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  • https://www.newsweek.com/thomas-massie-ukraine-russia-vote-aid-1891701

    "Massie was one of just six House members who voted against a bill to call on the government to collect evidence “related to war crimes and other atrocities committed during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.”

    “Massie was also just one of three House members to vote “no” on a bill to end normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, which has supported Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as a bill to ban imports of Russian oil, coal and gas.”

    "Massie was one of three House members who voted against a bipartisan resolution in which the lower chamber said they would stand “steadfastly, staunchly, proudly, and fervently behind the Ukrainian people in their fight against the authoritarian Putin regime.”

    “in 2017, Massie had met with Maria Butina, a Russian citizen who was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2019 after admitting to acting as an unregistered foreign agent to infiltrate conservative political groups and influence foreign policy to Russia’s benefit before and after the 2016 election.”

    https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lee-putin-utah-debate-evan-mcmullin-1752624

    “he (Senator Mike Lee), alongside Kentucky’s Rand Paul, were the only two senators who voted against imposing financial sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 election.”

    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/03/mike-lee-russia-visa-1479983

    "Sen. Mike Lee received a visa to travel to Russia this week, according to his spokesman, after the Kremlin denied visas to several of his colleagues.

    Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, both members of the Foreign Relations Committee, said last week the Russian government refused to grant them visas."




  • Aliens is more similar to Pitch Black, but it’s a fair comparison, and, yeah, Aliens is the better movie.

    Part of it is the cast/writing. Can you name any other character in Pitch Black besides Riddick? LOL.

    Aliens - Ripley, Newt, Bishop, Burke, Hicks, Hudson, Gorman, Apone, Vasquez.








  • The best one I’ve found is the New Jerusalem translation:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jerusalem_Bible#%3A~%3Atext=Substantially+revising+the+JB+and%2Cintroductions%2C+written+by+Henry+Wansbrough.

    Here’s a comparison:

    New Jerusalem Ezekiel 20:23-26

    23 Once again, however, I pledged them my word that I would scatter them throughout the nations and disperse them in foreign countries,

    24 because they had not followed my judgements but had rejected my laws and profaned my Sabbaths, their eyes being fastened on the foul idols of their ancestors.

    25 And for this reason I gave them laws that were not good and judgements by which they could never live;

    26 and I polluted them with their own offerings, making them sacrifice every first-born son in order to fill them with revulsion, so that they would know that I am Yahweh."

    King James:

    23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

    24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

    25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

    26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.

    NIV:

    23 Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries,

    24 because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their parents’ idols.

    25 So I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live;

    26 I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.’