, on capitalism. A short thread:
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Ben Dreyfuss
@bendreyfussAug 18
ET seems like a nice guy, and I believe one day ET should be allowed to go home, but first he’s going to have to spend 3 years being interrogated at the bottom of the deepest mineshaft we have.
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Josh Barro
@jbarroAug 9
If you’re going to go with the line “Woke 1 was crazy,” I think we need a bit fuller of an account of why you and these other politicians became crazy and what you all learned about how not to do it again.
Woke 1 WAS crazyyyy, Madame President
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Nic Neufeld retweeted
Outrageous photo of voluptuous trollop typifies US tabloid media "race to the bottom".
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i can still live another 50 years if @Mike_Pence has the courage
Profoundly Moving. Start to Finish. Thank You @BenSasse for Your Personal Courage and Showing What it Means to Love Your Family and Love God🙏🏻
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Nic Neufeld retweeted
I guess I'll have to blog about this tomorrow, but "LOL, Trump TACO'ed out" is decidedly not the right reaction as compared to "that kind of brinkmanship is really fucking dangerous".
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Nic Neufeld retweeted
Today’s 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court is a Victory for the American People and a Win for the Separation of Powers enshrined in the Constitution of the United States. In Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, our Supreme Court has reaffirmed that the Constitution grants Congress - not the President - the power to tax. American families and American businesses pay American tariffs - not foreign countries. With this decision, American families and businesses can breathe a sigh of relief. I’m proud of the work our organization @AmericanFreedom has done on this case through our robust amicus brief program to advance economic freedom and defend the Constitution. With this historic decision, America can now return to the pursuit of Free Trade with Free Nations under the Constitution of the United States!🇺🇸
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Someone please let me know if the Supreme Court cited my “Fucking Dingus Doctrine.”
Eventually the courts are going to have to step in and say “you can’t just call everything a national security threat you fucking dingus.”
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Jonah Goldberg
@JonahDispatchFeb 13
Small reminder: if you took conservative positions on the Constitution, the economy, foreign policy, or basic morality and then radically changed them solely because a Republican was elected president who changed the party’s positions, you were never really a conservative, you were just a Republican.
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Jonah Goldberg
@JonahDispatchJan 19
Congress does nothing to preserve American honor, and then when Trump (and other presidents to a lesser degree) debases it further they’re like “these are the times we live in.” Yes, because of you. History will have nothing but contempt for your cowardice, certainly as an institution but for many of you as individuals.
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Nic Neufeld retweeted
If you were appalled and outraged by the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol while it was happening but now minimize it and harshly criticize folks who continue to regard it as you once did, maybe you've managed to gaslight yourself.
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Nic Neufeld retweeted
Some misled you That the VP could reject ballots That objections could pass or used as leverage to force an audit They knew the truth but thought it was a great way to get attention & raise money
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“NATO was built to fight only one war: to save free Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine is the only country fighting this war — and we’re still discussing, ‘Should we include them or not?’ Ukraine is the only country fulfilling NATO’s destiny!” 🙏🙏🙏 @Kasparov63
Garry Kasparov is 100% correct. Thank you for always telling it like it is, @Kasparov63. Listen before it's too late.
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We just found an old photo album of someone’s Army service in Korea and Japan from 1956 on Echo Lane near Memorial High School in Houston, Texas. Clearly fell out of a car. Can yall help me find the owner?
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Nic Neufeld retweeted
No culture is safe from nerds in Japan. Any song your people have or dish they make. Japanese autism will seize it and do it ten times better than your ancestors could’ve ever imagined.
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