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re: Joe Massino, former boss of the Bonanno Mafia family, dies in Witness Protection
Posted on 9/22/23 at 7:03 am to LSU alum wannabe
Posted on 9/22/23 at 7:03 am to LSU alum wannabe
It’s only ok for huge corporations and the government to be loan sharking, taking bets, avoiding paying taxes, and lobbying politicians.
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Posted on 9/22/23 at 7:23 am to BigBobbyStorey
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Massino, once a trim and powerful man who would jump off the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge in Queens and swim for hours, battled a number of chronic health conditions including diabetes and obesity.
Witness Protection nutrition and exercise programs need some work apparently.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 7:26 am to Gaspergou202
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There is but one unforgivable sin and that’s rejecting God.
get the frick out of here. Yes a serial killer should make it to heaven if he accepts God, but not a person who does good deeds and helps others all his life Religious people are dumb as shite
This post was edited on 9/22/23 at 7:26 am
Posted on 9/22/23 at 7:26 am to BigBobbyStorey
I dated a Bonanno girl. She was hot and crazy.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:03 am to Proximo
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Religious people are dumb as shite
Well I could mention the likes of Isaac Newton, but let’s just list a few religious “dumb” people alive in the last 100 years
Arthur Compton, a deacon in the Baptist Church. Discovered that light can behave as a particle as well as a wave, and coined the word photon to describe a particle of light.
Ronald Fisher, a devout Anglican: made religious broadcasts, and wrote religious articles. Unified evolution by natural selection with Mendel’s rules of inheritance, so defining the new field of population genetics. Invented experimental design; devised the statistical concept of variance.
Georges Lemaître, a Roman Catholic priest. Discovered that space and the universe are expanding; discovered Hubble’s law; proposed the universe began with the explosion of a ‘primeval atom’ whose matter spread and evolved to form the galaxies and stars we observe today.
Charles Townes, a member of the United Church of Christ. Prayed daily. Wrote books linking science and religion; believed religion more important than science. Invented the laser and maser. Established that the Milky Way has a supermassive black hole at its center.
Charles Barkla, a Methodist who believed science was part of his quest for God. Discovered that atoms have the same number of electrons as their atomic number and that X-rays emitted by excited atoms are ‘fingerprints’ for the atom.
Francis Collins, was an atheist turned devout Christian. Invented positional cloning. Took part in discovery of the genes for cystic fibrosis, Huntington’s disease, and neurofibromatosis. Directed National Human Genome Research Institute for 15 years.
Ernest Walton, a devout Methodist, who said science was a way of knowing more about God. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics after he artificially split the atom and proved that E = mc2.
J. J. Thomson, a practicing Anglican who prayed and read the Bible daily. Discovered the electron; invented one of the most powerful tools in analytical chemistry – the mass spectrometer; obtained the first evidence for isotopes of stable elements.
Werner Heisenberg, a Lutheran with deep Christian convictions. One of the primary creators of quantum mechanics. Formulated the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Note 1: I only chose people who lived recently or are still alive.
Note 2: I only chose scientists or medical professionals. Yet, brilliance exists across the spectrum of human endeavors.
Note 3: I only chose Christians. Brilliance can be found in members of all the world’s religions.
Note 4: You sir, have publicly proclaimed your religious intolerance, bigotry, and ignorance. Go broaden your horizons, please.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:12 am to Gaspergou202
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Arthur Compton, a deacon in the Baptist Church. Discovered that light can behave as a particle as well as a wave, and coined the word photon to describe a particle of light.
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Einstein explained the photoelectric effect by saying that "light itself is a particle," and for this he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:36 am to hubertcumberdale
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Not only that, but I’m sure most of the crimes committed were against others in the mob.
I used to think that way but I've found there are many documented instances of outright innocent people being harmed or killed by the mob. The whole protection racket thing is a rough deal and those folks are innocent. Imagine owning a restaurant or business in someone's territory and you have to start paying protection or tribute, or employ someone's lazy nephew.
This was once very common and bad news.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:45 am to hubertcumberdale
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It’s only ok for huge corporations and the government to be loan sharking, taking bets, avoiding paying taxes, and lobbying politicians.
Interesting that so many "mob" business is now government and corporate
Numbers game became government lottery
Loan sharking became national banking (usury laws capped interest rates at 6%)
Gambling became legit and now owned by faceless corporations
Protection racket would love the powers the IRS now has
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:46 am to hubertcumberdale
Sir Isaac Newton was the first to propose the particle nature of light 200 years before Einstein’s work.
There are many fathers in physics!
There are many fathers in physics!
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:48 am to Proximo
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Yes a serial killer should make it to heaven if he accepts God
Should is a term for humans. Not for God. And he must accept God and ask for forgiveness. Forgiveness was the main point of emphasis this past Sunday.
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23 'And so the kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a king who decided to settle his accounts with his servants.
24 When the reckoning began, they brought him a man who owed ten thousand talents;
25 he had no means of paying, so his master gave orders that he should be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, to meet the debt.
26 At this, the servant threw himself down at his master's feet, with the words, "Be patient with me and I will pay the whole sum."
27 And the servant's master felt so sorry for him that he let him go and cancelled the debt.
28 Now as this servant went out, he happened to meet a fellow-servant who owed him one hundred denarii; and he seized him by the throat and began to throttle him, saying, "Pay what you owe me."
29 His fellow-servant fell at his feet and appealed to him, saying, "Be patient with me and I will pay you."
30 But the other would not agree; on the contrary, he had him thrown into prison till he should pay the debt.
31 His fellow-servants were deeply distressed when they saw what had happened, and they went to their master and reported the whole affair to him.
32 Then the master sent for the man and said to him, "You wicked servant, I cancelled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me.
33 Were you not bound, then, to have pity on your fellow-servant just as I had pity on you?"
34 And in his anger the master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all his debt.
35 And that is how my heavenly Father will deal with you unless you each forgive your brother from your heart.'
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Religious people are dumb as shite
Forgiveness is dumb?
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:52 am to hubertcumberdale
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It’s only ok for huge corporations and the government to be loan sharking, taking bets, avoiding paying taxes, and lobbying politicians.
It’s actually funny how most illegal mob activity back in the 70s and 80s is now legal business.
Gambling is everywhere. Legalized drugs. Loan shark businesses. Prostitution is about the only one left that’s illegal except in Vegas
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:53 am to SCLibertarian
YouTube is littered with former Mobsters many of which flipped and ratted out their friends and even family
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:53 am to tadman
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Imagine owning a restaurant or business in someone's territory and you have to start paying protection or tribute, or employ someone's lazy nephew.
Kind of like how the US Government does with taxes?
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:54 am to BigBobbyStorey
the only thing worse than a scumbag criminal is a scumbag criminal who tells on his friends when he gets caught
Posted on 9/22/23 at 8:59 am to deltaland
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Prostitution is about the only one left that’s illegal except in Vegas
IRS seized the Mustang Ranch so the government is in the prostitution business
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:13 am to Cheese Grits
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IRS seized the Mustang Ranch so the government is in the prostitution business
Corporations and govt are currently involved in everything they prosecuted the mob for the last 50 years, which people villainizing the mob apparently dont care when daddy gov does it
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:16 am to BugAC
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Should is a term for humans. Not for God. And he must accept God and ask for forgiveness. Forgiveness was the main point of emphasis this past Sunday.
One cannot not properly be forgiven for the sin without the indulgence paid in full. Our society has rotted ever since Martin Luther, it is a shame the CIA wasn't around back then
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:17 am to BigBobbyStorey
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:20 am to BigBobbyStorey
If you are a Christian, then you believe even the most horrific sinner can be redeemed.
Posted on 9/22/23 at 9:20 am to deltaland
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Prostitution is about the only one left that’s illegal except in Vegas
Prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas.
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