Tennessee Republican Wants Bible to Be the State Book

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You know, it’s almost as if Republicans don’t really like the United States Constitution, because they keep introducing legislation that blatantly violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment: Tennessee Lawmaker Wants Bible to Be the State Book.

WASHINGTON — A Tennessee state legislator has introduced a bill to make the Bible the official state book, after two other Southern states considered similar moves in recent months.

State Rep. Jerry Sexton (R) put forward his legislation Tuesday. He did not return a request for additional comment.

Caitlin MacNeal at TPM points out that Tennessee’s own state constitution says:

Section 3. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any minister against his consent; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience; and that no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment or mode of worship.

It’s horrifying that in 2015, religious fanatics are totally in control of the Republican Party; just look at the Republicans currently considered front runners for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination — they’re all creationists.

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126 comments
1 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Feb 11, 2015 11:06:57am

It’s worse than just Republican lawmakers. A full 42% of the US population would qualify as “religious fanatics” as measured by the rejection of Science in favor of myth and fantasy. It’s as if Conservatives think that Reality and Science are decided by vote and popularity, not facts and experimentation.

gallup.com

2 Amory Blaine  Feb 11, 2015 11:08:53am

Scott Walker is calling his campaign a “revival”. Hallelujah!!

3 TedStriker  Feb 11, 2015 11:09:45am

As a Tennessean, I’m just SMDH…

4 team_fukit  Feb 11, 2015 11:12:33am

What a slight to Southern literature

5 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 11, 2015 11:13:23am

Remember the good old days when everyone pretty much understood that the point of Religion staying out of Government was to prevent Government dicking around in Religion?

I miss those days.

6 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 11:14:22am

To be fair, it probably is the only book he’s ever read all the way thru.

7 Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 11, 2015 11:15:15am

re: #6 Kragar

To be fair, it probably is the only book he’s ever read all the way thru.

I suspect even that is being charitable.

8 team_fukit  Feb 11, 2015 11:16:08am

re: #4 team_fukit

What a slight slap in the face to Southern literature

(fixed)

9 jaunte  Feb 11, 2015 11:21:41am
It’s horrifying that in 2015, religious fanatics are totally in control of the Republican Party; just look at the Republicans currently considered front runners for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination — they’re all creationists.
10 lawhawk  Feb 11, 2015 11:21:55am

It’s a banner week for GOPers proposing unconstitutional stuff or items that have precisely zero chance of being enacted, even with a GOP majority in Congress.

There’s this nonsense of trying to make the Bible the “state book” (1st Amendment establishment clause violation).

You’ve got Ted Cruz pushing a SSM ban constitutional amendment through Congress, because he doesn’t like the direction that the federal courts have gone - providing equal rights and protections to gay couples and that has absolutely no impact on heterosexual marriages, or the rights of a particular church to recognize said marriage.

Then you’ve got Rand Paul’s latest riff on the audit the fed BS.

What will tomorrow bring? SS/DD, I’m sure of it.

11 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 11:22:43am

re: #6 Kragar

To be fair, it probably is the only book he’s ever read all the way thru.

How do you know he’s read it all the way through?

12 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 11:22:53am

Science does not go away just because you do not like it.

Science does not go away just because you do not like it.

Science does not go away just because you do not like it.

13 ObserverArt  Feb 11, 2015 11:23:49am

re: #12 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Science does not go away just because you do not like it.

Science does not go away just because you do not like it.

Science does not go away just because you do not like it.

But brains go away when you don’t use them.

14 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 11:24:00am

Also this map is a) familiar and b) why we will get to listen to lots of whining about how climate change can’t possibly be real because it’s cold outside.

15 jaunte  Feb 11, 2015 11:25:30am

re: #12 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Can I evade it long enough to get elected?

16 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 11:25:47am

re: #15 jaunte

Can I evade it long enough to get elected?

DO NOT MAKE ME SMITE YOU.

17 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 11:26:03am

re: #12 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Science does not go away just because you do not like it.

Science does not go away just because you do not like it.

Science does not go away just because you do not like it.

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

18 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 11:27:03am

re: #17 A Cranky One

“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

These days I sort of think that’s the bad thing about science.

Because we have all this evidence of how we are fucking things up hardcore and rational people get to watch the doom coming because of the idiots who won’t accept science! HOORAY!

19 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 11:27:30am

re: #16 klys (maker of Silmarils)

DO NOT MAKE ME SMITE YOU.

20 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 11:27:59am

re: #11 The Vicious Babushka

How do you know he’s read it all the way through?

I did say probably

21 A Cranky One  Feb 11, 2015 11:29:44am

re: #18 klys (maker of Silmarils)

These days I sort of think that’s the bad thing about science.

Because we have all this evidence of how we are fucking things up hardcore and rational people get to watch the doom coming because of the idiots who won’t accept science! HOORAY!

It’s enough to make a person cranky ;)

22 allegro  Feb 11, 2015 11:30:04am

How you know stuff from the dollar store probably wasn’t made here: the label on the package of mini hair bands I bought this morning says…

Elastic Band
Srnooth, No Rubbing
Used Arrywhere

O_o

23 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 11:30:33am

re: #20 Kragar

I did say probably

I’ll bet he quit during all the census-taking in Numbers.

24 OhNoZombies!  Feb 11, 2015 11:30:33am
So there.
25 OhNoZombies!  Feb 11, 2015 11:31:47am

Crap. Too slow.

26 jaunte  Feb 11, 2015 11:33:58am
27 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 11, 2015 11:34:51am

i hear brian williams is being suspended without pain

28 allegro  Feb 11, 2015 11:37:22am

VB, I have something for you. Actually for baby Chana. :D

I put my email addy in my profile. Shoot me an email with an address where you’d like for me to send it. (Stanley Sea can vouch for me!)

29 ObserverArt  Feb 11, 2015 11:38:18am

re: #22 allegro

How you know stuff from the dollar store probably wasn’t made here: the label on the package of mini hair bands I bought this morning says…

Elastic Band
Srnooth, No Rubbing
Used Arrywhere

O_o

I heard just a smidgen of a report this morning that many dollar store items are dangerous to folk’s health. Since I didn’t catch it all, I’m thinking they were going to say that a lot of the stuff contained lead paint, lead content and maybe other crap.

Like mercury!!!

30 Great White Snark  Feb 11, 2015 11:40:00am
31 allegro  Feb 11, 2015 11:40:21am

re: #29 ObserverArt

I heard just a smidgen of a report this morning that many dollar store items are dangerous to folks health. Since I didn’t catch it all, I’m thinking they were going to say that a lot of the stuff contained lead paint, lead content and maybe other crap.

Like mercury!!!

I see plastic stuff there with warnings on it for containing BPA.

32 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 11:42:06am

re: #28 allegro

VB, I have something for you. Actually for baby Chana. :D

I put my email addy in my profile. Shoot me an email with an address where you’d like for me to send it. (Stanley Sea can vouch for me!)

Check your email. :)

33 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 11:42:32am
34 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 11, 2015 11:43:20am
A Tennessee state legislator has introduced a bill to make the Bible the official state book, after two other Southern states considered similar moves in recent months.

OK, but to pass such a bill any cosponsoring legislators need to have read the whole Book. There will be a test. //

35 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 11, 2015 11:44:45am

re: #33 Kragar

Kick Obama Out Of D.C. Before He Gets A Third

how many firebaggers have i talked to who think of this as george w bush’s fourth term?

36 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 11, 2015 11:45:06am

re: #34 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

OK, but to pass such a bill any cosponsoring legislators need to have read the whole Book. There will be a test. //

The argument over which translation to use should be fun.

37 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 11:45:55am
38 JustMark  Feb 11, 2015 11:46:47am

re: #33 Kragar

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Craig James? The running back? He’s gone full wingnut? Wow.

39 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 11:48:14am

re: #37 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

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WTF?

My Amazon wish list is for pie-baking supplies, toys for the grandkids, and music downloads.

40 lawhawk  Feb 11, 2015 11:48:15am

Each time this whole official book nonsense comes up re: the Bible, I can’t help but wonder which version?

I’m rather partial to the Old Testament (Hertz translation), though the Artscroll version (Stone) is also fine by me. But I know that is not the version this nitwit wants to proffer.

41 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 11:48:50am

Reading the Bible in its entirety is a great way to make someone an atheist.

42 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 11:49:20am

re: #40 lawhawk

Each time this whole official book nonsense comes up re: the Bible, I can’t help but wonder which version?

I’m rather partial to the Old Testament (Hertz translation), though the Artscroll version (Stone) is also fine by me. But I know that is not the version this nitwit wants to proffer.

I’m OK with the untranslated BHS text being the official Bible of the US. //

43 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 11:49:50am

re: #40 lawhawk

Each time this whole official book nonsense comes up re: the Bible, I can’t help but wonder which version?

I’m rather partial to the Old Testament (Hertz translation), though the Artscroll version (Stone) is also fine by me. But I know that is not the version this nitwit wants to proffer.

In general I get the feeling that the only parts of the New Testament they like are the parts that involve smiting and telling women they can’t be involved.

Oh, and the Rapture.

The shit Jesus said is problematic and should be ignored.

///

44 ObserverArt  Feb 11, 2015 11:50:32am

re: #38 JustMark

Craig James? The running back? He’s gone full wingnut? Wow.

Looks that way. Did a Google image search.

45 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 11, 2015 11:51:32am

re: #40 lawhawk

Each time this whole official book nonsense comes up re: the Bible, I can’t help but wonder which version?

I’m rather partial to the Old Testament (Hertz translation), though the Artscroll version (Stone) is also fine by me. But I know that is not the version this nitwit wants to proffer.

Yeah I always laugh when they talk about the “official bible” or having it as the “official book” since they usually are referring to the King James version (keyword version) which was a re-written version of the “official” “version” and re-written in such a way as to confirm the structure of the church of england.

46 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 11:52:04am

re: #43 klys (maker of Silmarils)

In general I get the feeling that the only parts of the New Testament they like are the parts that involve smiting and telling women they can’t be involved.

Oh, and the Rapture.

The shit Jesus said is problematic and should be ignored.

///

There’s enough stuff that the NT Jesus said that they love, but yeah, some parts they have to ignore. (And vice versa with the liberal Christians.)

47 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 11:52:11am

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Reading the Bible in its entirety is a great way to make someone an atheist.

I liked the part where the necromancer raised an army of the undead to fight for him, or when the guy summoned a bunch of bears to maul people for making fun of him.

48 Great White Snark  Feb 11, 2015 11:52:40am

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Reading the Bible in its entirety is a great way to make someone an atheist.

I must be immune. Reading it, and some other religious texts did not make me less religious. Not any more than seeing meat processed made me a vegetarian. Men write religious books, butchers make dinner. Just IMHO.

49 WhatEVs  Feb 11, 2015 11:52:51am

Reading that Chapel Hill murderer’s Facebook page saddens me to no end. It’s funny and smart and I agree with almost all of it.

What takes someone, who seems quite rational, from point A to point B - with point B being the murder of three promising young people? I simply cannot comprehend. Four lives wasted. For what?

Fuck.

50 Charles Johnson  Feb 11, 2015 11:52:59am

Seriously - one of the things that started my own journey away from a Catholic upbringing to atheism was actually reading the Bible, all the way through.

51 ObserverArt  Feb 11, 2015 11:53:44am

Heh…just noticed this image a few images down from the one I just posted above. My search was for “Family Research Council’s Craig James.”

52 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 11:54:05am

re: #49 WhatEVs

I was like “WTF” the first time I read through.

53 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 11, 2015 11:54:33am

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Reading the Bible in its entirety is a great way to make someone an atheist.

after reading the bible all the way through - the autobiography of a people who practice slavery, polygamy, and animal sacrifice - i concluded that it doesnt say what religious people want it to say. this is why ‘bible’ classes are often about how to think that what you are reading really says something else very different

54 OhNoZombies!  Feb 11, 2015 11:55:17am

I read the Bible from cover to cover and I concluded that a whole bunch of people can’t read.
Also, that I will only go to church if forced to, by family, for pictures or something…

55 lawhawk  Feb 11, 2015 11:55:41am

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Reading the Bible in its entirety is a great way to make someone an atheist.

Or throw up your hands and wonder what the heck G-d wants you to do.

B/c He can be a mean SOB if you don’t do things just right. Or if you doubt Him. Or if you hit a stone, rather than just say something to get water flowing (Moses not entering the Promised Land as a result).

Yeah, there’s a lot to make you scratch your head about if you start studying the Bible closely. And I’m not even going to address the NT, which is outside my personal experience.

56 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 11:55:42am

I’m a devout agnostic. Is there a God? No clue. I don’t think it matters. Believe what you like and don’t be an asshole about it.

57 ObserverArt  Feb 11, 2015 11:56:01am

re: #38 JustMark

Craig James? The running back? He’s gone full wingnut? Wow.

Maybe James took one or two too many hits to the head. He seems to be just another wacko now.

58 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Feb 11, 2015 11:56:35am

re: #56 Kragar

I’m a devout agnostic. Is there a God? No clue. I don’t think it matters. Believe what you like and don’t be an asshole about it.

In my book, that qualifies for apatheistic, my own niche.

59 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 11:57:32am

We actually have a tradition of not taking everything in the Scriptures literally.

60 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 11:57:57am

re: #56 Kragar

I’m a devout agnostic. Is there a God? No clue. I don’t think it matters. Believe what you like and don’t be an asshole about it.

Yes. This exactly.

61 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 11:58:51am

But the guy was very, very, very obsessed with atheism/anticlericalism. Atheism is great and so is anticlericalism. Not the obsession part. So no, I can’t exclude an ideological motive.

62 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 11:59:13am

re: #60 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Yes. This exactly.

So many people get hung up on that 2nd part.

63 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 11, 2015 11:59:15am

re: #56 Kragar

don’t be an asshole about it.

what??

i never get to have any fun

64 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 11:59:28am
65 jaunte  Feb 11, 2015 11:59:57am

re: #56 Kragar

I’m a devout agnostic. Is there a God? No clue. I don’t think it matters. Believe what you like and don’t be an asshole about it.

OPPRESSION!!!

66 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 11, 2015 12:00:31pm

re: #59 The Vicious Babushka

We actually have a tradition of not taking everything in the Scriptures literally.

I asked an older, jewish gentleman I used to work with about whether he believed Noah and the flood actually happened. His answer was basically “heck no, it’s just a story”.

67 lawhawk  Feb 11, 2015 12:01:16pm

Well, this sucks. Once again, trespasser incident shuts down NJ Transit line.

Bergen County Rail Line service is suspended between Secaucus and Glen Rock stations due to trespasser fatality in Garfield.

Now, this could be a suicide, or someone who accidentally was struck, but the odds are that it was a suicide. That area frequently sees suicides, and fencing has reduced the numbers in recent years, but sadly someone else made a bad decision to walk on/near active rail service.

68 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 12:01:32pm
69 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 11, 2015 12:01:58pm

re: #43 klys (maker of Silmarils)

In general I get the feeling that the only parts of the New Testament they like are the parts that involve smiting and telling women they can’t be involved.

Oh, and the Rapture.

The shit Jesus said is problematic and should be ignored.

///

How people read the Bible actually is really important for understanding the intersection of religion and social conservatism in US.

Prooftext is a big part of wingnut religion. And often the text meaning is transformed because an authority figure hand down its “truth” citing divine revelation or skill divining the gnostic significances of plain words.

Ever heard the term “prophecy scholar”? It means a dude who chops and filters the Bible (generally with an eye towards The End Times)…and gets paid for it. Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye, David Barton…all do this.

70 klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 11, 2015 12:02:30pm

re: #67 lawhawk

Well, this sucks. Once again, trespasser incident shuts down NJ Transit line.

Bergen County Rail Line service is suspended between Secaucus and Glen Rock stations due to trespasser fatality in Garfield.

Now, this could be a suicide, or someone who accidentally was struck, but the odds are that it was a suicide. That area frequently sees suicides, and fencing has reduced the numbers in recent years, but sadly someone else made a bad decision to walk on/near active rail service.

Heh. “Trespasser incident.”

In Japan, the code word is “person train accident.”

71 goddamnedfrank  Feb 11, 2015 12:02:34pm

re: #47 Kragar

I liked the part where the necromancer raised an army of the undead to fight for him, or when the guy summoned a bunch of bears to maul people for making fun of him.

I like the part about using pairs of tethered foxes as improvised incendiary devices. It’s totes fucking insane, but comparatively plausible.

72 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 11, 2015 12:03:11pm

re:
#33

When speaking to yet another caller who said Obama “will declare a state of emergency, he will do a third term if that’s what it takes to complete the conversion of this country,” James said the third-term conspiracy is “a concern of mine” and pledged to “pass a note along to Tony Perkins,” the president of the FRC, “on how we could escape that.”

Guys, it’s OK. Tony and James are on it. They won’t let Obama take an illegal unconstitutional third term. In fact James is going to pass his pal Tony a note about how to handle this conspiracy they and their delusional callers created. /

73 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 12:04:00pm

I like the part about the omnibenevolent God killing all babies, and about God killing some babies, and about Moses killing some babies on God’s behalf, and about Joshua killing all Canaanite babies on God’s behalf, and [a long list follows].

74 Great White Snark  Feb 11, 2015 12:05:10pm

So these guys want the bible as the state book, That would put Tennesse much closer to Sharia law than the constitutional secular government. Irony upon irony. Three guess how this guy feels about the Second Amendment.

75 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 11, 2015 12:05:22pm

a propos

ByCAITLIN MACNEALPublishedFEBRUARY 11, 2015, 1:54 PM EST766 Views

A Florida school district on Tuesday banned the distribution of religious materials from outside organizations after a Satanic group tried to hand out coloring books to students, according to theOrlando Sentinel.

The Orange County school district, which includes Orlando, had allowed religious groups to hand out materials each year on Religious Freedom Day. The Christian group World Changers distributed Bibles to students, and the board allowed the Central Florida Freethought Community to hand out atheist materials last year after the group won a lawsuit.

But when the Satanic Temple, known for trying to build a Satanist monument in the Oklahoma state capitol, tried to hand out coloring books to students, the county board of education considered changing the rules. The district postponed Religious Freedom Day, and then the school board on Tuesday voted to change its policy.

The board decided to ban the distribution of religious, political, and sectarian materials from outside groups.

76 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 11, 2015 12:05:51pm

re: #73 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I like the part of the omnibenevolent God killing all babies, and about God killing some babies, and about Moses killing some babies on God’s behalf, and [long list follows].

and let’s not forget all of the incest, multiple wives, underage wives, wives purchased for small sums of money (or just a few goats).

77 lawhawk  Feb 11, 2015 12:06:59pm

re: #76 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

I give you the 15, [crash] no, 10 Goats! /The History of the Goats, Part I.

78 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 11, 2015 12:07:24pm

re: #75 dog philosopher

ya know, I actually think there needs to be more satanists just for situations like this.

79 goddamnedfrank  Feb 11, 2015 12:07:29pm

re: #73 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

I like the part of the omnibenevolent God killing all babies, and about God killing some babies, and about Moses killing some babies on God’s behalf, and [long list follows].

God understands that babies are super irritating.

80 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 12:08:56pm
81 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 11, 2015 12:10:04pm

found on the innertubes

you need a phonetic algorithm which takes bowels into account

urk

82 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 12:10:04pm
83 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 12:11:00pm

US attorney news conference on Chapel Hill shootings
Read more at wral.com

84 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 11, 2015 12:11:02pm

re: #79 goddamnedfrank

I like to imagine that it’s a bronze memorial to the guy who invented spermicide.

85 Justanotherhuman  Feb 11, 2015 12:11:34pm

re: #76 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

And to think Moses was the lawgiver.

86 Aunty Entity Dragon  Feb 11, 2015 12:12:06pm

What the fuck happened to North Carolina.

The only news that comes out of my state is bad. Period.

Just this week alone:

1.0 Beloved UNC coach dies…

2.0 Police officer shoots and kills 74 year old African American veteran recuperating from surgery while condicting a “welfare check” requested by the family (at 11:30 at night while breaking down the man’s back door)…

3.0 Wacko kills Muslim siblings for no seeming reason…

4.0 Reported today that lawyers have billed North Carolina taxpayers more than $107,000 in fees over same sex marriage appeals…

Christ. What gives.

87 Justanotherhuman  Feb 11, 2015 12:12:13pm

re: #82 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

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Sounds as though he was suffering from terminal rage…

88 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 12:12:34pm
89 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 11, 2015 12:14:32pm

re: #86 Aunty Entity Dragon

What the fuck happened to North Carolina.

The only news that comes out of my state is bad. Period.

Just this week alone:

1.0 Beloved UNC coach dies…

2.0 Police officer shoots and kills 74 year old African American veteran recuperating from surgery while condicting a “welfare check” requested by the family (at 11:30 at night while breaking down the man’s back door)…

3.0 Wacko kills Muslim siblings for no seeming reason…

4.0 Reported today that lawyers have billed North Carolina taxpayers more than $107,000 in fees over same sex marriage appeals…

Christ. What gives.

You got a link on that last one?

I have people in NC that I’d like to pass it on to.

90 Aunty Entity Dragon  Feb 11, 2015 12:15:23pm

re: #89 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss

You got a link on that last one?

I have people in NC that I’d like to pass it on to.

RALEIGH — Outside lawyers have billed the state of North Carolina more than $107,000 to appeal federal court rulings that have legalized gay marriage in the state, a cost the attorney general calls a waste and one that even some Republicans question.

Read more here: newsobserver.com

91 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 12:16:23pm

I know this may sound crazy but shouldn’t the “Tennessee State Book” be actually set in Tennessee or by an author who lived in Tennessee?

92 Justanotherhuman  Feb 11, 2015 12:16:43pm

re: #75 dog philosopher

Why not call the day what it really is? Proselytizing Day?

93 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 12:16:59pm
94 The Ghost of Tonalite Gneiss  Feb 11, 2015 12:17:41pm

re: #90 Aunty Entity Dragon

Read more here: newsobserver.com

Thanks much.

95 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 12:17:57pm

re: #28 allegro

VB, I have something for you. Actually for baby Chana. :D

I put my email addy in my profile. Shoot me an email with an address where you’d like for me to send it. (Stanley Sea can vouch for me!)

Yes I can!! Rodney is at home now blazing on his bong I’m sure.

96 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 12:19:05pm

re: #37 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD

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A ghillie suit!!

97 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 12:19:07pm

Erick the Erick is Tweeting a whole bunch of memes that Craig Hicks had on his Facebook because something something ALL LIBRULS & ATHEISTS IS TEH PSYCHO & IF U EVER TWEETED THIS MEME YOUR A PSYCHO TWO!!!!!!!

98 #FergusonFireside  Feb 11, 2015 12:19:18pm

Sorry, catching up.

99 Aunty Entity Dragon  Feb 11, 2015 12:19:45pm

Link to the police shooting of elderly vet in his own home here:

washingtonpost.com

100 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 12:22:53pm

Saying that Obama is not a Christian is as wrong-headed as saying that Fischer isn’t one. Same applies to all other religions.

101 Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2015 12:23:31pm

re: #91 The Vicious Babushka

I know this may sound crazy but shouldn’t the “Tennessee State Book” be actually set in Tennessee or by an author who lived in Tennessee?

If the Alabama state book isn’t a loose-leaf binder full of greasy BBQ recipes, I’m calling fraud.

102 Mattand  Feb 11, 2015 12:23:35pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Reading the Bible in its entirety is a great way to make someone an atheist.

My favorite character is the talking donkey in Numbers 22.

103 Justanotherhuman  Feb 11, 2015 12:24:05pm

re: #99 Aunty Entity Dragon

Link to the police shooting of elderly vet in his own home here:

washingtonpost.com

Tragic. No doubt he kept a gun for home protection and lived alone.

When I asked the Sheriff’s Dept to do a welfare check on my g-daughter this am, they asked if there were guns in the house. I had to tell them I didn’t really know, since I’ve not seen any there.

104 nearly-headless smith25  Feb 11, 2015 12:24:15pm

re: #68 Kragar

This sucks on so many levels.

It is the right decision if they were found to have cheated. If there are boundaries that were falsified, poop on you adults.

But if Little League didn’t have a clue this was going on earlier, or there was no structure in place to figure something like this out, shame on them as well. It wan’t all that long ago when Danny Almonte was found to have been too old to be eligible, after his team (from NY I think) was so successful. You would think that the Little League organization would look to find out things prior to the major part of the tournament.

The other thing that really is driving me crazy is the obvious racial undertones. Now we will have plenty that will place the blame on “TEH BLAHS”, and how “SEE HOW THEY ALL ARE CHEATS” and OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA CUZ CHICAGO

105 Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2015 12:24:32pm

re: #102 Mattand

My favorite character is the talking donkey in Numbers 22.

The snake has all the lines.

106 The Vicious Babushka  Feb 11, 2015 12:25:15pm

re: #101 Decatur Deb

If the Alabama state book isn’t a loose-leaf binder full of greasy BBQ recipes, I’m calling fraud.

To Kill A Mockingbird is set in Alabama, I would vote that for State Book.

107 Mattand  Feb 11, 2015 12:25:31pm

re: #79 goddamnedfrank

God understands that babies are super irritating.

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108 b.d.  Feb 11, 2015 12:26:06pm

re: #91 The Vicious Babushka

I know this may sound crazy but shouldn’t the “Tennessee State Book” be actually set in Tennessee or by an author who lived in Tennessee?

In Utah, it’s the same thing.

//

109 Mattand  Feb 11, 2015 12:26:33pm

re: #105 Decatur Deb

The snake has all the lines.

True. But the guy riding the donkey doesn’t blink when it starts speaking. It’s like he’s in a Disney movie and it’s business as usual.

110 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 11, 2015 12:26:38pm

Imagine if the city of Dearborn, Michigan, voted to make the Koran the official City Book…

111 Decatur Deb  Feb 11, 2015 12:26:45pm

re: #106 The Vicious Babushka

To Kill A Mockingbird is set in Alabama, I would vote that for State Book.

Don’t. My daughter was offered disciplinary charges for teaching it at the regional prison school. (She has an autographed copy.)

112 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 11, 2015 12:27:26pm

re:
#91

I know this may sound crazy but shouldn’t the “Tennessee State Book” be actually set in Tennessee or by an author who lived in Tennessee?

I didn’t even realize states had their own special books. ///

113 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 12:27:31pm

re: #109 Mattand

True. But the guy riding the donkey doesn’t blink when it starts speaking. It’s like he’s in a Disney movie and it’s business as usual.

Early drafts of the story are the origin of the “The Sheep lies” jokes

114 Aunty Entity Dragon  Feb 11, 2015 12:27:53pm

re: #97 The Vicious Babushka

Erick the Erick is Tweeting a whole bunch of memes that Craig Hicks had on his Facebook because something something ALL LIBRULS & ATHEISTS IS TEH PSYCHO & IF U EVER TWEETED THIS MEME YOUR A PSYCHO TWO!!!!!!!

Debbie Schlussel and Jim DeHoft are busy speading the Kayla Mueller iz a Jew hating Nazi whore and ISIL should dig her up and kill her again on camera soze we can watch!! meme today.

I don’t have words.

Bonus comment at Schussel’s site:
Your remarks are certainly eye opening. Generally those people who choose to go into enemy territory without fear for their lives must feel a certain comfort and kinship with them in order to feel they are going to be safe. It is interesting to note that Mueller’s last letter which became public yesterday, she made a point of saying that she was being treated well and with respect. Apparently she was protecting her “captors, trying to present them a nicer light than the beasts they have proven to be. She did not feel threaten in her position as hostage, even as other hostages have been beheaded. I’ll shed no more tears for this traitor.

115 Kragar  Feb 11, 2015 12:28:43pm
116 Great White Snark  Feb 11, 2015 12:29:44pm

re: #70 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Heh. “Trespasser incident.”

In Japan, the code word is “person train accident.”

Here we call it “another blogger leaves House Of Cards”

117 Aunty Entity Dragon  Feb 11, 2015 12:30:04pm

re: #103 Justanotherhuman

Tragic. No doubt he kept a gun for home protection and lived alone.

When I asked the Sheriff’s Dept to do a welfare check on my g-daughter this am, they asked if there were guns in the house. I had to tell them I didn’t really know, since I’ve not seen any there.

I am of the opinion that LE should not be invited into a situation where violence is not already present at this point. Too many incidents of cops bringing gunfire into places where nothing was going on to begin with.

This is not how I remember LE in the 70’s and 80’s, btw.

118 ipsos  Feb 11, 2015 12:30:10pm

re: #112 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

re:
#91

I didn’t even realize states had their own special books. ///

Florida’s is “My Pet Goat.”

119 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 12:30:35pm

re: #115 Kragar

What a buncha Backpfeifengesichter.

120 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 11, 2015 12:33:30pm

most fun thing i have read in a long time:

at Founder’s Fund we saw this coming. the most obvious clue was sartorial: cleantech executives were running around wearing suits and ties. this was a huge red flag, because real technologists wear t-shirts and jeans. so we instituted a blanket rule: pass on any company whose founders dressed up for pitch meetings

Zero To One
by Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir

121 jaunte  Feb 11, 2015 12:35:50pm

re: #97 The Vicious Babushka

Erick the Erick is Tweeting a whole bunch of memes that Craig Hicks had on his Facebook because something something ALL LIBRULS & ATHEISTS IS TEH PSYCHO & IF U EVER TWEETED THIS MEME YOUR A PSYCHO TWO!!!!!!!

I guess he’s not saying anything about people with a bunch of guns and survivalist Amazon wishlists.

122 Ace-o-aces  Feb 11, 2015 12:43:03pm

re: #114 Aunty Entity Dragon

Debbie Schlussel and im DeHoft are busy speading the Kayla Mueller iz a Jew hating Nazi whore and ISIL should dig her up and kill her again on camera soze we can watch!! meme today.

Don’t bother reading Schlussel. She turns everything into an Islamaphobic rant. Everything. She was reviewing Speilberg’s remake of War of the Worlds and claimed it was an attempt to lull us into complacency for when the Muslims hordes attack. She thinks Brigitte Gabriel and Denis Prager are supporters of Islamic Jihad. She is not a well woman.

123 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD  Feb 11, 2015 12:43:59pm

re: #121 jaunte

I guess he’s not saying anything about people with a bunch of guns and survivalist Amazon wishlists.

Because they’re only dangerous when they’re liberals///

124 Bubblehead II  Feb 11, 2015 12:52:39pm

re: #86 Aunty Entity Dragon

What the fuck happened to North Carolina.

The only news that comes out of my state is bad. Period.

Just this week alone:

1.0 Beloved UNC coach dies…

2.0 Police officer shoots and kills 74 year old African American veteran recuperating from surgery while condicting a “welfare check” requested by the family (at 11:30 at night while breaking down the man’s back door)…

3.0 Wacko kills Muslim siblings for no seeming reason…

4.0 Reported today that lawyers have billed North Carolina taxpayers more than $107,000 in fees over same sex marriage appeals…

Christ. What gives.

You guys are getting off cheap. Idaho has already racked up $400,000.00 with a request for another $300,000.00 pending. Total cost to taxpayers will probably exceed $1,000,000.00 before all is said and done.

Idaho Gay Marriage Case Could Cost State Another $300,000

125 EPR-radar  Feb 11, 2015 3:34:37pm

re: #120 dog philosopher

most fun thing i have read in a long time:

at Founder’s Fund we saw this coming. the most obvious clue was sartorial: cleantech executives were running around wearing suits and ties. this was a huge red flag, because real technologists wear t-shirts and jeans. so we instituted a blanket rule: pass on any company whose founders dressed up for pitch meetings

Zero To One
by Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir

Peter Thiel may be a crazed libertarian in his politics, but his observations on business sometimes make sense. IIRC, one of his better ideas is to have relatively low pay for CEOs of startups.

126 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Feb 11, 2015 4:56:51pm

re: #6 Kragar

Most people have never read through the entire Bible. However, most telling amongst those that have, a significant percentage of Evangelicals I’ve known choose to highlight the particular verses or even individual words that they themselves deem most important. Their Bibles are rife with yellow highlight pens and ink outlines and underlines denoting what they choose to follow and conveniently by default degrading to lesser importance the rest of the stuff that kind of gets in the way of the predetermined right wing ideology.


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