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Trump, who turns 80 this year, repeatedly mixes up Greenland and Iceland in Davos speech even as he argues that one of them should be part of the United States. @clairemosesnytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/po…
A few thoughts:
- There is no possibility the Journal would publish this without 100 per cent, lead-pipe certainty that it's real.
- The Journal almost certainly has more stuff.
- So does whoever gave them this. This is the opening salvo, designed to draw Trump out, see how he responds.
- Trump's first response -- this is fake, I'll sue -- will not last more than 24 hours. His story will change in some way.
- This is going to end with Trump's supporters shrugging at pedophilia.
Together, we will rebuild the credibility of a wounded Church, sent to a wounded humanity, within a wounded creation. We are not yet perfect, but we must be credible: our lives must be transparent, visible, and credible!
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
1/ The modern American Church's has turned its obsession with abortion into a false idol.
The reason it has done so, is because it has found it easier to wave an idol around and wage culture war than live as an example of Christ.
Religion and science go together. As I've said before, science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind. They are interdependent and have a common goal—the search for truth. Hence it is absurd for religion to proscribe Galileo or Darwin or other scientists. And it is equally absurd when scientists say that there is no God. The real scientist has faith, which does not mean that he must subscribe to a creed. Without religion there is no charity. The soul given to each of us is moved by the same living spirit that moves the universe.
-- A. Einstein, as mentioned in Einstein and the Poet (1983) recoreded (roughly) from a series of conversations William Hermanns had with Einstein.