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Our Garbage Media: Who Dis: Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 (Leggy!) Photo 5 Photo 6 Photo 7 For the 'Ettes: Photo 2 Photo 3 Photo 4 Friday's celebs: pre-MILF Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick appeared in the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show back in the day. It was a more innocent world then. Frank N. Furter is just kind of boring nowadays. Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Pepperoni Pizza Monkey Bread: (click to enlarge) Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
Hello monkey thread!
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (9QPEY) 2
First?
Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (zR1US) 3
Damnit.
Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (zR1US) 4
Wheee
Posted by: banned at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (HfweT) 5
NOT FIRST DAMMIT.
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (Qf83p) 6
The others have been summoned.
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (9QPEY) 7
Shirley Jones. Don't know him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (rpbg1) 8
Mrs Partridge. And a hell of a pair of gams.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (2JVJo) 9
Shirley Jones
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (C8hbG) Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (UWqZJ) 11
I'm a flexible textualist!
Posted by: Gorsuch at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (55lwO) 12
Absolutely no ideer on Who Dis.
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (Qf83p) 13
Gordon macrae and shirley Jones ..Oklahoma
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (ONvIw) 14
Where do I sign up to be more disadvantaged, and therefore have a right to other peoples' stuff?
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (kA3Cp) 15
Hope Lange and some dude.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (axyOa) 16
Mark Hemingway Retweeted
Ben Shapiro @benshapiro · 11m The Alito dissent is a devastating rebuttal, but logic is of course of no account here. Those who love the outcome will celebrate, because the first rule of legal interpretation is that the law comes last. Posted by: PissedOffWISocialConservative at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (yR5e+) 17
Is that a very young Wilford Brimley?
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 11:23 AM (Qf83p) Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at June 15, 2020 11:23 AM (C8hbG) 19
Kill someone and tell their family - "treat it as an unplanned organ donation."
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:23 AM (FCQR/) 20
13 Gordon macrae and shirley Jones ..Oklahoma
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (ONvIw) ...and it's CN with the early trifecta! ( *loud cheering from the stands*) Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (mSARB) 21
Is Ben Shapiro mad that the court wasn't owned by FACTS and LOGIC? Does that mean he won't de-platform the next 'problematic' conversative becase of 'optics'?
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (FCQR/) 22
That's Mrs Partridge
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (kA3Cp) 23
Sooo, does this mean those nasty conservative Christians are going to have trans ma'ams in their private schools/churches or else?
Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (L3Rsz) 24
Not Hope Lange...but I was hopeful.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (axyOa) 25
Progressivism, Socialism...both are politics of Envy.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (ifmtJ) 26
Civilizational Entropy is a real thing.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (wCLLY) Posted by: BCochran1981 at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (9CkBG) Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (s2VJv) 29
Dammit, Wolfus, you're always pipping me at the post!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (2JVJo) 30
I swear, I hope that's a troll, because it would be beautiful as a troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (UWqZJ) ------------ These days, because these people are so screwed up, it's also very likely not to be a troll.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing 31
Andy Griffith and Aunt Bee.
Posted by: Roland THTG at June 15, 2020 11:25 AM (88+cf) 32
And this is why the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone will fail. I mean,
other than the fact that they're all a bunch of idiots. CHAZ is probably filled with envy, resentment, and bitterness. i was under the impression that CHAZ was out and CHOP was the new hotness. Posted by: Anachronda at June 15, 2020 11:25 AM (sGtp+) 33
27 "Unplanned donation"
Oh? So rape is an unplanned sexual encounter? Posted by: BCochran1981 at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (9CkBG) And boy do they have a lot of that going on. Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 11:25 AM (zR1US) Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:25 AM (wCLLY) 35
Gordon macrae and shirley Jones ..Oklahoma
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 * * I know his name, but wasn't sure what he looked like. His wife Sheila played Alice Kramden on the 1960s "Honeymooners" sketches on Jackie Gleason's show. And their daughter Meredith was a regular on Petticoat Junction. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:25 AM (rpbg1) 36
27 "Unplanned donation"
Oh? So rape is an unplanned sexual encounter? Posted by: BCochran1981 at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (9CkBG) So surprise anal is OK now? Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (mSARB) 37
Wait, were you staring at my tits? Because it sure seems like you were staring at my tits.
Posted by: Neil Gorsuch at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (sWM8x) Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (LHT0w) 39
At his rally on Saturday, wonder if Trump will talk about his judicial appointments?
If he does, the crowd should storm the stage and beat the sh** out of him. There's a good argument that his promise on judicial appointments is what got him elected and he failed on that promise. Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (z8ptp) 40
Btw: Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry is a Shirley Jones quite unlike the Shirely Jones in Oklahoma.
Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (L3Rsz) Posted by: Pug Mahon, Pushing Irish into the Missouri at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (x8Wzq) 42
unplanned donation
undocumented immigrant street pharmacist anti fascist mostly peaceful social justice Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (JFO2v) 43
Mind you, this is not an absolute guarantee of success for individuals,
but over time, a culture that follows these rules will be healthier, wealthier, and more successful than those that don't. These are the building blocks of a superior civilization. Too bad we have been moving away from that culture since the 60s. And it was much worse under Obama who routinely violated the Constitution. Posted by: Vic at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (mpXpK) 44
I dunno who she is but she's lovely
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (KZzsI) 45
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Shirley Jones and Joel McCrea. Oklahoma! Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (s2VJv) Not Joel, sorry. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (mSARB) 46
It is all about guilt.
The pampered white people of the US feel guilty at being so blessed in comparison to the rest of the world. So instead of vowing to actually improving the status of their fellow Humans, they want to destroy their blessings. Which would be like Cortez burning his ships, abandoning his arms and armor, and going native. Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (1aH4X) 47
I mostly know Shirley Jones from Partridge Family and for her turn as a hooker in the Burt Lancaster drama Elmer Gantry. Hotter than lava, she was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (rpbg1) 48
couldn't quite figure out who dat, but photo 2 looks damn near modern. but seeing as faster morons have named her Shirley Jones, I suppose a modernish look isn't surprising.
and yeah, definite 1. Posted by: SturmToddler at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (8D42x) 49
Think I'll pass on today's 'who dis' chick.
She looks like she's going to grow a mighty pelt as she gets older. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (ifmtJ) 50
Leggy pic me likey.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (fIHXk) 51
That Greta graphic cannot be true can it? She's neither black nor American. Even CNN isn't that idiotic and tone deaf
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (KZzsI) 52
Sooo, does this mean those nasty conservative Christians are going to have trans ma'ams in their private schools/churches or else?
Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (L3Rsz) Yes. Posted by: Justices Gorsuch and Roberts at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (tVQUs) 53
I'd treat that guy to an unplanned concussion.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (xfb67) 54
Concern trolls!
Posted by: LOL at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (55lwO) Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (ea36Y) 56
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I've always had a thing for Shirley Jones. She always looked disconcertingly like Arthur Godfrey to me. Must be the nose. Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 11:28 AM (T6t7i) 57
36 27 "Unplanned donation"
Oh? So rape is an unplanned sexual encounter? Posted by: BCochran1981 at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (9CkBG) So surprise anal is OK now? Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (mSARB) "It's not rape if you yell 'surprise!' first" Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:28 AM (ifmtJ) 58
who dis mrs partridge
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:28 AM (JFO2v) 59
Which would be like Cortez burning his ships, abandoning his arms and armor, and going native. Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (1aH4X) He did actually burn his ships. Or scuttle them at any rate. The old burning bridges to keep the army's do or die mentality bit. Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 11:28 AM (zR1US) 60
Dammit, Wolfus, you're always pipping me at the post!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 * * Is that what the kids are calling it these days?" Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:28 AM (rpbg1) 61
OK no, Genesius Times is a satire outfit. Its just so hard to tell these days
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:28 AM (KZzsI) 62
Is that Greta thing real? CNN can't possibly be that dumb, can they?
Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 11:28 AM (ZGrMX) 63
At his rally on Saturday, wonder if Trump will talk about his judicial appointments?
If he does, the crowd should storm the stage and beat the sh** out of him. There's a good argument that his promise on judicial appointments is what got him elected and he failed on that promise. Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (z8ptp) So Trump nominates a Federalist society judge who testifies that he is an originalist, gets him appointed, then the judge sides with the left and that's Trump's fault? FFS, I know Donald Trump is the locus of all evil in the world, but that really takes the cake. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (2JVJo) 64
So surprise anal is OK now?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (mSARB) By their so-called logic, if your need for it is greater, that's all that counts. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (J+mig) Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (T6t7i) 66
'unplanned donation', he said with a straight face.
'Necessary uninitiated sexual encounter', he explained. Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (CTN7u) 67
greta moar whiter than my Irish scotch freckled white ass
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (JFO2v) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (ifmtJ) 69
Soo, does it also mean that Islam is going to have to welcome trans ma'ams into their mosques and schools?
Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (L3Rsz) 70
You don't have to call her Shirley.....................
Posted by: saf at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (5IHGB) 71
I suppose Gorsuch is a Swing Justice in more ways than one, IYKWIM.
Posted by: Surfperch at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (tVQUs) 72
A must read from Matt Taibbi and it's on topic:
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself/ Posted by: Augustine at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (BDZWU) 73
I'm not terribly concerned about the church being persecuted by the government, we've always known that was inevitable, eventually. Jesus told us long ago. And it never, ever works out for the oppressors.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (KZzsI) 74
It's hard to follow Christ when it seems like every single church is in on the corruption.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (N30JC) 75
"I think I love you, so what am I so afraid of?. . ."
Please tell me that CNN Greta thing is a meme. Right? Posted by: Lizzy at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (bDqIh) 76
62 Is that Greta thing real?
Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 11:28 AM (ZGrMX) No. But isn't it sad that we even have to ask? Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (Ez6QX) 77
The frequency of poll and concern trolls lately makes me absolutely certain the dems internal polling is horrid.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (tmA71) 78
Shirley Jones and Joel McCrea.
Oklahoma! Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (s2VJv) Joel McCrea's got strong white teeth. 10 points to any Moron who gets the reference. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (2JVJo) 79
I miss MUMR. His text replacement was so choice.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (ifmtJ) 80
So surprise anal is OK now?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (mSARB) By their so-called logic, if your need for it is greater, that's all that counts. Posted by: Cato I need To make them bleed. Concussions all around! Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (LHT0w) 81
You know, when I want to find out what it's like in Black America, I go to some white Swedish chick. Brilliant CNN, brilliant.
Fraser Crane would be drawn and quartered in modern day Seattle. Posted by: Puddleglum at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (HPZbe) 82
64
So surprise anal is OK now? Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (mSARB) By their so-called logic, if your need for it is greater, that's all that counts. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (J+mig) Therefore, calling someone a pain in the ass informs all within earshot of who's "need" was greater? Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (N39Ws) 83
64 So surprise anal is OK now?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (mSARB) By their so-called logic, if your need for it is greater, that's all that counts. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (J+mig) Sometimes you have to lay back and take it for the gooder of the collective. Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (JFO2v) 84
"Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains!"
Posted by: Lizzy at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (bDqIh) 85
CNN can't possibly be that dumb, can they?
Alex, I'll take phrases that simply make no sense, for $500. Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (T6t7i) Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (iTXRQ) 87
83 64 So surprise anal is OK now?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (mSARB) By their so-called logic, if your need for it is greater, that's all that counts. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (J+mig) Sometimes you have to lay back and take it for the gooder of the collective. Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (JFO2v) ========= Just lay back and think of CHAZ. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (UWqZJ) 88
Great Frasier clip.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (oVJmc) 89
I've always had a thing for Shirley Jones.
She always looked disconcertingly like Arthur Godfrey to me. Must be the nose. Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 * * Two words: Lens Crafters. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (rpbg1) 90
I do own an English translation of the Koran.
Me too. This translation at least flows better and is better written than the Book of Mormon translation I have. I have copies of all the major world religions' texts to study. Buddhism is the tough one, there are books about Buddhism but no central text. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (KZzsI) Posted by: Otter at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (Qf83p) 92
66 'unplanned donation', he said with a straight face.
'Necessary uninitiated sexual encounter', he explained. Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (CTN7u) 'retroactive consent' is a thing in some circles Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (ifmtJ) 93
There are two ways you can operate a society.
You can elevate need over ability, which causes perceived needs to grow until ability is overwhelmed, or you can elevate ability over need, which causes ability to grow until all needs are met. This is straightforward and obvious, and yet, our opponents still obsess needs. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (J+mig) 94
"I'm not terribly concerned about the church being persecuted by the
government, we've always known that was inevitable, eventually. Jesus told us long ago. And it never, ever works out for the oppressors." True! And it seems as though we're really winding up here for some interesting times very quickly. Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (L3Rsz) Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (1aH4X) 96
Mark Hemingway Retweeted
Ben Shapiro @benshapiro This Gorsuch decision is not originalist in any way; he acknowledges as much. It is simply a bad, outcome-driven legal decision. And it throws religious liberty, free speech, and employment law into complete turmoil. 9:58 AM · Jun 15, 2020·Twitter Web App Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (z8ptp) 97
Also, the Greta/CNN thing is a joke, right?
Tell me it's a joke Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (iTXRQ) 98
"Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains!"
Posted by: Lizzy -- ...and takes your mobile home along for the ride. Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (kA3Cp) 99
That was a damned good essay OM. I can't wait to share it, with attribution, of course
Posted by: Pete Seria at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (7ZQe3) 100
Can I get a Koran in Yiddish?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (oVJmc) Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (LHT0w) 102
It's hard to follow Christ when it seems like every single church is in on the corruption.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (N30JC) **nods** One of the more depressing aspects of the Kung Flu was to see how quickly the RCC dropped to their knees to kiss Caesar's ass. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (2JVJo) 103
Joel McCrea's got strong white teeth. 10 points to any Moron who gets the reference. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 * * Did he do toothpaste commercials on early TV? Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (rpbg1) Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (JFO2v) 105
Who dis looks like Shirley Jones, which makes me think the gentleman is someone who was in "Oklahoma!"with her.
Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 11:33 AM (clsJu) 106
I an remember when I got my drivers license,
I was told that having a drivers license was a privilege, not a right.It was something given by the state. So, I've always thought that "White Privilege" was something that somebody (I have not idea who) gave me ... and I'm not giving it back. Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2020 11:33 AM (3aI0K) 107
A Karen Komedy in 2 Tweets. Also known as, completely missing the point in epic self-own fashion:
@Trinitydraco1 Jun 13 Send em here! we need all we can get! Los Angeles Times @latimes Jun 13 France has millions of unsold masks after coronavirus crisis Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 11:33 AM (FtO5h) 108
>>unplanned donation', he said with a straight face.
That's something like the volunteer service requirementsome high schools have, right? Posted by: Lizzy at June 15, 2020 11:34 AM (bDqIh) 109
So surprise anal is OK now?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (mSARB) If your needs are greater than her fear, stick it in her rear. Posted by: BCochran1981 at June 15, 2020 11:34 AM (9CkBG) 110
So Trump nominates a Federalist society judge who testifies that he is an originalist, gets him appointed, then the judge sides with the left and that's Trump's fault?
FFS, I know Donald Trump is the locus of all evil in the world, but that really takes the cake. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (2JVJo) It's Trump's responsibility to actually vet potential Supreme Court Justices instead of just throwing in guys who claim to be originalist. Posted by: Surfperch at June 15, 2020 11:34 AM (tVQUs) 111
I have copies of all the major world religions' texts to study. Buddhism is the tough one, there are books about Buddhism but no central text.
--- Is there a central text for Unitarianism? Or is it just the one passage, "Whatever"? Posted by: Pete Seria at June 15, 2020 11:34 AM (7ZQe3) 112
She's Mrs. Partridge?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BrainwashedLivesMatter at June 15, 2020 11:34 AM (HaL55) 113
63 At his rally on Saturday, wonder if Trump will talk about his judicial appointments?
If he does, the crowd should storm the stage and beat the sh** out of him. There's a good argument that his promise on judicial appointments is what got him elected and he failed on that promise. Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (z8ptp) So Trump nominates a Federalist society judge who testifies that he is an originalist, gets him appointed, then the judge sides with the left and that's Trump's fault? FFS, I know Donald Trump is the locus of all evil in the world, but that really takes the cake. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (2JVJo) -================================= How often does a Dem appointed Supreme Court Justice side with the conservative wing in a huge case? I can't think of as single time. And as Kennedy and Roberts proved, once they get a taste of liberal MSM praise, their decisions tack to the left more frequently. Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (z8ptp) 114
105. I see photo six has the "surrey with the fringe".
Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (clsJu) 115
If your needs are greater than her fear, stick it in her rear.
Never see her leaving by the back door... Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (1aH4X) 116
90 I do own an English translation of the Koran.
Me too. This translation at least flows better and is better written than the Book of Mormon translation I have. I have copies of all the major world religions' texts to study. Buddhism is the tough one, there are books about Buddhism but no central text. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (KZzsI) Jah Buddism is a major rabbit hole chase. Not to mention the myriad splinters in Japan, Tibet, China, etc. But the central concepts are solid and straightforward....ish. I wouldn't mind studying Hinduism and Sihkism. Especially the latter. I dig the warrior religions. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (ifmtJ) 117
I loved Joel McCrea in Tourneur's 'Stars in My Crown'. A very dear film.
Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (L3Rsz) 118
Is undocumented shopping down because of increased police presence, or just because there is nothing left to loot?
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (wCLLY) 119
115 If your needs are greater than her fear, stick it in her rear.
Never see her leaving by the back door... Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (1aH4X) Rag Doll! Props Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (ifmtJ) 120
If your needs are greater than her fear, stick it in her rear.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at June 15, 2020 11:34 AM (9CkBG) if the dick does not fit you must acquit! Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (JFO2v) 121
97 Also, the Greta/CNN thing is a joke, right?
Tell me it's a joke Posted by: DB- just DB The reality and satire streams have crossed paths so much it's really hard to tell. Posted by: Puddleglum at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (HPZbe) 122
Shirley Partridge
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (fagTl) 123
All you had to do was loot the damn train, C.J.
Posted by: Big Smoke at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (dDxCh) 124
rape in chavezland is just a handshake
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (pB6Gt) 125
39 At his rally on Saturday, wonder if Trump will talk about his judicial appointments?
If he does, the crowd should storm the stage and beat the sh** out of him. There's a good argument that his promise on judicial appointments is what got him elected and he failed on that promise. Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (z8ptp) Soooo... this is the PsyOps the Nevertrumpers are going with today? Can they be anymore fucking obvious? Posted by: Serious Cat at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (zqs/f) 126
I honestly wouldn't be shocked if CNN has invited Greta Thunderberg to join a panel on blackness.
Thank you OM for your thoughts on gratitude. Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (Uu+Jp) 127
So Trump nominates a Federalist society judge who testifies that he is an originalist, gets him appointed, then the judge sides with the left and that's Trump's fault?
Again it comes down to this: Most of the times the guys he picks get it right, and very right. The alternative was Hillary Clinton and now Joe Biden. If you think in some demented alternate universe these people would pick better justices, you are so stupid as to be someone who ought to have their ability to vote removed. One stupid, frustrating decision by judges does not negate the rest of what they do or make me want to elect Joe Freaking Biden and his radical freaky deaky VP. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (KZzsI) 128
It's Trump's responsibility to actually vet potential Supreme Court Justices instead of just throwing in guys who claim to be originalist.
Posted by: Surfperch at June 15, 2020 1 We lie and cower in fear just like RINO politicians. Posted by: Roberts at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (55lwO) 129
97 Also, the Greta/CNN thing is a joke, right?
Tell me it's a joke Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (iTXRQ) It was a joke, and I got fooled. I actually thought it was real. "Genesius Times" is a satire site. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (mSARB) 130
We need Ted Cruz on the SCOTUS.
Got to have a big enough Senate majority to overcome the RINOs in confirmation though. Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (FtO5h) 131
So Trump joins a long line of Repub presidents who thought they were nominating conservative justices only to find out later, not so much
seems to be the way with that useless rotting carcass of a political party, and why I quit it years ago Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (iTXRQ) 132
I an remember when I got my drivers license,
I was told that having a drivers license was a privilege, not a right.It was something given by the state. So, I've always thought that "White Privilege" was something that somebody (I have not idea who) gave me ... and I'm not giving it back. Posted by: SMOD They ran out of white privilege by the time I got in line. Because I've had to work my ass off for everything I've gotten. Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (LHT0w) 133
African-Scandinavians stole my childhood.
Posted by: Greta Thunberg, meatball-scented Druid philosopher at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (EgshT) 134
Monkey thread with monkey bread!
Excellent post OM! We were just discussing these very things this weekend. The importance of coming back to the 10 commandments, the importance of hard work and personal accountability and living by the golden rule. How much these things are missing and how much most Christians churches have been corrupted. Posted by: Cheribebe at June 15, 2020 11:37 AM (w6A0l) 135
118 Is undocumented shopping down because of increased police presence, or just because there is nothing left to loot?
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (wCLLY) cashless society seems to mean something other than I thought. Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:37 AM (JFO2v) 136
I wouldn't mind studying Hinduism and Sihkism. Especially the latter. I dig the warrior religions.
Me too, I have a lot of respect for the Sikhs. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:37 AM (KZzsI) 137
As always, as is inevitable, what the Left advocates for and what it actually does are in direct opposition. For example, this notion of "privilege."
[_] Rights [_] Privileges You may choose only one. And the system they want to impose - one where no one has rights and people's behavior is controlled by group membership - is a system comprised of privileges (sometimes arbitrary, sometimes not). Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 11:37 AM (Q8c/L) Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 11:37 AM (iTXRQ) 139
SCOTUS could decide that all penises in the US have to be chopped off and I still wouldn't vote for Joe Biden.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:37 AM (1ISKN) 140
OM: If you're looking for old photos of people who were later famous, in roles people may not immediately recognize, I think Twilight Zone is good dirt to mine - a lot of celebrities got started or had cameos on that show.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 15, 2020 11:37 AM (wXhu+) 141
>>111
I have copies of all the major world religions' texts to study. Buddhism is the tough one, there are books about Buddhism but no central text. There was a single text for Scientology, but the Bridge to Total Freedom just keeps getting longer and longer and longer... Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 11:38 AM (QgtlX) 142
i was under the impression that CHAZ was out and CHOP was the new hotness.
It's the new Ronco CHAZ-CHOP! You'll love it's nuts! Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BrainwashedLivesMatter at June 15, 2020 11:38 AM (HaL55) 143
I wouldn't mind studying Hinduism and Sihkism. Especially the latter. I dig the warrior religions.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (ifmtJ) Sikhism interests me. From what I've read about them, it's like they came to most of the same conclusions about God and His nature as Christianity and Judaism, and still built a warrior ethos around it. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 11:38 AM (J+mig) 144
Capital Hill Unplanned Metropolitan Partition.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: There is always More Stupid at June 15, 2020 11:38 AM (OUMaO) 145
My wife has swiftly transitioned to full-woke SJW suburban white Karen, unfortunately. She recently posted this little gem on her Facebook in response to people resisting BLM and commies:
They gathered around the tower or bone. "We should knock it down", they said. "Because you're jealous of what we built!", cried the ones from atop the tower. 'No", said the ones below, "because you used our bones". When this is the grievance mindset these people have, what the hell do you say? Not only is it dumb, but what kind of reckoning do they think will make things fair for everyone going forward? Posted by: Average white guy (aka the problem) at June 15, 2020 11:38 AM (Of/Uk) 146
I still like Gorsuch overall, but this was not a decision based on existing law. That is highly unfortunate.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 15, 2020 11:39 AM (JRaU+) 147
Who Dis were also in Carousel together. Disturbing relationship there between a wife beater and a wife who didn't seem to mind it. Like I said, disturbing and probably why it isn't one of the most beloved musicals despite having good music.
Posted by: PennaLady at June 15, 2020 11:39 AM (8pqRD) 148
What's up with the book of Satan picture? Did I miss something?
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 11:39 AM (eAZVt) 149
127 So Trump nominates a Federalist society judge who testifies that he is an originalist, gets him appointed, then the judge sides with the left and that's Trump's fault?
Again it comes down to this: Most of the times the guys he picks get it right, and very right. The alternative was Hillary Clinton and now Joe Biden. If you think in some demented alternate universe these people would pick better justices, you are so stupid as to be someone who ought to have their ability to vote removed. One stupid, frustrating decision by judges does not negate the rest of what they do or make me want to elect Joe Freaking Biden and his radical freaky deaky VP. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (KZzsI) ================================= Trump got 2 Supreme Court picks. One seems to be OK, but it's worrying he felt the need to congratulate the gays after this decision. Gorsuch is a flop. You don't get many historically important cases. He's going to be another Roberts, who's with the cons when it's not a big deal. Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 11:39 AM (z8ptp) 150
Capital Hill Unplanned Decimation
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:39 AM (1aH4X) 151
And now for something completely different:
https://youtu.be/uQj1fZdUQPQ Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:32 AM (1aH4X) I like. Just downloaded it. Here's something else: https://tinyurl.com/y7e3qvzt Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:39 AM (2JVJo) 152
It's Trump's responsibility to actually vet potential Supreme Court Justices instead of just throwing in guys who claim to be originalist.
Posted by:Surfperch at June 15, 2020 1 It was a 5-4 decision without Gorsuch. Anyone blaming Trump whatsoever, needs to just VOTE FOR BIDEN. End of story. Posted by: Venus at June 15, 2020 11:39 AM (iYXhj) 153
It's hard to follow Christ when it seems like every single church is in on the corruption.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (N30JC) --- Christians around the world are losing their lives, as has been the case since Jesus told us that following Him would be cause for many trials in this world. Churches going into apostasy was also predicted. Praise be to God, not every church has succumbed. Posted by: SMH at June 15, 2020 11:39 AM (RU4sa) 154
Just thinking out loud it is very clear that the Bill of Rights has much crossover to the Ten Commandments.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (JFO2v) 155
Let's see, mayor of Boston is OK with removing statue of Lincoln celebrating the emancipation of slaves because it also includes a kneeling slave. He's apparently OK with it being replaced with some sort of statue of unity. So, some pointy metal blob of modern art that say nothing and makes the entire area uglier, I guess?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (bDqIh) 156
Good day to the Horde!
Thanks for another excellent Gorilla Thread, OM! Unless someone proves prior published/posted usage, I'd like to lay claim to the term "Chazmanians" and/or "Chazmanian Devils" to identify the occupants of that so-called autonomous zone. Posted by: doof2112 at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (mZUr4) 157
131 So Trump joins a long line of Repub presidents who thought they were nominating conservative justices only to find out later, not so much
seems to be the way with that useless rotting carcass of a political party, and why I quit it years ago Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (iTXRQ) So what judges would you have nominated other than the ones Trump has put up? Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (mSARB) 158
143 I wouldn't mind studying Hinduism and Sihkism. Especially the latter. I dig the warrior religions.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (ifmtJ) Sikhism interests me. From what I've read about them, it's like they came to most of the same conclusions about God and His nature as Christianity and Judaism, and still built a warrior ethos around it. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 11:38 AM (J+mig) There's a core of cult of personality around Sihkism that I don't dig but their ethos I can get behind. Sadly, I have no hair, so wouldn't be a good fit, probably. But I'd like to study it more. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (ifmtJ) 159
Soooo... this is the PsyOps the Nevertrumpers are going with today? Can they be anymore fucking obvious?
Posted by: Serious Cat at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (zqs/f) +++++++++++++ No, they probably can't be. And it is also very historically ignorant and they misattribute causes. It isn't a Trump appointment thing. It also isn't a Bush appointment thing. Keep going back. Hell, look at Eisenhower - he was an unmitigated disaster in terms of the SCOTUS. He appointed a ton of justices and they were awful as a rule. The problem is a powerful and largely unaccountable institution that fears for its legitimacy as winds of change blow, leading them to very predictably move toward increased state power with astonishing regularity. Conservative strict-constructionists become communists when they get to the bench. The biggest surprise at this point is that a handful of them *haven't* done so (Thomas, for example). Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (Q8c/L) 160
So Trump nominates a Federalist society judge who testifies that he is an originalist, gets him appointed, then the judge sides with the left and that's Trump's fault? >>>>>
I said I stop defending him after his Floyd letter and this is not that , but the above is what people here do regard to Bush and Roberts which has the exact same scenario. Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (fagTl) 161
I think Twilight Zone is good dirt to mine - a lot of celebrities got started or had cameos on that show.
Charles Bronson when he still had eyes. Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (wCLLY) 162
It's hard to follow Christ when it seems like every single church is in on the corruption.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (N30JC) *********************************** Christ and the church are 2 separate things. That you don't know that is your first issue. Posted by: Venus at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (iYXhj) 163
Didn't Shirley Jones have a lesbian affair with Florence Henderson?
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (bqR7B) 164
The CHAZ Blocks of AmeriKKKa and the CHOP Blocks of AmeriKKKa are gonna have to settle this War of the Next-Block-Over Aggression on the battlefield. And I want to watch. It should be hilarious.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 11:41 AM (FtO5h) 165
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (1aH4X)
I've got to send you an e-mail, Anna. I read what you sent me and want to talk. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:41 AM (2JVJo) 166
Greta's opinions are like gold. Maybe in another galaxy.
Posted by: Mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at June 15, 2020 11:41 AM (4a9Vv) 167
Buddhisms has a largely canonical set of sutras. The major divide is Mahayana/Threvada. Because Buddhism has no central deity, it's incredibly easy to synchrotize, and there are countless forms of syncretic Buddhism which have their own scripture, most not written. I'd start with the Triptaka which is just the standard Mahayana Buddhist text.
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:41 AM (FCQR/) 168
131 So Trump joins a long line of Repub presidents who thought they were nominating conservative justices only to find out later, not so much
seems to be the way with that useless rotting carcass of a political party, and why I quit it years ago Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (iTXRQ) *********************************** Again, for the slow people. The decision was 5-4 without Gorsuch. You need to vote for Biden. Posted by: Venus at June 15, 2020 11:41 AM (iYXhj) 169
141 >>111
I have copies of all the major world religions' texts to study. Buddhism is the tough one, there are books about Buddhism but no central text. There was a single text for Scientology, but the Bridge to Total Freedom just keeps getting longer and longer and longer... Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 11:38 AM (QgtlX) Never give a Scientologist your credit card number... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:42 AM (ifmtJ) 170
I wouldn't mind studying Hinduism and Sihkism. Especially the latter. I dig the warrior religions.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (ifmtJ) I always found Jainism interesting. Not interesting like I want to be one, but because of the crazy extremes they go to not to hurt other living things. Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2020 11:42 AM (Ez6QX) Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 11:42 AM (lWCRE) 172
I'm more pissed that SCOTUS has again denied cert for the 2A cases then I am about today's ruling.
Posted by: Mark1971 at June 15, 2020 11:42 AM (xPl2J) 173
I've always had a thing for Shirley Jones.
******** Shirley Jones The Pride of Smithton Pa. & the Daughter of the Brewer & owner of Stoney's Beer Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at June 15, 2020 11:42 AM (C8hbG) 174
>>"We should knock it down", they said.
"Because you're jealous of what we built!", cried the ones from atop the tower. 'No", said the ones below, "because you used our bones". "If you'd used your own bones to build your own towers....nevermind. Resume your servitude." Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 11:42 AM (QgtlX) 175
163 Didn't Shirley Jones have a lesbian affair with Florence Henderson?
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (bqR7B) Pics or it didn't happen Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:42 AM (ifmtJ) 176
People seem to be forgetting that justices similar to Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas and Alito have been the exception to the rule ever since the New Deal. Chances are much higher you get a Kennedy, OConnor type.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 15, 2020 11:43 AM (JRaU+) 177
CNN adds Greta Thunberg to expert panel on 'What it's Like Being Black in America'
___________ What, a former black President of the United States wasn't available? Posted by: ShainS -- No more half measures, Donald at June 15, 2020 11:43 AM (nfJ9e) 178
97 Also, the Greta/CNN thing is a joke, right?
Tell me it's a joke Posted by: DB- just DB The reality and satire streams have crossed paths so much it's really hard to tell. Posted by: Puddleglum at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (HPZbe) So much so that Snopes probably won't fact check it. Posted by: clutch cargo at June 15, 2020 11:43 AM (8B6Ng) 179
I wouldn't mind studying Hinduism and Sihkism. Especially the latter. I dig the warrior religions. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (ifmtJ) ------ Well, Hinduism is a bit weird in that regard. In general, it has a lot of emphasis on peace, nonviolence, humility, etc. But then... there's the Kshatriya caste. And the Kshatra Dharma that governs them, which basically says "when it comes to all that... PSYCHE! That doesn't apply to you dudes. Go forth and kick ass, take names, and acquire fame and glory." Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 15, 2020 11:43 AM (wXhu+) 180
I see photo six has the "surrey with the fringe".
Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (clsJu) I was hoping for the bustle in her hedgerow Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 15, 2020 11:43 AM (kw5n8) 181
>>> I'm more pissed that SCOTUS has again denied cert for the 2A cases then I am about today's ruling.
True... but given the ruling, maybe we shouldnt trust them to rule on 2A... just now A few more of those rock-ribbed conservative justices though... THEN bring it on ! Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 11:44 AM (lWCRE) 182
What, a former black President of the United States wasn't available?
Posted by: ShainS -- No more half measures, Donald at June 15, 2020 11:43 AM (nfJ9e) halllfffffblaaaaaccckkkk Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:44 AM (JFO2v) 183
Dennis Prager says the "secret" to success is easy ... finish high school, get a job, don't have kids till you do that and are married. (not sure if I got step 3 exactly as he stated).
These are basically the blessings of liberty, combined with some ten commandments type life style. All Americans are privileged to have such success at hand, if they take responsibility for their own actions. There are certain economic and social advantages to being born into a family with influence (of any color) ... but those children by the third generation are often spoiled and probably less content with life (as they wrap their Maserati around a tree, as Tucker puts it). The blue collar working class can be very satisfying, and we can continue to improve it if we stop electing tyrannical leftists that want everyone on some form of welfare, and that support the destruction and burning of small business owners. (by BLM and Antifa, funded/directed by ? globalists?) Posted by: illiniwek at June 15, 2020 11:44 AM (Cus5s) 184
>>179
I wouldn't mind studying Hinduism and Sihkism. Especially the latter. I dig the warrior religions. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:35 AM (ifmtJ) Tengrism. Yao. Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 11:44 AM (u4/yY) 185
20. Thanks.
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 11:45 AM (ONvIw) 186
Let's see, mayor of Boston is OK with removing statue of Lincoln celebrating the emancipation of slaves because it also includes a kneeling slave. He's apparently OK with it being replaced with some sort of statue of unity. So, some pointy metal blob of modern art that say nothing and makes the entire area uglier, I guess?
Posted by: Lizzy at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (bDqIh) Maaaaaaahty Walsh is an ahistorical imbecile and utter coward. It will not surprise me if Faneuil Hall does get renamed during his tenure. The only bright spot is he will be the last white mayor of Boston. That fucking city can burn to the ground for all I care now. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:45 AM (2JVJo) 187
unplanned donation
undocumented immigrant street pharmacist anti fascist mostly peaceful social justice Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (JFO2v Reminds me of George Carlin and "shell shocked" Still very true https://tinyurl.com/y75dtl3z Posted by: Cheribebe at June 15, 2020 11:45 AM (w6A0l) 188
177 CNN adds Greta Thunberg to expert panel on 'What it's Like Being Black in America'
___________ What, a former black President of the United States wasn't available? Posted by: ShainS -- No more half measures, Donald at June 15, 2020 11:43 AM (nfJ9e) Bill isn't in the best of health... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:45 AM (ifmtJ) 189
153 It's hard to follow Christ when it seems like every single church is in on the corruption.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (N30JC) I would like to extend an invitation to my church. It sounds like you would be pleasantly surprised. Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 11:45 AM (clsJu) 190
Great is a natural for that CNN panel of blacks.
She is an expert on global warming. Global warming hits communities of color hardest. So why would anybody doubt her credentials? I suppose you think somebody like Thomas Sowell should be there, Posted by: Ripley at June 15, 2020 11:45 AM (MxEKc) 191
Sihkism has a central text, the Adi Granth sometimes called the Guru Granth. It is the wisdom of the nine previous gurus collected by the final Guru. Nanak is the founder of Sihkism, which is an "Eastern" monotheism. It shares cosmetic similarities and geneology with other Indian religions but is not all that similar to Buddhism or Jainism.
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:45 AM (FCQR/) 192
So what judges would you have nominated other than the ones Trump has put up?
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (mSARB) Kavanaugh was a sop to the RINOs from the start. It's not revisionist history to say that. Just about everyone else on his original list would have been better imo. Posted by: Captain Hate at June 15, 2020 11:45 AM (y7DUB) 193
Didn't Shirley Jones have a lesbian affair with Florence Henderson?
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at June 15, 2020 * * As everybody says today, "Pics or it didn't happen." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:45 AM (rpbg1) 194
161 I think Twilight Zone is good dirt to mine - a lot of celebrities got started or had cameos on that show.
Charles Bronson when he still had eyes. Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (wCLLY) === A lot of people don't know this, but for a very brief time Charles Bronson replaced Andy Griffith on The Andy Griffith Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUgKUspKisY Posted by: Augustine at June 15, 2020 11:45 AM (BDZWU) 195
Didn't Shirley Jones have a lesbian affair with Florence Henderson?
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at June 15, 2020 11:40 AM (bqR7B) That's just too good to check. Bunk. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:46 AM (2JVJo) 196
>>They gathered around the tower or bone.
"We should knock it down", they said. "Because you're jealous of what we built!", cried the ones from atop the tower. 'No", said the ones below, "because you used our bones". - - And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! Posted by: Lizzy at June 15, 2020 11:46 AM (bDqIh) 197
Seems like I have recently heard of some other bit of common sense emanating from Tyler, TX, but I don't recall what it was.
Is there something in the water that preserves rationality? Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 11:46 AM (clsJu) 198
True... but given the ruling, maybe we shouldnt trust them to rule on 2A... just now
A few more of those rock-ribbed conservative justices though... THEN bring it on ! Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 11:44 AM (lWCRE) Yeah, that's why I'm pissed. It shows the other four don't trust Roberts on 2A. It only takes four justices to accept a case. If they don't it probably means they think Roberts has gone wobbly. Posted by: Mark1971 at June 15, 2020 11:47 AM (xPl2J) 199
PJM has a hilarious article about the Conflict Resolution Council being set up at CHAZ/CHOP. It reads like the Babylon Bee, but it's presumed to be real.
https://tinyurl.com/ydxtb3zm Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 11:48 AM (ZGrMX) 200
Re: my SCOTUS comment
I freely admit I don't know what I'm talking about. It just seems to me that nominating sure fire conservatives to the Court seems to be a crapshoot sometimes. Also I don't follow these issues as closely as I used to, mostly to protect my own sanity. Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 11:48 AM (iTXRQ) 201
Shirley Jones and Howard Kiel?
Posted by: Donny Brook at June 15, 2020 11:48 AM (819Go) 202
197 Seems like I have recently heard of some other bit of common sense emanating from Tyler, TX, but I don't recall what it was.
Is there something in the water that preserves rationality? Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 11:46 AM (clsJu) I believe that's where Weird Dave is moving to. Seems like a good choice! Posted by: doof2112 at June 15, 2020 11:48 AM (mZUr4) 203
I'd say this - don't bother with Daoism. Lao Tze is basically The Sphinx from Mystery Men.
Shintoism has some interesting mythology but no better than Yoruba or Hopi or Norse. Well, some of the shit Susanoo does is pretty funny. Japan's interesting additions to religion come through syncretization. Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:48 AM (FCQR/) Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 11:48 AM (FtO5h) 205
I'd like to lay claim to the term "Chazmanians" and/or "Chazmanian
Devils" to identify the occupants of that so-called autonomous zone. Sorry, you made it an unplanned donation to me. Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 11:48 AM (T6t7i) 206
195 Didn't Shirley Jones have a lesbian affair with Florence Henderson?
Mom always said not to ball in the house. Posted by: Bobby at June 15, 2020 11:48 AM (oVJmc) Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2020 11:49 AM (QzF6i) Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 11:49 AM (N30JC) 209
It's Trump's responsibility to actually vet potential Supreme Court Justices instead of just throwing in guys who claim to be originalist.
Posted by:Surfperch at June 15, 2020 1 It was a 5-4 decision without Gorsuch. Anyone blaming Trump whatsoever, needs to just VOTE FOR BIDEN. End of story. Posted by: Venus at June 15, 2020 11:39 AM (iYXhj) The fact that Roberts sided with the majority doesn't change the fact that Gorsuch did too. Posted by: Surfperch at June 15, 2020 11:49 AM (tVQUs) 210
Example from the CHAZ/CHOP conflict resolution council:
Edit 7: We've heard your concerns about the Asian non-male seat representing all Asian subgroups as if they are a monolithic identity. That wasn't our intention. We will replace the Asian non-male seat with 12 mini-seats for each of the following Asian non-male identities: Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, Taiwanese, Malaysian, Mongolian, Okinawan, Singaporean, and wildcard (any Asian identity, except Korean-American). The mini-seats will collectively hold the voting power of one seat. Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 11:49 AM (ZGrMX) 211
in Chaz they're eating Solved Green chilli enchiladas!
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:50 AM (pB6Gt) 212
... They gathered around the tower or bone.
"We should knock it down", they said. "Because you're jealous of what we built!", cried the ones from atop the tower. 'No", said the ones below, "because you used our bones". ... Posted by: Average white guy (aka the problem) at June 15, 2020 11:38 AM (Of/Uk) ++++++++++++++++ There's a scene like that in Atlas Shrugged, where John Galt is talking with one of the politicos about what terms he would come to with them. As usual, Galt refused to negotiate and said he doesn't negotiate for his life or at the point of a gun. There is then an exchange that goes something like: Politico: But that's not true. You'd pay a doctor to set your broken bone. Galt: Not if he's the one who broke it. They break it and then demand that we rebuild it. They will get a rude awakening (as will everyone else) when it turns out that it can't be rebuilt. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 11:50 AM (Q8c/L) 213
The Troll Patrol in full force.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 11:50 AM (++MjY) 214
>>Dennis Prager says the "secret" to success is easy . . . finish high school, get a job, don't have kids till you do that and are married. (not sure if I got step 3 exactly as he stated).
Thought that was economist Thomas Sowell who said that? It's get married. And then after marriage, have kids. Posted by: Lizzy at June 15, 2020 11:50 AM (bDqIh) 215
195 Didn't Shirley Jones have a lesbian affair with Florence Henderson?
--- No. Shirley was feeling manly that day, so it was a heterosexual affair. Posted by: Neil Gorsuch at June 15, 2020 11:51 AM (sWM8x) 216
[The Barrel has entered the chatroom]
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 11:51 AM (FtO5h) 217
Since we're discussing alternate religions, there is also Jainism, which the silent star Valeska Suratt converted to later in her life.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:51 AM (2JVJo) Posted by: Bert G at June 15, 2020 11:51 AM (OMsf+) 219
Shirley Jones, Gordon McCrae, Oklahoma
Posted by: Vincent Mohan at June 15, 2020 11:52 AM (tRgq3) 220
That CNN thing about Greta on a panel about being black in America is that thing they call fake news, I think. I have only seen it linked from Genesius Times?
Posted by: blaster at June 15, 2020 11:52 AM (ZfRYq) 221
Can't touch this!
Posted by: The Barrel at June 15, 2020 11:52 AM (wCLLY) 222
True... but given the ruling, maybe we shouldnt trust them to rule on 2A... just now
A few more of those rock-ribbed conservative justices though... THEN bring it on ! Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 11:44 AM (lWCRE) Yeah, that's why I'm pissed. It shows the other four don't trust Roberts on 2A. It only takes four justices to accept a case. If they don't it probably means they think Roberts has gone wobbly. Posted by: Mark1971 at June 15, 2020 11:47 AM --- Makes no sense. roberts voted in favor of the heller case affirming the right to bear arms was an individual right. Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 11:52 AM (JUOKG) 223
24 Hour Fitness said Monday in its Chapter 11 filing that it has secured
$250 million in funding to help reopen some of its clubs and expects a majority of locations to be open by the end of June. However, it's emerging as a smaller chain: It permanently closed 100 US locations in 14 states with roughly 300 clubs remaining. Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2020 11:53 AM (3aI0K) Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 11:53 AM (iTXRQ) 225
so people here losing their shit about SCOTUS decision you think it fine if someone loses their job because the Putt From The Ruff or Lick Carpet. when they do their job just as well as any one else ?
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at June 15, 2020 11:53 AM (C8hbG) 226
217 Since we're discussing alternate religions, there is also Jainism, which the silent star Valeska Suratt converted to later in her life.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:51 AM (2JVJo) MP4, see me @170. Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2020 11:53 AM (Ez6QX) 227
222. Yes. I like dumping on Roberts as much as anyone else, but when the 2A actually came up, he did well.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 15, 2020 11:53 AM (JRaU+) 228
Yes simple logic.
Income disparity between those with a High School diploma and those without. Income disparity between unwed mothers and married mothers. Income disparity between those with a criminal record and those without. It's not based on race. Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:53 AM (fagTl) 229
Perhaps the male moonbats could bare and offer their asses as unplanned donations to the less fortunate.
Perhaps the female moonbats should follow suit. Posted by: Xipe Totec-Death to AntiFa! at June 15, 2020 11:53 AM (o2MD2) 230
>>>Kavanaugh was a sop to the RINOs from the start. It's not revisionist history to say that. Just about everyone else on his original list would have been better imo.
Amy Comey Barrett would have been better than Kavvanaugh. Kavanaugh changed after the Dems attacked him, IMO. Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2020 11:54 AM (AFSld) 231
>>Maaaaaaahty Walsh is an ahistorical imbecile and utter coward. It will not surprise me if Faneuil Hall does get renamed during his tenure.
I'd say he's the worst, but looking at other major cities in flames right now, I know that it can get much, much worse. Just look at Rachel "topknot" Rollins' (D-Soros) tenure as DA. . . Posted by: Lizzy at June 15, 2020 11:54 AM (bDqIh) 232
So I see we have a new Saint... Saint Raynard...
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 11:54 AM (Zmnko) 233
Edit 7: We've heard your concerns about the Asian non-male seat
representing all Asian subgroups as if they are a monolithic identity. That wasn't our intention. We will replace the Asian non-male seat with 12 mini-seats for each of the following Asian non-male identities: Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, Taiwanese, Malaysian, Mongolian, Okinawan, Singaporean, and wildcard (any Asian identity, except Korean-American). The mini-seats will collectively hold the voting power of one seat. A Mřřse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the mřřse with the sharpened end of an interspace třřthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian mřvies: "The Hřt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mřlars of Horst Nordfink"... We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked. Mynd you, mřřse bites Kan be pretti nasti... We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked. Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 11:54 AM (T6t7i) 234
I was in Taiwan so long that Christianity became an exotic relegion.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:54 AM (pB6Gt) 235
so people here losing their shit about SCOTUS decision you think it fine if someone loses their job because the Putt From The Ruff or Lick Carpet. when they do their job just as well as any one else ?
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani They aren't people. Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 11:54 AM (++MjY) 236
so people here losing their shit about SCOTUS decision you think it fine if someone loses their job because the Putt From The Ruff or Lick Carpet. when they do their job just as well as any one else ?
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at June 15, 2020 11:53 AM (C8hbG) Nothing personal, Bro. Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:54 AM (wCLLY) 237
I've always thought that "White Privilege" was something that somebody (I have not idea who) gave me ... and I'm not giving it back. Posted by: SMOD Don't forget to show your "White Guy Discount Card" wherever you shop. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 15, 2020 11:54 AM (aKsyK) 238
From Carrie Severino... Justice Scalia would be disappointed that his successor has bungled textualism so badly today, for the sake of appealing to college campuses and editorial boards. This was not judging, this was legislating--a brute force attack on our constitutional system. Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 11:54 AM (z8ptp) 239
I believe that's where Weird Dave is moving to. Seems like a good choice!
Posted by: doof2112 at June 15, 2020 11:48 AM (mZUr4) Yes, I recall. Many congrats and best wishes to WD and Gingy! Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 11:55 AM (clsJu) 240
Makes no sense. roberts voted in favor of the heller case affirming the right to bear arms was an individual right.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 11:52 AM (JUOKG) So did Anthony Kennedy. Would you still trust him to say that you have a constitutional right to own an AR-15 if he was still on the court today? Posted by: Mark1971 at June 15, 2020 11:55 AM (xPl2J) 241
Jainists literally won't eat root vegetables, because you are disturbing organisms when you pull them from the ground, and hence causing violence.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2020 11:55 AM (Ez6QX) 242
Jains are, at the very least, internally consistent. Complete pacficism is a tough road to hoe in the modern world. But it always has been, and the Jains have survived.
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:55 AM (FCQR/) 243
TRUMP STRONG!
now over 1 million ticket requests for the rally Posted by: Menack at June 15, 2020 11:55 AM (buTO7) 244
Greta Thunberg appointed as Czarina of the Large Hadron Collider, progress expected "soon".
Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 11:55 AM (RuIsu) 245
American Don't Serf
I think today's young brainwashed activists wouldn't even get the reference to a movie that was made before they were born since nothing of importance has ever happened before they were born. Heh. Posted by: LGoPs at June 15, 2020 11:55 AM (7k/uO) 246
I'm more pissed that SCOTUS has again denied cert for the 2A cases then I am about today's ruling.
Posted by: Mark1971 at June 15, 2020 11:42 AM (xPl2J) yes me too Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 15, 2020 11:55 AM (nRk/c) 247
Soo, does it also mean that Islam is going to have to welcome trans ma'ams into their mosques and schools?
Posted by: lizabth Come in, come in, you will love the view from the minaret. Posted by: Mohammad Wachyaf al-Far at June 15, 2020 11:55 AM (P1f+c) 248
Both Splash Mountain and "Song of the South" began trending on Twitter
on Wednesday, and a Change.org petition demanding the ride be re-themed is quickly going viral. Of course, it should be "Song of the Not-North" Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2020 11:56 AM (3aI0K) 249
"That CNN thing about Greta on a panel about being black in America is that thing they call fake news, I think. I have only seen it linked from Genesius Times?"
CNN itself is fake news. But that picture had to be a parody. Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 11:56 AM (eAZVt) 250
Nooooooobody knows the trouble I've seeeeeeen.
Posted by: Greta Thunberg, meatball-scented Druid philosopher at June 15, 2020 11:56 AM (EgshT) 251
serfs up
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:56 AM (pB6Gt) 252
You shall not covet ... anything that is your neighbor's
Posted by: tmitsss at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (bEAoD) 253
MP4, see me @170.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2020 11:53 AM (Ez6QX) I missed that. Apologies, dear lady. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (2JVJo) 254
Trump needs to hold his rallies in bigger venues. Like Charlotte Motor Speedway. 20,000 people? Shit.
Posted by: Xipe Totec-Death to AntiFa! at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (o2MD2) 255
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Jains are, at the very least, internally consistent. Complete pacficism is a tough road to hoe in the modern world. But it always has been, and the Jains have survived. i was going to complain, but decided to tow the line instead. Posted by: Anachronda at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (sGtp+) 256
246 I'm more pissed that SCOTUS has again denied cert for the 2A cases then I am about today's ruling.
Posted by: Mark1971 at June 15, 2020 11:42 AM (xPl2J) yes me too Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 15, 2020 11:55 AM (nRk/c) =================================== That means it would have failed. Guessing the four knew Roberts would not be onboard Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (z8ptp) 257
Kind of want to go for a buggy ride now
Posted by: It wasnt Me at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (EfQw2) 258
SCOTUS gave it to us up the ass.
Forget about who ruled in the majority for a second. Think about what they did. The court just legislated into the Civil Rights Act what was not plainly included. In fact, Congress has tried, and failed, to add precisely what SCOTUS just stated was included. They have also stomped on people who have a right, based on religious values, to exclude certain people from their employ. This isn't a matter of discriminating based on race, which is indefensible. There is no "cause" or religious reason that justifies that. But being gay or transgender is completely antithetical, and demonstrably has been for ages, to many religions. Yes, thank you Gorsuch and Roberts. The so-called "originalists" who will now be legislating for us. I completely fear any ruling from this court. They will strip us of our liberties one at a time. Just wait until the next Second Amendment case comes up. That will be the next to go. Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (VpIIl) 259
I have read this wonderful blog for years, and I have always wanted to comment. I suppose it took Frasier to bring out the commenter in me. Love him. And I love this blog.
Posted by: Happy in Dixie at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (X0h1J) 260
We are fully in the gaslighting phase of the Atlanta shooting.
Sure, he broke the law, resisted arrested, fought police, stole a police weapon, fired it at the police but they should have let him go. Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (ZLI7S) 261
Only MESNA members read the Genesius Times
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (FtO5h) 262
"meatball-scented Druid philosopher" always makes me chuckle.
Thanks to whoever came up with that moniker. Posted by: SMH at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (RU4sa) 263
Greta seems more qualified to talk about what it feels like to be low IQ and unfuckable.
Posted by: Menack at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (buTO7) 264
Sooo, does this mean those nasty conservative Christians are going to have trans ma'ams in their private schools/churches or else?
Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (L3Rsz) ++++++++++++ Of course not. The Left and Islam are allies of convenience, nothing more. They share a common goal (destroy Western civilization). They are not natural bedfellows. The moment they win, they will turn on each other. Sort of like the USSR and the rest of the Allies during and immediately after WWII. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (Q8c/L) 265
>>>[153] It's hard to follow Christ when it seems like every single church is in on the corruption. Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (N30JC)
Christ does not cause the corruption. He can, however, furnish some mighty armor for protection. Posted by: Kathy at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (Me4XW) 266
Jains are, at the very least, internally consistent. Complete pacficism
is a tough road to hoe in the modern world. But it always has been, and the Jains have survived. i was going to complain, but decided to tow the line instead. Posted by: Anachronda It's a mute point. Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 11:58 AM (T6t7i) 267
I like the reframe of privilege to blessings. The marxist/stalinist fuckwits can't see the pie ever growing all they ever see is the same pie cut into ever smaller pieces. Nobody in America lacks for blessings. Let our cup overflow. Even the sick and the poor have blessings above all that have come before.
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at June 15, 2020 11:58 AM (0OmEj) 268
265 >>>[153] It's hard to follow Christ when it seems like every single church is in on the corruption. Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (N30JC)
You don't need a church to follow Christ Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 11:58 AM (Zmnko) 269
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:54 AM (wCLLY)
****** SO A I am a Flaming Heterosexual & 2 you have no answer Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at June 15, 2020 11:58 AM (C8hbG) 270
My white privilege allowed me to sweat my ass off for most of my life and yeah, so now I've got some material possessions to show for it. If Antifa and BLM and the Democrats (they're all one and the same) want to come take them, they can try, but I'll have a say in the matter. Kinetically.
Posted by: LGoPs at June 15, 2020 11:58 AM (7k/uO) 271
I mostly skipped traditional African folk beliefs, except for the Yoruba, Ashtanti and the Fon - the Fon birthed the infant forms of Vodou, which split into Vodoun, Voodoo, Hoodoo, New Orleans Voodoo, etc.
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:58 AM (FCQR/) Posted by: K at June 15, 2020 11:58 AM (5LFjM) 273
Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 11:49 AM (ZGrMX)
So, the Asian Seat votes are worth 1/12th of a regular seat vote? Sounds vaguely familiar. Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2020 11:59 AM (NgKpN) 274
263 Greta seems more qualified to talk about what it feels like to be low IQ and unfuckable.
Posted by: Menack at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (buTO7) You have a point Posted by: Xipe Totec-Death to AntiFa! at June 15, 2020 11:59 AM (o2MD2) Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2020 11:59 AM (AFSld) 276
Just watched Raychard"s family have a press conference...
I was impressed by the cousin who said if any celebrities wanted to contact the family or send money, they can get in touch with him. Posted by: jwest at June 15, 2020 11:59 AM (mrrpT) 277
Sooo, does this mean those nasty conservative
Christians are going to have trans ma'ams in their private schools/churches or else? Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (L3Rsz) Yes. Posted by: Justices Gorsuch and Roberts at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (tVQUs) Apres cette, le deluge. Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 11:59 AM (nAiE/) 278
254 Trump needs to hold his rallies in bigger venues. Like Charlotte Motor Speedway. 20,000 people? Shit.
Posted by: Xipe Totec-Death to AntiFa! at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (o2MD2) ----- 1000 acre flatlands Posted by: Menack at June 15, 2020 11:59 AM (buTO7) 279
I completely fear any ruling from this court. They will strip us of our liberties one at a time. Just wait until the next Second Amendment case comes up. That will be the next to go.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (VpIIl) ++++++++++++ This is their second abrogation of the First Amendment this *month.* Free association and churchgoing are no longer protected after this ruling and the prior one about forbidding churches to open with emergency powers. This has been an extremely bad month for the First. It's protections have vanished in multiple areas. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 11:59 AM (Q8c/L) 280
This entity has been called such names as "The Man" or "The System" but lately has been called "White Privilege."
Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:20 AM Kinda like how the Left had to change their narrative from "Global Cooling" to "Global Warming" to "Climate Change", based on their narrative failing. The Left had to change their narrative from "The Man" and "The System" to "White Privilege" in 2009, after "The Man" was a Black man and "The System" was full of "The Man's" radical Black fellow travelers. Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 12:00 PM (Do5/p) 281
Read Alito's dissent. He completely scorches the majorities arguments.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2020 12:00 PM (VpIIl) 282
It's a mute point.
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 11:58 AM (T6t7i) +++++++++++ When it comes to proper use of idioms (idioma?), don't take it for granite. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 12:00 PM (Q8c/L) 283
>>>I was impressed by the cousin who said if any celebrities wanted to contact the family or send money, they can get in touch with him.
Totes not a racket, though. Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2020 12:00 PM (AFSld) 284
J.D. Vance @JDVance1 · 1h The conservative legal movement has accomplished two things: libertarian political economy (enforced by judges) and betrayal of social conservatives and traditionalists. Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 12:00 PM (z8ptp) 285
OK, I've got to get out of the house for a bit. I'm so depressed it's not funny.
Oh, the Joel McCrea and "strong white teeth" reference comes from the Anita O'Day / Gene Krupa song "Watch the Birdie" https://tinyurl.com/ydym2uee Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 12:00 PM (2JVJo) 286
Sorry, I know I ramble when these topics come up. I love religions - I hate people. Beliefs are so much more fascinating than their believers.
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 12:00 PM (FCQR/) 287
Take it easy, MP4.
Posted by: SMH at June 15, 2020 12:01 PM (RU4sa) 288
Just watched Raychard"s family have a press conference...
I was impressed by the cousin who said if any celebrities wanted to contact the family or send money, they can get in touch with him. Posted by: jwest at June 15, 2020 11:59 AM (mrrpT) No sensible person would send this thug's family money. He was literally terminally stupid. Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 12:01 PM (nAiE/) 289
283 >>>I was impressed by the cousin who said if any celebrities wanted to contact the family or send money, they can get in touch with him.
So Raychard is worth more dead than alive to them.... A Black cash cow as it were... I denounce myself Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:01 PM (Zmnko) 290
What, a former black President of the United States wasn't available?
Posted by: ShainS -- No more half measures, Donald at June 15, 2020 11:43 AM (nfJ9e) halllfffffblaaaaaccckkkk Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 11:44 AM (JFO2v) And no Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Condaleeza Rice, Candace Owens, Kanye West, Ben Carson, Karl Malone, Stacy Dash... Posted by: LASue at June 15, 2020 12:01 PM (s7jaT) 291
228 Yes simple logic.
Income disparity between those with a High School diploma and those without. Income disparity between unwed mothers and married mothers. Income disparity between those with a criminal record and those without. It's not based on race. Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:53 AM (fagTl) ^ THIS Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2020 12:01 PM (Ez6QX) 292
Seems to me that "the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" must be cancelled. Confederate soldiers were not portrayed as the evil monsters we all know they were. In fact, they were portrayed as, get this, human beings.
Posted by: Ripley at June 15, 2020 12:01 PM (MxEKc) 293
260 We are fully in the gaslighting phase of the Atlanta shooting.
Sure, he broke the law, resisted arrested, fought police, stole a police weapon, fired it at the police but they should have let him go. Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (ZLI7S) To be politically correct is more important than factually correct Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:01 PM (ifmtJ) 294
SO A I am a Flaming Heterosexual
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at June 15, 2020 11:58 AM (C8hbG) Present company is excluded of course. Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 12:02 PM (we2CT) 295
No sensible person would send this thug's family money. But plenty of other people would, and will. Posted by: Bobby at June 15, 2020 12:02 PM (oVJmc) 296
Thug - the word comes from the Thugee cult in India, a form of religion.
And the circle is complete. Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 12:02 PM (1ISKN) 297
281 Read Alito's dissent. He completely scorches the majorities arguments.
Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2020 12:00 PM (VpIIl) =================================== People here don't seem to care that Trump fu**** up royally with the Gorsuch pick. It always starts with that one liberal decision and the Justice, like Kennedy and Roberts, is never the same after Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 12:02 PM (z8ptp) 298
Thanks to whoever came up with that moniker.
It was our esteemed host, Mr. O'Spades. It was Comey that he riffed on but I just replaced "pine" with "meatball". Posted by: Greta Thunberg, meatball-scented Druid philosopher at June 15, 2020 12:02 PM (EgshT) 299
If you remember that the federal Courts, through blatant expropriation of extra-Constitutional powers, has fashioned itself into the most powerful branch of government, it will cease to surprise you when they consistently move to expand the power of government in general. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (wXhu+) 300
To be politically correct is more important than factually correct
--- Truer words were never spoken. Posted by: Neil Gorsuch at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (sWM8x) 301
I mostly skipped traditional African folk beliefs, except for the Yoruba, Ashtanti and the Fon - the Fon birthed the infant forms of Vodou, which split into Vodoun, Voodoo, Hoodoo, New Orleans Voodoo, etc.
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 * * Santeria for the Cubans! Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (rpbg1) 302
260 We are fully in the gaslighting phase of the Atlanta shooting.
Sure, he broke the law, resisted arrested, fought police, stole a police weapon, fired it at the police but they should have let him go. Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (ZLI7S) Wait a minute... You mean he wasn't just walking peacefully down a sidewalk when two racist police officers, draped in the confederate flag, starting shooting? Posted by: jwest at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (mrrpT) 303
Monkey bread for a monkey thread.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (NWiLs) Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (ifmtJ) 305
My recent favorite is renaming Lynchburg.
You know. The Lynch fellow who freed his slaves and was anti-slavery. That guy. Posted by: Moron Robbie - We must end systemic racism by increasing funding for affirmative action at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (88lM6) 306
So, the Asian Seat votes are worth 1/12th of a regular seat vote?
Sounds vaguely familiar. It's amazing. The council was originally 3 people: a black man, a black woman, and a white woman. The white woman had to go, and then they wanted a black gay, lesbian, trans, and bi. Then they had to add physically and mentally disabled blacks. And then convicted criminals. And then the women pushed back on the convicted criminals because they're probably rapey, and it's hilarious. And now they're having to add children, because the Left loves to give children legal power. Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (ZGrMX) 307
I visited an old friend this weekend, and learned that he's basically Never-Trump. It was a struggle to come up with things to talk about after that...
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (eAZVt) 308
>>>>You mean he wasn't just walking peacefully down a sidewalk when two racist police officers, draped in the confederate flag, starting shooting?
Pffy, I do that every Sunday night! Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (AFSld) 309
We are fully in the gaslighting phase of the Atlanta shooting.
Sure, he broke the law, resisted arrested, fought police, stole a police weapon, fired it at the police but they should have let him go. Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (ZLI7S) To be politically correct is more important than factually correct Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:01 PM (ifmtJ) The night he was killed, someone here was saying they should have just let him walk home and not tried to arrest him for drunk driving. Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (nAiE/) 310
But MFer Gorsuch!
Posted by: MAGA at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (z4hID) 311
304 Life is now a Rage Against the Machine lyric sheet.
Gun up, be alert, say No Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (ifmtJ) Don't do what they told ya. Be a renegade. Of funk. Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (NWiLs) Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (FCQR/) 313
Yes, thank you Gorsuch and Roberts. The so-called "originalists" who will now be legislating for us.
I completely fear any ruling from this court. They will strip us of our liberties one at a time. Just wait until the next Second Amendment case comes up. That will be the next to go. Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (VpIIl) Now add in the last major precedent they set. They ruled that it was NOT the Court's place to 'second guess' the taking of Civil Rights when a Governor declares an emergency. Destroying the Right to petition for redress through the Courts. Which means, any time a Governor signs a piece of paper saying there is an Emergency, he can take your rights away. And the Supreme Court will not intervene. Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (NgKpN) 314
Hope Rush is feeling better....
He should be a good listen today Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (lWCRE) 315
Like I said, disturbing and probably why it isn't one of the most beloved musicals despite having good music. Posted by: PennaLady at June 15, 2020 11:39 AM (8pqRD) Richard Rodgers was a genius composer but a hardcore SJW. Lorenz Hart at least held him in check somewhat in pursuit of popular success. Oscar Hammerstein II was completely onboard with the SJW crap. Rodgers and Hammerstein killed musical theater. Their utter lack of restraint on social progress issues sucked all of the joy out of musicals. Posted by: fktheleft at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (I54dk) 316
"I was impressed by the cousin who said if any celebrities wanted to
contact the family or send money, they can get in touch with him. " The Mustag GT funeral hearses will not pay for themselves. Posted by: Ripley at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (MxEKc) 317
0 We are fully in the gaslighting phase of the Atlanta shooting.
Local radio station was all agog about this.. Said White Policeman was fired after shooting a Black man .. No mention said Black man had fought the police , stolen his taser, and shot at the Policeman with it Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (Zmnko) 318
308 >>>>You mean he wasn't just walking peacefully down a sidewalk when two racist police officers, draped in the confederate flag, starting shooting?
Pffy, I do that every Sunday night! Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (AFSld) Just good clean fun for the whole family. Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 12:05 PM (NWiLs) 319
311 304 Life is now a Rage Against the Machine lyric sheet.
Gun up, be alert, say No Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (ifmtJ) Don't do what they told ya. Be a renegade. Of funk. Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (NWiLs) Nice 'Killing in the Name' ref Funkadelic is the way to be Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:05 PM (ifmtJ) 320
People here don't seem to care that Trump fu**** up royally with the Gorsuch pick.
It always starts with that one liberal decision and the Justice, like Kennedy and Roberts, is never the same after Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 12:02 PM (z8ptp) +++++++++++++ It is hard to predict. Is Gorsuch going to be a bust? Maybe. Looks that way. But here's the thing: there's only one chance to possibly get someone good, and that chance is a Republican president. A Democrat *will* nominate a known-quantity anti-constitutionalist. The outcome is known in advance. A Republican will usually *try* to nominate someone decent. They often miss, or the nominee betrays the country and the president's expectations - but they at least try. With a Republican, you have a chance - however small - to get someone decent. With a Democrat, there is no chance at all. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 12:05 PM (Q8c/L) 321
Jains are, at the very least, internally consistent. Complete pacficism is a tough road to hoe in the modern world. But it always has been, and the Jains have survived.
Posted by: Broseidon Tough? No. Impossible. Everyone sleeps, eats, shits animals. It's just a ridic attempt at not living without suicide. Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 12:05 PM (++MjY) 322
People here don't seem to care that Trump fu**** up royally with the Gorsuch pick.
It always starts with that one liberal decision and the Justice, like Kennedy and Roberts, is never the same after Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 12:02 PM (z8ptp) OK troll Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 12:05 PM (nAiE/) 323
Why would any trucker make a delivery into Seattle or Minneapolis?
Why would anyone who can leave those cities stay unless they would personally benefit from the lack of police? Posted by: Northernlurker, still lurking after all these years at June 15, 2020 12:05 PM (Uu+Jp) 324
>>>The night he was killed, someone here was saying they should have just let him walk home and not tried to arrest him for drunk driving.
Wendy's would have made a complaint, the chief would have bent the knee and the officers would be suspended or fired. Either way, bad things happen to one or both parrties. Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2020 12:06 PM (AFSld) 325
And yes, in the great words of modern philosopher Zach De La Rocha:
Fuck you I won't do what you tell me YOU'RE the machine now, fuckers. I get to rage against you. Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 12:06 PM (FCQR/) 326
Why do our justices always "grow" on the bench while leftist judges always remain stedfast rock solid communists?
Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies, But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:06 PM (+dsLj) 327
The life of Never-Trump Republicans has been a RATM song for years.
Bulls on Parade. What's the problem with that? Posted by: Jonah Goldberg, Super Genius at June 15, 2020 12:06 PM (ZGrMX) 328
You don't need a church to follow Christ
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 11:58 AM (Zmnko) On the other hand, Christianity is not a religion of rootless individualism. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 12:06 PM (mSARB) 329
Nice 'Killing in the Name' ref
Funkadelic is the way to be Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:05 PM (ifmtJ) Tear the roof off the sucka! Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 12:06 PM (NWiLs) 330
One seems to be OK, but it's worrying he felt the need to congratulate the gays after this decision.
I don't know what rock some people have been hiding under, but Trump has ALWAYS waved the rainbow flag. He has made zero secret of it. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (KZzsI) 331
Ace should start a band and call it Snark Against the Machine.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (1ISKN) 332
>>>Life is now a Rage Against the Machine lyric sheet
The lie is my expense The scope with my desire The party blessed me with its future And i protect it with fire I am the nina, the pinta, the santa maria The noose and the rapist, the fields overseer The agents of orange The priests of hiroshima The cost of my desire Sleep now in the fire Posted by: Give Me a Break at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (976+d) 333
You mean he wasn't just walking peacefully down a sidewalk when two racist police officers, draped in the confederate flag, starting shooting?
Posted by: jwest at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (mrrpT) The MFM let's start the riots again headlines are No one should be killed for sleeping in their car. See they just walked up to the car and opened fire Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (mpeBU) 334
And now some expert analysis on what it's like to be Quadracial in the USA:
Everyone thinks you're white. Except when they think you're on the paler side of East-Indian or a Middle-Easterner, and hurl abuse at you for that. You get abuse from many angles, all the blame, and nobody represents you. Conclusion: I'm a big-time victim and owed... I dunno. Texas. Give me Texas and I'm good. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (J+mig) 335
Shirley Jones was about 35 when she was doing The Partridge Family. She seemed older. She was a MILF. Today, they'd have had her dolled up like a trollop.
She had the assets to work with. Posted by: JoeF. at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (CqE5x) 336
My recent favorite is renaming Lynchburg.
You know. The Lynch fellow who freed his slaves and was anti-slavery. That guy. Posted by: Moron Robbie - We must end systemic racism by increasing funding for affirmative action at June 15, 2020 * * Somebody this weekend vandalized the John McDonogh memorial near City Hall. McDonogh was the guy who left his fortune to Baltimore and Noo Awlins to establish public schools. He also manumitted his slaves, if he had any at all, and taught them to read or write. So, ahistorical idiocy. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (rpbg1) 337
The problem with the ruling is not that "protections" are extended to homosexuals. It is that the court has - once again - read the plain text of a law, and said, yeah, it also means this other thing that it did NOT say.
Does anyone doubt that if Congress were to propose such language as either an amendment to existing law, or as a brand new law, that it would pass and be signed into law? I don't doubt it. By doing so, they have firmly rooted the Humpty Dumpty precedent: "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all." They can put ANYTHING in that law now. Posted by: blaster at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (ZfRYq) 338
324 >>>The night he was killed, someone here was saying they should have just let him walk home and not tried to arrest him for drunk driving.
Wendy's would have made a complaint, the chief would have bent the knee and the officers would be suspended or fired. Either way, bad things happen to one or both parrties. Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2020 12:06 PM (AFSld) It would've been fine if they'd all just stayed Frosty. Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (NWiLs) 339
Soo, does this SCOTUS decision also stop gov't schools from telling children which potty/locker-room to use? Basically, if a boy says he's a girl, that's that? Or is that a separate issue altogether? I guess I don't see how it can be.
Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (L3Rsz) 340
Shirley Jones and Ted Cassidy?
Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (RuIsu) 341
>>Confederate soldiers were not portrayed as the evil monsters we all know they were.
Jonah Hex: Crisis of conscience, or craven opportunist? Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (QgtlX) 342
In his dissent, Alito covers the issue of religious employment, especially teachers. He notes this ruling forces religious organizations to employ people who are antithetical to their beliefs and will put those people in a preeminent position to destroy the religious tenets.
He also goes on to note it will force the acceptance of people who are not the same biological sex, to compete in sports and other activities. This is a complete disaster for the First Amendment and Constitution. I don't know how this can be read any other way. Roberts and Gorsuch are complete assholes. This is unjustifiable. Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2020 12:08 PM (VpIIl) 343
"Everyone sleeps, eats, shits animals. It's just a ridic attempt at not living without suicide.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 12:05 PM (++MjY)" The perfect is the enemy of the good. They're not nihilists. I respect their practices but would never follow them. They're pushing against nature. Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 12:08 PM (FCQR/) 344
I don't know what rock some people have been hiding under, but Trump has ALWAYS waved the rainbow flag. He has made zero secret of it.
Trump was one of the first resort owners to realize that gays have a lot of disposable income. It's a real-life example of why pure capitalism doesn't discriminate. Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 12:08 PM (ZGrMX) 345
The whole panoply of government is just kabuki theater.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at June 15, 2020 12:08 PM (bqR7B) 346
Tear the roof off the sucka!
We got a real type of thing going down, gettin' down. There's a whole lot of rhythm goin' round. Posted by: Sporkatus at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (CGB5H) 347
Local radio station was all agog about this.. Said White Policeman was fired after shooting a Black man .. No mention said Black man had fought the police , stolen his taser, and shot at the Policeman with it
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (Zmnko) Our garbage media strikes again. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (mSARB) 348
Rage Against the Machine is radically, extremist far left, I cannot comprehend any conservative liking their lyrics.
You don't need a church to follow Christ No, but one does have to wonder how deep the commitment is if you can't spare a couple hours a week to worship, study, and sing praises to God as the Bible commands. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (KZzsI) 349
Marie Antoinette was really pissed about the guillotine.
In fact, you could say she was beside herself in anger. What? Wrong thread? Well damnit. Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (axyOa) 350
I agree that Yale University, founded by the slave trader Eli Yale, should be burned to the ground, just as offending statues should be torn down.
What I'm still up in the air about is should everyone who has ever attended Yale and benefited from his white-devil slave trading wealth, be fired from their positions and their assets confiscated and distributed fairly to BLM? Posted by: jwest at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (mrrpT) 351
The whole panoply of government is just kabuki theater.
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at June 15, 2020 12:08 PM (bqR7B) ++++++++++++ No it isn't. The public-facing parts of it - the legislature, the courts, etc. - are theater for our benefit. The real work is done behind the scenes and is not theater at all. It's just corrosive and destructive and essentially unchecked. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (Q8c/L) 352
It would've been fine if they'd all just stayed Frosty.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (NWiLs) Instead they doubled down and super sized the issue. Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (fagTl) 353
Gorsuch is the new Souter
Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (VpIIl) 354
Home-schooling just gained some new converts with this ruling, I think.
Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (L3Rsz) 355
259 I have read this wonderful blog for years, and I have always wanted to comment. I suppose it took Frasier to bring out the commenter in me. Love him. And I love this blog.
Posted by: Happy in Dixie at June 15, 2020 11:57 AM (X0h1J) Frasier is a fictional character. Sorry to disappoint you, but that's just the truth. Posted by: Serious Cat at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (zqs/f) 356
I visited an old friend this weekend, and learned that he's basically Never-Trump. It was a struggle to come up with things to talk about after that...
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM (eAZVt) When "old" becomes "former". Posted by: golfman at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (2oGM/) 357
The SC decision is not Trump's fault despite the concern of trolls dispatched this morning to say Trump is doomed because Gorsuch is a perfidious liar.
This just points to the conclusion that we cannot depend on the courts to preserve our rights. Full stop. We will have to find another way. Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (nAiE/) 358
340 Shirley Jones and Ted Cassidy?
Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (RuIsu) Half credit. Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (3q20x) 359
339 Soo, does this SCOTUS decision also stop gov't schools from telling children which potty/locker-room to use? Basically, if a boy says he's a girl, that's that? Or is that a separate issue altogether? I guess I don't see how it can be.
Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (L3Rsz) --- I don't see how it can be separate either. If "sex" under Title VII means gender identity, then "sex" under Title IX also means gender identity. And fuck Neil Gorsuch. Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (sWM8x) 360
I worry about the rush of women into men's Track and Field events.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (we2CT) 361
Rage Against the Machine is radically, extremist far left, I cannot comprehend any conservative liking their lyrics.
As I recall, they were really mad about Napster back when that was a thing. I think it's more accurate to say they LARP at being extremist far left. Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (ZGrMX) Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (Zmnko) 363
Fun moment on Farcebook this weekend. A lefty acquiescence had two posts in sequence.
1) Some NASCAR driver quit over the confederate flag ban. His response? Go get f*cked you racist trash that wants to bring back slavery. 2) "Defund the police" doesn't mean defund the police, because obviously you can't just take a simplistic view of symbols that they mean exactly what you think they might mean. Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (WdocV) 364
>>>Somebody this weekend vandalized the John McDonogh memorial near City Hall.
Jackasses in Philly defaced the Matthias Baldwin statue. He was an outspoken abolitionist in the 1800's, but yeah, a racist. Or something. Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (AFSld) 365
I do enjoy 'Bulls on Parade', ironically.
But I think they don't want me to. 'Rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells' Hell ya. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (ifmtJ) 366
No mention said Black man had fought the police , stolen his taser, and shot at the Policeman with it
Yeah there's a lot more to the story here than just white cops kill black man. Still excessive use of force, but not as cut and dried as they're painting it. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (KZzsI) 367
Rage Against the Machine is radically, extremist far left, I cannot comprehend any conservative liking their lyrics.
*** Didn't they change their name to Rage Against My Trustfund a few years ago? Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 12:11 PM (WdocV) 368
I guess those who foresaw Roberts being the new Kennedy had it right. Gorsuch is a surprise though, the fuck is wrong with him.
And can the 4 rabid leftists on the court croak already? Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies, But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:11 PM (+dsLj) 369
As I recall, they were really mad about Napster back when that was a thing. I think it's more accurate to say they LARP at being extremist far left.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (ZGrMX) +++++++++++ Nah. They're not LARPing. They're just hypcorites. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 12:11 PM (Q8c/L) 370
Listening to Mollie speak and then Harf is like listening to two people who live in different worlds. One is inhabited by thoughtful adults, the other by simple minded children.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 12:11 PM (ZLI7S) 371
Local radio station was all agog about this.. Said White Policeman was fired after shooting a Black man .. No mention said Black man had fought the police , stolen his taser, and shot at the Policeman with it
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 * * Same here with a "news" story from last week about "the fatal shooting of a black man by police." They conveniently forgot to mention that he led the cops on an auto chase, then sprang out and ran, and when they closed in, he pulled out a gun and pointed it at the cops. They lit him up, and good for them. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 12:11 PM (rpbg1) 372
Chris, because the shoe is on the other foot. RATM was against the 'power structure' - leftism *IS* the power structure. So I'll roll down Rodeo with a shotgun if need be. I'll rally round the family with a pocket full of shells. I am calm like a bomb. And of course, fuck them, I won't do what they tell me.
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 12:11 PM (FCQR/) 373
199 PJM has a hilarious article about the Conflict Resolution Council being set up at CHAZ/CHOP. It reads like the Babylon Bee, but it's presumed to be real.
https://tinyurl.com/ydxtb3zm Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 11:48 AM (ZGrMX) Interesting. The person who put that on Reddit is the same one from the screenshot above with the "unplanned donation" talk. Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2020 12:11 PM (Ez6QX) 374
Why would anyone who can leave those cities stay unless they would personally benefit from the lack of police?
Posted by: Northernlurker, -- And, even then, how long does that last? Once every asset is stolen or burned, it becomes a wasteland. Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 15, 2020 12:12 PM (kA3Cp) 375
No sensible person would send this thug's family money.
Which means sports "heroes" and Hollywood "stars" will be scrambling to do so. Posted by: spindrift at June 15, 2020 12:12 PM (Ialta) 376
>>What I'm still up in the air about is should
everyone who has ever attended Yale and benefited from his white-devil slave trading wealth, be fired from their positions and their assets confiscated and distributed fairly to BLM? Posted by: jwest at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (mrrpT) Those people should also be burned. Old and busted: In Lux Veritas New hotness: Igni Ferroque Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 12:12 PM (QgtlX) 377
I worry about the rush of women into men's Track and Field events.
Posted by: Grump928© No being understood your point? Posted by: Russian Mens Track Team at June 15, 2020 12:12 PM (axyOa) 378
Also heard the Left is torching Howard Stern for his previous skits and rants about blacks.
It's great when the left eat their own. F him. Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 15, 2020 12:12 PM (AFSld) 379
"On the other hand, Christianity is not a religion of rootless individualism."
I remember when my pastor said that Christianity is not a "hermit" religion. That we need to go out and spread the word. And I thought, sorry, but this is going to be a problem for me. Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 12:12 PM (eAZVt) 380
I don't know what rock some people have been
hiding under, but Trump has ALWAYS waved the rainbow flag. He has made zero secret of it. Trump was one of the first resort owners to realize that gays have a lot of disposable income. It's a real-life example of why pure capitalism doesn't discriminate. Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2020 12:08 PM --- Yep and he was one of the first Country Club owners in Palm beach to accept blacks to his club. He had to sue the County to make them back off his club business. Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 12:12 PM (JUOKG) 381
This just points to the conclusion that we cannot depend on the courts to preserve our rights. Full stop. We will have to find another way. Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (nAiE/) -------- Rather it's just another datapoint that the Federal government is illegitimate. Posted by: MAGA at June 15, 2020 12:13 PM (0bfnV) 382
I think it's more accurate to say they LARP at being extremist far left.
Yeah, like nearly all leftists, their ideology stops at their wallet. Like the "involuntary donation" guy, what's yours is ours, but what's mine is mine. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:13 PM (KZzsI) 383
I don't care if people want to be gay. That is their right.
What I care about is the court chose sides and stated their "right" to be gay is preeminent over my right to hold religious beliefs that disagree with their choice. How is it right under any circumstances to force a religious organization to employ people who hold beliefs that are completely at odds with their beliefs and teachings? Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2020 12:13 PM (VpIIl) 384
Local radio station was all agog about this.. Said White Policeman was fired after shooting a Black man .. No mention said Black man had fought the police , stolen his taser, and shot at the Policeman with it
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (Zmnko) All of the MFM is conveniently omitting the whole story Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 15, 2020 12:13 PM (mpeBU) 385
It's a tax!
Posted by: Roberts the robot at June 15, 2020 12:13 PM (aKsyK) 386
365 I do enjoy 'Bulls on Parade', ironically.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (ifmtJ) My wife enjoys 'Bulls on Parade' unironically. Posted by: Cap'n Bill Kristol at June 15, 2020 12:13 PM (3q20x) 387
341 >>Confederate soldiers were not portrayed as the evil monsters we all know they were.
Jonah Hex: Crisis of conscience, or craven opportunist? Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (QgtlX) Jonah Hex: Plastic Surgery Now Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM (ifmtJ) 388
Texas isn't Heaven but rowdy Angels like to play there.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM (pB6Gt) 389
386 365 I do enjoy 'Bulls on Parade', ironically.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (ifmtJ) My wife enjoys 'Bulls on Parade' unironically. Posted by: Cap'n Bill Kristol at June 15, 2020 12:13 PM (3q20x) lol Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM (ifmtJ) 390
Any word on the Adventures of Ace and the Wall Mount TV?
Posted by: rd at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM (+0uDE) 391
Rage Against the Machine is radically, extremist far left, I cannot comprehend any conservative liking their lyrics.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (KZzsI) Not a fan of the lyrical content, but the music and tone is brilliant. If we had a Tea Party band with that kind of energy, we'd be drinking tea from the skulls of our enemies. Sometimes the lyrics can be mined for salient points, out of context, as well. There be no shelter here. The front line is everywhere. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM (J+mig) 392
"When 'old' becomes 'former'."
It really sucks, since he's basically my best friend. My entire view of him has changed. Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM (eAZVt) 393
Why would anyone who can leave those cities stay unless they would personally benefit from the lack of police?
Posted by: Northernlurker, -- And, even then, how long does that last? Once every asset is stolen or burned, it becomes a wasteland. Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 15, 2020 * * Tell me about it. Posted by: Detroit at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM (rpbg1) 394
Can "Unplanned Donations" be written off on your tax returns?
Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2020 12:15 PM (3aI0K) Posted by: Give Me a Break at June 15, 2020 12:15 PM (976+d) 396
387 341 >>Confederate soldiers were not portrayed as the evil monsters we all know they were.
I wonder if Ken Burns series on the Civil War will be banned now? He was pretty fair to the Confederates.... Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:15 PM (Zmnko) 397
2) "Defund the police" doesn't mean defund the police, because obviously you can't just take a simplistic view of symbols that they mean exactly what you think they might mean.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (WdocV) This is dual purpose gaslighting and it astonishes me just how well it works. First, it is in your face to critics of the position - hey, defund the police doesn't mean defund the police, and you are racist if you believe that it does! Second, it allows people who think of themselves as moderates to adopt a radical position, because, look, its not radical, they are just talking about having some more treatment centers for drug users, and who can be against that? Posted by: blaster at June 15, 2020 12:15 PM (ZfRYq) 398
"When 'old' becomes 'former'."
It really sucks, since he's basically my best friend. My entire view of him has changed. Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM --- Same here. Best buddy for 20+ years blocked because Trump broke him. I blocked him after he wished Trump would just drop dead. Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 12:16 PM (JUOKG) 399
As a reminder, the MO of "dennisday" matches the other TRUMP HAS BETRAYED US REE troll from the other day.
Opening salvo: "I'm offended by this I don't think I'm alone" Editorial now-I've-got-their-attention talking point embroidery Slow drip of conservative inc. twitter droppings, with "reinforcing" commentary, interspersed with vitriol questioning the bona fides and judgment of anybody who doesn't think This Is A Big Deal, and elision from This Is A Big Deal to This Is A Big Deal Which Therefore Means What I Say. Dude, the playbook is threadbare. If by some absurd chance you're a disaffected former commenter (cough, lorking lorker), doesn't it embarrass you to be such a tired handpuppet of other peoples' whimsy that we can see their fingers when you move your mouth? Posted by: Sporkatus at June 15, 2020 12:16 PM (CGB5H) 400
The only thing black about Jeff Bezos is his heart
Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2020 12:16 PM (3aI0K) 401
390 Any word on the Adventures of Ace and the Wall Mount TV?
Posted by: rd at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM (+0uDE) I'm betting he hung it with two 1/8" drywall anchors, never getting near a stud. It won't fall until he puts something expensive underneath it. Posted by: jwest at June 15, 2020 12:16 PM (mrrpT) 402
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Life is now a Rage Against the Machine lyric sheet. Gun up, be alert, say No Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:03 PM There is a Nickelback song called Burn it to the Ground. I suggest we make it CHAZ's official theme song. Then, along with all the other stupid stuff they do, we can call them a bunch of Nickelback-loving riTARDs. We're screaming like demons, swinging from the ceiling I got a fist full of fifties, the tequila just hit me Ooooohhhhh We got no class, no taste, no shirt, and shit faced We got it lined up, shot down, firing back straight crown We're going out tonight To kick out every light To get anything that we want Drink everything in sight We're going till the world stops turning While we burn it to the ground tonight Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 12:17 PM (Do5/p) 403
I'm betting he hung it with two 1/8" drywall anchors, never getting near a stud. It won't fall until he puts something expensive underneath it.
Posted by: jwest This is one of the Rule of Life. Number 132 I think. Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2020 12:17 PM (axyOa) Posted by: Bobby at June 15, 2020 12:17 PM (oVJmc) 405
Zod knew this BLM time was coming, and purchased one of the last editions of "Song of the South" available. Also intend to continue culturally appropriating Willie McTell and Blind Blake.
Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 12:17 PM (QgtlX) 406
317 Local radio station was all agog about this.. Said White Policeman was fired after shooting a Black man .. No mention said Black man had fought the police , stolen his taser, and shot at the Policeman with it
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:04 PM (Zmnko) Lies of omission are our specialty! Posted by: The Enemedia at June 15, 2020 12:17 PM (DTX3h) 407
Next up. SCOTUS forces churches and synagogues to employ devil worshipers.
"It's right there in the Civil Rights Act, you guys"- Neil Gorsuch Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2020 12:17 PM (VpIIl) 408
368 I guess those who foresaw Roberts being the new Kennedy had it right. Gorsuch is a surprise though, the fuck is wrong with him.
And can the 4 rabid leftists on the court croak already? Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies, But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:11 PM (+dsLj) ------ Gorsuch is Episcopalian, always a risky proposition. Posted by: MAGA at June 15, 2020 12:18 PM (0bfnV) 409
395 >>>I do enjoy 'Bulls on Parade', ironically.
Do you get the reference to Genovevo de la O? Posted by: Give Me a Break at June 15, 2020 12:15 PM (976+d) Most of their lyrics are garbage. But they got wicked music. And I get a kick out of lines, 'They rally 'round the family, with a pocket full of shells' and 'what they don't know keeps the contract alive and moving'. Since I'm in favor of both of those things, the song pleases me. I am what they hate and I'm ok with that. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:18 PM (ifmtJ) 410
I remember when my pastor said that Christianity is not a "hermit" religion. That we need to go out and spread the word.
Yeah. I mean he's not wrong, we should bring the gospel to those around us if we can and find the opportunity but all pastors seem to have this schizophrenia when it comes to gifts and offices. Most of the time they agree, recognize, and teach that not all gifts are equally distributed (as the Bible clearly teaches) so all are stronger in some gifts while weaker in others. Some are called to be evangelists, some to be hospitable, some to be creative, etc. All gifts are given to all of God's children, so to whatever degree we are gifted and have an opportunity we should reach out, but pastors seem to then think everyone is completely gifted and called to evangelism at all times in all places. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:18 PM (KZzsI) 411
How is it right under any circumstances to force a religious organization to employ people who hold beliefs that are completely at odds with their beliefs and teachings?
***************** This isn't going away for that reason. If gays don't want to be discriminated against in a SECULAR job, fine. What I'm not fine with is this constant, endless, pervasive push into EVERY aspect of American life, including dedicating an ENTIRE MONTH to celebrate their sexual deviancy that woke corporations equally push endlessly, nonstop, in your face, day after fucking, every goddamned fucking day of our lives. One day wasn't enough, they have to do an entire MONTH, and call it PRIDE? Pride in what, being an insufferable fascist asshole? Fuck off. Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies, But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:18 PM (+dsLj) 412
Dug out my DVD copies of Fawlty Towers.
'The Germans' is complete with the 'objectionable material.' This, kids, is why you don't depend on streaming. Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 12:18 PM (oVJmc) 413
What are the odds that SCOTUS will rule Trump has to turn over his taxes?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:19 PM (Zmnko) 414
Same here. Best buddy for 20+ years blocked because Trump broke him. I blocked him after he wished Trump would just drop dead.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 12:16 PM (JUOKG) I had a good IRL friend who was lefty but not crazy. Then he went crazy. His daughter got on and said she had written all the pro-Trump people out of her life and he wrote you go girl and so that was it. I figured the decision was made and unfriended him. I am trying to stay on hobby groups on social media. Posted by: blaster at June 15, 2020 12:19 PM (ZfRYq) 415
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Not a fan of the lyrical content, but the music and tone is brilliant. If we had a Tea Party band with that kind of energy, we'd be drinking tea from the skulls of our enemies. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM If there were a conservative band with the sound and quality of Rage Against the Machine, you'd never know about it because no label or social media venue would support them. Posted by: Grimaldi in flyover country at June 15, 2020 12:20 PM (YiAXR) 416
Not a fan of the lyrical content, but the music and tone is brilliant. If we had a Tea Party band with that kind of energy, we'd be drinking tea from the skulls of our enemies.
Sometimes the lyrics can be mined for salient points, out of context, as well. There be no shelter here. The front line is everywhere. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 12:14 PM (J+mig) :fistbump: Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:20 PM (ifmtJ) 417
Shirley Jones family were brewery owners. The Jones Brewing Co., Makers of Stoney's Beer. Now the Eureka Brewing Co.
Posted by: bill in arkansas at June 15, 2020 12:20 PM (C1Lsn) 418
You can tell that this is a political issue, not an honest attempt to resolve racial issues due to how it is argued.
Any rational person can see that racism is not the real problem here. The real problem is that inner cities celebrate a culture that refuses responsibility, family, and work. Doesn't matter what color you are, abandoning those attributes means that you fail. Look at rural areas, where traditional values have not decayed as much. A serious attempt to resolve these problems would address these attributes. Some have tried, and been attacked, because if these downtrodden inner city residents became successful, a lot of political power would be lost by others. Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 15, 2020 12:21 PM (kA3Cp) 419
Gorsuch is Episcopalian, always a risky proposition.
Kavanaugh seems kinda shady blue blood to me too, but time will tell. This is dual purpose gaslighting and it astonishes me just how well it works. Its following their playbook but this time they chose poor wording and its not working out for them. That's why you get the rollbacks "we didn't mean DEFUND, defund!!!" crap, while at the same time "yes we did!" is still out there. This was their usual "and kill all the white people!!!!" overstep the left gets into when they think they are winning. Like the tranny bathroom thing. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:21 PM (KZzsI) 420
It's another Us vs. Them setup.
If gays want to live that way, I'm fine with their choice. That's liberty. But the minute someone starts forcing me to accept it, I'll make my disagreement known because that's the very definition of tyranny. Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2020 12:21 PM (VpIIl) Posted by: rd at June 15, 2020 12:21 PM (+0uDE) 422
I don't think that protections for gays will be a First Amendment case.
You can believe what you want about gays, you can't act on it in an employment situation. Posted by: blaster at June 15, 2020 12:21 PM (ZfRYq) 423
Dennisday's done some trolling here before.
He's our 'celebrity name' troll. We've got a couple of different Joes and sometimes they overlap. For example, BananaShitsGoo sometimes adopts celebrity names, but only when they're an "I'm so witty" reference of some kind. I think really, like traitors, trolls have various mixtures of MICE/S motivation. In BSG's case, sweet fuck is it ever Ego on top. Posted by: Sporkatus at June 15, 2020 12:21 PM (CGB5H) 424
How is it right under any circumstances to force a religious organization to employ people who hold beliefs that are completely at odds with their beliefs and teachings?
-- Some animals are more equal than others. Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 15, 2020 12:22 PM (kA3Cp) 425
>>One day wasn't enough, they have to do an entire MONTH, and call it PRIDE? Pride in what, being an insufferable fascist asshole? Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies,
But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:18 PM (+dsLj) The daily mandatory gay sex is not going to be easy for anyone. Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 12:22 PM (QgtlX) 426
People here don't seem to care that Trump fu**** up royally with the Gorsuch pick.
It always starts with that one liberal decision and the Justice, like Kennedy and Roberts, is never the same after Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 12:02 PM (z8ptp) +++++++++++++ Gorsuch was cast before his Senate ratification as somebody who will occasionally go in a direction that might be more inclusive (in the true nature of the word) Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2020 12:22 PM (3aI0K) 427
One day wasn't enough, they have to do an entire MONTH, and call it PRIDE? Pride in what, being an insufferable fascist asshole?
Fuck off. Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies, But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:18 PM (+dsLj) Pride because it's their main vice, even more than Lust. Of the Seven Deadly sins, it is the most pernicious and most deadly. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 12:22 PM (J+mig) 428
People here don't seem to care that Trump fu**** up royally with the Gorsuch pick.
It always starts with that one liberal decision and the Justice, like Kennedy and Roberts, is never the same after Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 12:02 PM (z8ptp) ************************* That's because unlike you, people here know Trump didn't run on rolling back LGBT rights. And unlike you, people here know the decision was already 5-4 without Gorsuch. And finally, unlike you, people here know that a Biden SCOTUS pick would be even worse. Posted by: Venus at June 15, 2020 12:22 PM (iYXhj) 429
Like the tranny bathroom thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:21 PM (KZzsI) And yet trannies are in bathrooms by law. I am not buying the Lefty overreach thing. No one ever says "oh the moderates are turned off by X" when it comes to radical Leftism. Posted by: blaster at June 15, 2020 12:23 PM (ZfRYq) 430
I was impressed by the cousin who said if any celebrities wanted to contact the family or send money, they can get in touch with him.
- I'll take this opportunity to remind everyone that I also am willing to accept free money. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 12:23 PM (+y/Ru) 431
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Same here. Best buddy for 20+ years blocked because Trump broke him. I blocked him after he wished Trump would just drop dead. Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 12:16 PM (JUOKG) I had a good IRL friend who was lefty but not crazy. Then he went crazy. His daughter got on and said she had written all the pro-Trump people out of her life and he wrote you go girl and so that was it. I figured the decision was made and unfriended him. I am trying to stay on hobby groups on social media. Posted by: blaster at June 15, 2020 12:19 PM (ZfRYq) I, too, have lost friends because of their over the top lunacy. It is sad and it breaks my heart that they feel they must define me as a person because of my political beliefs. Especially after so many years of friendship, you'd think there is more to a person than that.I have no idea if there is a way to bridge this divide - with my friends, yours, or the divide in the nation. Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 15, 2020 12:23 PM (N39Ws) 432
334 And now some expert analysis on what it's like to be Quadracial in the USA:
Everyone thinks you're white. Except when they think you're on the paler side of East-Indian or a Middle-Easterner, and hurl abuse at you for that. You get abuse from many angles, all the blame, and nobody represents you. Conclusion: I'm a big-time victim and owed... I dunno. Texas. Give me Texas and I'm good. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 12:07 PM (J+mig) Does being four different kinds of white make me quadracial? Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 12:23 PM (NWiLs) Posted by: fly at June 15, 2020 12:24 PM (2M/TV) 434
Murphy probably has a section on DIY home improvement.
Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 12:24 PM (RuIsu) 435
The problem with the ruling is that they are making a moral decision rather than a legal one, then trying to find legal justification for the ruling.
Firing someone simply because they are homosexual et al is being a jerk, and bad economics. But we are supposed to be free to make stupid decisions and be a jerk. I oppose firing someone who you find out is a lesbian just because of that. If they are hitting on all the women in the shop, proselytizing, making political statements, and being generally a crappy worker, then yeah I want the fired, but for that not simply for being a lesbian. I can disagree with and even consider things wrong in people without needing to act on that or penalize them for it. We used to all understand this, at least at some level. We used to get along with our leftist friends and joke about our differences. Now its life or death and if you don't agree with every single item on my manifesto, Its time to try to destroy your life. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:24 PM (KZzsI) 436
Yes, this analysis that the privilege mantra is nothing but ENVY is spot on. Following the 10 commandments and turning your heart to loving Jesus, really IS the answer. Somehow their judgement is SO clouded they think that by spewing the privilege judgement they are following Christian ethics that respect ALL people. So completely messed up.
Posted by: Iris at June 15, 2020 12:25 PM (lSFe/) 437
Which would be like Cortez burning his ships, abandoning his arms and armor, and going native.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (1aH4X) He did actually burn his ships. Or scuttle them at any rate. The old burning bridges to keep the army's do or die mentality bit. Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 11:28 AM (zR1US) ----- He "went native" too! Three cheers for La Malinche! Posted by: Undocumented at June 15, 2020 12:25 PM (Y08Vx) 438
Gorsuch is the new Souter Really? Normally he is pretty conservative... I'll wait and see Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:10 PM (Zmnko) Donna, this decision alone is completely disqualifying of him ever being conservative. At best we can hope his whims sometimes favor us. He has basically said the text of something means what he says it mean. That is as liberal as it gets and there is no coming back from that. Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 12:25 PM (nAiE/) 439
I have no idea if there is a way to bridge this divide - with my friends, yours, or the divide in the nation.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 15, 2020 12:23 PM (N39Ws) I thought there was a way to bridge the divide. But I have come to believe that we cannot. This is why I have an overarching feeling of DOOM. Posted by: blaster at June 15, 2020 12:25 PM (ZfRYq) 440
That's because unlike you, people here know Trump didn't run on rolling back LGBT rights.
And unlike you, people here know the decision was already 5-4 without Gorsuch. And finally, unlike you, people here know that a Biden SCOTUS pick would be even worse. Posted by: Venus at June 15, 2020 12:22 PM (iYXhj) ------ He did run in putting originalist judges on the SC. Posted by: MAGA at June 15, 2020 12:25 PM (0bfnV) 441
Does being four different kinds of white make me quadracial?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 12:23 PM (NWiLs) It should. My Scottish and English parts insist that I missed one on my counting. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (J+mig) 442
As always, as is inevitable, what the Left advocates for and what it actually does are in direct opposition. For example, this notion of "privilege."
[_] Rights [_] Privileges You may choose only one. And the system they want to impose - one where no one has rights and people's behavior is controlled by group membership - is a system comprised of privileges (sometimes arbitrary, sometimes not). Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) I read this as: If you attempt to exercise your privilege over me, I'll exercise my privilege to stop you until you are stone cold dead. Dead. Dead. Posted by: BifBewalski - sinis est culus at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (VcFUs) 443
Look at rural areas, where traditional values have not decayed as much.
--------- Point taken, but I see it a bit differently... There are plenty of rural areas, both black and white, with the same problems as inner cities - poverty, disease, illiteracy, drug use, broken homes, and on and on. But not the violence, rioting, and lack of social cohesion from which those stem. People are in general much better to one another. And I put that on the sky-high rates of firearms ownership outside the cities. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (wXhu+) 444
I am not buying the Lefty overreach thing. No one ever says "oh the moderates are turned off by X" when it comes to radical Leftism.
They lost both houses of congress in the past because of their overreaches. They lost the presidency. And to my knowledge its not federal law that businesses must allow dudes in to the girl's changing room because they say they are a woman. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (KZzsI) 445
so people here losing their shit about SCOTUS decision you think it fine if someone loses their job because the Putt From The Ruff or Lick Carpet. when they do their job just as well as any one else ?
Say you own a business that deals with the public. The Supreme Court just ruled, easily, that you couldn't decide if you wanted the face of your business to be a nutcase who thinks they ought to be the opposite gender, and is trying to make it happen through repeated genital mutilations. No, I don't support that at all. Posted by: hawkpilot at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (+UVUH) 446
How can anyone look at the Irish and say they are privileged?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (xfb67) 447
It's hard to follow Christ when it seems like every single church is in on the corruption.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 11:30 AM (N30JC) The utter lack of faith by people who claim to have it (see those submitted to the mask, or those churches that still haven't reopened) is certainly a challenge to maintaining ones own faith. It's worth remembering that Jesus Himself wondered if He would find any faith on His return. Posted by: Methos at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (kOpft) 448
425 >>One day wasn't enough, they have to do an entire MONTH, and call it PRIDE? Pride in what, being an insufferable fascist asshole? Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies,
But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:18 PM (+dsLj) The daily mandatory gay sex is not going to be easy for anyone. Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 12:22 PM (QgtlX) "Well, almost anyone" -Barak Hussein Obama Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (ifmtJ) 449
Well, we still have the decision on this case to look forward to. Might exempt religious folk from this madness. Let's see how this goes. https://tinyurl.com/yb7s5dck
Posted by: lizabth at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (L3Rsz) 450
Give yourself over to Absolut pleasure.
Posted by: Dr. Frank N. Furter, now a vodka spokesperson at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (DMUuz) 451
Ace slowly puts the shelves into a bodybag.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 12:27 PM (pB6Gt) 452
441 Does being four different kinds of white make me quadracial?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 12:23 PM (NWiLs) It should. My Scottish and English parts insist that I missed one on my counting. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est Norwegian, via Scotland, then Ireland, then the Georgia penal colonies in the middle 1700s. Posted by: BifBewalski - sinis est culus at June 15, 2020 12:27 PM (VcFUs) 453
The inner cities are downtrodden because of the welfare state that forces people to choose between definite payments and uncertain prospects in the job market. This is not a knock against the job market. This is a knock against the welfare system that forces people to look out for their best interests. Pays better to have no husband. Pays better to have children grow up without a father.
It's not a question of personal choice. It's a question of acting rationally within an irrational, anti-human, anti-family welfare state. It's a false argument to say "they just need to work harder." You're playing right INTO the Dems hands if you make that argument. Welfare reform is the only solution. Change the laws. Period. Posted by: Iftwilp at June 15, 2020 12:27 PM (gqvXZ) 454
One day wasn't enough, they have to do an entire MONTH, and call it PRIDE? Pride in what, being an insufferable fascist asshole?
Fuck off. Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies, But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:18 PM *Every* day is lesbian lover day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlsIhlGWD_o Posted by: Ross Geller at June 15, 2020 12:27 PM (Do5/p) 455
"Firing someone simply because they are homosexual et al is being a jerk,
and bad economics. But we are supposed to be free to make stupid decisions and be a jerk. I oppose firing someone who you find out is a lesbian just because of that." I do not believe this is a true statement, Christopher. But even if that were a true statement, as you say people should be free to be jerks. Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 12:28 PM (nAiE/) 456
Gorsuch has been rock solid for every decision up to now, but the siren call or ruling however the fuck you like rather than what the law actually said proved to be too much this time. Glad to see Kavanaugh didn't fold though and has been pretty rock solid too. He joined the other 4 commie fuckhead justices only once if I recall right and in that instance I agreed with him (it was a lawsuit against Apple)
Roberts though can get fucked up the ass by a barbed SpaceX rocket. Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies, But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:28 PM (+dsLj) 457
Don LeMoan and Gurta Thornbutt.
I feel more stupid just looking at that picture. Posted by: wth at June 15, 2020 12:28 PM (v0R5T) 458
so people here losing their shit about SCOTUS decision you think it fine if someone loses their job because the Putt From The Ruff or Lick Carpet. when they do their job just as well as any one else ?
Again, its a moral issue, not a legal one. Its wrong to make that kind of decision, but it ought not be illegal. A business should be free to hire and fire at will, because it is their own property and money. Stupid, awful ones will eventually suffer for their behavior. That's how liberty works. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:28 PM (KZzsI) 459
I have no idea if there is a way to bridge this divide - with my friends, yours, or the divide in the nation. Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 15, 2020 12:23 PM (N39Ws) The vast majority of the crazy fucks are crazy fucks because they capitulated to peer pressure. When the pendulum swings back, the pressure will be off. In any case, life is way too short to waste time in the company of amoebas with arms and legs. Posted by: fktheleft at June 15, 2020 12:28 PM (I54dk) 460
Big Brain ConInc Twitter:
"You fools! Trump ran on appointing activist socons! Reality: "Uh, he ran on appointing originalists, and Gorsuch was billed from the start as being on the lolbert end of that spectrum, and negotiated with Kennedy. Some faults are inevitable." BBCIT: "That was the only reason anyone could have for voting Trump because it was the point in 2016 most immune to our sophistry and need to virtue signal! Therefore it's the most important thing to you still! We insist! It's still 2016! REEEE" Posted by: Sporkatus at June 15, 2020 12:28 PM (CGB5H) 461
People here don't seem to care that Trump fu**** up royally with the Gorsuch pick.
It always starts with that one liberal decision and the Justice, like Kennedy and Roberts, is never the same after Posted by: dennisday at June 15, 2020 12:02 PM (z8ptp) +++++++++++++ There really wasn't any burning or otherwise Constitutional question in today's ruling. Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2020 12:28 PM (3aI0K) Posted by: K at June 15, 2020 12:29 PM (5LFjM) 463
I really don;t care how people want to have sex. I think the real problem is transgender women wanting to compete against biological women, use their facilities such as gyms and bathrooms. It does not seem to work the other way. I think even most gay people disapprove of this. I think it is virtue signalling elites again.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2020 12:29 PM (QzF6i) 464
so people here losing their shit about SCOTUS decision you think it
fine if someone loses their job because the Putt From The Ruff or Lick Carpet. when they do their job just as well as any one else ? ---------- I'm willing to bet that almost no one (outside of Mitt Romney) has fired someone just for being gay. Not in the past 20 years. What these cases now open is that any time you fire someone who is gay, they now have a claim to make against a company. Posted by: SH at June 15, 2020 12:29 PM (sX1BW) 465
It should. My Scottish and English parts insist that I missed one on my counting.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM Bah. Posted by: The sheep at June 15, 2020 12:29 PM (DMUuz) 466
What are the odds that SCOTUS will rule Trump has to turn over his taxes?
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:19 P --- They might go that way but I doubt it. If it was a lock they would have just turned down the appeal. Bottom line is this is not about Trump's taxes, this is about the House of Reps challenging a President on his life before he got elected using a fishing expedition in an attempt to get "dirt" on him. That's within the purview of voters, not who controls the House. If might have gone differently if they articulated an actual crime they thought Trump had committed, but they chose to not go that route. Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 12:29 PM (JUOKG) 467
What a stupid scotus decision, its almost like they want never-ending cases to make it good for their business or something. Either way, employers will just have to do their best not to hire trouble makers.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 15, 2020 12:29 PM (r+sAi) 468
It's hard to follow Christ when it seems like every single church is in on the corruption.
I agree, and its nearly always been the case. If we ever needed proof that its God who saves, and not works or our clever efforts, its right before our eyes each day. Christians are the worst possible advertisement for the truth of our faith. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:30 PM (KZzsI) 469
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What are the odds that SCOTUS will rule Trump has to turn over his taxes? Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 12:19 PM (Zmnko) _________ Even money -- it's Calvinball all the way down now ... Posted by: ShainS -- No more half measures, Donald at June 15, 2020 12:30 PM (nfJ9e) 470
I am guessing the TV Mounting went...Poorly?
Posted by: garrett at June 15, 2020 12:30 PM (EhL4N) 471
And finally, unlike you, people here know that a Biden SCOTUS pick would be even worse.
Posted by: Venus at June 15, 2020 12:22 PM (iYXhj) You go to court with the Supreme Court you have, nad never with the Supreme Court you want, need, and deserve! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 12:30 PM (mMLSg) 472
you think it fine if someone loses their job because the Putt From The Ruff or Lick Carpet. when they do their job just as well as any one else ?
-- Which amendment covers the right to a job guaranteed by the government? Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 15, 2020 12:30 PM (kA3Cp) 473
"Said White Policeman was fired after shooting a Black man"
that is very incomplete, they needed Stacy Abrams on air to clarify ... "Black Man Murdered for Sleeping While Black". Nothing like a current governor (in exile) to clarify such vague reporting. /s Posted by: illiniwek at June 15, 2020 12:30 PM (Cus5s) 474
446 How can anyone look at the Irish and say they are privileged?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (xfb67) Thread winner (this coming from an Irish-American) Posted by: Iftwilp at June 15, 2020 12:31 PM (gqvXZ) 475
We could still cancel people from their careers for wrongthink!
Posted by: THE LEFT at June 15, 2020 12:31 PM (55lwO) 476
I thought there was a way to bridge the divide. But I have come to believe that we cannot. This is why I have an overarching feeling of DOOM.
Posted by: blaster at June 15, 2020 12:25 PM (ZfRYq) Bridging the divide cannot be done anymore. This cannot be fixed with any attempt at reconciliation, because they are Collectivists and we are Individualists. The two ideologies cannot be reconciled, they are opposites with opposite aims. Our only remaining hope of peaceful resolution is the complete discrediting of Collectivism. This will not be achieved by pulling punches. Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 12:31 PM (J+mig) 477
A business should be free to hire and fire at will, because it is their
own property and money. Stupid, awful ones will eventually suffer for their behavior. That's how liberty works. ---------- While I agree businesses should, most businesses haven't had this ability for a long time. Even in at will states. There are always potential legal ramifications, not to mention the PR ones. This case likely doesn't change that calculus too much - but it does a little. The damage this case is doing is not on the employee front, but on the precedent front. Posted by: SH at June 15, 2020 12:31 PM (sX1BW) 478
>>What a stupid scotus decision, its almost like they want never-ending cases to make it good for their business or something. Either way, employers will just have to do their best not to hire trouble makers.
You can also help prevent crap by instituting rules that don't allow people to dress, act or say things in a political or controversial way. There is no law that says you have to allow someone to express their personal views at your workplace no matter what they are. Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 12:32 PM (ZLI7S) 479
Cold Mountain, both book and movie, must also be canceled. Again Confederate soldier not portray as evil monster but as complex human being.
Not going to be much left when the cancelers are done. Posted by: Ripley at June 15, 2020 12:32 PM (MxEKc) 480
Life is now a Rage Against the Machine lyric sheet
The lie is my expense The scope with my desire The party blessed me with its future And i protect it with fire I am the nina, the pinta, the santa maria The noose and the rapist, the fields overseer The agents of orange The priests of hiroshima The cost of my desire Sleep now in the fire WAAAKE UPPPPP! Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BrainwashedLivesMatter at June 15, 2020 12:33 PM (HaL55) 481
The problem is, you can't build a civilization on envy, resentment, and bitterness.
So what? You can build an empire! Posted by: George Soros at June 15, 2020 12:33 PM (jacU8) Posted by: garrett at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (EhL4N) 483
A business should be free to hire and fire at will, because it is their own property and money.
----- I suppose there must inevitably be some price paid for limited liability for those enterprises which enjoy it. There is no free lunch after all. Posted by: Undocumented at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (Y08Vx) 484
Hrothgar's Law: Any person confirmed (by any conceivable political composition of the US Senate) to the Supreme Court, will eventually, and always, betray the Constitution and the legal citizenry.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (mMLSg) 485
There is no law that says you have to allow someone to express their personal views at your workplace no matter what they are.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 12:32 PM (ZLI7S) Yet. Posted by: John Roberts, Honorary Hawaiian at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (uEbPt) 486
The Founders deeply fucked up when they created the judicial branch of government.
Just about every liberal policy goal has been achieved through that, never mind voters routinely vote the same nonsense down over and over again. They couldn't even pass gay marriage in California, but the Court always saves the day. Posted by: Blago at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (gkdnV) 487
PJM has a hilarious article about the Conflict Resolution Council being set up at CHAZ/CHOP. It reads like the Babylon Bee, but it's presumed to be real.
https://tinyurl.com/ydxtb3zm Posted by: Ian S. The nuts and bolts of Utopia. Heavy on the nuts. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (+y/Ru) 488
The judicial system is a crock of shit.
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (eAZVt) 489
Again, its a moral issue, not a legal one. Its wrong to make that kind of decision, but it ought not be illegal.
*************** The problem is it was already illegal on the question of gender, skin color and religious affiliation, but not illegal against gay people, so it left an uneven law on the books. The legal remedy should have been for the law to be changed by legislature, not for fuckhead judges to decide to blatantly ignore the statute and rule however the fuck they like because feelings and we are all in this together as cocksuckers. On top of that, a provision should have been made clear that this not extend or infringe on the religious liberty of non-secular organizations. Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies, But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (+dsLj) 490
Nood gays
Posted by: Furious George at June 15, 2020 12:35 PM (9vQJW) 491
because if these downtrodden inner city residents became successful, a lot of political power would be lost by others.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 15, 2020 12:21 PM (kA3Cp) ___________ ... and money, but mostly money. The race grievance industry has been very lucrative since the 60's -- of course at the expensive the people and now non-existent families that they claim to represent. Posted by: ShainS -- No more half measures, Donald at June 15, 2020 12:35 PM (nfJ9e) 492
Say you own a business that deals with the public.
The Supreme Court just ruled, easily, that you couldn't decide if you wanted the face of your business to be a nutcase who thinks they ought to be the opposite gender, and is trying to make it happen through repeated genital mutilations. No, I don't support that at all. Posted by: hawkpilot at June 15, 2020 12:26 PM (+UVUH) Or you run a private school and think homosexuality is wrong and should not be normalized to impressionable children (whether or not your belief on this matter has a basis in religion).. I do not support the government being able to force you to hire, or force you to maintain the employment of, homosexuals. Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 12:35 PM (nAiE/) 493
What these cases now open is that any time you fire someone who is gay, they now have a claim to make against a company.
Billable hours, baby. That's what it's all about. Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BrainwashedLivesMatter at June 15, 2020 12:35 PM (HaL55) 494
There is no law that says you have to allow someone to express their personal views at your workplace no matter what they are.
At-will employment is a blade that cuts two ways. "I have grown tired of you. Fired" "This is because I'm gay, isn't it?" "...you're gay?" Sure it's susceptible to Cancel Culture pressure, but it's easier to fire people who are hurting the business if you have a policy and record of doing so. Posted by: Sporkatus at June 15, 2020 12:35 PM (CGB5H) 495
I met lot's of nice American Indiana...Half rather see me dead than to say thanks.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 12:35 PM (pB6Gt) 496
The damage this case is doing is not on the employee front, but on the precedent front. Posted by: SH at June 15, 2020 12:31 PM (sX1BW) The damage was done the moment the Civil Rights Act was passed. Every stupidass decision and rule that accumulated into our current nightmare of systemic racism in employment, education, and public accommodations was foreseeable and could not have worked out any other way. Goldwater called this out and was excoriated for doing so. The country tried to take a shortcut and got lost. Posted by: fktheleft at June 15, 2020 12:35 PM (I54dk) 497
A business should be free to hire and fire at will, because it is their
own property and money. Stupid, awful ones will eventually suffer for their behavior. That's how liberty works. ---------- While I agree businesses should, most businesses haven't had this ability for a long time. Even in at will states. There are always potential legal ramifications, not to mention the PR ones. This case likely doesn't change that calculus too much - but it does a little. The damage this case is doing is not on the employee front, but on the precedent front. Posted by: SH at June 15, 2020 12:31 PM --- Yep and that's why people with sloppy managers will always have issues firing people. Even in at will States, you have to document why you are firing someone or stuff like this will come back and fvck you in the a$$. Even though technically at will law states you can fire someone for any reason or no reason, doesn't mean the Courts have twisted that until it's broken. If managers/owners would do their jobs and document problem employees performance and behavior like they should, this kind of stuff would not happen. Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 12:35 PM (JUOKG) Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 12:35 PM (gmo/4) 499
Once again the country pays the price for the historical malfeasance and unremitting hate of the Democrat Party. This will be a theme forevermore.
Posted by: John Roberts, Honorary Hawaiian at June 15, 2020 12:36 PM (uEbPt) 500
You can also help prevent crap by instituting rules that don't allow people to dress, act or say things in a political or controversial way. There is no law that says you have to allow someone to express their personal views at your workplace no matter what they are.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 12:32 PM (ZLI7S) I didn't know you were a H8r! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 12:36 PM (mMLSg) 501
I suppose there must inevitably be some price paid for limited liability
for those enterprises which enjoy it. There is no free lunch after all. ------------ The price to pay for that was the willingness to risk their own money. The liability limitation isn't just a gift from the state. It was an understanding that in order for private people to risk their own money, the state needed to offer liability protection. Posted by: SH at June 15, 2020 12:36 PM (sX1BW) 502
I agree, and its nearly always been the case. If we ever needed proof that its God who saves, and not works or our clever efforts, its right before our eyes each day. Christians are the worst possible advertisement for the truth of our faith.
***************** I consider myself a Christian, warts and all, but have not attended church in decades. They have all gone full retard. Posted by: Two Weeks From Enjoying Covfefe and Black and White Cookies, But Only Eating The Black Part at June 15, 2020 12:36 PM (+dsLj) 503
Billable hours, baby. That's what it's all about.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BrainwashedLivesMatter at June 15, 2020 12:35 PM (HaL55) I hate to say it but you're a million percent right. Posted by: ... at June 15, 2020 12:37 PM (uEbPt) 504
Still no word on blacks learning to comply with police officers
Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2020 12:38 PM (JgrP5) 505
A business should be free to hire and fire at will, because it is their own property and money.
----- I suppose there must inevitably be some price paid for limited liability for those enterprises which enjoy it. There is no free lunch after all. Posted by: Undocumented There's an easy solution to that. Same one used when catching a B&E tourist. Beat the shit out of them, repeat at random intervals over the next 24 hours until they no longer know a)who they are, b) who you are. Roll them out naked and coated in honey in the middle of a forest. Fire them for not showing up to work on time the next day. This kind of vigilante justice is coming if the rule of law doesn't begin to prevail. Posted by: BifBewalski - sinis est culus at June 15, 2020 12:38 PM (VcFUs) 506
485 There is no law that says you have to allow someone to express their personal views at your workplace no matter what they are.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 12:32 PM (ZLI7S) Yet. Posted by: John Roberts, Honorary Hawaiian at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (uEbPt) I'm more concerned about these businesses that feel completely at ease firing someone for expressing their viewpoints online while NOT at work. I'm not being anti-business, but if the "business" is being a leftist tool for the communist overthrow of the constitution, then that's a big time worry. People being fired for expressing themselves privately, what's next, the government deciding who to hire based on the wokeness of their Twitter feed and Facebook friends? Hello ChiCom Social Credit Score! Social Credit Score: Brought to you by Twitter, Facebook, and Google. If you fail to achieve a high enough score, fret not, we have many forced labor camps where one can boost their score in only a few short decades! Perhaps your children's children will even be allowed to vote! The system works. Posted by: Iftwilp at June 15, 2020 12:38 PM (gqvXZ) 507
Second, it allows people who think of themselves as moderates to adopt a radical position, because, look, its not radical, they are just talking about having some more treatment centers for drug users, and who can be against that?
Posted by: blaster at June 15, 2020 12:15 PM I love that Maahty Walsh decided to "defund" the Boston police by taking their overtime budget and giving it to the lefty cause. Now that will really piss off the police. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 15, 2020 12:40 PM (ejd/p) 508
The price to pay for that was the willingness to risk their own money. The liability limitation isn't just a gift from the state. It was an understanding that in order for private people to risk their own money, the state needed to offer liability protection.
Posted by: SH at June 15, 2020 12:36 PM (sX1BW) ----- I guess there were no investments prior to the 19th century. My point is a broader one though. If the state can limit the ability of others against you they can also limit your rights against the others. Posted by: Undocumented at June 15, 2020 12:41 PM (Y08Vx) 509
"Christians are the worst possible advertisement for the truth of our faith." C Taylor
"And he (JC) gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers 12 For the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ .... " you mean all those guys are the worst possible advertisement? Paul said to "walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called". Our lives are the "witness" ... the advertisement, as it were. Or did JC (head of the body of Christ, we are each members in particular) ... screw up in those appointments? Posted by: illiniwek at June 15, 2020 12:42 PM (Cus5s) 510
I suppose one of those is real--either Thunberg is on a CNN panel discussing what it's like to be black in America or amazon is listing a book as written by the Muslim deity.
Posted by: creax at June 15, 2020 12:42 PM (hCqcJ) 511
There is no law that says you have to allow someone to express their personal views at your workplace no matter what they are.
Sure, but precedent makes laws these days. All it takes is for some person to win a case of being fired because they were talking about their personal views and now its effectively law. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:44 PM (KZzsI) 512
508 The price to pay for that was the willingness to risk their own money. The liability limitation isn't just a gift from the state. It was an understanding that in order for private people to risk their own money, the state needed to offer liability protection.
Posted by: SH at June 15, 2020 12:36 PM (sX1BW) I wish they would offer that down at the horse track! I got a real feeling about number 13. Posted by: Iftwilp at June 15, 2020 12:46 PM (gqvXZ) 513
All it takes is for some person to win a case of being fired because they were talking about their personal views and now its effectively law.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:44 PM (KZzsI) To be fair, the Congressional politicians (all of them), are too busy chasing the graft to do their purported jobs of writing comprehensible honest legislation that is consistent with the principles of the Constitution! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 12:46 PM (mMLSg) 514
Or did JC (head of the body of Christ, we are each members in particular) ... screw up in those appointments?/i]
Perhaps I should have just restricted the lament to myself, but I do know an awful lot of poor advertisements to Christianity in the world. We're all sinners, and hypocrites and saved only by the doing and dying of Jesus, not our goodness. Most of us are pretty bad at living the life we're called to, I think. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:48 PM (KZzsI) 515
That English edition of the koran is written by Abdullah Yusef Ali. From what I understand, a lot of mohammedans despise that translation, and hate Ali for desecrating the word of allah by interpreting it in the language of infidels. Got that from one of Ali's grandsons, who was a student at UCSB when I was there. Dood was cool, used to do calculus for fun while drinking beer with the rest of us infidel reprobates. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 15, 2020 12:48 PM (EGyGV) 516
"Unplanned donations".
I'd punch that person right in the mouth. It was probably them that took it and sold it for a bag of dope. Posted by: jakee308 at June 15, 2020 12:49 PM (vtNDy) 517
From what I understand, a lot of mohammedans despise that translation, and hate Ali for desecrating the word of allah by interpreting it in the language of infidels.
Yeah there are quite a few purists who think that the only true version is in Arabic. They are probably either unaware or don't care that its been rewritten like 800 times over the years, and the very oldest versions are locked away so that nobody can look at them and see the differences. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:52 PM (KZzsI) 518
The Founders deeply fucked up when they created the judicial branch of government. Just about every liberal policy goal has been achieved through that, never mind voters routinely vote the same nonsense down over and over again. They couldn't even pass gay marriage in California, but the Court always saves the day. Posted by: Blago at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (gkdnV) It wasn't really the founders. Blame Chief Justice John Marshall and the Marbury v Madison decision, which created the doctrine of Judicial Review. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 15, 2020 12:54 PM (EGyGV) 519
You can also help prevent crap by instituting rules that don't allow people to dress, act or say things in a political or controversial way. There is no law that says you have to allow someone to express their personal views at your workplace no matter what they are.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 12:32 PM (ZLI7S) Will that help me prevent people like "Ada" from disrupting my work environment with their strangeness... https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/240/ (go to 7:30) Posted by: Serious Cat at June 15, 2020 12:55 PM (zqs/f) 520
To be fair, the Congressional politicians (all of them), are too busy chasing the graft to do their purported jobs of writing comprehensible honest legislation that is consistent with the principles of the Constitution!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 12:46 PM 1. You are too young to be so cynical. 2. It works, doesn't it. Posted by: Hairy Reed at June 15, 2020 12:57 PM (DMUuz) 521
517 From what I understand, a lot of mohammedans despise that translation, and hate Ali for desecrating the word of allah by interpreting it in the language of infidels.
Yeah there are quite a few purists who think that the only true version is in Arabic. They are probably either unaware or don't care that its been rewritten like 800 times over the years, and the very oldest versions are locked away so that nobody can look at them and see the differences. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 12:52 PM (KZzsI) ======= The consensus is that only the "original" 7th century Arabic version is valid. It's that dialect that is the basis for Modern Standard Arabic, which is the common language of much of the Islamic world. It serves a similar purpose to Latin in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. I've heard that the actual modern Arabic vernaculars range from being more or less understandable between each other to essentially different languages. Posted by: Jackal at June 15, 2020 12:59 PM (o3+fQ) 522
518
The Founders deeply fucked up when they created the judicial branch of government. Just about every liberal policy goal has been achieved through that, never mind voters routinely vote the same nonsense down over and over again. They couldn't even pass gay marriage in California, but the Court always saves the day. Posted by: Blago at June 15, 2020 12:34 PM (gkdnV) It wasn't really the founders. Blame Chief Justice John Marshall and the Marbury v Madison decision, which created the doctrine of Judicial Review. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 15, 2020 12:54 PM (EGyGV) ======= Well, it kinda was the founders. They were so damn vague about the court that it left Marshall the room to grab as much power as he wanted. And I've never heard a satisfactory explanation how you derive Judicial Review from the Constitution or English Common law. Posted by: Jackal at June 15, 2020 01:03 PM (o3+fQ) 523
From Twitter
@DrFNFurter May 8, 2009 So, come up to the lab, May 8, 2009 and see what's on the slab! May 8, 2009 I see you shiver with antici ... May 7, 2014 ... pation. Posted by: Downcast at June 15, 2020 01:06 PM (dte0j) 524
Susan Dey and Danny Bonaduce in the Partridge Family.
Posted by: Downcast at June 15, 2020 01:09 PM (dte0j) 525
Well, it kinda was the founders. They were so damn
vague about the court that it left Marshall the room to grab as much power as he wanted. And I've never heard a satisfactory explanation how you derive Judicial Review from the Constitution or English Common law. Posted by: Jackal at June 15, 2020 01:03 PM (o3+fQ) Once you give power to somebody that's ambitious, it's all over. Rules won't stop them. Posted by: Ramblin' Man at June 15, 2020 01:10 PM (S4XGD) 526
A nation of laws, not of men requires the best men at law to work. We have no more best men and here we are.
Posted by: Undocumented at June 15, 2020 01:16 PM (Y08Vx) 527
agree that Yale University, founded by the slave trader Eli Yale, should be burned to the ground, just as offending statues should be torn down.
What I'm still up in the air about is should everyone who has ever attended Yale and benefited from his white-devil slave trading wealth, be fired from their positions and their assets confiscated and distributed fairly to BLM? Posted by: jwest at June 15, 2020 12:09 PM (mrrp Yes. Start with Shirley Jackson Lee. Posted by: Chillin the most at June 15, 2020 01:21 PM (lonOK) 528
Many Universities were funding by slaving profits. Some were built in part with slave labor. But why stop there?
As the American Public Media article "Shackled Legacy" points out as an example: "At the University of Virginia, founded and designed by Thomas Jefferson, slaves cooked and cleaned for the sons of the Southern gentry." Posted by: Undocumented at June 15, 2020 01:32 PM (Y08Vx) Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at June 15, 2020 02:05 PM (EMi53) 530
Excellent post, OregonMuse.
Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at June 15, 2020 02:13 PM (HUYcC) 531
Even though the thread is dead. I just want to be on record:
I have had a crush on Shirley Jones since her starring in Oklahoma. That is all... Posted by: browndog at June 15, 2020 02:23 PM (BgMrQ) 532
If Seattle does not fix their chaz then they deserve their chaz. Good and hard.
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