No posts?

[Ed Pawlowski]

Not sure if it is Thunderbird or Blocknews, but hardly anything coming through the past 24 hours or so.

Only one I saw today was from rbowman at 7:28

[micky]

Since 1:30PM there ere 3 from cshenk and another from skid and Frank. That's it.

Maybe we could pay some people to post, get some posters from India, or get some illegal aliens to do it in return for amnesty?

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micky wrote on 3/3/2024 12:19 AM:

The correct terminology is "newcomers".

[Skid Marks]

Nah, they're feral illegal invaders.

They ignored US immigration law and broke into the US. I suspect they'll ignore America's "No Trespassing" signs and break into our homes too.

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Undocumented posters and micky inviting them in rather than remain in India.

[invalid unparseable]

Just off the top of my head, the current British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is first-generation Briton of Hindu descent. Rikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy are also first-generation Americans of Hindu descent. Trump is second-generation American of German descent. You wouldn't have Trump today if his grandparents were told to remain in Germany. Americans like you would still be ploughing the fields and eating groats & grits today if the Jewish money-changer and usurer immigrants were told to remain in Germany and Poland.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Did not see them, or any on another group that would usually have 100 a day. I just saw mine and yours now.

[Snag]

I have been wondering what's up too . Very few posts for the last 24 hours or so , and it's not just blocknews .

[micky]

I don't know what that means. Very strange. I was thinking that maybe they sort so high up that you didn't notice them but I'm sorted now based on the date of the first post in a thread, oldest first, and the thread 3 of those posts are in is badgolferman's Statistics thread**. Although that was posted on Friday***, it's still the thread that immediately precedes this one.

***But cshenk posted once in it, and skid and bowman posted in it all on Saturday afternoon. **alt.home.repair newsgroup statistics for 02/2024

[Bob F]

And days ago everyone was celebrating the demise of google groups.

[hubops]

I was going to suggest that the usenet servers were stalled by all those google-groupies learning the ropes .. John T.

[Art]

You're right. Modern economies won't work if people can't borrow money to start or grow businesses. Although in the USA most bankers are not Jews.

Also you should let people know that what was called usury then was substantially less than the interest rate that credit cards and other lenders charge in the USA today and for the last 50 or 100 years or more. Yet somehow the word usury is no longer used for them. Jews were lenders in Europe because Christians were not allowed by the church to lend money.

As to money changers, I give you credit for calling them money

*changers*. I have seen them referred to as money lenders. (I assume you are talking about Temple times in Jerusalem. Money changers were not a controversy in Europe.)

The reason there were money changers adjacent to the Temple in Jerusalem is that people came to offer sacrifices, especially on the holiday of Pesach (Passover). Poor people could offer flour as a sacrifice, but if they had enough money to offer a lamb or kid, that was preferable, and most people had enough. But animal sacrifices had to be perfect, without scars, wounds (healed or not) or injuries, and many pilgrims came from far away. Besides the basic difficulty of driving an animal for a long distance, it was impossible to do so without it injuring itself or scratching itself on thorns, so people would bring money and buy an animal there, a kid or a lamb, at the market, also adjacent to the Temple. Those who came from foreign lands brought foreign money and the foreign money had to be exchanged for local money, so they could buy the animal.

Some sacrifices were totally burnt, but in terms of number of animals, the vast majority were offered on Pesach, roasted by the priests using the fire on the altar, and then eaten by those who brought them. Quite a few people from one or more families would get together and offer one animal.

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Art wrote on 3/3/2024 10:44 AM:

I disagree with your interpretation of the role of "money changers" who were chased away by Jesus while prying their trade in the temple.

"Money changers" in modern times are the "currency exchange" booths at international airports. The German Jewish banking dynasty, the Rothschild family, was the well known family of money changers. Mayer Rothschild sent his 5 sons to London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Naples to establish banking businesses, so that merchants could deposit money at Rothschild's London office, for example,  and retrieve their money at the destination country in local currency without worrying about being waylaid along the way for carrying a large amount of cash.

The role of the money changers in Jesus' time served the same purpose as "currency exchange", because there were a lot of regional currencies, so that currencies from afar had to be changed into the local currency for trade.

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When my grandparents came in they were wanted as workers were needed. They came in through Ellis Island and could not have a criminal record or be sick and unable to work. If so they were put back on the ship to return. There was no welfare for these immigrants and any help was from charity or other immigrants.

Today we have them coming in unvetted and even sneaking in and allowed to stay. Then they get a free phone to tell them when a judge will review their case which it could take five years if they even show up which most don't. They get immediate welfare, housing food and even spending money.

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Apparently there is a hidden agenda that you are not privy to. I am guessing that the US wants to increase its population urgently, i.e. to expand the labour force and consumer base in order to compete with China. The powers that be cannot count on the local fat arses who drink beer, watch sports, and upload twerking videos to TikTok all day instead of multiply and increase in numbers like God had intended.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Seems better but older posts are gone. I'm guessing it was a blocknews problem

[cshenk]

Actually, maybe I missed it in the stats? I didn't see me in them but I did see xananews hit 9 posts? Maybe you have to post 10 or more to show? That or the person running the archive of posters put me in the 'bozo bin' because they think any ;new poster has to be a troll'.

I'm actually a returning poster. Active here about 2007 until probably

2011 or so. [e-mail] or [e-mail] likely then.

[Clare Snyder]

The problem Christ had with the moneychangers was they were dishonest

- taking advantage and making huge profits inside the temple.

Not like black market money changers in many countries that will buy your AmeriBucks or EuroBucks for double the going bank rate because it is illegal for them to have AmeroBucks or EuroBucks and it is not only illegal to take the local currency out ofthe country, but the local currency is useless anywhere else in the world -

[micky]

The rules for inclusion are very obscure. I think they have something to do with birdies and bogeys.

I think I remember you.

[micky]

Trump tried to close the border and he was stopped by a court injunction. Biden cannot do it either, without legislation.

And of course trump doesn't want the legislation, even though Republicans helped write it, it favors their positions, and theyll never get a better law from their pov. But trump wants it to be a big issue in November, so he'd sacrifice a good law just help himself get elected.