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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 2h

And Brahe's own careful observations are what proved him wrong

Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most of the founding fathers owned slaves and most rock stars may not have asked for ID from groupies, but knew some were very young. Both things were accepted in their respective cultures. Full credit for those that didn't, half credit for those who changed their attitudes and behavior.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The founding fathers used the Roman Republic as a model because it lasted over half a century before it became a dictatorship. The warnings about how the US could fail as a democracy are drawn mainly from the example of Rome.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How exactly does paying premiums for something you didn't need to use fraud? These folks are LOSING money.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Churchill was a champion of colonialism, so they have one thing in common.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oz is innumerate. He has made other bold declarations based on his not understanding math.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So the DOJ's position is the the USPS is too incompetent to delver mail but so ultra-competent that they can screen ballots.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There is a reason that Thomas Aquinas had to write "The Summa Theologiae" to reconcile Aristotle with Platonic Catholicism before the Enlightenment could be backed by the Church.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's because Plato and Aristotle lived when "philosophy" encompassed the natural world. Plato is the patron saint of Christianity while Aristotle is the patron saint of science.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Plato was the one who searched for answers in his own mind while Aristotle was an empiricist who studied what was happening in the real world to reach conclusions.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Eerily like the Nazi death camps.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another way of saying the ends don't justify the means because we cannot know what the "ends" will be.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Brilliant, lets support oligarchy, monopoly and no taxes for billionaires.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

He owns this disaster. I think his name should be on it.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Woke and DEI are both the result of taking the Golden Rule seriously. Jesus claimed it was one of only two teaching which were important from (then) scripture. "Conservative" Christians are determined to do the opposite.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Russian sources say that he was "begging" for help in getting Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh yes!! He loves his belly rub!

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Based on the score it looks like the Browns are ready for the regular season.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Who teaches it and with what prejudice, that's the problem. With 35,000 Protestant denominations, many of which are not considered "Christian" by others, plus Catholics and various strains of Jewish and Orthodox, not to mention agnostic s and atheists, there will be endless fights.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Cruise produced the movie... he chose himself.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I sometimes roll my eyes, but I refuse to condemn anyone for taking the Golden Rule seriously.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Pat Robertson was also an advocate of 9/11 being God's judgement on homosexuality in America.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

As I recall, it was GOP Jerry Falwell and Co who preached that we deserved 9/11.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Obama had it ready to roll out but met unified GOP opposition.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

1) Don't Crush that Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers 2) How Can You be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All 3) I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus 4) Everything You Know is Wrong 5) In the Next World You're on Your Own

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

KC and the Sunshine Band medley.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"hoping to drive its many followers back to the mainstream church" Really, your reporter believes the heretics can read the Pope's mind? He gave them a path back to Roman Catholicism, which he does for everyone in the world. I'm shocked at such an obvious journalism error.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sorry, at 71 I'm losing my grip on stuff I read forty or fifty years ago. I've conflated several different events.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The founding fathers were largely brilliant people who were well versed in the history of democracy in Greece and Rome. For that alone their input should be welcome. In addition they tried to devise a system which would not devolve into tyranny like the Roman Republic did after half a millennium.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sorry to be pedantic but the tax on tea was removed in favor of a tax on paper, which the colonists saw as an attack on free speech. Why pick on untaxed tea then? It might be because Samuel Adams, who led the Boston tea party, made a lot of money smuggling tea due to the prior tax.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Sally because he thought she was the deceased Martha, they looked that much alike. This is not to excuse Jefferson, but to suggest that this might be a unique case. They had an agreement, but as Sally remained his property, rape is an appropriate term.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Most slave owners did rape their slaves. In Jefferson's case I object to using the plural of "slave" as speculation. Sally Hemmings was his wife's half sister, because Martha Jefferson's father raped the slaves, plural. After Martha died an old friend visiting Jefferson in Paris was shocked seeing

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

And that Obama was attending college at 18.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Part of civil disobedience is bearing the consequences, fair or unfair.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

As an entrepreneur, I knew many people that wanted to start their own business but didn't want to risk their families' health insurance. Obamacare fixed that and, I believe, helped spur innovation.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My own theory is that, as Trump dithers, the Gulf States will make their own deals with Iran which will include kicking out the US. Deprived of their bases, the war will end.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

At least the evangelicals will be happy that Armageddon has become increasingly imminent.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Exactly, on all three points, what I've been telling a good friend who is much more bullish on AI than I. I'm not any kind of expert but also not totally ignorant. I was IT director for a company with five thousand employees.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Is that a joke? Bibi says he's spent 40 years trying to convince a president to attack Iran. Trump believed and obeyed Bibi like he was Putin. So you conclude that Trump is the one who stood up to Bibi...

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Special case here where Alito is affirming or negating his child's legal opinions.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Wow, bribe stated to be both $100,000 and $70,000... paid in order to generate tens of thousands in gambling profits? EDITOR, STAT!!!

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Humble Pie Pink Floyd Count Basie Orchestra Amboy Dukes Steely Dan Grateful Dead Frank Zappa Michael P Smith Leo Kottke Louis Bellson

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

She's a woman so, from the Trump Dept of Education, she can only decorate the sink with copper pipe. It's up to the man to make the sink work.

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Taking jobs from deserving US sex workers!

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Greg P Stone @gregpstone.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A key demand of Iran was that they would stop attacking Gulf countries if they kicked the US military out. I think a backroom deal among the Muslim protagonists, likely brokered by China, will kick the US out of the region and end the war.

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