Louisiana Republicans Getting Set to Make the Bible the Official State Book

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Meanwhile in Louisiana, Republican lawmakers are getting set to make the official state book the Bible.

Which would, of course, be unquestionably unconstitutional, and would face legal challenges and be inevitably struck down, wasting who knows how much state money in the process. The party of fiscal responsibility!

Legislation that would make the Holy Bible the official state book of Louisiana cleared the House Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs with a vote of 8-5 Thursday afternoon. It will now head to the full House of Representatives for consideration.

Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, originally filed a bill to declare a specific copy of the Bible, found in the Louisiana State Museum system, the official state book. But by the time he presented the proposal to the committee, he changed language in his legislation to make the generic King James version of the Bible, a text used worldwide, the official state book.

Carmody said his intention was not to mingle religion with government functions. “This is not about establishing an official religion,” he said.

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116 comments
1 Kragar  Apr 16, 2014 5:53:27pm

To be fair, its probably the only book they’ve read

2 GeneJockey  Apr 16, 2014 5:54:28pm

re: #1 Kragar

To be fair, its probably the only book they’ve read

It may be assuming too much to say they’ve read it.

3 EPR-radar  Apr 16, 2014 5:54:45pm

re: #1 Kragar

To be fair, its probably the only book they’ve read

The bible is there to be thumped, not read.

4 freetoken  Apr 16, 2014 5:55:34pm

re: #2 GeneJockey

It may be assuming too much to say they’ve read it.

They hear bits and pieces quoted to them every Sunday (and Wednesday night).

Especially the part about teh ghey and Sodom and all that jazz.

5 freetoken  Apr 16, 2014 5:56:49pm

This dovetails with:

Oklahoma School District OKs ‘Bible Curriculum’ Created by Hobby Lobby President

6 Romantic Heretic  Apr 16, 2014 5:57:10pm
Carmody said his intention was not to mingle religion with government functions. “This is not about establishing an official religion,” he said.

You know, for people who get so uptight about people speaking English their mastery of it is quite limited.

7 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 16, 2014 6:02:16pm

re: #1 Kragar

To be fair, its probably the only book they’ve read

What they know is what they’ve been taught that it says. The union of that and what it really says is probably an empty set.

8 Charles Johnson  Apr 16, 2014 6:02:44pm
9 makeitstop  Apr 16, 2014 6:06:13pm

Greenwald = Stalker.

10 sauceruney  Apr 16, 2014 6:08:52pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Context means nothing to that boy.

11 freetoken  Apr 16, 2014 6:11:10pm

Part of the Bible-push is directly part of the “American Exceptionalism” crowing/crying.

So much of what the self-declared “conservatives” worry themselves these days is about the sea change in worldview that modernism has brought, including an un-whitewashed view of American history.

The examples are numerous. Just from yesterday, none other than recent-shiny-toy Ben Carson declares:

Recovering America’s Exceptionalism

[…]

Some will say, “Carson is a religious fanatic because he believes in God and the Bible.” Interestingly, the very same people are quick to invoke the name of God and recommend prayer at times of national and personal tragedy. Hypocrisy is their frequent companion.

[…]

That’s a fallacy, not surprisingly, but is typical of the Magick Book folk.

12 Lancelot Link  Apr 16, 2014 6:14:10pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Considering Glenn’s activities at that time, it would be legitimate to refer to him as a “white-supremacist attorney / pornographer”, right?

13 Political Atheist  Apr 16, 2014 6:14:23pm

I have been at google on this. It seems so far that not only would this be a first ever declaration about the bible, but maybe the first official state book at all. What have they been drinking?

14 Skip Intro  Apr 16, 2014 6:15:46pm

These people have Taliban envy.

15 Shazam  Apr 16, 2014 6:17:17pm

They should also make Jesus the Official State Ancient Middle Eastern Man.

16 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 16, 2014 6:17:49pm

re: #14 Skip Intro

These people have Taliban envy.

In the event of a repressive theocracy lasting more than 4 years, please seek rational assistance immediately.

RBS

17 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 6:18:40pm

my predictions for the ukraine crisis ymmv

putin eats ukraine
we intensify sanctions
putin eats belarus - this one is easy, the belarussians are practically begging for it
we intensify sanctions
maybe putin gets really ambitious and moves in to ‘protect’ georgia and other areas in the caucasus as well
we intensify sanctions
putin makes a calculation as to what is easier to bear, giving back land or sanctions. i bet he’ll take sanctions

and all the elections for the rest of our lives are all about ‘democrats are PUSSIES’

18 b_sharp  Apr 16, 2014 6:20:54pm

re: #17 dog philosopher

my predictions for the ukraine crisis ymmv

putin eats ukraine
we intensify sanctions
putin eats belarus - this one is easy, the belarussians are practically begging for it
we intensify sanctions
maybe putin gets really ambitious and moves in to ‘protect’ georgia and other areas in the caucasus as well
we intensify sanctions
putin makes a calculation as to what is easier to bear, giving back land or sanctions. i bet he’ll take sanctions

and all the elections for the rest of our lives are all about ‘democrats are PUSSIES’

I had no idea the US was the only other country on the planet.

19 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 16, 2014 6:22:01pm

Hey Lizards. I’m back home from Memphis, my presentations went well, I do them again tomorrow in Nashville, and hopefully won’t get tasked for this again.

Going to be a short night, watch Cosmos, have a light dinner, and then crash for the night.

RBS

20 klys  Apr 16, 2014 6:22:09pm

re: #18 b_sharp

I had no idea the US was the only other country on the planet.

Be glad you live in our hat and not other, less desirable descriptors.

21 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 6:22:20pm

re: #18 b_sharp

I had no idea the US was the only other country on the planet.

what do you think will happen?

22 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 6:24:38pm

to make the official state book the Bible

i dispute the idea that the bible is even a book

so there

23 goddamnedfrank  Apr 16, 2014 6:24:50pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

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Glenn is conflating the citations in the manifesto as being supportive of LGF, when pretty much all of them (not going to bother reading it again) are condemnatory. It’s a patently dishonest tactic. Paint LGF as a conservative site, then add up the “conservative” sites mentioned, completely absent of the context of the citation. The clear takeaway from those citations was that Fjordman hated you for not supporting his insane hatred and revanchist politics.

24 aagcobb  Apr 16, 2014 6:25:08pm

re: #17 dog philosopher

my predictions for the ukraine crisis ymmv

putin eats ukraine
we intensify sanctions
putin eats belarus - this one is easy, the belarussians are practically begging for it
we intensify sanctions
maybe putin gets really ambitious and moves in to ‘protect’ georgia and other areas in the caucasus as well
we intensify sanctions
putin makes a calculation as to what is easier to bear, giving back land or sanctions. i bet he’ll take sanctions

and all the elections for the rest of our lives are all about ‘democrats are PUSSIES’

I would love the GOP to run on a MOR WAR platform. After 13 years of foreign adventures, I think the people are heartily sick of them.

25 Charles Johnson  Apr 16, 2014 6:25:44pm
26 darthstar  Apr 16, 2014 6:25:45pm
27 Decatur Deb  Apr 16, 2014 6:26:00pm

Freep has a long-simmering war between its Catholic and Protestant factions. The fact that Louisiana, under French and Spanish control for most of it’s history, has chosen the ‘historical’ KJV was noted.

28 Decatur Deb  Apr 16, 2014 6:26:29pm

re: #22 dog philosopher

to make the official state book the Bible

i dispute the idea that the bible is even a book

so there

Says so, right on the cover.

29 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 6:26:45pm

re: #24 aagcobb

I would love the GOP to run on a MOR WAR platform. After 13 years of foreign adventures, I think the people are heartily sick of them.

mm i think MOR WAR is a different platform than DEMS ARE WEAKLINGS

30 b_sharp  Apr 16, 2014 6:28:26pm

re: #21 dog philosopher

what do you think will happen?

Other countries are just as responsible for addressing the actions of Putin as the US.

31 aagcobb  Apr 16, 2014 6:28:31pm

re: #21 dog philosopher

what do you think will happen?

The Russia Empire has been inhaling and exhaling for centuries. We are supposed to draw a line around it and dictate that it stops there or else? We weren’t intervening when the Red Army was invading Central European countries, but now its our responsibility to defend former Soviet republics nestled against the Bear?

32 darthstar  Apr 16, 2014 6:28:37pm

Win.

33 aagcobb  Apr 16, 2014 6:30:09pm

re: #29 dog philosopher

mm i think MOR WAR is a different platform than DEMS ARE WEAKLINGS

We punch back that the Republicans are warmongers. That has more resonance, I think.

34 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 6:30:19pm

re: #28 Decatur Deb

Says so, right on the cover.

i’d love to get them to defend the idea that god writes books, like he was jacqueline suzanne or something

35 Gus  Apr 16, 2014 6:31:41pm
36 aagcobb  Apr 16, 2014 6:32:00pm

re: #29 dog philosopher

mm i think MOR WAR is a different platform than DEMS ARE WEAKLINGS

Plus I think that the idea that we should go to war just to deny the GOP a talking point is perverse.

37 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 6:32:02pm

re: #31 aagcobb

The Russia Empire has been inhaling and exhaling for centuries. We are supposed to draw a line around it and dictate that it stops there or else? We weren’t intervening when the Red Army was invading Central European countries, but now its our responsibility to defend former Soviet republics nestled against the Bear?

re: #33 aagcobb

We punched back that the Republicans are warmongers. That has more resonance, I think.

well, i think you are optimistic, i guess

38 Decatur Deb  Apr 16, 2014 6:32:12pm

re: #34 dog philosopher

i’d love to get them to defend the idea that god writes books, like he was jacqueline suzanne or something

She can’t muster that much sex and violence. Talking at least Ian Fleming, here.

39 Belafon  Apr 16, 2014 6:32:49pm

re: #29 dog philosopher

That Dems are weaklings thing is a non-issue, really. Most people aren’t going to care about that. If they do, then I offer:

WW1 - Democrat
WW2 - Democrat
Vietnam (For better or worse) - Democrat

And if nothing else, it’s not like Obama was afraid to enter someone elses country, twice, to get what we wanted: Pakistan and Yemen.

40 Charles Johnson  Apr 16, 2014 6:32:53pm

re: #23 goddamnedfrank

Glenn is conflating the citations in the manifesto as being supportive of LGF, when pretty much all of them (not going to bother reading it again) are condemnatory. It’s a patently dishonest tactic. Paint LGF as a conservative site, then add up the “conservative” sites mentioned, completely absent of the context of the citation. The clear takeaway from those citations was that Fjordman hated you for not supporting his insane hatred and revanchist politics.

I just went partway through those Fjordman footnotes, and checked the LGF posts they were linked to — they were simple links to news articles at mainstream media sites. I defy anyone to find something hateful in the posts that were linked in Fjordman’s copy/pasted articles.

The Fjordman articles Breivik put in his manuscript are where the true hatred lies. He used LGF to spread this racist crap for a while, and I’ll always be sorry for that. But LGF was never a hate site. I reject that characterization. I had a zero tolerance policy for hate speech from the very beginning, and many of the people who now stalk me on the web were banned from LGF for violating that policy.

41 Chrysicat  Apr 16, 2014 6:32:55pm

re: #31 aagcobb

The Russia Empire has been inhaling and exhaling for centuries. We are supposed to draw a line around it and dictate that it stops there or else? We weren’t intervening when the Red Army was invading Central European countries, but now its our responsibility to defend former Soviet republics nestled against the Bear?

So “Screw them. If they didn’t want to live in a Russian puppet state, they should have asked for asylum in the EU”, right?

THE MAJORITY OF UKRAINIANS DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN A RUSSIAN PUPPET STATE.

But unfortunately, the majority of Ukrainian _soldiers_ seem to be more than willing to defect to Russia.

And I guess it’s time to start calling it “The Ukraine” and that city in the northeast “Kharkov”, because that’s the way Russia sees it, right?

42 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 6:33:13pm

re: #36 aagcobb

Plus I think that the idea that we should go to war just to deny the GOP a talking point is perverse.

now, now, i didn’t say anything like that

my point is this: what ever happens, i think it is going to be teh major suxxor

43 goddamnedfrank  Apr 16, 2014 6:34:48pm

re: #23 goddamnedfrank

Glenn is conflating the citations in the manifesto as being supportive of LGF, when pretty much all of them (not going to bother reading it again) are condemnatory. It’s a patently dishonest tactic. Paint LGF as a conservative site, then add up the “conservative” sites mentioned, completely absent of the context of the citation. The clear takeaway from those citations was that Fjordman hated you for not supporting his insane hatred and revanchist politics.

In a sense this is another manifestation as the #CancelColbert nonsense. The idea that context is irrelevant, only the fact that a “citation” exists matters.

44 aagcobb  Apr 16, 2014 6:34:58pm

re: #42 dog philosopher

now, now, i didn’t say anything like that

my point is this: what ever happens, i think it is going to be teh major suxxor

Especially for Ukraine.

45 Belafon  Apr 16, 2014 6:37:10pm

re: #41 Chrysicat

It sucks for them, and I wouldn’t be sad if Putin turned up dead. But what do you think the US should do?

46 aagcobb  Apr 16, 2014 6:39:02pm

re: #41 Chrysicat

So “Screw them. If they didn’t want to live in a Russian puppet state, they should have asked for asylum in the EU”, right?

THE MAJORITY OF UKRAINIANS DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN A RUSSIAN PUPPET STATE.

But unfortunately, the majority of Ukrainian _soldiers_ seem to be more than willing to defect to Russia.

And I guess it’s time to start calling it “The Ukraine” and that city in the northeast “Kharkov”, because that’s the way Russia sees it, right?

Well millions of North Koreans died of hunger, and we did nothing, because doing something would’ve involved a massive war killing possibly hundreds of thousands of people with the potential to go nuclear. I’m sorry for the Ukrainians, but directly confronting a nation with thousands of nuclear warheads with military force is not something you want to do unless critical national interests are at stake. The Hungarians didn’t want to live in a puppet state in ‘56, and the Czechs didn’t in ‘68, and we did nothing, and THAT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. We don’t have the power to right all wrongs.

47 goddamnedfrank  Apr 16, 2014 6:39:22pm

Anyway, to carry out this bit of intellectual legerdemain Greenwald willingly put himself in bed with a guy who openly claims a history of stabbing muslims in the face.

48 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 16, 2014 6:39:23pm

re: #26 darthstar

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Nah, I think she still believes it but has come to realize that her jobs are drying up because people don’t like her kind of foolishness. Hence the pretend backtracking.

49 Gus  Apr 16, 2014 6:39:31pm
50 McSpiff  Apr 16, 2014 6:40:33pm

Glenn Greenwald now linking the stalkers? I don’t even… Seriously?!

51 Gus  Apr 16, 2014 6:42:41pm
52 EdDantes  Apr 16, 2014 6:47:04pm

re: #50 McSpiff

Glenn Greenwald now linking the stalkers? I don’t even… Seriously?!

As long as you don’t use popular cliche’s.

53 Gus  Apr 16, 2014 6:47:32pm
54 Charles Johnson  Apr 16, 2014 6:48:07pm

re: #52 EdDantes

You can always just stop posting, you know. Act like an adult?

55 EdDantes  Apr 16, 2014 6:51:29pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

You can always just stop posting, you know. Act like an adult?

Sorry. I couldn’t resist. I don’t even..,seriously?!

56 bratwurst  Apr 16, 2014 6:52:27pm

re: #52 EdDantes

57 Charles Johnson  Apr 16, 2014 6:54:00pm
58 freetoken  Apr 16, 2014 6:54:34pm

Drawn, like iron filings to magnetic fields….

59 Skip Intro  Apr 16, 2014 6:55:15pm

Freeper gets right to the heart of the Bundy Ranch issue.

So Clive Bundy Owes One Million.And How Much Have Our Leaders Spent On Vacations?

No link, but it’s right there at the top if you care to look.

60 freetoken  Apr 16, 2014 6:56:53pm

Getting back to America as a theocracy:

Church-state separation put to the test in Ky.

[…]

The arguments against gay marriage from the Baptists start and end with Bible verses. Republican Sen. Whitney Westerfield, a Baptist from southeastern Kentucky, quoted Genesis 2:24, which states, “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.”

“God’s word is clear this is what is intended,” Westerfield said. “It’s what scripture says. I would have a hard time compromising on something so concrete and well-defined.”

[…]

61 Gus  Apr 16, 2014 6:57:14pm
62 Charles Johnson  Apr 16, 2014 6:57:30pm

re: #55 EdDantes

Sorry. I couldn’t resist. I don’t even..,seriously?!

Your choice.

63 EdDantes  Apr 16, 2014 6:59:13pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

You can always just stop posting, you know. Act like an adult?

By the way, I quoted a popular movie and got massively down-dinged. I meant no disrespect to Rosa Parks but that was how my post was received. So I am not too concerned about annoying certain persons sensibilities.

64 Ming  Apr 16, 2014 6:59:41pm

re: #43 goddamnedfrank

In a sense this is another manifestation as the #CancelColbert nonsense. The idea that context is irrelevant, only the fact that a “citation” exists matters.

I think the above pretty well summarizes the latest from Glenn Greenwald. That, and his tendency to lead with hostility.

65 Charles Johnson  Apr 16, 2014 7:00:46pm

re: #63 EdDantes

Whatever. Your choice.

66 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 7:01:47pm

re: #52 EdDantes

As long as you don’t use popular cliche’s.

apologies for being a grammar nazi, but as long as the topic is stylistic criticism, please mind your possessive apostrophes

67 Gus  Apr 16, 2014 7:02:41pm
68 jamesfirecat  Apr 16, 2014 7:03:16pm

re: #63 EdDantes

By the way, I quoted a popular movie and got massively down-dinged. I meant no disrespect to Rosa Parks but that was how my post was received. So I am not too concerned about annoying certain persons sensibilities.

White men, white women, the Swastika is calling you! The Jew is using the black as muscle, and what are you going to do about it?

Is a quote from Blues Brothers right before the speaker gets nearly run over by the protagonist and have to jump off a bridge and into a river to avoid it.

See how important it can be to explain context right off the bat?

69 goddamnedfrank  Apr 16, 2014 7:09:25pm

re: #63 EdDantes

By the way, I quoted a popular movie and got massively down-dinged. I meant no disrespect to Rosa Parks but that was how my post was received. So I am not too concerned about annoying certain persons sensibilities.

You know, when most people put their foot in it, they don’t track it from room to room arguing with people about whether or not they put their foot in it. Just accept the fact that your joke went over like a lead balloon and move the fuck on.

70 EdDantes  Apr 16, 2014 7:10:52pm

re: #68 jamesfirecat

Context can be everything.

/My comment was couched in my confederate, Klansman, racist previous comments that you can easily check.

71 gwangung  Apr 16, 2014 7:11:56pm

re: #70 EdDantes

Zzzzzzzzzzzz.

72 Ming  Apr 16, 2014 7:11:56pm

re: #67 Gus

…Glenn Greenwald defends ‘Obama could rape a nun’ attack on supporters…

GG may be in a jealous rage, since Barack Obama is admired by so many people. Do more people look up to Barack Obama than look up to GG? Can it be?

73 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 16, 2014 7:12:32pm

re: #66 dog philosopher

apologies for being a grammar nazi, but as long as the topic is stylistic criticism, please mind your possessive apostrophes

I suspect Ed was trying to indicate the accent agu over the e, as in the proper French spelling of cliché.

EdDantes, to show diacritical marks type (without the space) &e acute; (é) &e grave; (è) &e uml; (ë) etc. You can also use hexadecimal references, but I never can remember those.

74 Killgore Trout  Apr 16, 2014 7:14:05pm

re: #61 Gus

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Show business.
Show.
Business.

75 EdDantes  Apr 16, 2014 7:14:15pm

re: #69 goddamnedfrank

You know, when most people put their foot in it, they don’t track it from room to room arguing with people about whether or not they put their foot in it. Just accept the fact that your joke went over like a lead balloon and move the fuck on.

No idea what that means. Can someone here help Frank?

76 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 7:14:27pm

re: #73 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

I suspect Ed was trying to indicate the accent agu over the e, as in the proper French spelling of cliché.

EdDantes, to show diacritical marks type (without the space) &e acute; (é) &e grave; (è) &e uml; (ë) etc. You can also use hexadecimal references, but I never can remember those.

i always wondered why the accents are called ‘acute’ and ‘grave’, as if they had some kind of medical conditions or something…

77 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 7:15:00pm

re: #75 EdDantes

No idea what that means

it means that the whole thing is getting boring

78 BongCrodny  Apr 16, 2014 7:15:18pm

re: #75 EdDantes

No idea what that means. Can someone here help Frank?

Sure. You’re a nitwit.

79 b.d.  Apr 16, 2014 7:16:27pm

Q. Hey Glenn! You just were associated with a career defining major award, what are you going to do?

A. I am going to send a dishonest distorted tweet out and fight people like a stubborn mule on the internets

Not the way I would celebrate but to each his own.

80 Skip Intro  Apr 16, 2014 7:16:49pm

re: #76 dog philosopher

i always wondered why the accents are called ‘acute’ and ‘grave’, as if they had some kind of medical conditions or something…

Why are some quark pairs called strange and charm while others are called up and down?

There’s just so much to understand and so little time to do it.

81 Gus  Apr 16, 2014 7:17:25pm
82 EdDantes  Apr 16, 2014 7:19:28pm

re: #78 BongCrodny

Sure. You’re a nitwit.

Excellent reply. Just a second. I will upding you

83 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 7:19:32pm

re: #80 Skip Intro

Why are some quark pairs called strange and charm while others are called up and down?

There’s just so much to understand and so little time to do it.

i like to have the charmed quarks in my leprechaun themed breakfast cereal

84 EdDantes  Apr 16, 2014 7:20:16pm

re: #82 EdDantes

done.

85 makeitstop  Apr 16, 2014 7:20:30pm

DNFTT.

86 BongCrodny  Apr 16, 2014 7:20:58pm

re: #82 EdDantes

Excellent reply. Just a second. I will upding you

You get the replies you deserve.

87 EdDantes  Apr 16, 2014 7:23:57pm

re: #86 BongCrodny

You get the replies you deserve.

You earned it!

88 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 16, 2014 7:24:01pm

re: #76 dog philosopher

i always wondered why the accents are called ‘acute’ and ‘grave’, as if they had some kind of medical conditions or something…

It’s what the French call them, that’s all I know.

re: #80 Skip Intro

Why are some quark pairs called strange and charm while others are called up and down?

There’s just so much to understand and so little time to do it.

From Wikipedia:

The quark flavors were given their names for a number of reasons. The up and down quarks are named after the up and down components of isospin, which they carry.[47] Strange quarks were given their name because they were discovered to be components of the strange particles discovered in cosmic rays years before the quark model was proposed; these particles were deemed “strange” because they had unusually long lifetimes.[48] Glashow, who coproposed charm quark with Bjorken, is quoted as saying, “We called our construct the ‘charmed quark’, for we were fascinated and pleased by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world.”[49] The names “bottom” and “top”, coined by Harari, were chosen because they are “logical partners for up and down quarks”.[36][37][48] In the past, bottom and top quarks were sometimes referred to as “beauty” and “truth” respectively, but these names have somewhat fallen out of use.[50] While “truth” never did catch on, accelerator complexes devoted to massive production of bottom quarks are sometimes called “beauty factories”.[51]

89 Kragar  Apr 16, 2014 7:24:16pm

re: #86 BongCrodny

You get the replies you deserve.

Scroll overs work wonders

90 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 16, 2014 7:27:38pm

It’s better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

91 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 16, 2014 7:29:26pm

re: #89 Kragar

Scroll overs work wonders

Shrug. He’s easier to deal with than when KT gets a bug up his ass about his latest passive-aggressive “concern”.

92 Gus  Apr 16, 2014 7:30:09pm
93 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 7:30:53pm

re: #88 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

It’s what the French call them, that’s all I know.

wikster as usual has an opinion

The acute accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it indicated a syllable with a high pitch. In Modern Greek, a stress accent has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word. The Greek name of the accented syllable was and is oxeîa (Modern Greek oxía) “sharp” or “high”, which was calqued into Latin as acūta “sharpened”.

my orthography is bicoastal and bitonal

by the way, a ‘calq’ is a direct translation of an idiomatic expression from one language to another

94 Kid A  Apr 16, 2014 7:35:51pm

Hugs and kisses from me to some a-hole in a parking garage tonight:

95 jaunte  Apr 16, 2014 7:37:23pm

re: #94 Kid A

I think I annoyed the same guy at the Galleria a few years ago.

96 Stanley Sea  Apr 16, 2014 7:38:19pm

re: #92 Gus

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Mask what mask? W t f you tehadi asshole.

97 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 16, 2014 7:39:50pm

re: #93 dog philosopher

Cool. Now I know where the French got their terminology from.

So is this an example of a calq from Chinese to English?

Long time, no see. 好久不见了 (hao jiu bu jian le)

hao jiu = long time, many a long day
bu - no, not
jian = meet, see, catch sight of
le = intensifies expression, or reinforces immediacy

98 jaunte  Apr 16, 2014 7:40:21pm

I see once again, GG can never be wrong.

99 freetoken  Apr 16, 2014 7:42:30pm

The obvious is still difficult:

Knight Science Journalism Bootcamp speakers cite communications as key to climate change progress

[…]

During his presentation “Energy, Climate, and the American Public,” Stephen Ansolabehere, Professor of Government at Harvard University, offered a suggestion about language and emphasis. He noted that while most Americans are concerned about climate change, describing the issue as “global” climate change makes the problem seem faraway. And since most Americans are not primarily motivated by realities that seem remote, the usual phrase “global climate change” will not, by itself, be effective for building support for new energy policies.

Instead, Ansolabehere encourages policy makers, scientists, and journalists to show the importance of preventing and remedying local environmental damage caused by climate change. Most of us, he said, have a heightened concern for what is occurring in our own backyards, communities, and regions.

[…]

Didn’t need an MIT “boot camp” to know that.

The difficult question which is still avoided is not only locational remoteness but temporal remoteness. How to get people to act today based on something years in the future remains the #1 problem.

100 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 16, 2014 7:43:56pm

re: #94 Kid A

Hugs and kisses from me to some a-hole in a parking garage tonight:

[Embedded image]

Much more witty & polite than the notes I usually leave. Big thumbs up for the good example.

101 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 16, 2014 7:43:58pm

re: #90 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

It’s better to keep quiet and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Though ascribed to Abe Lincoln or alternatively Mark Twain, this saying probably came from neither one. quoteinvestigator.com

I left off the ascription until I was sure of the source, lest the mighty wrath of the Pie-onist Fake Quote Debunking Agency be provokèd.

102 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 16, 2014 7:45:48pm

re: #99 freetoken

The obvious is still difficult:

Knight Science Journalism Bootcamp speakers cite communications as key to climate change progress

Didn’t need an MIT “boot camp” to know that.

The difficult question which is still avoided is not only locational remoteness but temporal remoteness. How to get people to act today based on something years in the future remains the #1 problem.

Thus, many young people put off saving for their retirement or their future kid’s college education until it’s too late to make any real difference. (I being one prime example)

103 Gus  Apr 16, 2014 7:46:31pm

re: #96 Stanley Sea

Mask what mask? W t f you tehadi asshole.

littlegreenfootballs.com

104 freetoken  Apr 16, 2014 7:48:28pm

re: #102 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

re: #102 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

And I hear young people today complaining about the ACA because they don’t need insurance. A while back I overheard a young college female whining about losing hours at a big retailer because evidently they blamed it on not wanting to be forced to provide health insurance.

This is a problem that has been around since people have written about people. Coming to terms with the “future” is not how we really make most of our decisions, which, as Madison Ave. discovered, are more impulsive than thoughtful.

105 darthstar  Apr 16, 2014 7:55:43pm

re: #67 Gus

Really?? They’re giving Pulitzers to people who act like a petty bitch on twitter?

106 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 7:59:49pm

re: #97 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Cool. Now I know where the French got their terminology from.

So is this an example of a calq from Chinese to English?

Long time, no see. 好久不见了 (hao jiu bu jian le)

hao jiu = long time, many a long day
bu - no, not
jian = meet, see, catch sight of
le = intensifies expression, or reinforces immediacy

huh! i didn’t know that was where it came from - it certainly is!

107 dog philosopher  Apr 16, 2014 8:02:57pm

re: #106 dog philosopher

huh! i didn’t know that was where it came from - it certainly is!

p.s. the internet has whispered to me that the proper spelling is ‘calque’

108 GeneJockey  Apr 16, 2014 8:06:19pm

re: #63 EdDantes

By the way, I quoted a popular movie and got massively down-dinged. I meant no disrespect to Rosa Parks but that was how my post was received. So I am not too concerned about annoying certain persons sensibilities.

Ed, you didn’t quote the movie. When one does that, one puts it in italics or quotes so that people know it’s not you saying it.

It was kind of lame, honestly, not really all that funny in context, but by not setting it apart as ‘not Ed Dante’s words’, you appeared to be making a colossal ass of yourself.

109 Snarknado!  Apr 16, 2014 8:07:40pm

re: #101 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Though ascribed to Abe Lincoln or alternatively Mark Twain, this saying probably came from neither one. quoteinvestigator.com

I left off the ascription until I was sure of the source, lest the mighty wrath of the Pie-onist Fake Quote Debunking Agency be provokèd.

She’s undoubtedly preoccupied by teh Passover. Go wild.

110 CriticalDragon1177  Apr 16, 2014 8:42:43pm

Charles Johnson,

Off course we all “know” the establishment clause “doesn’t” mandate the separation of church and state, much like we “know” that the 1st amendment’s “free exercise of religion clause” “only” applies to Christians.

politifact.com

111 Good Morning  Apr 17, 2014 12:46:32am

The original idea was that the state book was going to be one specific book in the state library.

“There shall be an official state book. The official state book shall be the Holy Bible, published by Johannes Prevel, (Prevel, Jean, active 1510-1528, printer. & Petit, Jean, fl. 1492-1530.), which is the oldest edition of the Holy Bible in the Louisiana State Museum system. “

Not quite understanding the idea behind the original bill the bill was expanded to the generic King James edition. Which is actually more controversial as it favors a specific Protestant sects.

I personally think the state book should be chosen by internet poll. With a new poll every year until it gets too embarrassing.

112 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Apr 17, 2014 4:44:53am

and, as part of Bible teaching, school curriculum will be that the Earth is indeed flat, the sky is a solid object, and the Sun and Moon move around the stationary Earth.

113 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Apr 17, 2014 4:58:25am

re: #15 Shazam

tsk tsk. Don’t you know by now that JeEZUS! was white, Republican, wore an American flag lapel pin, and carried an AR-15?

114 CriticalDragon1177  Apr 17, 2014 9:48:02am

re: #112 Rocky-in-Connecticut

and, as part of Bible teaching, school curriculum will be that the Earth is indeed flat, the sky is a solid object, and the Sun and Moon move around the stationary Earth.

The marvelous “science” in the Bible.

115 William of Orange  Apr 17, 2014 9:59:03am

I would have supported it if books like the Quran and the Thora would have been included as well…

Anything to add, God?

True!

116 Mich-again  Apr 18, 2014 8:06:40am

Politicians who take an oath of office to uphold the Constitution and then promote legislation that is clearly Unconstitutional are violating their oath of office and should be removed from office.


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