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Do you think people like this feel bad (secretly or otherwise) when their guests/parishioners get sick or die? Or do they just shrug and play the mental gymnastics that "they did what they could" or "they came of their own free will" or "God's ways are mysterious" etc.?

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Their fault for not attending the rally!

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Yup. You might even have seen it as a toddler. It was replaced by aluminum shortly after WWII. It had been used for the reasons aluminum foil is now, but:1. Tin rusts.2. Tin is stiffer than aluminum.3. Tin gave a slight tin flavor to food that was wrapped in it.4. Aluminum is slightly cheaper (e.g. it's lighter & therefore cheaper to ship).5. Aluminum blocks imaginary mind control rays about as well as tin.

Even now, some folks call aluminum foil "tin foil".

Come to think of it, probably why tin cans are actually aluminum cans...

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"God's will." They think it gets them out of all the crimes.

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DREAM CITY CHURCH took over the space from Dream City Mattress Warehouse.

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Maybe the Senate should look into getting one of those machines too!

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Pastor Barnett refers to the church's auditorium, because that's where the show is performed.

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Or, just hold the emotional support rally outdoors? Maybe in a stadium?

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They did not, btw, test SARS-CoV-2. They tested a lesser member of the family. Read that recently.

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Not surprising & thanks for that information. We are running tests against SARS-CoV-2 and lesser analogues in several labs around the world. Getting access to the real thing generally requires compelling evidence. People are not eager to hop into a BSL3 facility to test against "inventor" fever dreams. One group we are working with has rehearsed repeatedly with an analogue in their own BSL2 lab to get the procedure perfected in order to minimize time/uncertainty/hazard when working with the real thing in their institution's shared (and much more expensive to access) BSL3 lab.

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That fucking knucklehead on the left is why I hate conservative white evangelist snake oil salesmen. I am, as always, carefully concealing my true feelings.

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"What if you're wrong? If I'm wrong, we go to jail! Peacefully, quietly. And enjoy it. But if I'm Right, Lenny..... you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters! "

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So Brendan Zastrow is the Chief Operating Officer of the Dream Church of Pie in the Sky, Inc.

Just out of curiosity, who was Jesus's COO? (I'm pretty sure His CFO was Judas.)

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Rocky.

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And yet, with all that, ol' 88 looks more chipper than Trump did the other night, slumping his way out of AF1.

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