There is actually a hell of a lot of evidence he did.
You can read a capsule summary with references on Wikipedia, but it is accepted fact among historians - not just religious scholars - that Jesus of Nazareth was born in Judea under King Herod, was baptised by John the Baptist, and was cruxified under the orders of Pontius Pilate.
Here's a fun excerpt: "There are at least fourteen independent sources for the historicity of Jesus from multiple authors within a century of the crucifixion of Jesus such as the letters of Paul (contemporary of Jesus who personally knew eyewitnesses), the gospels, and non-Christian sources such as Josephus (Jewish historian and commander in Galilee) and Tacitus (Roman historian and Senator)."
I'm an atheist, but a historical Jesus almost certainly did exist.
I absolutely love Star Wars - I saw the first movie four times in the theatre back in 1977/78 as a kid.
But let's be clear: Star Wars is "cowboys and indians in space." (Yes, that's a dated and culturally inappropriate comparison - it is also perfectly appropriate for the era.)
Technology has never played a significant part in it - light sabres are magic swords, FTL travel is a well-worn convenient trope that 'just happens' (unless it doesn't). Droids are servants.
Basically, tech has never been a core aspect of the SW world, mostly because the show has never been science fiction.
"We still love you as much as ever" said senator Tim Kaine.
And we love you as much as ever - but it has never been as much as you think.
Canada and Canadians have always harboured a quiet, seething resentment towards the US - even as our snowbirds have flown south in the winter and we've greedily bought crap on Amazon. As proud as we are of Canadian musicians hitting the big time, we're slightly bitter that we spend more time listening to American content.
I think it's fair to say that we've always - at least in my 50+ years of awareness - felt the pressure of living next door to a ten-ton behemoth that fills our every waking moment just by merely leaking across the border.
And now the dam has broken. Trump has made things so unbearable that we finally have the resolve to break free. It's going to be tough, it's going to hurt for a number of years, we're going to suffer financially in the short-mid term, but I'm confident that we're going to do it. We will not allow ANY country or trading partner to control our destiny as much as the US has done since 1959.
So thanks for the love, but I'm afraid we're still getting out of this toxic relationship.
If there is a lot of stuff, you'll probably find a lot of (for you) garbage. Clean that up first.
Go through the heirlooms and photographs over time. Don't keep the stuff that doesn't have meaning to you. If it has meaning to someone else in the family, then pass it on - ideally to the next generation.
It is. Sister, brother-in-law, and brother all live in the city my mom lived in. We were the ones who moved away.
We three siblings are pretty close, so it's been easier to lean on each other (and our spouses) to get this stuff done. However, it's still so hard - almost everything has sentimental value right now, and none of us has the space our mom had for stuff.
But we made it past this step. The apartment is empty. Now we have to start shrinking our piles of 'stuff' before we get used to it.
Hoekstra is a Nazi, just like his boss, just like his peers, just like Musk and the rest of them.
It was TEN YEARS AGO that he said "“The Islamic movement has now gotten to a point where they have put Europe into chaos. Chaos in the Netherlands, there are cars being burnt, there are politicians that are being burnt … and yes there are no-go zones in the Netherlands," and he has only gotten more extreme.
If you read the (new) article, you discover that The Tyee revealed last year that David Moretta (Smith's husband and owner of The Dining Car in High River) was in multiple confidential meetings about a private rail line from Calgary to Banff, and is now on the official invitees list for further (confidential) talks.
The answer to ALL things going on in the US is simple:
Who's gonna stop them?
The president and his (ex?-)boyfriend are doing whatever the FUCK they want, and they even have the backing of the Supreme Court, so the only way to stop them is active resistance.
You'd be surprised at how effective it is to absolutely ignore the law when you're on top of the heap. I expect that Le Pen would do the same if she got a chance; as would Poilievre, the nuts in charge of the AfD, or any of the unrepentant fascists.
The truth is that the laws put in place to stop this sort of behaviour are like the velvet ropes for crowd control. They only work is people decide to obey them, and if someone were to stomp over them all, it's only the other people who could stop that person from reaching the front of the line.
Hoekstra is just another Nazi fuck, feigning outrage. Weird to make him ambassador to Canada, but we'll continue to go our own way and ignore the ravings.
There is actually a hell of a lot of evidence he did.
You can read a capsule summary with references on Wikipedia, but it is accepted fact among historians - not just religious scholars - that Jesus of Nazareth was born in Judea under King Herod, was baptised by John the Baptist, and was cruxified under the orders of Pontius Pilate.
Here's a fun excerpt: "There are at least fourteen independent sources for the historicity of Jesus from multiple authors within a century of the crucifixion of Jesus such as the letters of Paul (contemporary of Jesus who personally knew eyewitnesses), the gospels, and non-Christian sources such as Josephus (Jewish historian and commander in Galilee) and Tacitus (Roman historian and Senator)."
I'm an atheist, but a historical Jesus almost certainly did exist.