I think it'd be a good thing if "winning" meant everybody gets to eat,
everybody gets a chance to learn,
everybody gets a say in what happens to them,
and nobody gets left out in the cold.
Jul 28, 2025
Oy
Y'know - the guys on the money, and the guys with their names on things like airports, and the guys on Mt Rushmore - they all have something important in common.
They're all dead.
So - OK, Donny Boy - let's talk.
I'm Not A Bible Guy
... but I think I know bullshit when I hear it.
And, of course, I don't always.
Exegesis:
Eisegesis:
A critical explanation or interpretation of a text. The term is traditionally applied to the interpretation of Biblical works.
Eisegesis:
The process of interpreting text in such a way as to introduce one's own presuppositions, agendas or biases.
@ken.arrington Replying to @bethanderson A Lesson In How to Read the Bible That Many Church Leaders and Christians Need to Know - Why does the Bible seem to say opposite things depending on who’s preaching? One pastor silences women. Another uplifts them. Some justify war. Others call for peace. Same Bible. Well, it all comes down to how you read it. There are two main approaches: exegesis and eisegesis. Exegesis means to draw out. You ask who wrote it, when, why, and to whom. You let the text speak from within its own world. Eisegesis means to read into. You bring your assumptions and twist Scripture to fit your view. You skip the history. You skip the context. You skip the culture. That’s how people turn the widow’s mite into a lesson on giving instead of a warning about religious exploitation. That’s how one verse gets used to silence women, when Paul was addressing a specific abuse of power in a specific city. Want to know how to read the Bible? Start with curiosity. Ask real questions. Honor the history and cultures it was written into. Stop making the Bible a mirror for your beliefs. Let it become a window into something bigger. #biblestudy #howtoreadthebible #church #howtoreadthebibleforbeginners #kenarrington #religiousdeconstruction ♬ original sound - Ken
So now I'm left to wonder about the courts - especially the "conservative" courts - and specifically the Supreme Court.
Are they doing the exegesis thing or the eisegesis thing? And what, if anything, can I infer from their language by applying this newfound knowledge of how some people operate?
It's a puzzlement.
Today's Keith
Trump the deal maker is making a deal to let a pedophile - a child rapist - off the hook.
"I'll give you a list."
Jul 27, 2025
It's Wide And Deep
Still wondering why Trump was determined to fuck with NPR?
Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, a U.S. Virgin Islands lawsuit says
The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges in a lawsuit filed this week that JPMorgan Chase "turned a blind eye" to evidence that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein used the bank to facilitate sex-trafficking activities on Little St. James, the private island he owned in the territory until his 2019 suicide.
In a more than 100-page complaint filed by U.S.V.I. Attorney General Denise George in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan on Tuesday, the territory alleges that JPMorgan failed to report Epstein's suspicious activities and provided the financier with services reserved for high-wealth clients after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution in Palm Beach, Fla.
The complaint says the territory's Department of Justice investigation "revealed that JP Morgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise."
It accused the bank of ignoring evidence for "more than a decade because of Epstein's own financial footprint, and because of the deals and clients that Epstein brought and promised to bring to the bank."
"These decisions were advocated and approved at the senior levels of JP Morgan," it said.
The bank allegedly "facilitated and concealed wire and cash transactions that raised suspicion of — and were in fact part of — a criminal enterprise whose currency was the sexual servitude of dozens of women and girls in and beyond the Virgin Islands," according to the complaint, which included several pages that were redacted in whole or in part.
It said that human trafficking "was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JP Morgan."
When NPR reached JPMorgan Chase, the bank declined to comment.
Tuesday's legal action comes just weeks after the U.S.V.I. announced a $105 million settlement with Epstein's estate, meant in part to claw back "more than $80 million in economic development tax benefits that Epstein and his co-defendants fraudulently obtained to fuel his criminal enterprise," the attorney general's office said in a Dec. 1 statement.
Additionally, the settlement calls for the territory to receive half of the proceeds from the sale of Little St. James island "on which Epstein resided and on which many of his crimes occurred."
After a family had reported that Epstein had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter in 2005, police in Palm Beach opened an investigation that led to a guilty plea three years later. Under the terms of the deal with the state of Florida, Epstein served 13 months in a work-release program, was forced to pay restitution to the victims and register as a sex offender.
Epstein was again arrested on similar charges in New York in 2019, but killed himself in federal prison while awaiting trial.
Deutsche Bank was investigated in 202o by New York state authorities for failing to report suspicious activity in Epstein's account despite knowing of his criminal history. The bank later agreed to pay a $150 million penalty.
The government of the U.S. Virgin Islands alleges in a lawsuit filed this week that JPMorgan Chase "turned a blind eye" to evidence that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein used the bank to facilitate sex-trafficking activities on Little St. James, the private island he owned in the territory until his 2019 suicide.
In a more than 100-page complaint filed by U.S.V.I. Attorney General Denise George in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan on Tuesday, the territory alleges that JPMorgan failed to report Epstein's suspicious activities and provided the financier with services reserved for high-wealth clients after his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution in Palm Beach, Fla.
The complaint says the territory's Department of Justice investigation "revealed that JP Morgan knowingly, negligently, and unlawfully provided and pulled the levers through which recruiters and victims were paid and was indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise."
It accused the bank of ignoring evidence for "more than a decade because of Epstein's own financial footprint, and because of the deals and clients that Epstein brought and promised to bring to the bank."
"These decisions were advocated and approved at the senior levels of JP Morgan," it said.
The bank allegedly "facilitated and concealed wire and cash transactions that raised suspicion of — and were in fact part of — a criminal enterprise whose currency was the sexual servitude of dozens of women and girls in and beyond the Virgin Islands," according to the complaint, which included several pages that were redacted in whole or in part.
It said that human trafficking "was the principal business of the accounts Epstein maintained at JP Morgan."
When NPR reached JPMorgan Chase, the bank declined to comment.
Tuesday's legal action comes just weeks after the U.S.V.I. announced a $105 million settlement with Epstein's estate, meant in part to claw back "more than $80 million in economic development tax benefits that Epstein and his co-defendants fraudulently obtained to fuel his criminal enterprise," the attorney general's office said in a Dec. 1 statement.
Additionally, the settlement calls for the territory to receive half of the proceeds from the sale of Little St. James island "on which Epstein resided and on which many of his crimes occurred."
After a family had reported that Epstein had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter in 2005, police in Palm Beach opened an investigation that led to a guilty plea three years later. Under the terms of the deal with the state of Florida, Epstein served 13 months in a work-release program, was forced to pay restitution to the victims and register as a sex offender.
Epstein was again arrested on similar charges in New York in 2019, but killed himself in federal prison while awaiting trial.
Deutsche Bank was investigated in 202o by New York state authorities for failing to report suspicious activity in Epstein's account despite knowing of his criminal history. The bank later agreed to pay a $150 million penalty.
The Naked Truth
The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice."
The Truth, though suspicious, tested the water and found that it really was nice. So they got naked and bathed together.
But suddenly, the Lie leaped out of the water and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.
The Truth, furious, climbed out of the well to get her clothes back. But the World, upon seeing the naked Truth, looked away, with anger and contempt.
Poor Truth returned to the well and disappeared forever, hiding her shame.
Since then, the Lie runs around the world, dressed as the Truth, and society is happy.
Because the world has no desire to know the naked Truth.
Painting: Truth Coming Out Of The Well, Jean-Léon Gérome, 1896.
Today's TweeXt
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