Sobek
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Sobek
truth abideth forever
29d ago
They continue to have senior roles in ‘official’ or semi official church organizations from which it would be extremely humiliating to be removed and where they ultimately, beyond many abstract layers of theological management, answer to the Pope, who is basically Zohran Mamdani if he was a little uncomfortable around abortion.
Honest question: what "senior roles" are we talking about here? I wasn't able to find anything on a quick search but this sounds like it would be a pretty serious conflict of interest if true. Barrett is part of some lay ecumenical Christian group which I think you'd be hard pressed to call even a semi-official Catholic organization given Protestants can join. Kavanaugh is a lector which I think means he just does readings in church sometimes? I couldn't find anything on Roberts. I'm open to being convinced otherwise that these three are somehow crypto-Papists with a direct line to the Vatican, but this seems like a stretch. I'll grant that the Pope denying communion would be pretty serious, though considering this never happened to Biden, Pelosi or any other Catholic politician to my knowledge it seems like a long shot short of some major changes in Rome.
Sobek
truth abideth forever
2mo ago
Not a surgeon but as a US doctor that's essentially my understanding as well. All medical encounters would have a CPT code which is assigned for the actual service rendered or procedure performed as well as an ICD-10 diagnostic code which labels the medical diagnosis. I assume the procedure code would be the same for both of these, so for the type large volume data analysis done for these studies I don't think there would be a way of distinguishing between procedures if the diagnostic code is purposely entered incorrectly (short of actually digging into the written medical record case by case).
I mean, visa overstays are estimated to make up "an estimated 42% of the approximately 11 million unauthorized population living in the United States" per the Congressional Research Service and I assume most of them came by plane initially.
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