No, mostly the skill to be able to recognize & the knowledge or wisdom to see who is a long term winner & who isn't.
For example, i doubt you would qualify based on your posting performance here.
Though you'ld certainly qualify as a troll.
Evidently that's mostly what you have to offer to the Rx.
I'm curious guys. So he goes to other sites and grabs some of the picks that he likes. Then he posts them and he makes profit. I'm trying to understand what is wrong with that? If he loses sure then he looks ridiculous. But he is winning. He could pull a sack full of picks out of his ass and I would be happy to use them if they are winning.
I mean, my picks are third party tracked son and they are mine. Do you third party track other people's picks?
https://www.betmma.tips/Enfuego
You're the one who raised the "skill" issue in this thread. Do you see me raising it in my threads where i'm posting winners trying to help other people win?
What are you doing in this thread but hatefully trying to denigrate the value of those threads & or or my person, & by association boast about yourself. That's just pathetic.
You just come across as being all about yourself, look at me, the great me, not helping others.
Se is ignorant as hell
[h=1]St. Damien ministered to Native Hawaiians in a leper colony. Now, AOC calls him a 'colonizer'[/h]
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pointed to a Catholic martyr who gave his life to minister to the least fortunate Hawaiian natives. Probably knowing little or nothing about his life's story, she held up this saint and hero of Hawaiian history as the totem of “white supremacy,” apparently because he was an immigrant.
That’s the most charitable interpretation of her tirade centered on St. Damien of Molokai, one of two men the people of Hawaii (the least white state in the United States) have chosen to honor with a statue in the U.S. Capitol. As my colleague Becket Adams wrote, "Hawaii is represented in the Capitol by not just Damien, but also by King Kamehameha I, the indigenous ruler who governed the Hawaiian Kingdom in the 1810s."
Ocasio-Cortez only obliquely tied the saint to white supremacy, but she explicitly called him a “colonizer.” The priest was nothing of the sort. He was an outsider, yes. He was born in Belgium. He crossed oceans to get to Hawaii, and at his first opportunity, he asked to be sent off to Molokai, a leper colony.
While there, according to the U.S. Capitol’s website, "He constructed a home for boys and later a home for girls. He bandaged wounds, made coffins, dug graves, heard confessions, and said Mass every morning. In December 1884, Father Damien noticed severe blisters on his feet without the presence of pain. As he suspected, the disease was leprosy."
Queen Liliuokalani, the very woman whom Ocasio-Cortez says they should honor instead of St. Damien the “colonizer," wrote a letter in 1881 to thank him and to bestow an honor upon him. Here’s the letter:
So, according to Ocasio-Cortez, you are a colonizer if you lay down your life for people you never met before, halfway across the globe. If you earn the plaudits of the local queen for your selfless heroism, you are a colonizer.
But there's even more to the story.
The chairman of Hawaii's State Statuary Hall Commission, Hawaiian-born Louis A. Lopez, was the chief advocate of memorializing St. Damien in the U.S. Capitol. The state lawmaker who sponsored the legislation to honor St. Damien with a statue was Hawaii-born Frank Loo. Were these non-white, native-born Hawaiian public servants "colonizers"?
As far as St. Damien being a “colonizer” — well, Hawaii was never a Belgian colony. He wasn't there representing Belgium, either. He was there representing the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. And when the question arose in 1967 that St. Damien was an immigrant and not a Hawaiian citizen, Sen. Daniel Inouye rejected such nativism, pointing out how other states honored non-citizens with their statues, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported.
The statue of St. Damien chosen for the Capitol was sculpted by a woman of color, Marisol Escobar, an immigrant who lived in New York and was renowned as a cutting-edge pioneer feminist sculptor. The blockish style of the sculpture partly emulated native totem poles.
Her statue caused an uproar in part because it depicted St. Damien near his death, suffering in advanced stages of leprosy. At that time, that very human suffering struck some as out of place in the buttoned-up U.S. Capitol.
So, the statue Ocasio-Cortez objects to as a totem of white supremacy is a statue of a poor, sick immigrant social worker to the poor, whose work was honored by Hawaii's native queen. The statue was created by an immigrant woman who was a feminist artist of color and chosen by the people of the least white state of the union.
To be fair, one columnist at Star-Bulletin, Sammy Amalu, had a decent critique of the decision to put St. Damien in the U.S. Capitol. (Keep in mind, Sammy wrote his columns from prison.) “Poor old chap,” Amalu wrote. "He had a hard enough life at Kalaupapa without adding to his agony by leaving him within earshot of the diatribes and harangues that punctuate each day’s passing at Capitol Hill.”
“What a fate to design for any statue. But to do it for a man who has already suffered so much for humanity’s sake is certainly stark brutality beyond compare.”
Today, that may be more true than ever.
St. Damien of Molokai, pray for us all.
[h=1]St. Damien ministered to Native Hawaiians in a leper colony. Now, AOC calls him a 'colonizer'[/h]
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pointed to a Catholic martyr who gave his life to minister to the least fortunate Hawaiian natives. Probably knowing little or nothing about his life's story, she held up this saint and hero of Hawaiian history as the totem of “white supremacy,” apparently because he was an immigrant.
That’s the most charitable interpretation of her tirade centered on St. Damien of Molokai, one of two men the people of Hawaii (the least white state in the United States) have chosen to honor with a statue in the U.S. Capitol. As my colleague Becket Adams wrote, "Hawaii is represented in the Capitol by not just Damien, but also by King Kamehameha I, the indigenous ruler who governed the Hawaiian Kingdom in the 1810s."
Ocasio-Cortez only obliquely tied the saint to white supremacy, but she explicitly called him a “colonizer.” The priest was nothing of the sort. He was an outsider, yes. He was born in Belgium. He crossed oceans to get to Hawaii, and at his first opportunity, he asked to be sent off to Molokai, a leper colony.
While there, according to the U.S. Capitol’s website, "He constructed a home for boys and later a home for girls. He bandaged wounds, made coffins, dug graves, heard confessions, and said Mass every morning. In December 1884, Father Damien noticed severe blisters on his feet without the presence of pain. As he suspected, the disease was leprosy."
Queen Liliuokalani, the very woman whom Ocasio-Cortez says they should honor instead of St. Damien the “colonizer," wrote a letter in 1881 to thank him and to bestow an honor upon him. Here’s the letter:
Reverend Sir,
I desire to express to you my admiration of the heroic and distinguished service you are rendering to the most unhappy of my subjects; and to pay, in some measure, a public tribute to the devotion, patience and unbounded charity with which you give yourself to the corporal and spiritual relief of these unfortunate people, who are necessarily deprived of the affectionate care of their relations and friends.
I know well that your labors and sacrifices have no other motive than the desire to do good to those in distress; and that you look for no reward but from the great God, our sovereign Lord, who directs and inspires you. Nevertheless to satisfy my own earnest desire, I beg of you, Reverend Father, to accept the decoration of the Royal Order of Kalakaua, as a testimony of my sincere admiration for the efforts you are making to relieve the distress and lessen the sufferings of these afflicted people, as I myself had an occasion to see on my recent visit to the settlement.
I am,
Your friend,
Lili`uokalani, Regent
St. Damien died in his 40s of the disease he surely knew he might contract from caring tenderly in person for those ostracized and suffering victims of the disease.I desire to express to you my admiration of the heroic and distinguished service you are rendering to the most unhappy of my subjects; and to pay, in some measure, a public tribute to the devotion, patience and unbounded charity with which you give yourself to the corporal and spiritual relief of these unfortunate people, who are necessarily deprived of the affectionate care of their relations and friends.
I know well that your labors and sacrifices have no other motive than the desire to do good to those in distress; and that you look for no reward but from the great God, our sovereign Lord, who directs and inspires you. Nevertheless to satisfy my own earnest desire, I beg of you, Reverend Father, to accept the decoration of the Royal Order of Kalakaua, as a testimony of my sincere admiration for the efforts you are making to relieve the distress and lessen the sufferings of these afflicted people, as I myself had an occasion to see on my recent visit to the settlement.
I am,
Your friend,
Lili`uokalani, Regent
So, according to Ocasio-Cortez, you are a colonizer if you lay down your life for people you never met before, halfway across the globe. If you earn the plaudits of the local queen for your selfless heroism, you are a colonizer.
But there's even more to the story.
The chairman of Hawaii's State Statuary Hall Commission, Hawaiian-born Louis A. Lopez, was the chief advocate of memorializing St. Damien in the U.S. Capitol. The state lawmaker who sponsored the legislation to honor St. Damien with a statue was Hawaii-born Frank Loo. Were these non-white, native-born Hawaiian public servants "colonizers"?
As far as St. Damien being a “colonizer” — well, Hawaii was never a Belgian colony. He wasn't there representing Belgium, either. He was there representing the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. And when the question arose in 1967 that St. Damien was an immigrant and not a Hawaiian citizen, Sen. Daniel Inouye rejected such nativism, pointing out how other states honored non-citizens with their statues, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported.
The statue of St. Damien chosen for the Capitol was sculpted by a woman of color, Marisol Escobar, an immigrant who lived in New York and was renowned as a cutting-edge pioneer feminist sculptor. The blockish style of the sculpture partly emulated native totem poles.
Her statue caused an uproar in part because it depicted St. Damien near his death, suffering in advanced stages of leprosy. At that time, that very human suffering struck some as out of place in the buttoned-up U.S. Capitol.
So, the statue Ocasio-Cortez objects to as a totem of white supremacy is a statue of a poor, sick immigrant social worker to the poor, whose work was honored by Hawaii's native queen. The statue was created by an immigrant woman who was a feminist artist of color and chosen by the people of the least white state of the union.
To be fair, one columnist at Star-Bulletin, Sammy Amalu, had a decent critique of the decision to put St. Damien in the U.S. Capitol. (Keep in mind, Sammy wrote his columns from prison.) “Poor old chap,” Amalu wrote. "He had a hard enough life at Kalaupapa without adding to his agony by leaving him within earshot of the diatribes and harangues that punctuate each day’s passing at Capitol Hill.”
“What a fate to design for any statue. But to do it for a man who has already suffered so much for humanity’s sake is certainly stark brutality beyond compare.”
Today, that may be more true than ever.
St. Damien of Molokai, pray for us all.
