Randy Newman Explains the True Reason Behind the Bay of Pigs: “Brothers”
Here’s the most unusual song ever written about the Kennedy brothers, from Randy Newman’s outstanding new album Dark Matter.
Here’s the most unusual song ever written about the Kennedy brothers, from Randy Newman’s outstanding new album Dark Matter.
Conviction of pharmacist Martin Shkreli demonstrates continued United States bigotry against smirking asses whose faces demand to be punched pic.twitter.com/c6ICGM5RJc
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) August 4, 2017
Uh, how does a church sheltering undocumented immigrants considered a violation of separation of church and state? I’m lost here.
A church defending illegal immigrants violates separation of church & state. Doesnt minimize Christian persecution. My point still stands. pic.twitter.com/f8kAct1pgJ
— Mārinā ن (@Crazy_Copt) August 4, 2017
re: #2 electrotek
Uh, how does a church sheltering undocumented immigrants considered a violation of separation of church and state? I’m lost here.
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I would argue that a church hiding immigrants from the neo secret state police ICE is doing the churches business re: Matthew 25: 31-46.
Incoming heavy weather:
(NEXRAD Radar from Cheyenne)
Heavy thunderstorms usually result in a loss of my Internet service for a day or two, you lucky devils.
re: #2 electrotek
I came across this:
HOW ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE SPIRITUAL HOME OF WHITE NATIONALISM
It doesn’t though really give the deep background into how Eastern Christianity and the assorted denominations have become entangled with nationalism.
re: #3 William Lewis
I would argue that a church hiding immigrants from the
neo secret state policeICE is doing the churches business re: Matthew 25: 31-46.
Thanks! I used your refutation in this tweet if you don’t mind!
A church defending illegal immigrants violates separation of church & state. Doesnt minimize Christian persecution. My point still stands. pic.twitter.com/f8kAct1pgJ
— Mārinā ن (@Crazy_Copt) August 4, 2017
Try harder. A church hiding immigrants from the Gestapo…err sorry I mean ICE is doing the church’s business re: Matthew 25: 31-46 🙄 https://t.co/21nd6qAdhh
— دانیال (@danja84) August 5, 2017
re: #5 freetoken
I came across this:
HOW ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE SPIRITUAL HOME OF WHITE NATIONALISM
It doesn’t though really give the deep background into how Eastern Christianity and the assorted denominations have become entangled with nationalism.
I don’t get it. How would African Christians like Ethiopians or Eritreans fall under this?
re: #4 Anymouse 🌹
Read a letter earlier today in Nature Climate, of a study of the impact of climate change on hail.
For much of the US, warmer upper air will decrease the size of summer hail.
Except for your part of the country.
And for Spring hail - you’re at ground zero for an increase in extra-large hail.
re: #7 electrotek
My feeling is that the entanglement for religious warfare with Islam that the various “Orthodox” churches have found themselves is just a quirk of history.
Western Christianity, by geography, mostly fought among themselves.
The bleeding-heart-hippie Jesus of progressive (or in the case of the Roman Catholic church - socially aware of the poor) western Christianity is as much a myth as any other type of Jesus.
So we should not be surprised that many Christians have a Jesus which is different than that.
re: #5 freetoken
I came across this:
HOW ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE SPIRITUAL HOME OF WHITE NATIONALISM
It doesn’t though really give the deep background into how Eastern Christianity and the assorted denominations have become entangled with nationalism.
Doesn’t pass the smell test to me. Russian Orthodox is very nationalist as are others branches, but that’s not the same as white supremacy. They’d not care for the copts or the Syrian church forex.
Perhaps its just pedantic, but:
Mārinā ن @Crazy_Copt
A church defending illegal immigrants violates separation of church & state. Doesnt minimize Christian persecution. My point still stands.
a) Being an undocumented immigrant is not a crime, no matter how many times wingnuts call it one. It is a civil offence punishable by deportation, per the US Code.
b) Christians aren’t being persecuted in the USA. Not getting to mark territory with Ten Commandments monuments all over public land is not persecution.
c) Which way does the poster want it? If ICE agents could just barge into churches, then any police organisation could. That could be construed as persecution. Churches have long been havens or sanctuaries for the oppressed. Does this person want to remove that privilege from churches?
d) An alleged undocumented immigrant is supposed to have the same rights and protections afforded anyone within the jurisdiction of the United States. Is the commentator going for “yeah, but not those people?”
re: #11 William Lewis
The Russian Orthodox church and its close cousins are very much into the hyper-nationalism of today’s far-right Europeans.
These nationalists are the natural allies of American-type white nationalists.
re: #8 freetoken
Read a letter earlier today in Nature Climate, of a study of the impact of climate change on hail.
For much of the US, warmer upper air will decrease the size of summer hail.
Except for your part of the country.
And for Spring hail - you’re at ground zero for an increase in extra-large hail.
Should I invest in windshield company stock? /s I had to replace my first ever windshield (not caused by a car wreck) due to hail last month.
re: #9 freetoken
My feeling is that the entanglement for religious warfare with Islam that the various “Orthodox” churches have found themselves is just a quirk of history.
Western Christianity, by geography, most fought among themselves.
LOL yup. Recall the Siege of Constantinople in 1204? That was under Byzantine control.
And I’ve noticed that Coptic Christians in the diaspora are very selective in their history. They claim to the be the original torchbearers of ancient Egypt. However, when Coptic Christians controlled Egypt, they had no problem destroying any remnants of ancient Egypt on the basis of heresy and forbid its followers from going anywhere near the temples and pyramids.
re: #14 Anymouse 🌹
The windshield replacement business in western Nebraska has a long-term bright future.
re: #6 electrotek
No prob. It’s one area where Jesus’ Judaism shines through - be good to the stranger for we were strangers in Pharoh’s land. Love your neighbor as yourself. Love covers a multitude of sins. And so on.
re: #12 Anymouse 🌹
Perhaps its just pedantic, but:
a) Being an undocumented immigrant is not a crime, no matter how many times wingnuts call it one. It is a civil offence punishable by deportation, pre the US Code.
b) Christians aren’t being persecuted in the USA. Not getting to mark territory with Ten Commandments monuments all over public land is not persecution.
c) Which way does the poster want it? If ICE agents could just barge into churches, then any police organisation could. That could be construed as persecution. Churches have long been havens or sanctuaries for the oppressed. Does this person want to remove that privilege from churches?
d) An alleged undocumented immigrant is supposed to have the same rights and protections afforded anyone within the jurisdiction of the United States. Is the commentator going for “yeah, but not those people?”
Your words are finally but slowly being realized by Iraqi Chaldeans in Detroit who voted for Trump enthusiastically…only to find themselves in Trump’s crosshairs when their undocumented family members are now being deported back to Iraq for having criminal records.
re: #17 William Lewis
No prob. It’s one area where Jesus’ Judaism shines through - be good to the stranger for we were strangers in Pharoh’s land. Love your neighbor as yourself. Love covers a multitude of sins. And so on.
And that’s why I’m not interested in demonizing Christianity, and I get extremely uncomfortable when I hear fellow liberals denounce it with the same hostility as right-wing nutjobs do to Islam.
I see the true beauty in Christianity and I’ll be damned if some self-proclaimed “Christians” who show off their Crucifix necklaces to everyone tries to sully my view of the faith.
Fact-check on Trump’s Club 21 claim that they hired a consultant, shut down for a year, only to get a recommendation they renovate their kitchen, causing them to lose a great deal of money.
You knew that would be false …
nytimes.com (April 29, 1987)
The restaurant was closed for two months, and the entire restaurant was renovated.
Fox News:
Would you even care if he was guilty?
WOULD YOU EVEN CARE IF HE WAS GUILTY?
The stock market is up, unemployment is down and the economy seems to be picking up some steam. The streets are mostly safe, the nation is mostly secure and the world is mostly at peace.So does it matter to you whether or not the president is a crook? The answer for a lot of Americans may be no.
re: #19 freetoken
See Hypatia.
New movie out about that case. Like always with Hollywood and ancient history, it’s quite flawed but it still tells the story of a tragic (on many levels) time and place.
Shortly after that, historically, the monasteries of Ireland, England and northern Europe began a centuries long effort to preserve books and learning. Pity it didn’t start sooner but the scriptoriums are why we have much of what we do.
Humans are contradictory critters, aren’t they?
Without diving into a vast amount of history, I think it is important to note there is no theological reason why any eastern Christian sect would be more akin to any sort of nationalist movement, compared to western sects of Christianity.
The great schism long ago was about the nature of the Trinity, the sacraments, and the role of the Roman bishop. All very obscure, rather than the last one which is just straight up politics.
But the long battle with Islam really has affected the nature of eastern Christianity, I propose. From what I’ve read, and those I’ve come across, there is much more of a self-awareness of identity coming from their membership in their sect, than say the typical Protestant (even such over the top ones like the Southern Baptists or Assemblies of God.) The latter groups in America seem to be ok if you just call them something like “Bible-believing Christians” rather than call them by their sect name.
Humans really need identities - that’s why there is such a robust market in selling identity.
Still, I wonder how all this is going to play out over the next thousand years or so. Those wanting religious wars will probably get their way.
re: #20 electrotek
I think Jesus’ teachings are great. It’s a good portion of the Christians I cannot stand.
re: #29 Belafon
I think Jesus’ teachings are great. It’s a good portion of the Christians I cannot stand.
Can I say that as a Christian, I agree?
re: #24 Anymouse 🌹
Fact-check on Trump’s Club 21 claim that they hired a consultant, shut down for a year, only to get a recommendation they renovate their kitchen, causing them to lose a great deal of money.
You knew that would be false …
nytimes.com (April 29, 1987)
The restaurant was closed for two months, and the entire restaurant was renovated.
So maybe they just kept pretending to be closed whenever he called to make a reservation?
re: #14 Anymouse 🌹
I recently had to replace the windshield on my daily driver. (The hood flew open while I was on the freeway. In the rain, at night.) The good news is that it’s a nice clear view with no swirl marks or scratches. For now.
re: #25 Amory Blaine
Fox News:
To which numerous Trump supporters asked themselves “Guilty of what? What’s he being accused of? This is the first I’ve heard about it!”
re: #32 Amory Blaine
I recently had to replace the windshield on my daily driver. (The hood flew open while I was on the freeway. In the rain, at night.) The good news is that it’s a nice clear view with no swirl marks or scratches. For now.
Heart-stopping!
re: #29 Belafon
I think Jesus’ teachings are great. It’s a good portion of the Christians I cannot stand.
Co-sign.
I feel that way about a lot of Muslims…especially those who are so obsessed with eating zabihah halal food and praying 5 times a day but have no problem lying, cheating, stealing, and backbiting on a regular basis.
The next worldwide war will not be over religion. It will be over fresh water.
re: #29 Belafon
I think Jesus’ teachings are great. It’s a good portion of the Christians I cannot stand.
re: #30 William Lewis
Can I say that as a Christian, I agree?
I’ll have to respectfully disagree on “great teachings”
Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
re: #34 retired cynic
Hee hee, yep. I was on my way to work 3rd shift. I was listening to an interview with Carrie Fischer on NPR re: her new book. Carrie was talking about her and Harrison Ford hooking up (I was all like, say what?!?!) SO I glanced down at the radio to turn up the volume and that’s when the hood flew open. It was my fault as I popped the hood to check the oil before I left as the car leaks quite a bit. But right after I popped the hood, the boy told me he already checked the oil. So I forgot to close it all the way. D’oh!!
More:
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34
He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. Luke 22:36
re: #39 Anymouse 🌹
This shit isn’t helpful. Stop.
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹
I’ll have to respectfully disagree on “great teachings”
Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Learn a bit about how Rabbis teach, and especially their use of hyperbole, and look at those passages again.
One could go back and forth all day about the Torah, the Bible, the Koran, all the discrepancies and hypocrisies. In the end, if you’re telling the faithful how wrong they are for believing as such you’re just being an asshole.
Eric Bolling sends out dick pics dontcha know?
Although at this time I was unable to find the pic of the smallest member of the FOX news team, I will keep you posted when it arises!
re: #36 teleskiguy
The next worldwide war will not be over religion. It will be over fresh water.
Resource wars are a high probability.
But humans being humans, we will find a way to wrap religious justification into it.
re: #40 teleskiguy
This shit isn’t helpful. Stop.
Sorry I quoted the Bible. I tend to do that when a claim comes up that contradicts Jesus’s own words as relayed in the New Testament.
The thunderstorms are passing us now, and my Internet service wasn’t knocked out. Since I relayed inconvenient quotes from the Bible that contradict the claim, perhaps I should go for awhile.
re: #42 teleskiguy
Well, I for one have no problem with challenging anyone over whatever they believe. My own challenge is finding the right time/place for such.
Generally, when someone is in deep grief, I don’t bother them. We have to go through these things at all time, and the most honest thing we can say is that each person must find their own path through these times.
But outside that, especially in the public sphere. I’ll gladly engage on the matter of beliefs.
re: #41 William Lewis
Learn a bit about how Rabbis teach, and especially their use of hyperbole, and look at those passages again.
Fair enough; there’s also a school of thought that Jesus was an itinerant apocalyptic preacher, in the tradition of Isiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc.
Certainly, it’s no secret that apocalypticism was rampant* in First Century CE Judea.
* hmm……sounds eerily familiar
From downstairs
re: #199 jaunte
National Butterfly Center staff in S. TX startled by workers w/ chainsaws clearing their sanctuary for border wall https://t.co/zxE0Ikl71p pic.twitter.com/yFDwSiffwz
— The Texas Observer (@TexasObserver) August 5, 2017
“He kept us safe from the migrant Monarch menace.”
re: #43 Amory Blaine
Eric Bolling sends out dick pics dontcha know?
Although at this time I was unable to find the pic of the smallest member of the FOX news team, I will keep you posted when it arises!
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹
Anybody can quote the Bible verbatim to disprove other’s faith. I get sick and tired of non-believers (of which I am one) badgering believers as wrong and hypocritical. I know more faithful people than non-faithful people, and I consider a great many faithful as friends. I’m not going up to them and saying “well, the Bible actually says this, so you’re wrong and an idiot” which is pretty much what you just did to wlewisiii with your holier-than-thou approach to religion.
re: #45 Anymouse 🌹
Well, I guess quoting the Bible in refutation of an assertion about Jesus rates downvotes. Gets you called “an asshole.”
To be clear: I didn’t attack anyone personally (you can go back and read the comments). I merely refuted an assertion with the very book held up as an example.
I need to go however, as the winds are getting very violent here and I need to find a safer place than right next to a window (where my computer is).
Don’t know who made these mannequins. But if anyone puts glasses on the one 2nd from the left, there will be a lawsuit. pic.twitter.com/hGXk13S8Yt
— jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) August 3, 2017
re: #47 Dr Lizardo
Fair enough; there’s also a school of thought that Jesus was an itinerant apocalyptic preacher, in the tradition of Isiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, etc.
Certainly, it’s no secret that apocalypticism was rampant* in First Century CE Judea.
* hmm……sounds eerily familiar
There was an element of that for certain. It remains most clear in Mark, but is present throughout the canonical gospels.
A good corrective these days is the Jewish Annotated New Testament edited by Amy Jill Levine, a practicing Jew who teaches the New Testament at Vanderbilt.
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹
Well, I guess quoting the Bible in refutation of an assertion about Jesus rates downvotes. Gets you called “an asshole.”
Because it’s a fucking asshole thing to do. Want to bring up contradictions in the Torah to Aloutette? Want to tell electrotek that the Koran is a bunch of nonsense? You’re asking for a fuckin’ fight, pal.
re: #51 teleskiguy
Anybody can quote the Bible verbatim to disprove other’s faith. I get sick and tired of non-believers (of which I am one) badgering believers as wrong and hypocritical. I know more faithful people than non-faithful people, and I consider a great many faithful as friends. I’m not going up to them and saying “well, the Bible actually says this, so you’re wrong and an idiot” which is pretty much what you just did to wlewisiii with your holier-than-thou approach to religion.
I didn’t try to disprove anyone’s faith. I didn’t say anyone was a hypocrite. I did not imply anyone was an idiot. I did not take a holier-than-thou approach to religion.
I live in a whole town of religious people, in which my wife and I are the only atheists. It would seem the conservatives in my town are somehow less offended.
No subject should be off-limits to discussion or investigation. No subject is sacrosanct, none. That said, I will self-censor on the subject of religion here in the future.
Now I really must go … good night, y’all.
re: #54 William Lewis
There was an element of that for certain. It remains most clear in Mark, but is present throughout the canonical gospels.
A good corrective these days is the Jewish Annotated New Testament edited by Amy Jill Levine, a practicing Jew who teaches the New Testament at Vanderbilt.
Sounds like something interesting to add to the ol’ reading list.
Here I will harken back to the turmoil at LGF, when creationism became a dividing point for some.
The creationists all left.
Well, I think they all left. Perhaps a few remain, quietly, I don’t know.
OK. I’m out for the day. Have a good one, Lizards.
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹
I didn’t try to disprove anyone’s faith.
Bullshit. You wouldn’t have said anything otherwise.
I did not take a holier-than-thou approach to religion.
Bullshit. You quoted contradicting Bible verses to show that you know more than the faithful and that the faithful are ignoring said verses.
I didn’t say anyone was a hypocrite.
Bullshit. You clearly implied Jesus Christ was a hypocrite.
re: #61 teleskiguy
Bullshit. You wouldn’t have said anything otherwise.
I couldn’t possibly have another reason? I’m glad you know me so well.
Encyclopaedia of Google. I made no assertion I know more than the faithful. Bullshit. You clearly implied Jesus Christ was a hypocrite. Wow, that’s a leap. I clearly implied no such thing. It does appear I struck a nerve though. The storm collapsed. Lucky us. I’m going to go pour a drink. I think I need one or four. G’night.
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹
It does appear I struck a nerve though.
Yep. Because you were being a disrespectful asshole.
re: #55 teleskiguy
He is a classic example of someone for whom atheism has become religious and has the Evangelical fervor to go with it. This is not the way all atheists approach their belief or the lack of it, but there has always been a certain stream in atheism that sees the continued existence of other religions to be as bad as a Crusader saw Islam. I generally just try to not pay attention when he gets that way as it will do as little good to argue with him as with a fundamentalist. In the end he fights the good fight (pretend I’m quoting Triumph rather than scripture ;) for the people there.
re: #67 William Lewis
Live and let live, that’s the way to go. You’re right about evangelizing atheists, it’s something that bothers me because then you’re sinking to the fundamentalists’ level. I don’t preach atheism at all, I’ll only bring it up if prompted. Same should go for all other religions. After all - and you know this better than so many people, William - salvation lies within.
re: #68 teleskiguy
Live and let live, that’s the way to go. You’re right about evangelizing atheists, it’s something that bothers me because then you’re sinking to the fundamentalists’ level.
I disagree with your assertion here.
Indeed, I have no problem with anyone who wants to preach whatever they believe, as long as they are not out to harm someone.
The battlefield of ideas is best done with a cautious yet persistent engagement over topics in which some common ground can be found and yet differences can be argued.
This is different than the physical battlefield (of war) where the goal is to inflict violence on another person.
I didn’t know that filmmaker Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) was an immigrant. He was born in a refugee camp in France. He was actually born Darabont Ferenc Árpád.
re: #7 electrotek
I don’t get it. How would African Christians like Ethiopians or Eritreans fall under this?
I would think this might refer to Russian and other Eastern European Orthodox churches, which are one of the pillars of authoritarianism in countries like Russia, Romania and Hungary.
They also gain a lot of mileage about how persecuted they were under Communism, even if a lot of them came to very comfortable arrangements with the powers-that-be in exchange for keeping mum on politics.
Constantly referring to yourself as a journalist is a very real journalist thing to do. pic.twitter.com/E3P6Ie93b4
— TakeDownMRAs (@TakedownMRAs) August 5, 2017
Two things:
1) Obviously autocorrect changed “sores” to “sources”
2) Yes, he does.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 5, 2017
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Former Swedish Finance Minister apologizes for ‘blackout’ at party
I guess you know the story by now, he was at a party in the Stockholm archipelago. He showed off his own … endowment … grabbed others endowments, was aggressive, threatened the host of the party and called women w*clang*s.
Latest update in the Borg saga is that he has had charges filed against him with police for sexual assault, unlawful threats and and insult.
re: #76 Teukka
Former Swedish Finance Minister apologizes for ‘blackout’ at party
I guess you know the story by now, he was at a party in the Stockholm archipelago. He showed off his own … endowment … grabbed others endowments, was aggressive, threatened the host of the party and called women w*clang*s.Latest update in the Borg saga is that he has had charges filed against him with police for sexual assault, unlawful threats and and insult.
He was just assimilating…
Liberals disagree w/Richard Spencer’s policy outlook but share his core belief that race alone determines your value in society pic.twitter.com/kTyh7DDQDj
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) August 4, 2017
On a scale of 1-10 for stupid takes, with 10 being the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard, this is potato https://t.co/I5futls4bg
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 5, 2017
re: #78 Kragar
I’m so glad that Bernie fluffers are largely absent from my Twitter feed. I’d probably be banned by now.
Warhammer 40k Time:
The Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V was one of the major turning points that occurred early in the great galactic civil war that engulfed the Imperium of Man in the early 31st Millennium known in later times as the Horus Heresy. After the news of the Istvaan III Atrocity was brought to the Emperor of Mankind by the Loyalists aboard the Death Guard Frigate Eisenstein, He ordered the combined forces of seven Space Marine Legions to assault the positions of Horus and his Traitor Legions in the Istvaan System. During that assault on the world of Istvaan V, three Loyalist Astartes Legions — the Iron Hands, the Salamanders and the Raven Guard — were betrayed by the 4 other Legions of the Loyalist second wave — the Alpha Legion, Night Lords, Iron Warriors, and a large contingent of Word Bearers — who they had believed were loyal to the Emperor of Mankind, but in fact had already betrayed the Imperium and secretly turned to the service of the rebellious Warmaster Horus and Chaos. As the Loyalists retreated back towards what they believed were friendly lines, the hidden Traitors revealed their allegiance by opening fire upon the Loyalists, catching them between a Traitor hammer and anvil and nearly destroying all three Loyalist Legions. This victory demolished what the Loyalists had believed to be their numerical superiority and opened the path to the conquest of Terra for Horus and his allies amongst the Forces of Chaos.
Fake news. You don’t need both hands to masturbate.
— Sir Russ Pitts (@russpitts) August 5, 2017
Maybe YOU don’t … https://t.co/SZTvYRI11M
— Don Cheadle (@DonCheadle) August 5, 2017
re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was just assimilating…
It was a costume event. He went as Trump.
re: #76 Teukka
Former Swedish Finance Minister apologizes for ‘blackout’ at party
I guess you know the story by now, he was at a party in the Stockholm archipelago. He showed off his own … endowment … grabbed others endowments, was aggressive, threatened the host of the party and called women w*clang*s.Latest update in the Borg saga is that he has had charges filed against him with police for sexual assault, unlawful threats and and insult.
Wait, so a world leader grabbed others by the *bleep* and is facing criminal charges for doing so?
What insanity is this?!
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re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I would think this might refer to Russian and other Eastern European Orthodox churches, which are one of the pillars of authoritarianism in countries like Russia, Romania and Hungary.
They also gain a lot of mileage about how persecuted they were under Communism, even if a lot of them came to very comfortable arrangements with the powers-that-be in exchange for keeping mum on politics.
Lenin and later Stalin did kick the priests around quite a bit, though they didn’t suffer as much as unfavored party members or Ukrainian kulaks. Then World War II came along and party propaganda hacks discovered the great manipulative potential of religion. From then on it was a fairly smooth ride for those willing to toe the political line.
Watching “Comrade Detective”, this is some seriously funny stuff
Nikita: “Hot date last night?”
Gregor: “It was great, until she asked me to stop seeing other girls.”
Nikita: “She has a point. Yeah, we’re a Communist State, but that doesn’t mean you have to service everybody.”
Gregor: “What is that Marx said? From each according to his ability, and to each according to their need?”
Nikita: “I don’t think that is what he meant.”
Gregor: “No. That is EXACTLY what he meant.”
re: #83 Targetpractice
Wait, so a world leader grabbed others by the *bleep* and is facing criminal charges for doing so?
What insanity is this?!
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A nation with rule of law?
re: #85 Kragar
Drug Dealer: “FREE MARKET, MOTHERFUCKER!”
Nikita: “He’s not worth it! He’s just a Capitalist Punk!”
I hate to do this, especially here. I have to call out IngisKahn, who has been registered at LGF longer than probably 90% of Lizards, yet refuses to back up their downdings, and in fact refuses to back up *anything* because they have commented 232 times in FUCKING 12 years as a registered LGF person.
Hey, IngisKahn, you’re fake. You’re a fucking Trump supporter. Come out of your fucking 101st Chairborne seat and tell the LGF community how you really feel, you fucking coward.
This will be my last comment at LGF on religion. I am terribly sorry that there is a topic on which one cannot comment if you do not agree.
re: #63 teleskiguy
I hate atheists, sometimes.
I don’t hate anyone; as such, I am sorry we cannot be friends after all. I dislike assertions without evidence (such as claims that don’t match the New Testament, or claims about science that are untrue, &c). I respect people unless they show themselves unworthy of respect. I never respect ideas unless they are shown to be true. “I hate atheists, sometimes” is a person I don’t want to be around.
I’ve had enough violence in my life from believers.
At least you’ve never had pickets at your house for daring to run a BBS about reason, nor been emergency transferred by the government for death threats against your wife or baby child. I have.
For example, Christian televangelists are people whose ideas I oppose. I do not hate the person, but I despise the idea of grifting from gullible people.
As soon as I logged back in, the thunderstorms and heavy lightning started around my home again. Maybe God is trying to tell me something? /s
re: #55 teleskiguy
Because it’s a fucking asshole thing to do [quoting the Bible to refute a religious assertion made above[. Want to bring up contradictions in the Torah to Aloutette? Want to tell electrotek that the Koran is a bunch of nonsense? You’re asking for a fuckin’ fight, pal.
Nope, because Aloutette and Electrotek are not making assertions I can show are untrue about their own holy books using Google.
It’s too bad that positing an opposing opinion is “asking for a fight.” I am a pacifist: If you feel the need to assert I need a beating or something simply because I said something you disagree with, stand in line. There are several religious faiths and churches in this country (including one just up the road from me) who want me dead.
It is interesting that a counter-argument to something someone else wrote causes you to claim “I’m asking for a fight.”
“I don’t know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God.”—GHW Bush.
Those obviously aren’t fighting words, throwing a whole segment of the populace that has served in every combat this nation participated in since the Revolution. (Actually I couldn’t protest, I was on an aircraft carrier in the Med at the time, and Contempt for Officials is a UCMJ offence.) But me quoting the Bible is. Got it.
I’m sorry you hate atheists (sometimes). The counter to my original argument (a direct quote from the Gospel According to Luke) was not to show that I might have quoted it out of context, or an admission that the position I countered with it might be nuanced.
The counter was calling me an asshole.
I now know what topic is verbotin here. As I said, I will no more speak of religion (because religion in the USA never affects the 20% or so of atheists and agnostics that live here).
re: #58 freetoken
Here I will harken back to the turmoil at LGF, when creationism became a dividing point for some.
The creationists all left.
This thread reads like the atheists should. For now, I just won’t mention religion any more. I’ll stay in the closet, which I understand is a liberal value /s.re: #65 teleskiguy
re: #65 teleskiguy
You’re being so dense as to really test my patience. Hey all, click on this and tell me if Anymouse is not saying Jesus Christ is hypocritical. #37
Okay I’ll read my comment again. No, I didn’t say nor imply Jesus was a hypocrite. I didn’t even imply the person I was responding to was a hypocrite. I merely pointed out there was something (as found in Google) that disputed the person’s assertion.
So I understand the rules now. Atheists may not make comments on religious assertions. Good thing you don’t have a rabid secular organisation up the road from you calling for your death or marginalisation from society.
On the other hand, we are getting lightning strikes all around my home again, so maybe God is trying to tell me something. So I have to get off again and unplug my computer (the storms are much more severe now).
re: #90 William Lewis
Would you like some cheese with that whine?
Sure. Make mine provalone. Just shut up about Christian death threats. After all, complaining about those are just whinging.
So I can add whinger to asshole. I’m marking my bingo card waiting for “identity politics.”
This is very funny. It’s like a 21st century remake of Dr. Strangelove, though it’s real life this time.
re: #58 freetoken
Here I will harken back to the turmoil at LGF, when creationism became a dividing point for some.
The creationists all left.
Good riddance.
re: #92 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
This is very funny. It’s like a 21st century remake of Dr. Strangelove, though it’s real life this time.
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The thing about Putin turning on us is that the only way that fuckhead stays in power, really how Russian politics don’t come crashing down ala 1917, is by portraying the country as being at constant odds with an “other.” Sometimes it’s an ideology, sometimes it’s a country, other times it’s a person, but it’s always something that only the strongman in power can “protect” the peasants from.
I’m listening to Gov’t Mule’s Aug. 3 concert in Raleigh. Awesome show, I just with the playlist was a little deeper.
♫ Now Playing “Slackjaw Jezebel” Gov’t Mule, Aug 03, 2017, Raleigh, NC via @nugsnet_app pic.twitter.com/q0YNaqCUJA
— Covfefe McGoo (@DaveoutofAustin) August 5, 2017
Hi y’all. I’ve been a bit scarce for awhile due to mental health issues.
I more or less had a breakdown after about four of the most optimistic months of my life. Kinda been in a state of disarray. There is a silver cloud to all this, and probably, to some extent the reason why things are a bit harder to deal with atm. I stopped drinking dangerous amounts of alcohol. As a result I’ve also shed alot of weight.
The problem is, much of my sociability online was also what made me confortable enough to have the odd night where I made a bit of a fool of myself and not care that much in the morning.
I’m doing ok and I hope the updings are finding you well :)
Anyways, a few things I wanted to share because I’m a filthy self-promoter.
Jesus. Original practitioner of the DENNIS system.
Also used the terrifying wrath of his Father as his ‘Implication’.
Good guy. pic.twitter.com/a43y1Xdrw1— Alyosha (@mediocremensch) August 5, 2017
Tucker Carlson is so full of shit that in the post apocalypse he is helping draw nigh, he will be hunted as a source of fuel.
— Alyosha (@mediocremensch) July 29, 2017
And apropos
Instead of sending Dick Pics, reconsider and send a Dik dik Pic instead pic.twitter.com/VmF3mXc9cq
— Mochni 🥑 (@GuacaMochni) August 3, 2017
:)
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹
I’ll have to respectfully disagree on “great teachings”
Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
12:52 For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
12:53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
you don’t believe that Christ clearly saw that families would literally be divided by his teachings? That Roman families would be split between those who believe and those who don’t? That we’d fight a brutal war on the moral question of slavery, and that that moral question would arise because Christianity—and ONLY Christianity—made the idea of owning people repulsive enough to large numbers of actual Christians that they’d be willing to fight over it? That the Southern Baptists would be a morally bankrupt body for a hundred years following, and therefore separated from their family of Christ, because of theologically convenient assertions of why slavery was fine?
re: #96 Alyosha
The dik dik looks like some kind of CGI representation of a genetically engineered pet from an idealized Putin dacha but the critters are REAL.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Backstraps are too tiny.
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Seriously though, that’s a cute lil guy!
re: #5 freetoken
I came across this:
HOW ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY BECAME THE SPIRITUAL HOME OF WHITE NATIONALISM
It doesn’t though really give the deep background into how Eastern Christianity and the assorted denominations have become entangled with nationalism.
The problem is primarily in ROCOR and the OCA, mainly in the convert-heavy parishes in the South and Midwest. There was a brief influx into some Antiochian parishes in the Rust Belt (there was a genuine asshole of a convert bishop whose initial degree came from Oral Roberts), but the Metropolitan at the time recognized what was happening and shipped the jackass off to the OCA.
It is a complex tale, worthy of a miniseries.
today’s thought question
lets assume trump had enough self awareness a few years ago to recognize that if he ran, whether he won anything or not, half the country would oppose him and anything he stood for or tried to do
unless he totally forgot, he had to know he had a history of tweets and tv appearances and other video clips
did he not realize it or not care? ok that’s not the question
approval rating under 40 and underwater by almost 20
no legislation (he knows, just by reading his tweets)
lots of vacancies
no coherent overall policy, no direction
no wall, no mexico paying for it
and he hates the job
he must know he is performing absolutely terribly in contrast to everything he has said about his abilities
so seriously, if he’s not a total affect-less sociopath, what is he thinking to himself in the quiet moments right now?
re: #102 dangerman
“Where’s my phone?” //
Sadly, his performance to date indicates he is incapable of self-reflection. I think, if he had the smallest ability to see what he is doing, he wouldn’t be this awful.
Spotted at @edinburghfest #covfefe #photo #iphoneography https://t.co/QZ3MHQfNz8 pic.twitter.com/MQkBg6Q4uu
— Michael James (@alephnaught) August 5, 2017
re: #102 dangerman
[1]so seriously, if he’s not a total affect-less sociopath, [2]what is he thinking to himself in the quiet moments right now?
[1]. Assuming facts not in evidence.
[2]. “How can I boost my ratings?” *
* no snark: this is probably how Trump reflexively thinks.
FFS. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Trump supporter in Oklahoma: “The Congress vetoes anything the president [Trump] does.” #maga pic.twitter.com/ReY2oobKoH
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) August 5, 2017
re: #107 Dr. Matt
FFS. This is why we can’t have nice things.
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This is what health care looks like in a red state. #maga pic.twitter.com/qREDzr8NTC
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) August 5, 2017
And when you live in a deep, deep red state that refuses to participate in healthcare exchanges, this is what “healthcare” looks like.
re: #109 Dr. Matt
This is what happens when you attack Planned Parenthood and force people to drive 100s of miles to get basic health care. You need mobile clinics that are overburdened and underfunded to cover the shortfall.
This is the future of health coverage in states the GOP control.
re: #110 lawhawk
And these people will continue to vote against their best interests, which is their actual survival in this case, and elect republicans because of “gawd, gunz, and abortionz.”
re: #109 Dr. Matt
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And when you live in a deep, deep red state that refuses to participate in healthcare exchanges, this is what “healthcare” looks like.
I don’t see the problem. They have access to health care. /////
re: #102 dangerman
today’s thought question
lets assume trump had enough self awareness a few years ago to recognize that if he ran, whether he won anything or not, half the country would oppose him and anything he stood for or tried to do
unless he totally forgot, he had to know he had a history of tweets and tv appearances and other video clips
did he not realize it or not care? ok that’s not the question
approval rating under 40 and underwater by almost 20
no legislation (he knows, just by reading his tweets)
lots of vacancies
no coherent overall policy, no direction
no wall, no mexico paying for it
and he hates the jobhe must know he is performing absolutely terribly in contrast to everything he has said about his abilities
so seriously, if he’s not a total affect-less sociopath, what is he thinking to himself in the quiet moments right now?
I don’t want to know because I think it could be very frightening.
And he may just be totally affectless. I think the only feelings he may have are all in the realm of how he sees himself and his as better than anyone else.
I think he may have been raised that way by his father being taught Trump’s are special and select and everyone else is out to take that from us.
re: #104 Alephnaught
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You can tell the entire world has the ability to be connected. Covfefe has made it around it.
re: #109 Dr. Matt
This is what health care looks like in a red state. #maga pic.twitter.com/qREDzr8NTC
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) August 5, 2017
And when you live in a deep, deep red state that refuses to participate in healthcare exchanges, this is what “healthcare” looks like.
This is a scandal and a national disgrace.
re: #32 Amory Blaine
I recently had to replace the windshield on my daily driver. (The hood flew open while I was on the freeway. In the rain, at night.) The good news is that it’s a nice clear view with no swirl marks or scratches. For now.
Retired cynic commented “Heart-stopping”. This happened to me as well, at night. Driving along, sudden blam and darkness. I literally did not see that (the hood) coming. Fortunately I was in the left lane, very little traffic, and there was a wideleft shoulder to pull into. The car had been in an minor accident, and hood would not reliably latch.
in Colbert’s monologue last night:
“While Trump is away on vacation, renovations at the White House include replacing the heating and air conditioning system. Which is obviously necessary; because the previous president was both hotter and cooler than this one.”
I see LGF had another example overnight of not being able to discuss religion.
They say that about politics too.
I think we should be able to discuss it. Just got to watch how it is discussed. In a way you have to strip the individual out of it and talk about the concepts.
But right now…no one to discuss it with! : )
Time to mix up some wood repair epoxy for a little patch work outdoors on some dormer trim. It is warming a bit now…chilly night in central Ohio has brought a nice crisp day more like late September. But I am not going to complain.
re: #116 BlueSpotinAL
Retired cynic commented “Heart-stopping”. This happened to me as well, at night. Driving along, sudden blam and darkness. I literally did not see that (the hood) coming. Fortunately I was in the left lane, very little traffic, and there was a wideleft shoulder to pull into. The car had been in an minor accident, and hood would not reliably latch.
I had one of those when I was helping a friend move. I was driving his truck, as I was the only one in the moving crew who could drive a manual. He had hit a deer a couple of weeks prior, and the hood was held down by bungee cords. I turned a corner, into the wind, and the breeze grabbed it and broke the bungees, slamming the hood down onto the windshield. I navigated by looking out the driver’s side window at the yellow line until I could get past the guardrail on my right and to a spot with an open shoulder so I could pull off.
re: #111 Dr. Matt
And these people will continue to vote against their best interests, which is their actual survival in this case, and elect republicans because of “gawd, gunz, and abortionz.”
Well, there is a certain amount of Survival of the Fittest going on, I suppose.
Police investigating reported explosion at Islamic center in Minnesota: https://t.co/Fda13iavl2 pic.twitter.com/56SnBbqGLP
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 5, 2017
Which do you prefer? The candid shot of Gorka and Sessions or the posed? pic.twitter.com/0vS6d7S0Gr
— Nell Scovell (@NellSco) August 5, 2017
Great… 100,000,000 miles and I’m stuck in a damn crater. Awesome.
— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) August 6, 2012
Five years later. Same damn crater. Still awesome. https://t.co/OYdyMkyZiT
— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) August 5, 2017
re: #118 ObserverArt
I see LGF had another example overnight of not being able to discuss religion.
quoting isolated bits of holy scripture to demonstrate how good or bad one’s religion is does not qualify as “discussing religion”.
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Reading the timeline, I’d say Sarcastic Rover voted absentee—for HRC.
re: #116 BlueSpotinAL
Retired cynic commented “Heart-stopping”. This happened to me as well, at night. Driving along, sudden blam and darkness. I literally did not see that (the hood) coming. Fortunately I was in the left lane, very little traffic, and there was a wideleft shoulder to pull into. The car had been in an minor accident, and hood would not reliably latch.
Wipers once stopped dead in a Florida drownpour
In the left lane as well
Instantly frightening for five seconds or so
Had the wherewithal to think to open the window
Rain just pouring into the window suit tie etc
Finally managed to navigate to the left shoulder and a safe stop, wait for the rain to stop….
Good times
WH guidance on Trump’s ban on transgender military service gets OK from general counsel, heads to DOD https://t.co/0aOqVn3SEn by @KarenOcamb
— Chris Johnson (@chrisjohnson82) August 5, 2017
Appears they are following through with trying to force active duty transgender to retire. The lawsuits will be insane over this. https://t.co/PphAVOXn2S
— Aaron Mehta (@AaronMehta) August 5, 2017
One Eric Bolling di*k pic revealed. Caution.
J8hvBs13sAI4mMsZ88tML1w5UpgXwHMclvHe3i7ruhPyyjbpqj/1k8JennC+2ndYTPDiK2QaR5bRpouTqpyAsaEiC/S9SvENaj5A5C20gGda4MTMk8Rt2nw7xOBrlx3I1s1iUpUNPec+OUmDvBcwLhC8wqj/2/BCAis6j7QLSoAjUyEiBAUCC2BlGcdSguBeSS5XMsfp4B7zN9d82qfelivREd0JesKUOC7dnwRgxAV4H50VkxvYpCAjniNQPAjTNEiUMwI+LiZjP13k6HVgzzPRduUXNWRebIk141whk2TZQKpNb/re2qaCzM76PpaFMehL5ELSj/dNhLRldSl2gYFbbuVNWT+RVlZ9msD1YQN3Maaerd1ZOQ==
Where’s the protest music? Right here.
Much like “Cult of Personality” all those years ago, “Program” also deals with the media, but in this case it’s more touching on how the message is controlled and presented. “Back in the day, the news was called a ‘loss leader.’ It wasn’t for profit. News wasn’t made to sell stuff. News was there to be purely informational. That was their public service. That’s all the news was supposed to be, a public service that lets you know what’s going on in and around the world you live in. Not to be an arm of some sort of political ideology,” says Glover. “It wasn’t a place for you to get your talking points out of. It was a place for you to get informational.”
He continues, “Then at some point it was like, we could make a lot of money in this. There’s something to be said about it. That we’ve taken the notion of public service itself out of the equation. That even within the context of politics, I don’t know any politician that isn’t in some ways a rich person. There are no poor politicians. There isn’t a politician that has a day job. What happened to public service?”
Pretty fierce.
re: #128 nines09
One Eric Bolling di*k pic revealed. Caution.
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Nope not now not ever
Culturally Appropriate Chicago Blackhawks Logo by First Nations Artist Goes Viral https://t.co/o0v59oihKf pic.twitter.com/2aRYM1IPtc
— Indian Country Today (@indiancountry) August 5, 2017
re: #131 Stanley Sea
Culturally Appropriate Chicago Blackhawks Logo by First Nations Artist Goes Viral https://t.co/o0v59oihKf pic.twitter.com/2aRYM1IPtc
— Indian Country Today (@indiancountry) August 5, 2017
Hate to break it everyone, that’s been around for years.
It has no chance of implementation
re: #131 Stanley Sea
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Much of the popularity is because it’s a superior logo. It’s very hard to do a ‘folk’ image or mass-produced embroidered portrait of anyone.
This is the 2nd Infantry Div patch, featuring the head of Red Cloud. There is no intent to denigrate there, the unit names their installations and every thing that moves in honor of their former enemy. The portrait on our parachute club patch, produced by a Korean shop, was pretty hideous.
Delighted to announce the launch of The Trump Estates Park Residences, a collection luxury villas with exclusive access to @TrumpGolfDubai! pic.twitter.com/itJ5fu1Yls
— Trump Organization (@Trump) August 5, 2017
Conflict. https://t.co/a13JrDyo29
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) August 5, 2017
re: #124 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
quoting isolated bits of holy scripture to demonstrate how good or bad one’s religion is does not qualify as “discussing religion”.
Can we discuss that sometimes quoting isolated bits of holy scripture is what is used as justifications for things like not accepting homosexuality and same sex marriage?
Also parts of scripture can be used to ban abortions and sometimes even modern medicine.
I think that is one of the issues with religion. We can get lost in interpreting smalls bits of one writing that can be overrode in another. And over time there are different interpretations of the original writing, then divisions over those changes….on and on.
I was raised Catholic. The teachings were it is the One True Church founded by St. Peter himself. And we had the Catholic Bible.
How many religions, churches and bibles are there now just under the guise of Christianity? To me it suggests man is the issue…can’t get along with others, can’t accept some things and has to be different.
And really politics is very much the same way.
re: #127 FormerDirtDart
Is this something Congress can block?
re: #129 makeitstop
Where’s the protest music? Right here.
Pretty fierce.
So, they are still recording and playing. Good for them. Still got that slashing hard edge too.
OT — but religion based. It was terrifying watching Ralph Reed on Bill Maher last night. He asserted that Trump keeps his word — because the only words that he and his ilk care about are those that involve appointing Supreme Court Justice who will overturn Roe v Wade and adopting policies that will allow Christianity to be in effect the official state religion.
re: #132 FormerDirtDart
Hate to break it everyone, that’s been around for years.
It has no chance of implementation
Actually he sold the design to a AAA hockey program Maplesoft Hawks in Ontario CN.
That’s a start.
re: #132 FormerDirtDart
Hate to break it everyone, that’s been around for years.
It has no chance of implementation
It would be implemented if it was a Canadian team.
Apparently the Marines had some issues with one of their Osprey’s off the coast of Australia. Most of the crew and passengers saved, but three missing. I hope they find them.
If I remember right, aren’t the Osprey’s problematic from time to time?
From Yahoo News - Three US Marines Missing After Military Aircraft ‘Mishap’ Off Australia
Three US Marines Missing After Military Aircraft ‘Mishap’ Off Australia
Sydney (AFP) -
The US Marine Corps said Saturday that a major search and rescue operation was underway for three missing service members following a “mishap” involving an American military aircraft off the Australian coast.
US Marines based in Japan said “search and rescue operations continue for three U.S. Marines that were aboard an MV-22 Osprey involved in a mishap off of the east coast of Australia”.
“Twenty-three of 26 personnel aboard have been rescued,” they added in a statement.
The MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor is the primary assault support aircraft for the Marines, with two engines positioned on fixed wing tips that allow it to land and take off vertically. It also has the ability to travel much faster than a helicopter.
“The aircraft involved in the mishap had launched from the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and was conducting regularly scheduled operations when the aircraft entered the water,” the statement said.
The ship’s small boats and aircraft are involved in the search off Shoalwater Bay in Queensland state.
“The circumstances of the mishap are currently under investigation,” it added.
Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne said she had spoken to Pentagon chief Jim Mattis to offer help.
“I can confirm no Australian Defence Force Personnel were on board the aircraft,” she said.
“The United States are leading the search and recovery effort.
…more at link
re: #140 b_sharp
It would be implemented if it was a Canadian team.
Hey stranger!
I am hoping all is well with your and the Mrs.
re: #141 ObserverArt
snip…
If I remember right, aren’t the Osprey’s problematic from time to time?
From Yahoo News - Three US Marines Missing After Military Aircraft ‘Mishap’ Off Australia
They had a particularly bad “infant mortality” phase. Some of that was using them with operational troop loads too early in development, some was bad decisionmaking on the hydraulics design. Hard to tell if they are well-loved now.
re: #142 ObserverArt
Hey stranger!
I am hoping all is well with your and the misses.
Meh.
In Vancouver visiting my son and daughter-in-law. He had stopped drinking for 5 weeks then earlier this week decided to start again. So now we’re trying to temper the amount he drinks.
Last 2 days V has had several symptoms of a heart attack although they were short lived and I’m having a hell of a time convincing her to take them seriously.
Life gives you lemons so you make lemonade out of them. Then life gives you bigger lemons.
re: #144 b_sharp
Meh.
In Vancouver visiting my son and daughter-in-law. He had stopped drinking for 5 weeks then earlier this week decided to start again. So now we’re trying to temper the amount he drinks.
Last 2 days V has had several symptoms of a heart attack although they were short lived and I’m having a hell of a time convincing her to take them seriously.
Hang in there. I wish the best for all.
re: #127 FormerDirtDart
re: #136 Hecuba’s daughter
Is this something Congress can block?
Possibly: though IIRC (and I will be pleased to be contradicted in this opinion), military stuff like personnel decisions are entirely in the hands of the DoD, which is part of the Executive Branch: so if the Asshole-in-Chief decides to implement a ban such as the one he is proposing, as long as he follows the correct administrative protocols (i..e., not just some angry Twitter screed), I think the Pentagon will have to comply. Eventually.
Of course, Presidential directives like this, AFAIK, - even for the military - can’t simply contradict established law. If, say, Trump decided that the Services should discharge all Muslims, or Jews*; there might be a case against it based on general prohibitions on religious discrimination. However, transpeople don’t have (again, AFAIK) such legal protections: part of the reason, I’m sure, that they are being made a particular target.
As to whether or not Congress can (or will) do anything, I don’t know: but this is just typical of the Trump Administration: desperate for any sort of policy “win” to deflect from the already-manifest failures of their regime, they turn to the one sort of action they are good at: a prejudicial purge of a tiny (and militarily irrelevant) minority, in order to satisfy the bigoted obsessions of religious fanatics.
MAGA.
* And I’m sure that somewhere, buried deep in somebody’s files in the WH is some sort of plan to do just that.
re: #136 Hecuba’s daughter
Is this something Congress can block?
Yes they could. Will they?
We will have to keep up with sources.
re: #146 ObserverArt
Hang in there. I wish the best for all.
Thanks.
For the most part we’re enjoying the trip.
re: #145 b_sharp
Life gives you lemons so you make lemonade out of them. Then life gives you bigger lemons.
We’re gonna need a bigger pitcher.
Seriously, though, best wishes and prayers from the fish family.
re: #150 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
We’re gonna need a bigger pitcher.
Seriously, though, best wishes and prayers from the fish family.
That you fish? Didn’t even recognize you.
re: #151 b_sharp
That you fish? Didn’t even recognize you.
The one, the only. I’ve been around some, but work is keeping things just crazy enough.
re: #147 Jay C
Possibly: though IIRC (and I will be pleased to be contradicted in this opinion), military stuff like personnel decisions are entirely in the hands of the DoD, which is part of the Executive Branch: so if the Asshole-in-Chief decides to implement a ban such as the one he is proposing, as long as he follows the correct administrative protocols (i..e., not just some angry Twitter screed), I think the Pentagon will have to comply. Eventually.
Of course, Presidential directives like this, AFAIK, - even for the military - can’t simply contradict established law. If, say, Trump decided that the Services should discharge all Muslims, or Jews*; there might be a case against it based on general prohibitions on religious discrimination. However, transpeople don’t have (again, AFAIK) such legal protections: part of the reason, I’m sure, that they are being made a particular target.
As to whether or not Congress can (or will) do anything, I don’t know: but this is just typical of the Trump Administration: desperate for any sort of policy “win” to deflect from the already-manifest failures of their regime, they turn to the one sort of action they are good at: a prejudicial purge of a tiny (and militarily irrelevant) minority, in order to satisfy the bigoted obsessions of religious fanatics.
MAGA.
Yes, congress normally writes exceptions into laws making them inapplicable to the Executive Branch, esp. DoD. To adjust for that, presidents incorporate workable equivalents via (shudder) Executive Orders.
According to my wife Vancouver has some really good seafood. I’ll have to take her word for it. I’m a prairie boy, I eat meat.
re: #137 ObserverArt
So, they are still recording and playing. Good for them. Still got that slashing hard edge too.
They’ve been working pretty steadily over the years, albeit with a lower profile than their MTV days. The drummer in my band saw them out here on LI a couple of years ago, said they hit every bit as hard as ever.
Vernon’s guitar tone on that tune is huge. I’m digging it. Meant to be blasted at dangerous volume.
re: #139 nines09
Actually he sold the design to a AAA hockey program Maplesoft Hawks in Ontario CN.
That’s a start.
Which means it has no chance at being implemented as a replacement for the Chicago Blackhawks logo.
A logo that has been around since 2008 being adopted by a kids league in 2015 does not really show progress.
Hell, that logo has been around so long it was already stolen years before Maplesoft adopted it.
A History of Logo Larceny
re: #152 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The one, the only. I’ve been around some, but work is keeping things just crazy enough.
That’s a good thing, isn’t it?
So WTF has been happening in LGF land, aside from squabbles about atheists picking on Xtians?
re: #88 teleskiguy
Some of us at LGF don’t have the ability to constantly comment and we may even miss whole threads, dinging is great way to still remain a part of the community. The pluses flow constantly, and every now and then a minus. Some here act like it is the ultimate insult, most take it in stride.
I do kinda wish Charles had some sort of ding stats available. I may have disagreed with a few of your last posts, but you’re still deep in the pluses with me…
re: #136 Hecuba’s daughter
Is this something Congress can block?
Well, they’re on recess so that would be tricky.
Stephen Miller is under consideration for White House communications director, per @mikeallen pic.twitter.com/VeiY3OSRGm
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 5, 2017
This idea is getting some chatter among West Wing staffers. https://t.co/uIywEhNznx
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 5, 2017
Drilling down on ethnic sports logos took me to some interesting places.
And to this other team, that combines sport, religion, race, millenialism in one glorious package:
re: #160 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, they’re on recess so that would be tricky.
Well, ring the bell, bring them in from the playground, get them to take their muddy boots off and get back to working with their crayons.
re: #153 Decatur Deb
Yes, congress normally writes exceptions into laws making them inapplicable to the Executive Branch, esp. DoD. To adjust for that, presidents incorporate workable equivalents via (shudder) Executive Orders.
Sorry: being dense today: does this mean (IYO) that Congress can or can’t block Trump’s imposition of a “trans ban” on the military?
Of course, that’s assuming they would want to block it… unfortunately.
re: #161 FormerDirtDart
Not sure if I want this for the entertainment/meme value or…
re: #158 b_sharp
So WTF has been happening in LGF land, aside from squabbles about atheists picking on Xtians?
It wasn’t atheists picking on Christians, because I’m an atheist and I was picking on Christians for not acting like one. Some were picking on Christianity.
re: #161 FormerDirtDart
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It’s all a game with them isn’t it?
That whole White House has to go. Yes, Pence too!
re: #159 IngisKahn
Thanks for replying. The comment to you was uncalled for.
re: #166 Belafon
It wasn’t atheists picking on Christians, because I’m an atheist and I was picking on Christians for not acting like one. Some were picking on Christianity.
But it was a squabble, right?
re: #164 Jay C
Sorry: being dense today: does this mean (IYO) that Congress can or can’t block Trump’s imposition of a “trans ban” on the military?
Of course, that’s assuming they would want to block it… unfortunately.
Best answer I’ve got—they could deliberately pass a bill that would get into DoD specifics, after the president signed it. (They rarely do that, and nobody much likes it.) Doing that flies in the face of “normal”, best practices, and tradition.
Nothing is normal now.
re: #162 Decatur Deb
Drilling down on ethnic sports logos took me to some interesting places.
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And to this team, that combines sport, religion, race, millenialism in one glorious package:
Heh. Reminds me of when I first met my dog trainer buddy.
He’s Black and when he was young and brash he used to wear Big Blacks T-shirts…which I think is a rugby team in either Australia or New Zealand. He was a high school footballer so at that time he was pretty pumped up and buff. No one knew how to take him in those shirts.
I liked it and we became life-long friends. I knew we had similar senses of humor about things. Oh, and now he is older and brash…but not as pumped up.
re: #167 ObserverArt
It’s all a game with them isn’t it?
That whole White House has to go. Yes, Pence too!
Someone needs to set out their big boy pants and make sure they put them on with the zipper facing the front. Children shouldn’t be politicians and politicians shouldn’t be children.
re: #172 IngisKahn
I don’t know if it reached squabble levels.
Border line for here.
Actually this place has kind of mellowed out over the last 5 years.
re: #168 Stanley Sea
Thanks for replying. The comment to you was uncalled for.
I’m gonna keep in mind that skiguy is dealing with stopping smoking, etc. He may be just a little edgy.
He and ‘mouse have had some go-rounds before. Strong opinionated individuals both.
Vid: “sick & tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us” Trump Adv Stephen Miller pic.twitter.com/cpoSGAdOGv
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 5, 2017
re: #177 ObserverArt
I’m gonna keep in mind that skiguy is dealing with stopping smoking, etc. He may be just a little edgy.
He and ‘mouse have had some go-rounds before. Strong opinionated individuals both.
Bright people usually are.
What do we do?
We have a deportation force.
Two brothers from Gaithersburg were deported to their native El Salvador on Wednesday in what their attorney says was the fastest deportation process he has ever seen.
The brothers have no criminal records and would not have been a priority for deportation by the Obama administration, said Matthew Bourke, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
He went to ICE to tell agents he had gotten into college. Now he and his brother have been deported.https://t.co/FuBy6I3Qbx
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 5, 2017
re: #157 b_sharp
That’s a good thing, isn’t it?
Not particularly. I could really use some peace and quiet.
re: #156 FormerDirtDart
Of course. I mean the mindset. Logos are always stepping on one another.
re: #177 ObserverArt
Strong opinionated individuals both.
I think we have a room full of them. We need more snacks. Lemon drops for the smoking-quitters.
Coffee for me. Decaf after noon.
re: #187 wrenchwench
I think we have a room full of them. We need more snacks. Lemon drops for the smoking-quitters.
Coffee for me. Decaf after noon.
Pie. We need pie!
re: #187 wrenchwench
I think we have a room full of them. We need more snacks. Lemon drops for the smoking-quitters.
Coffee for me. Decaf after noon.
Soup for me please. I broke a molar last night, can’t get to my dentist until Monday.
re: #187 wrenchwench
I think we have a room full of them. We need more snacks. Lemon drops for the smoking-quitters.
Coffee for me. Decaf after noon.
I debated getting into an argument with you about whether it’s a room full or a cavern full but didn’t want to start an echo chamber.
re: #188 Decatur Deb
VB doesn’t work Saturdays.
Mr. w does. He doesn’t do crust, though. But we have the rhubarb all pied-up in the freezer.
re: #191 b_sharp
I debated getting into an argument with you about whether it’s a room full or a cavern full but didn’t want to start an echo chamber.
That would make me batty.
re: #191 b_sharp
I debated getting into an argument with you about whether it’s a room full or a cavern full but didn’t want to start an echo chamber.
A void another engagement at all costs.
re: #188 Decatur Deb
VB doesn’t work Saturdays.
Damn. Lots of rhubarb, we just need a crust artist to transform it.
I’m bach’ing this week and forgot to make lunch.
re: #198 ObserverArt
New Mexico…batty…that works.
Want to know why English opera sucks? We have “bats”. Italians have “pipistrelle”.
re: #198 ObserverArt
New Mexico…batty…that works.
Especially in Carlsbad. They roost in the Caverns.
(I have some Wisconsin relatives with ‘Batty’ as a surname.)
Back to the treadmill. Will try to do another quarter or half mile.
re: #201 Bear
Back to the treadmill. Will try to do another quarter or half mile.
Go Bear!
A guy came in the shop this week to ask about putting his treadmill on consignment. I can’t wait to try it! (My PT guy wouldn’t let me use the treadmill because of balance issues. He had me on the elliptical or a stationary bike.)
re: #191 b_sharp
I’m working weekend nites and had one eye on them open tab last nite. I can be opinionated as hell when is comes to religion. BUT…., I also hold to my truth which is “God is none of my business”. So unless I’m asked, I stay out of it.
There is a core of really smart people here. In the end, common sense always rules the day in any debate, and fools have a shelf life of appx. 3 days.
There’s also a lot of comfort with the age class. Lots of “old hippies” like me who still believe all the things that happened “BR” (before Reagan) were worth it and still have strong meaning and value.
Everyone needs to do the nite shift here now and then.
Thank you everyone. {{{hugs}}}
re: #242 CleverToad
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re: #203 wrenchwench
Go Bear!
A guy came in the shop this week to ask about putting his treadmill on consignment. I can’t wait to try it! (My PT guy wouldn’t let me use the treadmill because of balance issues. He had me on the elliptical or a stationary bike.)
Go Wench!
re: #203 wrenchwench
I only walk on it so hold on to the arm rest. Far too old to run at all.
Curious, isn’t it?
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5+ days since Putin kicks out 755 US Embassy personnel. No response from Trump—not one word! https://t.co/RPzWnqM1JF
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) August 5, 2017
re: #208 makeitstop
Rock this hashtag and see who flips.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) August 5, 2017
re: #207 Bear
I only walk on it so hold on to the arm rest. Far too old to run at all.
I’ll be holding on.
Most people my age get sore knees when they try running, but I’ve been a cyclist most of my life, so I’m enjoying a second youth getting around a track. Last time I tried running was in college, 40 years ago.
re: #179 FormerDirtDart
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This is it. I went to college with a bunch of over-privileged dicks who would take their food at lunch outside the cafeteria on trays to eat on the steps, then just leave everything and walk away. I’d ask some of them why they didn’t pick up their stuff and throw it away and return the trays: “my tuition pays for those janitors who are always standing around so I’m giving them something to do” was a response that stuck with me. Entirely missing the point of what it means to be a decent human being and member of society.
Should add: this was a southern school with predominantly white student body and predominantly AA workers. The white students, though, mostly came from northern states and private high schools.
You kids and your technology. //
So I’m reading up on how Backwater wants to sell a turn key air force / air logistics service to the Afghanistan central gov. Okay pretty controversial. Blackwater?! Discussion worthy some day perhaps. But then I ran across this tidbit.
The attack planes would be linked to troops on the ground in part via an iPhone app called SafeStrike, commercial software that can help deconflict airspace over a given area and mark targets.
There is an app for that for that? Words fail.
Ht TheDrive
re: #179 FormerDirtDart
Miller is the asshole that uses a calculator to figure out EXACTLY what the 15% tip is if he even tips at all.
re: #214 Ace Rothstein
Miller is the asshole that uses a calculator to figure out EXACTLY what the 15% tip is if he even tips at all.
a.) You need a calculator to do that? 10%+1/2 of 10%.
b.) 20% and round up especially at inexpensive ethnic places…
edit: not you specifically, just the general “you”
re: #215 calochortus
In my server days, there were people that really did use a calculator. And you got 15% and not a cent more.
re: #216 Ace Rothstein
In my server days, there were people that really did use a calculator. And you got 15% and not a cent more.
Depends on how long ago, although the calculator thing is silly. 15% did used to be the standard.
Here’s a really good essay by former NBA player Ray Allen - Why I Went to Auschwitz
This part makes me angry and sad.
When I returned home to America, I got some very disheartening messages directed toward me on social media regarding my trip. Some people didn’t like the fact that I was going to Poland to raise awareness for the issues that happened there and not using that time or energy to support people in the black community.
I was told my ancestors would be ashamed of me.
I know there are trolls online and I shouldn’t even pay attention, but that one sort of got to me. Because I understood where they were coming from. I understand that there are plenty of issues in our own country right now, but they were looking at my trip the wrong way. I didn’t go to Poland as black person, a white person, a Christian person or a Jewish person — I went as a human being.
Prosperity is coming back to our shores because we are putting America WORKERS and FAMILIES first. #AmericaFirst🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/4kTc6Om308
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2017
This is the president’s only Saturday tweet…so far. https://t.co/V58G1tdPdV
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 5, 2017
Where do you put the quarter in? https://t.co/m8XjfO1RmI
— Covfefe McGoo (@DaveoutofAustin) August 5, 2017
re: #217 calochortus
Depends on how long ago, although the calculator thing is silly. 15% did used to be the standard.
When they changed the law so restaurants could pay “tipped workers” less than 1/2 of minimum wage… that’s when I upped my tips from 15% to 20-25%.
It’s funny, but good news that Republican voters are losing their optimism in Trump. Optimism That is one in six Republicans who are now saying they are mainly pessimistic about his tenure. To that, many of us are saying: duh.
re: #216 Ace Rothstein
In my server days, there were people that really did use a calculator. And you got 15% and not a cent more.
Sounds like my Mom. I round up or down depending on the level of service and figure 20%. I usually then round up because it’s easier to add on the signature slip.
.42 cents isn’t going to break me and it means a lot for the server.
Bannon Admits Trump’s Cabinet Nominees Were Selected To Destroy Their Agencies.
CPAC this week Stephen Bannon, the Chief Advisor and intellectual heft behind the Twittering infant that sits in the Oval Office, provided a little glimpse of the future he has planned for all of us.
In the clearest explanation for why nearly all of Trump’s cabinet choices are known mostly for despising and attacking the very Federal agencies they’ve been designated to lead, Bannon explained—in very clear language—that they weren’t appointed to lead these agencies, but to destroy them:
Atop Trump’s agenda, Bannon said, was the “deconstruction of the administrative state” — meaning a system of taxes, regulations and trade pacts that the president and his advisers believe stymie economic growth and infringe upon one’s sovereignty.
“If you look at these Cabinet nominees, they were selected for a reason, and that is deconstruction,” Bannon said. He posited that Trump’s announcement withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership was “one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history.”
re: #224 Birth Control Works
Sounds like my Mom. I round up or down depending on the level of service and figure 20%. I usually then round up because it’s easier to add on the signature slip.
.42 cents isn’t going to break me and it means a lot for the server.
My youngest sister was a restaurant server in her younger days so I heard all of the horror stories. When I’m tipping, I go with 20% and then (if I’m paying with a CC) round up the tab+tip to the next whole dollar. Service has to be really bad for me to tip less than 20%. At a few places, I even tip a bit a bit when I order pick-up meals to-go. I’m not rich by any means but I know that servers aren’t making shit for wages and the conditions often suck.
re: #204 Dave In Austin
I’m working weekend nites and had one eye on them open tab last nite. I can be opinionated as hell when is comes to religion. BUT…., I also hold to my truth which is “God is none of my business”. So unless I’m asked, I stay out of it.
There is a core of really smart people here. In the end, common sense always rules the day in any debate, and fools have a shelf life of appx. 3 days.
There’s also a lot of comfort with the age class. Lots of “old hippies” like me who still believe all the things that happened “BR” (before Reagan) were worth it and still have strong meaning and value.
Everyone needs to do the nite shift here now and then.
If a theist comes up to me exclaiming how fantastic her/his religion is, I have no problem pointing out how full of crap that idea is. If a creationist comes up to me telling me how wrong science/atheism is (they always link the two) I will explain to him/her in great detail how full of shit he/she is. If a theist comes up to me and wants to reasonably discuss religion I will do so.
Putting up with shit isn’t something I’ll do in any case.
re: #143 Decatur Deb
They had a particularly bad “infant mortality” phase. Some of that was using them with operational troop loads too early in development, some was bad decisionmaking on the hydraulics design. Hard to tell if they are well-loved now.
One killer was the rigid blade design and a lack of understanding what the implications of that were. Traditional helicopter blades will bend against and absorb some of the turbulence caused by their own downthrust and ground effect. Osprey blades are rigid and thus transmit almost all precessional and vibrational forces directly to the drive shaft & bearings. This lack of flexibility also meant the Osprey could just fall right through into its own thrust and produce a condition where they were producing no lift, so pilots couldn’t come down as fast as a helicopter without risking a crash landing.
The really deadly thing about the Osprey was that all of it’s problems tended to mask each other and weren’t easily modeled by then available software, so they kept thinking they’d solved everything when they hadn’t and so they kept putting Marines back in them long before it was safe to do so.
re: #210 wrenchwench
I’ll be holding on.
Most people my age get sore knees when they try running, but I’ve been a cyclist most of my life, so I’m enjoying a second youth getting around a track. Last time I tried running was in college, 40 years ago.
I walk 3 miles a night on our treadmill. I’ll start running at the end of August (I made a schedule)
re: #226 Birth Control Works
Bannon Admits Trump’s Cabinet Nominees Were Selected To Destroy Their Agencies.
CPAC this week Stephen Bannon, the Chief Advisor and intellectual heft behind the Twittering infant that sits in the Oval Office…[…]
‘Heft’, yes. ‘Intellectual’, no.
re: #218 makeitstop
Here’s a really good essay by former NBA player Ray Allen - Why I Went to Auschwitz
This part makes me angry and sad.
One question keeps repeating over and over and over in your mind: How can human beings do this to one another?
How does somebody process that? You can’t.
Well written
re: #219 Unshaken Defiance
I had to switch to 20% when they changed how taxes work here. I also favor small biz/family run. Taking care of my food in my chosen quality time moment like date night is worth it.
I tip according to service. 15% for fair service, 20% for good service & 0% if the card reader tries to force a tip out of me.
re: #230 b_sharp
I walk 3 miles a night on our treadmill. I’ll start running at the end of August (I made a schedule)
I made my twice-weekly runs into a ‘big deal’ mentally, so I would stick with it (and I thought I would make it thrice weekly before now, but they exhaust me, so I do it on my days off). Making a schedule sounds like a good thing. I keep a record on a paper tablet; time, # of laps, percent of time in target heart-rate zone, notes on where, weather & stuff, to keep me going.
re: #234 wrenchwench
I made my twice-weekly runs into a ‘big deal’ mentally, so I would stick with it (and I thought I would make it thrice weekly before now, but they exhaust me, so I do it on my days off). Making a schedule sounds like a good thing. I keep a record on a paper tablet; time, # of laps, percent of time in target heart-rate zone, notes on where, weather & stuff, to keep me going.
They still make paper tablets?
re: #228 b_sharp
If a theist comes up to me exclaiming how fantastic her/his religion is, I have no problem pointing out how full of crap that idea is. If a creationist comes up to me telling me how wrong science/atheism is (they always link the two) I will explain to him/her in great detail how full of shit he/she is. If a theist comes up to me and wants to reasonably discuss religion I will do so.
Putting up with shit isn’t something I’ll do in any case.
I don’t care what anybody thinks until they try to tell me what I can and cant do
re: #237 b_sharp
They still make paper tablets?
Not sure, I think I’m working on my old stash of them.
re: #234 wrenchwench
I made my twice-weekly runs into a ‘big deal’ mentally, so I would stick with it (and I thought I would make it thrice weekly before now, but they exhaust me, so I do it on my days off). Making a schedule sounds like a good thing. I keep a record on a paper tablet; time, # of laps, percent of time in target heart-rate zone, notes on where, weather & stuff, to keep me going.
I finally reached a point where I don’t get tired quite so fast. Even walking up and down the hills here in Vancouver isn’t too bad for me.
re: #218 makeitstop
Here’s a really good essay by former NBA player Ray Allen - Why I Went to Auschwitz
This part makes me angry and sad.
Good for Ray. That was the proper response.
What is up with folks these days??? So quick to want to see the downside and spend no time to look for the upsides…which really are the important parts.
re: #234 wrenchwench
I made my twice-weekly runs into a ‘big deal’ mentally, so I would stick with it (and I thought I would make it thrice weekly before now, but they exhaust me, so I do it on my days off). Making a schedule sounds like a good thing. I keep a record on a paper tablet; time, # of laps, percent of time in target heart-rate zone, notes on where, weather & stuff, to keep me going.
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CREW files Emoluments Response
Washington—In response to the government’s motion to dismiss CREW v. Trump, the landmark emoluments clause lawsuit, an all-star legal team representing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United, Jill Phaneuf, and Eric Goode today filed a brief rejecting the Department of Justice’s argument that President Trump should be allowed to accept all manner of payments and benefits from foreign and domestic governments attempting to buy influence with him.
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“Diplomats openly claim that they patronize the President’s hotels to curry favor with him as President—a blatant violation on any reading,” the filing continues. “But the full extent of his violations cannot be ascertained because he has gone to great lengths to keep his finances secret. They are kept secret not only from the public and Congress but even from his own Justice Department lawyers, who are thus in no position to assure the Court that he is not currently violating the Emoluments Clauses. And, in fact, they offer no such assurances.”
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…The government’s response is due September 22.
citizensforethics.org
re: #238 dangerman
I don’t care what anybody thinks until they try to tell me what I can and cant do
Depends on how they approach me. They can believe whatever they want as long as they leave me, others and laws alone.
re: #240 b_sharp
I finally reached a point where I don’t get tired quite so fast. Even walking up and down the hills here in Vancouver isn’t too bad for me.
I blame the altitude here (6,000 ft., don’t know the conversion to Canadian) although it’s only supposed to take three weeks to get used to it. I’ve lived here 22 years.
re: #226 Birth Control Works
Bannon Admits Trump’s Cabinet Nominees Were Selected To Destroy Their Agencies.
Grrrrr.
Too many people didn’t realize they were voting for Bannon.
re: #244 b_sharp
Depends on how they approach me. They can believe whatever they want as long as they leave me, others and laws alone.
You said it better
re: #241 ObserverArt
Good for Ray. That was the proper response.
What is up with folks these days??? So quick to want to see the downside and spend no time to look for the upsides…which really are the important parts.
I liked the part where he talked about taking younger teammates to the Holocaust Museum in DC.
That’s why ‘veteran leadership’ is so important. Not just as far as teaching the game, but teaching life as well.
re: #245 wrenchwench
I blame the altitude here (6,000 ft., don’t know the conversion to Canadian) although it’s only supposed to take three weeks to get used to it. I’ve lived here 22 years.
Just under 2000 metres. I live at 500 metres, much lower.
re: #250 jaunte
Everybody lording it over us 3-meter people.
Yesterday I was no more than 3 metres above sea level. Right now about 30.
re: #243 jaunte
VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:
emolument (n.) Look up emolument at dictionary.com
mid-15c., from Old French émolument “advantage, gain, benefit; income, revenue” (13c.) and directly from Latin emolumentum “profit, gain, advantage, benefit,” perhaps originally “payment to a miller for grinding corn,” from emolere “grind out,” from assimilated form of ex “out” (see ex-) + molere “to grind” (from PIE root *mele- “to crush, grind”).
From grain to gain: the origin of “emolument”
These conflicts may violate Article 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution, the anti-aristocratic and anti-bribery “Emoluments Clause”:
No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
re: #251 b_sharp
Lately I’ve been wondering if my retirement site target of 120m elevation is going to be enough.
re: #252 Birth Control Works
“Grinding out the presidential profits.”
re: #241 ObserverArt
Good for Ray. That was the proper response.
What is up with folks these days??? So quick to want to see the downside and spend no time to look for the upsides…which really are the important parts.
excellent website. I signed up for their emails.
re: #255 Birth Control Works
excellent website. I signed up for their emails.
Me too!
Thanks MIS for turning us onto it.
I’m not saying this is everything you need to know before making up your own mind, but… https://t.co/VMvGNr6DtF pic.twitter.com/sHmc7o4nVP
— Andrew Exum (@ExumAM) August 5, 2017
I am confused are you disputing the finding on this instance?
— SadFoundingFathers (@SadFndngFathers) August 5, 2017
I don’t disagree that single sourcing can be concerning, but russian influence isn’t a “Clinton narrative”
— SadFoundingFathers (@SadFndngFathers) August 5, 2017
I am guessing because he cleaned out nsa folks who were more pro Russia
— SadFoundingFathers (@SadFndngFathers) August 5, 2017
Excellent. Now, let’s deal with quality of Russ intel. They were only ones who didn’t know DJT was mercurial, impulsive, unreliable?
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) August 5, 2017
Trump is impulsive, mercurial and uncontrollable. Ask the Republicans
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) August 5, 2017
If he is the latter (unproven so far), they got increased sanctions against them for their efforts.
— Harry Shearer (@theharryshearer) August 5, 2017
They are also getting the destruction of American democracy so on balance it’s working out great for them.
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) August 5, 2017
Only slightly.
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) August 5, 2017
re: #257 gocart mozart
Is there a multisyllabic German word for people who think the worst of their nearest political opposition but have a hard time believing in hostile foreign powers?
??? @RealAlexJones pic.twitter.com/8AaUwhgNpV
— Arcade Fire (@arcadefire) July 18, 2017
He thinks you guys know the location of the secret passageway to enter the hollow earth where the mole people live. Do you?
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) July 19, 2017
Karma Just Slapped “Pharma Bro” Hard
Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceutical CEO who found public notoriety as the “Pharma Bro” after a price gouging scandal, was convicted earlier today on three of eight counts he had faced, which had included securities fraud and conspiracy to commit both securities fraud and wire fraud. A jury found him guilty of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, and two counts of securities fraud. He now faces 20 years in prison.
re: #258 jaunte
Is there a multisyllabic German word for people who think the worst of their nearest political opposition but have a hard time believing in hostile foreign powers?
Brobrueningshearer
Companies Can Now Turn Your Deceased Love Ones into Diamonds
ummm, still waiting for Mom’s cremains to be returned from the Anatomical Gift Society of IL.
This new Russian troll-tracking tool by @SecureDemocracy shows today’s top messaging priority from the Kremlin: Firing NSA HR McMaster pic.twitter.com/2pX0cjU5TX
— Alexander Panetta (@Alex_Panetta) August 3, 2017
Was Harry Shearer a Bernie guy or Jill Stein guy? Either way, he’s been a real dope. Disappointed.
re: #1 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Doppel Backpfeifengesicht pic.twitter.com/3qTf61d4Xj
— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) August 5, 2017
My cousin’s husband’s band is playing at the Full Throttle Saloon tonite.
How Kewl is that?
re: #256 Stanley Sea
Me too!
Thanks MIS for turning us onto it.
That’s Derek Jeter’s site. Always something good to read on it, either straight up sports or pro athletes writing about other stuff.
That Lamar Odom story that was posted here last week was from there.
re: #265 GlutenFreeJesus
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He’s got that crap 300 watt Marshall. Those sound awful. He prolly bought it because it was loud and expensive.
re: #270 makeitstop
That’s Derek Jeter’s site. Always something good to read on it, either straight up sports or pro athletes writing about other stuff.
That Lamar Odom story that was posted here last week was from there.
Ahhh. Never knew. Again, thanks!
Excellent article, from Jay Rosen, on discrediting the press as the only thing DT is able to work toward.
You know less than zero about the 1st am.
How is the government “respecting an establishment of religion” by this church’s actions in here?— gocart mozart (@HarryTuttle11) August 5, 2017
Jeff Sessions’ tough talk on leaks heightens fears of jailing journalists https://t.co/e7IyOEEUXs pic.twitter.com/hmH3T0yv6B
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) August 5, 2017
Let’s be clear: The problem here is not journalists. It’s that Russia interfered in our election, and Trump doesn’t want the public to know. https://t.co/D8ynfkIxQD
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 5, 2017
re: #269 Birth Control Works
My cousin’s husband’s band is playing at the Full Throttle Saloon tonite.
How Kewl is that?
I thought the Full Throttle in Sturgis burnt down…
#OTD in 2012, @MarsCuriosity landed on the Red Planet. Discover what it’s taught us about the planet so far: https://t.co/iGufskuv4R pic.twitter.com/lJq1N1Ywp3
— NASA (@NASA) August 5, 2017
Latest news from the European populist-nationalist front:
Finns Party leadership proposes hardliner Huhtasaari as presidential candidate
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As one of the most vocal opponents of immigration in her party, she has demanded that asylum seekers be denied entry in Finland “by all means necessary”, said the fear that Islam inspires can be explained by “Muslim backwardness”, and visited the makeshift camp of the far-right Suomi Ensin (Finland First) group that has ties to neo-Nazis.
She has questioned the reasoning behind basic human rights, and suggested that sex offenders be deported to Estonia for punishment.
A frequent visitor to the USA, she has also made no secret of her admiration for US President Donald Trump. A teacher by profession, she has also criticised evolution on social media.
“People are just not animals and never were. It is an impossible theory that humans descended from animals over time. Such a perfect, systematic world could not have occurred by accident… Even if I didn’t believe in God, I would not believe in Darwin either,” she has written on Facebook.
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Donald Trump and the creationists - sounds like it ought to be the name of a documentary.
That is one racist-ass protocol droid… pic.twitter.com/ZTqLSqnJlf
— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) August 3, 2017
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, married since 1947 https://t.co/6c8d3imWlW pic.twitter.com/jjf4UQFWX5
re: #278 freetoken
Donald Trump and the creationists - sounds like it ought to be the name of a documentary.
Or a terrible band.
Bolling atty rejects allegations: “No such unsolicited communications occurred.” Not flat denial, but seemingly argument agst harassment
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) August 5, 2017
1. To me: “doesn’t recall” “doesn’t believe”
2. To breitbart: never happened
3. To NPR: wasn’t unsolicited https://t.co/DQr432MjPf— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 5, 2017
JUST IN: The UN Security Council imposes new sanctions on North Korea https://t.co/TacJPLVC1i https://t.co/ZmcmNuEItA
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 5, 2017
BREAKING: Eric Bolling Suspended from Fox News https://t.co/L4pUhRazmt pic.twitter.com/WiCU2Fy205
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) August 5, 2017
re: #265 GlutenFreeJesus
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Saw that bit this early morning on a repeat.
He is a piece of work. I heard him say outside the courthouse yesterday that it all was a witch hunt. More mini-trump.
re: #267 gocart mozart
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Backpfeifengesicht is one german word I love. Another is hackfresse.
I’m not saying listening to rap makes you a criminal, but 100% of the people who bought the last Wu-Tang album are now facing prison time
— Nat Baimel (@NatBaimel) August 4, 2017