Friday Night Jam: New From Bob Schneider - “Making It Up”
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How is this even possible? Am I reading this correctly, that Jeff Bezos made $5 billion *in one day*???
Bezos owns 78.83 million share of $AMZN. It’s up $64.06 today. That’s a gain of $5 billion.
— Eddy Elfenbein (@EddyElfenbein) April 27, 2018
Me neither, gotta maintain peak jaded bitterness at all times for the Trust Issues Olympics.
— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 28, 2018
My new painting, “Teach a Man a Fish.” —- “You can give a man a pole. It doesn’t mean he will use it.” —-jonmcnaughton.com pic.twitter.com/yEvMO8sBZo
— Jon McNaughton (@McNaughtonArt) April 25, 2018
Elaborate gay porn intro is elaborate. https://t.co/mSM7cBhXKB
— 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 28, 2018
Getting back to that big WWE show in Saudi Arabia today, evidently it has provided the world with this memorable botch:
“That may be the greatest thing I’ve ever witnessed.”
➡️ https://t.co/ePt5TzD6sU pic.twitter.com/Z0j84mZgvE— TDE Wrestling (@totaldivaseps) April 27, 2018
Anyway, reports say that during the airing (on WWE’s own streaming service) WWE actually put in Saudi propaganda videos, about how great life was in the Kingdom.
Money can buy anything.
re: #1 teleskiguy
How is this even possible? Am I reading this correctly, that Jeff Bezos made $5 billion *in one day*???
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Clearly the time has come for Jeff Bezos to turn into Batman.
re: #1 teleskiguy
How is this even possible? Am I reading this correctly, that Jeff Bezos made $5 billion *in one day*???
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Jeff Bezos’ Fortune Gains $9 Billion In Two Days As Amazon Continues To Soar
Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man and only centibillionaire, got $9 billion richer in two days.
As Amazon stock shot up, in large part thanks to a better-than-expected earnings report on Thursday, Bezos’ net worth rose with it. At the close of trading Friday, his net worth sat at $130.2 billion, according to Forbes’ Real-Time rankings of the world’s billionaires—less than $2 billion below his highest net worth ever, $132.1 billion, which he hit on March 12 of this year. His net worth was as high as $132.0 billion earlier in the day on Friday.
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re: #6 freetoken
So Bezos is making more money in two days than Fuckface Von Clownstick’s entire net worth over the years? That’s… um… rich?
re: #7 teleskiguy
That’s why Trump hates Amazon. Bezos is a real billionaire, while Trump was only a fake one.
re: #8 freetoken
That and he owns The Washington Post, who happen to be the premier national journalism outlet actually doing work out there. NYT gets lucky here and there, they’re also good Fuckface Von Clownstick tongue bathers, know what I mean, Vern?
re: #1 teleskiguy
How is this even possible? Am I reading this correctly, that Jeff Bezos made $5 billion *in one day*???
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In fairness that money doesn’t really exist. If he tried to liquidate his stock the price would drop dramatically. And since Amazon is publicly traded, he’d have to report any major sell of and the reasons for it.
He can sell some off for purchases if he really wanted to. But mostly it just lets him borrow more
I made maybe $50 today, and Jeff Bezos made $5 billion. I’m having a hard time wrapping my mind around this.
re: #8 freetoken
That’s why Trump hates Amazon. Bezos is a real billionaire, while Trump was only a fake one.
Nah, Bezos is self made in a way that Trump can only pretend to be. That’s what annoys him most. Trump got his wealth the old fashioned way - his father and grandmother built it and he inherited it. And it’s all tied up in real estate. Bezos made his wealth by creating something new
My new painting, “Teach a Man a Fish.” —- “You can give a man a pole. It doesn’t mean he will use it.” —-jonmcnaughton.com pic.twitter.com/yEvMO8sBZo
— Jon McNaughton (@McNaughtonArt) April 25, 2018
Trump: “Everybody says I have the best fish, best fish. I know more about fishing than the fishermen. Big, beautiful fish!”
Student: “Sir, there’s no bait in this tackle-box”
Trump: “Nobody knew you needed bait to fish!” https://t.co/6j8WVAxUQw— aceoaces (@aceoaces) April 28, 2018
re: #8 freetoken
That’s why Trump hates Amazon. Bezos is a real billionaire, while Trump was only a fake one.
That and because Bezos / Amazon is the face of the e-commerce trend that is destroying demand for retail commercial real estate. Because of that Trump’s net worth dropped $400 million last year.
He’s the most powerful man in the world and because he never diversified his holdings the world’s richest man is just drinking up his goddamned milkshake.
re: #1 teleskiguy
How is this even possible? Am I reading this correctly, that Jeff Bezos made $5 billion *in one day*???
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Because it’s not real money until he tries to cash it out. Monday, he could lose $10B, and would still be able to sleep at night because it’s not real money.
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
That and because Bezos / Amazon is the face of the e-commerce trend that is destroying demand for retail commercial real estate. Because of that Trump’s net worth dropped $400 million last year.
He’s the most powerful man in the world and because he never diversified his holdings the world’s richest man is just drinking up his goddamned milkshake.
He tried to diversify his holdings but always put his name on it and in his primary market (the US) everyone knew it meant “cheap trying too hard to be classy and respectable”
Do I even need to point out the hilarity of using as your focus for the ol’ “teach a man to fish” parable the poster child for white entitlement? A rich asshole who has run the real estate empire his father left him into the ground and has been left bullshitting people into believing his name equals “success”?
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Has Ms. Ingraham told Kanye to, “shut up and sing” yet, or does that only apply to anti-Trump black celebrities? 🤔
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) April 25, 2018
Hey guys, this is the original tweet that got Ms. Ingraham’s nose bent out of shape. So, i thought I’d retweet it, so she has something to talk about on her show tonight. You know, gotta help a sister out. Retweet at will.😂😂😂 https://t.co/79pC8M1Vv6
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) April 27, 2018
re: #15 Belafon
Because it’s not real money until he tries to cash it out. Monday, he could lose $10B, and would still be able to sleep at night because it’s not real money.
Exactly, unrealized gains and losses aren’t making & losing money.
re: #16 KGxvi
He tried to diversify his holdings but always put his name on it and in his primary market (the US) everyone knew it meant “cheap trying too hard to be classy and respectable”
His problem is that he’s always gotten more of a thrill out of inflating his ego than his bottom line. If on Inauguration Day he’d put it all into almost any major index fund he’d be up around 20% right now.
re: #1 teleskiguy
How is this even possible? Am I reading this correctly, that Jeff Bezos made $5 billion *in one day*???
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And yet Amazon has never broken even one year yet, has it? Another bubble ready to burst.
re: #8 freetoken
That’s why Trump hates Amazon. Bezos is a real billionaire, while Trump was only a fake one.
“I’m not a rich guy, but I play one on TV”.
It seems that the chaplain wasn’t praying to Mammon:
House chaplain forced out by Ryan: He warned me to “stay out of politics” after prayer on GOP tax bill https://t.co/jW9Bxc0FeV pic.twitter.com/jOYiJAEvI3
— The Hill (@thehill) April 27, 2018
Literally all he did was pray the tax bill would benefit the poor — something the GOP themselves repeatedly swore up and down it would do.
This is a really, REALLY bad look for Ryan. https://t.co/USLuMqWnv4— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) April 27, 2018
re: #10 KGxvi
In fairness that money doesn’t really exist. If he tried to liquidate his stock the price would drop dramatically. And since Amazon is publicly traded, he’d have to report any major sell of and the reasons for it.
He can sell some off for purchases if he really wanted to. But mostly it just lets him borrow more
Blue Origin is financed by selling $1 billion worth of Amazon stock a year.
re: #22 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
And yet Amazon has never broken even one year yet, has it? Another bubble ready to burst.
Their operating costs have always been through the roof, I’m pretty sure they’ve lost money quarterly more than they’ve gained. Nope. And yet they’re considered a vanguard company, right up there with General Electric.
Business confuses me. Other than basic life shit (which ski passes and rock concerts figure into, ‘cause you have to enjoy life right?), I’ve never cared about money.
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re: #26 Belafon
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Thanks—I hadn’t been paying attention for a while. Everybody was always wondering why the stock kept going up and up when they’d never broken even. I guess they finally did.
re: #24 Belafon
It seems that the chaplain wasn’t praying to Mammon:
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Honestly how is there even a House Chaplain? That shit is such a flagrant Article 6 Section 3 violation.
re: #29 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Thanks—I hadn’t been paying attention for a while. Everybody was always wondering why the stock kept going up and up when they’d never broken even. I guess they finally did.
I think their stock is overvalued, and I like the company because of a few things they are good at, like being able to get books that you can’t get through physical stores and allowing third party sellers to use their site.
re: #27 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Harsh, but fair.
re: #31 Belafon
I think their stock is overvalued, and I like the company because of a few things they are good at, like being able to get books that you can’t get through physical stores and allowing third party sellers to use their site.
P/E ratio is 255:1, so yeah.
I’m begrudgingly posting this here.
.@RoseanneOnABC if in the next six months you don’t see Trump’s magic starting to work for you, if you’re still trading pills and driving an @Uber, wouldn’t the more realistic plotline for Season 2 be your disillusionment with Donald Trump? pic.twitter.com/dB3dZr2urV
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) April 28, 2018
re: #29 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It’s profitable, but its still insanely expensive. It’s still bubbly, but it’s an actual company with real profits, the next step is to see whether it crashes back to a reasonable value, or whether it grows to fit what it’s currently currently valued at.
re: #30 goddamnedfrank
Honestly how is there even a House Chaplain? That shit is such a flagrant Article 6 Section 3 violation.
“The Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives is one of the officers of the United States House of Representatives. The House cites the first half of Article 1, Section 2, Clause 5 in the United States Constitution as giving it the authority to elect a Chaplain, “The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers”.[1]
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
“The Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives is one of the officers of the United States House of Representatives. The House cites the first half of Article 1, Section 2, Clause 5 in the United States Constitution as giving it the authority to elect a Chaplain, “The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers”.[1]
The Senate has a Chaplain too.
re: #30 goddamnedfrank
Honestly how is there even a House Chaplain? That shit is such a flagrant Article 6 Section 3 violation.
re: #36 Eclectic Cyborg
“The Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives is one of the officers of the United States House of Representatives. The House cites the first half of Article 1, Section 2, Clause 5 in the United States Constitution as giving it the authority to elect a Chaplain, “The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers”.[1]
Still violates Article 6 Section 3 religious test proscription under any reasonable interpretation. It’s no accident that every single House Chaplain has been some flavor of Christian.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
Still violates Article 6 Section 3 religious test proscription under any reasonable interpretation. It’s no accident that every single House Chaplain has been some flavor of Christian.
Not disagreeing with you but:
“In 1983, the Supreme Court upheld the practice of having an official chaplain as deeply ingrained in the history and tradition of this country. They stated the ultimate authority for the position lies in the Constitution which states that the House and Senate may each choose their officers, with no restrictions on what kind of officers may be chosen. Using that authority, both chambers have chosen to continue to elect an officer to act as Chaplain.[11]”
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
Still violates Article 6 Section 3 religious test proscription under any reasonable interpretation. It’s no accident that every single House Chaplain has been some flavor of Christian.
I read that they gut upset with the chaplain they fired because he let an Imam hold the daily prayers one morning.
It should be the job of any Christian chaplain to hold the line against creeping Sharia.
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Texas will be allowed to enforce its voter ID law in the upcoming election after a federal appeals court overruled a lower court’s decision https://t.co/mQTG37L7mI pic.twitter.com/d6U07AzZNv
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) April 28, 2018
This thread from Tom Nichols strikes me as right on the money. Click through and read the thread.
I am not enough of an internal North Korea politics expert to know why Kim is doing what Kim’s doing. But from a 30,000 foot IR perspective, I have just a couple of ideas.
/1— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 27, 2018
re: #24 Belafon
This is a really, REALLY bad look for Ryan.
Ryan doesn’t care because it doesn’t matter.
His sugar daddies got what they wanted.
“If you think you are an atheist you are wrong, says Peterson, because your mind has been bent and shaped and molded by a god-fearing past stretching back into the unfathomable abysm of time.” https://t.co/LMcQUvLQrV
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) April 27, 2018
Praise Cthulhu! https://t.co/T7KRBAXvyR
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 28, 2018
re: #45 Kragar
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This Peterson MoMo has taken Newt Gingrich’s mantle as “A stupid person’s idea of what a smart person sounds like”. What a cretin!
re: #46 wheat-dogg
Abysm? Is that like an abyssal chasm? Or a chasmic abyss?
And I learned a new word.
I knew “abysmal” but never though of what it would be derived from.
I do not discuss atheism any more than I discuss matters of belief in God unless I have a personal interest in someone. Because they are personal and subjective matters.
re: #38 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
6 degrees of separation from that song led me to this
re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I knew “abysmal” but never though of what it would be derived from.
I do not discuss atheism any more than I discuss matters of belief in God unless I have a personal interest in someone. Because they are personal and subjective matters.
I think “abyss” is the only Sumerian loan word in English. Apsu was the void underneath the Earth.
re: #38 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I recall when there were still “underground” FM radio stations in Chicago that played songs not heard on the radio charts, whole album sides, Firesign Theater and National Lampoon Radio hour skits, eetc.
I recall hearing Sky Pilot one late at night.
along with this song:
re: #51 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I think “abyss” is the only Sumerian loan word in English. Apsu was the void underneath the Earth.
It all makes sense now:
ABBA is then “The Band That Returns From the Abyss”
re: #52 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall when there were still “underground” FM radio stations in Chicago that played songs not heard on the radio charts, whole album sides, Firesign Theater and National Lampoon Radio hour skits, eetc.
I recall hearing Sky Pilot one late at night.
along with this song:
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They used to play this long version of Sky Pilot on KOL-FM: “Seattle’s only Underground Rock™ Station! We play the music THEY don’t want you to hear!”
I finally figured out the songs THEY didn’t want us to hear were any songs longer than three minutes….
re: #45 Kragar
The comments on that page are so much pseudo-to-semi-intellectual self-important dipshittery.
OK, watched The Last Jedi
Needed more lens flare
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re: #54 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
They used to play this long version of Sky Pilot on KOL-FM: “Seattle’s only Underground Rock™ Station! We play the music THEY don’t want you to hear!”
I finally figured out the songs THEY didn’t want us to hear were any songs longer than three minutes….
It had little to do with what THEY wanted us to hear or not: most mainstream stations had a strict format of songs from the pop charts.
I recall WXRT in Chicago playing entire album-side jams by the Allman Brothers or Emerson, Lake & Palmer, I found that impressive. Songs that would never, ever make the charts.
re: #56 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
OK, watched The Last Jedi
Needed more lens flare
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Is lens flare the new “Artistic Cinematography” in succession to “pillowcase over the lens”?
re: #56 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
OK, watched The Last Jedi
Needed more lens flare
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Why are you using gravity bombers in space?
Why did you introduce an item which lets Rey track the Rebel fleet’s location thru hyperspace, then act shocked that the Imperial were able to track the Rebel fleet thru hyperspace?
Why did you have the only significant action your “heroes” make after an hour of movie time was bring in the traitor who ended up making sure the rebel survivors were decimated in space?
Yeah, I had issues with it.
re: #59 Kragar
Why are the bombers utter shit when compared to outdated garbage like the Y-Wing and B-Wing?
If Holdo had a suicide plan, why not just TELL Poe something so he wouldn’t do the whole mutiny sub-plot. If they were worried about Poe fcking off to tell the First Order about their course that was pointless…BECAUSE THEY WERE BEING TRACKED AND EVERYONE KNEW.
Having said that, Holdo’s plan worked for dramatic reasons. The theater went as quiet as the film.
re: #45 Kragar
The American Conservative
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@amconmag
“If you think you are an atheist you are wrong, says Peterson, because your mind has been bent and shaped and molded by a god-fearing past stretching back into the unfathomable abysm of time.”
by this logic, if you think you are a christian you are wrong, because your mind has been bent and shaped and moulded by a pagan, goddess worshipping past stretching back many aeons before christianity or even monotheism was ever thought of
and if you think pagan religion was anything like that post jesus invention, the drama of original sin and salvation from eternal torture by the unearned grace given by god out of pure compassion, you gots another thing coming, binky
re: #61 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Christians do not like to admit how much outright pagainsm they co-opted in order to make their message more palatable to the masses.
re: #45 Kragar
I’ve only recently become aware of that logorrheic humbug and already I’m tired of him.
re: #18 teleskiguy
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re: #3 goddamnedfrank
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My new painting, “Teach a Man a Fish.”
You probably don’t want to bring up teaching when you’re talking about a guy who ran a scam university.
re: #65 garzooma
You probably don’t want to bring up teaching when you’re talking about a guy who ran a scam university.
“This is a hook. You put a little bait on the hook. Then you see if you get bites. Lesson over. That will be $30,000….”
re: #3 goddamnedfrank
It feels like this was originally meant to be a chess scene.
he’s upset
Allegations made by Senator Jon Tester against Admiral/Doctor Ron Jackson are proving false. The Secret Service is unable to confirm (in fact they deny) any of the phony Democrat charges which have absolutely devastated the wonderful Jackson family. Tester should resign. The…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2018
….great people of Montana will not stand for this kind of slander when talking of a great human being. Admiral Jackson is the kind of man that those in Montana would most respect and admire, and now, for no reason whatsoever, his reputation has been shattered. Not fair, Tester!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2018
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Trump said Thursday that Tester will have a “big price to pay” for his part in working to sink Jackson’s nomination. But Tester is sanguine about his decision to go public with accusations about Jackson’s workplace misconduct, poor prescription practices and drinking on the job.
“If he thinks it’s my job to sweep his stuff under the table and ignore our military folks, he’s wrong. If he thinks I should not be sticking up for veterans, he’s wrong,” Tester said Thursday of the president. “I look forward to working with President Trump. I’ve worked with him many times in the past, but we disagree.”
This is hilarious.
An architecture expert reveals 19 of the ugliest McMansions in America
Everyone with an ounce of taste likes to mock mcmansions, the giant, pretentious, stylistically illiterate, and cheaply made cookie cutter houses that spread like a fungus across newly developed ‘burbs from coast to coast. The mid-90s were the heyday of mcmansions, but they are still alive (though not well).
You could almost feel guilty for ridiculing them and their clueless owners, except that they are so deserving of ridicule.
Two of the worst are in Texas. They look like the sort of place where a Trumpite politician might live:
Fort Bend County:
Rockwall:
What is the line from American Pie?
“‘Cause fire is the Devil’s only friend.”
Video of fire breaking out at Trump International Hotel and Tower in Baku, Azerbaijan. pic.twitter.com/JHV2WqqJil— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) April 28, 2018
re: #71 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Oy. Don’t these people watch This Old House? Even For Your Home has nicer houses than those.
::: shudder :::
Nightmare fuel…
“A generation lost in space.” pic.twitter.com/9KUU3e59YK
— Green Tea Party - @quaker4change (@quaker4change) April 28, 2018
re: #56 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
OK, watched The Last Jedi
Needed more lens flare
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Watched it finally this weekend with my son. Excellent movie with it wonderfully understanding that:
1) No bloodline is that important
2) No, you can’t just jump in an x-wing and blow poo up
3) The most critical scene in the movie is the last one.
This moves into #4 on my Star Wars list. (IV, V, Rogue One, VIII, VII, VI, III, II, I)
With the second trailer, I have high hopes for Solo as well.
re: #71 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
re: #74 PhillyPretzel
These are tiny houses but they have a lot more style then those McMansions:
tumbleweedhouses.com
So glad ABBA are getting together again. We always used to strip search the blonde one. I mean, who wouldn’t????? I can never remember their name. It was either Benny or Bjorn.
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) April 28, 2018
re: #67 jeffreyw
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Good morning!
Nice bright red on the cardinal checking out the camera.
heh
Watch her handlers cut off the questions when she gets that panicky look in her eyes https://t.co/3hnJxfCLwJ
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 28, 2018
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
he’s upset
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If Ronny Jackson is so clean why did he withdraw and why did Donny not back him and more or less suggest he not go through the process?
Deep state…fake news…no collusion…
re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Interesting. I’m watching qualifying for the Grand Prix of Azerbaijan right now. No mention of a fire, and the race is right downtown. I’ll have to keep an eye on the sky as the cars go around the course…maybe we get some overhead shots of the city.
re: #69 Backwoods_Sleuth
he’s upset
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Yep I knew he would go after Tester. Sad thing is it might work in Montana.
re: #74 PhillyPretzel
Oy. Don’t these people watch This Old House? Even For Your Home has nicer houses than those.
::: shudder :::
The worst part is that these atrocities cost a fortune. At one time, wealthy people were expected to have at least a modicum of artistic knowledge. Even if they were new to the manor, they could learn the basics in less time that it took to have a house built. Now, though, “more money than sense” really is the norm.
Fortunately, most of these will not last long. That may be just my own prejudice, since I have a strong preference for old houses. My current one, built in 1907, is the oldest and best yet, though probably too large for just me. My daughter calls it “the museum” since she asserts that I actually live in the nearby garage and workshop.
re: #84 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I live in a tiny row house in Philly. It was built after WW2. It has a postage stamp lawn in the front and a strip of grass in the back. My old car (it needs lots of work) is back there too. It looks like the others in the area because that is how they built them. My parents house was a twin with a straight-through floor plan. It was very nice and it had central air. These are nice houses.
re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg
The Senate has a Chaplain too.
And no-one in the congress takes any notice whatsoever of the values of Christianity - so it’s hard to understand why they bother.
At least the chaplain who was fired knew the reality of this soulless congress.
re: #88 fern01
And no-one in the congress takes any notice whatsoever of the values of Christianity - so it’s hard to understand why they bother.
At least the chaplain who was fired knew the reality of this soulless congress.
They bother because putting on the appearance of holiness is important to their electability. If they stopped trying to look like Christians on the outside, eventually the evangelicals would catch on (notice I said eventually), and their power base would evaporate.
re: #89 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
They bother because putting on the appearance of holiness is important to their electability. If they stopped trying to look like Christians on the outside, eventually the evangelicals would catch on (notice I said eventually), and their power base would evaporate.
Given the evangelicals accepted an adulterer thrice married as their savior - I doubt they will EVER leave the current version of the republican party. Only thing that might force them away would be if the GOP nominated a black man for President.
re: #90 fern01
Given the evangelicals accepted an adulterer thrice married as their savior - I doubt they will EVER leave the current version of the republican party. Only thing that might force them away would be if the GOP nominated a black man for President.
No, they would leave eventually. See, despite being a man-slut, it’s important to realize that Trump is still pretending to be a pious man. Remember the comment from Franklin Graham that “Trump hasn’t sinned since he took office”? That’s the attitude they take - as long as they’re putting in the effort, they get the reward. He’s keeping his immorality on the down-low right now. If he was flaunting it, waving infidelity in their faces on a daily basis, I think it’d be a different story. They’d start with the “sincere but deeply flawed” storyline, but they couldn’t keep that pretense up forever.
still watching the teevee…
“Clapper lied about (fraudulent) Dossier leaks to CNN” @foxandfriends FoxNews He is a lying machine who now works for Fake News CNN.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2018
re: #90 fern01
Given the evangelicals accepted an adulterer thrice married as their savior - I doubt they will EVER leave the current version of the republican party. Only thing that might force them away would be if the GOP nominated a black man for President.
Diamond/Silk 2020!!
re: #89 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
They bother because putting on the appearance of holiness is important to their electability. If they stopped trying to look like Christians on the outside, eventually the evangelicals would catch on (notice I said eventually), and their power base would evaporate.
I’m not so sure. The evangelical movement has become so deeply dependent upon gaining and maintaining secular power that they can pretend Trumpenfuhrer is a Christian. The whole idea of “winning” the culture war that they’ve already lost has twisted them beyond recovery, I fear. Hence they give out cheap grace to anyone who mouths their dogmas irregardless of their actual beliefs and behaviors. The base loves them for this because it lets them be nasty racist SOB’s and feel as if they actually were Christian. They won’t give that up willingly.
Remember how the Germans could ignore the camps murdering people right outside their villages until the US came along and forced them to march through the camps and look upon the works they really performed. That’s the mindset of the Evangelical base.
re: #91 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
No, they would leave eventually. See, despite being a man-slut, it’s important to realize that Trump is still pretending to be a pious man. Remember the comment from Franklin Graham that “Trump hasn’t sinned since he took office”? That’s the attitude they take - as long as they’re putting in the effort, they get the reward. He’s keeping his immorality on the down-low right now. If he was flaunting it, waving infidelity in their faces on a daily basis, I think it’d be a different story. They’d start with the “sincere but deeply flawed” storyline, but they couldn’t keep that pretense up forever.
I doubt I’ll live to see it - but I hope you are right
Right wing evangelicals just want someone to kiss their ass. That’s why someone like Father Conroy was no longer acceptable to House Republicans.
re: #89 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
They bother because putting on the appearance of holiness is important to their electability. If they stopped trying to look like Christians on the outside, eventually the evangelicals would catch on (notice I said eventually), and their power base would evaporate.
Remember when it was taught Christians were judged by their works and that it was bad to put on public displays declaring how Christian you are?
Seems so long ago.
Now everyone down on your knees and pray to the Golden Trump.
re: #45 Kragar
The American Conservative
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@amconmag
“If you think you are an atheist you are wrong, says Peterson, because your mind has been bent and shaped and molded by a god-fearing past stretching back into the unfathomable abysm of time.” theam.cn
10:30 PM - Apr 26, 2018
Maybe Bill Maher should have spent a little time reading more about Jordan Peterson before having him on the show a couple weeks ago and lavishly praising his point of view.
re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth
still watching the teevee…
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It’s like this bad dream when your crazy Uncle who does nothing but watch FNC for his information somehow becomes President. That’s the Trump Presidency in a nutshell. Well and the corruption. Crazy Uncle wouldn’t be as corrupt as Trump perhaps not intentionally anyhow.
Trump proposes rolling back offshore drilling safety rule https://t.co/yqwLq2aagO pic.twitter.com/XLVnpYHsGy
— The Hill (@thehill) April 28, 2018
I’m convinced the guiding principle of this administration is, “How can they get any worse?” https://t.co/vNeVJTRkn9
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 28, 2018
re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter
Maybe Bill Maher should have spent a little time reading more about Jordan Peterson before having him on the show a couple weeks ago and lavishly praising his point of view.
From what I understand about Peterson, he’s another one of these MRA asshole types that seem to have been growing in recent years. As for what he said about atheism. He couldn’t be more wrong. I’m agnostic in good part because I was allowed to come ot my own understanding of religion and life’s questions. The best thing you can to is not to force religion on a child. Let him or her see the world around them and make their own decisions in the end.
re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Actually, as far as I’ve been able to ascertain, the one and only thing this administration is consistent on is, “What’s the next thing the black guy did that we can undo?”
re: #102 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Actually, as far as I’ve been able to ascertain, the one and only thing this administration is consistent on is, “What’s the next thing the black guy did that we can undo?”
He’d probably bring back Bin Laden from the dead and let him loose just so he could try to kill him and take credit.
Yes, it was and still is a coup attempt https://t.co/KvvOOXTQDG
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) April 27, 2018
you are nuts https://t.co/E5YiZN9AOh
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) April 28, 2018
re: #99 HappyWarrior
It’s like this bad dream when your crazy Uncle who does nothing but watch FNC for his information somehow becomes President. That’s the Trump Presidency in a nutshell. Well and the corruption. Crazy Uncle wouldn’t be as corrupt as Trump perhaps not intentionally anyhow.
Like so many - I find it impossible to believe that this imbecile who attacks political opponents via immature language on twitter is the president* of the USA. I keep thinking I’ll wake up from this ridiculous dream. That there is a political party, in the majority in congress, that supports such behavior is beyond sanity.
The USA is being led by madmen - but you all know that.
Off to work. Time to bust my ass for nowhere near enough. Later folks.
‘We want respect!’: Trump supporters whine that everyone mocks them in pity-soaked NPR interview. Here’s the thing: they are NOT misunderstood. We get exactly what they’re all about. That’s why many of us detest them so much. https://t.co/r6bbMLYlj4 pic.twitter.com/OmGRJA5eL1
— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) April 28, 2018
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
I couldn’t love this tweet more if I’d given birth to it.
— Cynthia, Observer (@Ab_Synthia) April 28, 2018
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
They still have not learned the lesson of earning respect.
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
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TBH I don’t give a shit how they feel. They’re always mocking liberals and “SJWs” for feeling too much. Listen you CHOSE to embrace an unqualified bigoted opportunist who has no idea what he’s doing.
re: #1 teleskiguy
How is this even possible? Am I reading this correctly, that Jeff Bezos made $5 billion *in one day*???
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remember, it’s only a paper gain. he’ still living in a banana crate in the warehouse district in Seattle.
When you’re the quantum chemist and he’s mansplaining nato to you. pic.twitter.com/zIHXjPzKBZ
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) April 27, 2018
Emmanuel Macron’s speech to a joint session of Congress, @EJDionne writes, was “a full-scale takedown of Trumpism, wrapped in a love letter to the United States and a call on Americans to live up to the values embedded in our own history.” https://t.co/hIIOIVlN0g
— David Gura (@davidgura) April 26, 2018
re: #111 HappyWarrior
TBH I don’t give a shit how they feel. They’re always mocking liberals and “SJWs” for feeling too much. Listen you CHOSE to embrace an unqualified bigoted opportunist who has no idea what he’s doing.
I remind our audience (and I really wish we could remind these fuckers) that they were the ones to launch the “Fuck Your Feelings” campaign.
re: #112 steve_davis
remember, it’s only a paper gain. he’ still living in a banana crate in the warehouse district in Seattle.
Nah, he’s moved down to Kent now. I’m 20 blocks south of Blue Origin, and Amazon’s new headquarters is 20 blocks west of that.
I know Father Patrick Conroy. He’s a good man. He was never partisan. He was always available. Speaker Ryan owes us an explanation about his firing. I heard it’s because he prayed for fairness for the poor, allowed an Imam to offer prayers. https://t.co/B8yjv6zuJx
— Rep. Keith Ellison (@keithellison) April 28, 2018
re: #115 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I remind our audience (and I really wish we could remind these fuckers) that they were the ones to launch the “Fuck Your Feelings” campaign.
Yep and they also like people like Shapiro who has famously said that the facts don’t care about your feelings. Well, here’s some facts, Trump is an ignorant asshole about the world around us. You elected him. I won’t go out of my way to be hostile to you just because you’re a Trump supporter but if you’re going to start whining about liberals being mean to you, I’ll gladly remind you how you didn’t care when Trump created a Nuremberg like atmosphere with his rallies.
re: #91 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
No, they would leave eventually. See, despite being a man-slut, it’s important to realize that Trump is still pretending to be a pious man. Remember the comment from Franklin Graham that “Trump hasn’t sinned since he took office”? That’s the attitude they take - as long as they’re putting in the effort, they get the reward. He’s keeping his immorality on the down-low right now. If he was flaunting it, waving infidelity in their faces on a daily basis, I think it’d be a different story. They’d start with the “sincere but deeply flawed” storyline, but they couldn’t keep that pretense up forever.
From my perspective, he has done nothing but sin since he took office. It is not adultery that is his real sin, but his denial of climate change, his repeal of every regulation designed to save the planet or help the poor, his personal corruption and that of practically everyone in his administration, his misogyny, his racism. What about bearing false witness? What about almost every other commandment? His unleashing the military without concern for “collateral” damage and his denial of refuge to those fleeing tyranny certainly must violate “Thou shalt not murder” commandment. Do the evangelicals actually care about the ten commandments at all?
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #114 Dizzy
…Emmanuel Macron’s speech to a joint session of Congress, @EJDionne writes, was “a full-scale takedown of Trumpism, wrapped in a love letter to the United States and a call on Americans to live up to the values embedded in our own history.”
We never have, but our sanctimonious preaching over the years has had an effect—I consider the United States the most successful scam of the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do type in history. But now we’re pissing that away.
re: #121 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
We never have, but our sanctimonious preaching over the years has had an effect—I consider the United States the most successful scam of the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do type in history. But now we’re pissing that away.
I’m not sure I agree that the U.S. has never lived up to the values in her history, but at least those values are codified. From an outsiders perspective (I’m Canadian) I do agree that the U.S. is pissing away those values very quickly now.
Duck on the loose!👀🦆
Drivers in Iowa’s capital city faced an unusual traffic dilemma Thursday. Strong winds freed a gigantic inflatable duck and was filmed rolling down this street. Don’t worry though, it has since been recovered and returned home undamaged. #IAwx pic.twitter.com/XKXi7MNiYf— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) April 28, 2018
Ryan sold his final ounce of political capital to force a man who is widely known and respected for his ability to treat people of all faiths out of his job. I know it sounds wrong but I detest so much of what Evangelicals in this country stand for. I detest their blatant hypocrisy. I detest a lot of their ministers living like fucking celebrities and having their congregations subsidize that lifestyle. I detest their homophobia and attacks on those who don’t share their views. I detest them playing victim over things like same sex marriage being legal. I detest their shaming of liberals for embracing our LGBT and non-Christian friends while worshipping Trump But most of all, I detest their politicization of religion as a tool to attack people.
The face of this guy when Diamond and Silk suggest the FEC report is “fake news” is PRICELESS pic.twitter.com/5hM8mfdvUt
— Melissa Quinn (@MelissaQuinn97) April 26, 2018
re: #125 Belafon
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To phrase from Office and Space, what exactly do Diamond and Silk do other than be the only two black women in the country that support Trump to the end?
re: #124 HappyWarrior
Ryan sold his final ounce of political capital to force a man who is widely known and respected for his ability to treat people of all faiths out of his job. I know it sounds wrong but I detest so much of what Evangelicals in this country stand for. I detest their blatant hypocrisy. I detest a lot of their ministers living like fucking celebrities and having their congregations subsidize that lifestyle. I detest their homophobia and attacks on those who don’t share their views. I detest them playing victim over things like same sex marriage being legal. I detest their shaming of liberals for embracing our LGBT and non-Christian friends while worshipping Trump But most of all, I detest their politicization of religion as a tool to attack people.
Nope — my guess is that most Republicans in Congress were offended by a chaplain who was not in support of the “Prosperity Gospel”. The non-Catholic Republicans were offended by a Catholic holding the post. Ryan never has any political capital with the Democrats.
re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter
Nope — my guess is that most Republicans in Congress were offended by a chaplain who was not in support of the “Prosperity Gospel”. The non-Catholic Republicans were offended by a Catholic holding the post. Ryan never has any political capital with the Democrats.
True. God I hate the prosperity gospel bullshit. I’m not Christian but you know what a lot of older members of my family were and that shit went against everything they believed. There’s nothing wrong with success but the prosperity gospel is basically “I can be a greedy prick and God loves me.”
Pat Tiberi ignited a free-for-all last fall when he said he would resign his seat in Congress. https://t.co/orU6jqtw3l
— Enquirer (@Enquirer) April 28, 2018
The 12th District, shaped like an elongated letter C, runs from Mansfield to the northern Columbus suburbs, then stretches eastward to Zanesville and southern Muskingum County. The district long has been represented by a certain kind of Republican. Before he became governor, John Kasich won the seat in 1982, then passed it in 2001 to Tiberi, who had worked in Kasich’s office.
Tiberi’s retirement to run a lobbying group of Ohio CEOs leaves an opening to rebrand the district. Will it continue to be represented by moderate, establishment Republicans, or will it trend toward grassroots conservatives? Will Democrats find a candidate who can galvanize moderate Republicans and Trump opponents and try to turn the district blue for the first time since the early 1980s?
Anything could happen, experts say. Cook Political Report, a leading source of analysis on congressional races, on Friday labeled the district a “toss-up.”. The race is likely to attract national attention and spending as Democrats seek to take control of Congress.
Eighteen Republicans and Democrats are vying for the seat. Most are running both to finish Tiberi’s term this year and to win the seat for the 2019-2020 term. The primary for both races is May 8. The top Republican and the top Democrat will face off Aug. 7 for the rest of Tiberi’s term and Nov. 6 for the 2019-2020 term.
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
Eighteen Republicans and Democrats are vying for the seat. Most are running both to finish Tiberi’s term this year and to win the seat for the 2019-2020 term. The primary for both races is May 8. The top Republican and the top Democrat will face off Aug. 7 for the rest of Tiberi’s term and Nov. 6 for the 2019-2020 term.
Another reason to hate Rick Snyder. Republicans really don’t believe in democracy; you can bet if Conyers were a Republican there would have been an election to replace him months ago
re: #88 fern01
And no-one in the congress takes any notice whatsoever of the values of Christianity - so it’s hard to understand why they bother.
At least the chaplain who was fired knew the reality of this soulless congress.
Well they gotta have the appearance of doing the right thing.
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hahahahahaa…such snowflakes
GOP lawmaker suggests “assassination risk” is causing high number of GOP retirements https://t.co/hoF3F3wJej pic.twitter.com/oH84iOxxEj
— The Hill (@thehill) April 27, 2018
Lol no. They’re fleeing the crime scene. https://t.co/1HUXMs73Rc
— Tom Wellborn 🌊🌊 (@TomWellborn) April 28, 2018
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
hahahahahaa…such snowflakes
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Uh no. And if you actually believed that, you’d actually be doing something to keep guns out of people like that hand’s rather than being okay with it. You’re just scared that your time is up. BTW Mo, how do you enjoy having a Democrat from the Senate in Alabama? Bet it feels good!
re: #124 HappyWarrior
Ryan sold his final ounce of political capital to force a man who is widely known and respected for his ability to treat people of all faiths out of his job. I know it sounds wrong but I detest so much of what Evangelicals in this country stand for. I detest their blatant hypocrisy. I detest a lot of their ministers living like fucking celebrities and having their congregations subsidize that lifestyle. I detest their homophobia and attacks on those who don’t share their views. I detest them playing victim over things like same sex marriage being legal. I detest their shaming of liberals for embracing our LGBT and non-Christian friends while worshipping Trump But most of all, I detest their politicization of religion as a tool to attack people.
Isn’t Ryan Catholic too? He’s Irish/German…so it’s not like he hasn’t been taught what the chaplain was saying in his prayer.
He obviously doesn’t care about the religious aspects of what was in the prayer. So, in a way it is not about religion at all…just like it is not with the evangelicals.
What pissed off Ryan was the chaplain is making him look bad. That shows Ryan is uncomfortable and must know he is screwing real people over, but he just does not care.
We are seeing Paul Ryan sell his last bit of any dignity. He will run off now, count his money, live off his government entitlements and slink away knowing he is a snake.
re: #128 HappyWarrior
True. God I hate the prosperity gospel bullshit. I’m not Christian but you know what a lot of older members of my family were and that shit went against everything they believed. There’s nothing wrong with success but the prosperity gospel is basically “I can be a greedy prick and God loves me.”
Actually it’s worse than that. It certainly appears that they believe that being wealthy shows that God loves you and that being poor shows that God does not approve of you.
heh
GOP lawmaker suggests “assassination risk” is causing high number of GOP retirements https://t.co/hoF3F3wJej pic.twitter.com/oH84iOxxEj
— The Hill (@thehill) April 27, 2018
GOP lawmakers: “we can’t regulate guns because the people need to be able to fight a tyrannical government!”
Also GOP lawmakers: “we’re afraid the people are going to kill us!” https://t.co/SzIhaoR7ho— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) April 28, 2018
re: #134 ObserverArt
Isn’t Ryan Catholic too? He’s Irish/German…so it’s not like he hasn’t been taught what the chaplain was saying in his prayer.
He obviously doesn’t care about the religious aspects of what was in the prayer. So, in a way it is not about religion at all…just like it is not with the evangelicals.
What pissed off Ryan was the chaplain is making him look bad. That shows Ryan is uncomfortable and must know he is screwing real people over, but he just does not care.
We are seeing Paul Ryan sell his last bit of any dignity. He will run off now, count his money, live off his government entitlements and slink away knowing he is a snake.
Ryan’s god is Ayn Rand. So he’s following his true religion.
I am no prosperity Gospel person. God blesses me, I use those blessings to help others in need. I don’t hoard it all for myself while screaming “Thank you Jesus!!”
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
Actually it’s worse than that. It certainly appears that they believe that being wealthy shows that God loves you and that being poor shows that God does not approve of you.
Calvinists have been saying just exactly that for about 450 years. They said it in their inside voices for a century and a half or so here, but now they’re loud and proud again….
Moments ago, President @realDonaldTrump tweeted about speaking with the President of South Korea and the Japanese Prime Minister pic.twitter.com/TBXTD20j5j
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 28, 2018
Minutes ago, Fox News tweeted about a tweet by tweeting a screenshot of that tweet https://t.co/Oz1BTqduTw
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 28, 2018
If Ryan had experience doing service on behalf of others as Tim Kaine has he would … well, he’d probably be a Democrat.
watch out Michigan…
Look forward to being in the Great State of Michigan tonight. Major business expansion and jobs pouring into your State. Auto companies expanding at record pace. Big crowd tonight, will be live on T.V.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2018
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That is a wild contest and has some real bottom dwellers in it.
That district (OH12) covers some big money areas of Columbus too. Actually all the areas Tiberi has in the Columbus Metro area are hi-dollar. The rest is gerrymander sections of several counties that are pretty much all White, small town Ohio to the north and east of Columbus.
Almost impossible for a Democrat to win it. Also Kasich’s old district.
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
Actually it’s worse than that. It certainly appears that they believe that being wealthy shows that God loves you and that being poor shows that God does not approve of you.
So in other words: “Fuck that ‘Blessed are the meek’ shit!”
re: #138 Eclectic Cyborg
I am no prosperity Gospel person. God blesses me, I use those blessings to help others in need. I don’t hoard it all for myself while screaming “Thank you Jesus!!”
The Prosperity Gospel advocates apparently did not learn the lesson of the rich young ruler. That parable, by the way, does not mean that Christians cannot be wealthy; the real lesson is that we are not supposed to be attached to our wealth. Having money is fine, as long as you are responsible and generous.
re: #139 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Calvinists have been saying just exactly that for about 450 years. They said it in their inside voices for a century and a half or so here, but now they’re loud and proud again….
re: #145 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The Prosperity Gospel advocates apparently did not learn the lesson of the rich young ruler. That parable, by the way, does not mean that Christians cannot be wealthy; the real lesson is that we are not supposed to be attached to our wealth. Having money is fine, as long as you are responsible and generous.
Agreed. There’s a church around here that’s been having financial issues but that apparently didn’t stop the senior pastor from buying himself a new boat…
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
Agreed. There’s a church around here that’s been having financial issues but that apparently didn’t stop the senior pastor from buying himself a new boat…
I attended the local megachurch for a while, which is a big proponent of the Prosperity Gospel (for obvious reasons). When the recession hit, their budget dried up a little bit, but the head pastor delivered a long and impassioned sermon about how important the private plane was to the church’s ministry and to him personally, but about how he would generously sell it if it was necessary to keep the rest of the ministries going. It was at that point that Mrs. Fish and I walked out.
re: #141 Barefoot Grin
If Ryan had experience doing service on behalf of others as Tim Kaine has he would … well, he’d probably be a Democrat.
That’s the big difference between Catholic economic lefties and Catholic economic conservatives.
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
Actually it’s worse than that. It certainly appears that they believe that being wealthy shows that God loves you and that being poor shows that God does not approve of you.
Yeah it’s awful.
So how come about a quarter of my YouTube recommendations are in Turkish this morning? WTH?
re: #151 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
So how come about a quarter of my YouTube recommendations are in Turkish this morning? WTH?
How much of last night do you remember?
re: #135 Hecuba’s daughter
Actually it’s worse than that. It certainly appears that they believe that being wealthy shows that God loves you and that being poor shows that God does not approve of you.
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Yawn. Needs mah coffee.
You guys see this?
‘Mass firing’ at conservative site RedState
Multiple sources told CNNMoney that they believed conservative critics of President Trump were the writers targeted for removal.
“Insufficiently partisan” was the phrase one writer used in a RedState group chat.
re: #79 ObserverArt
Nice bright red on the cardinal checking out the camera.
Here an hour north of St Louis, had the first stray hummingbird yesterday, and an abrupt influx of goldfinches this morning.
On a not-unrelated topic, the raccoons are getting better at climbing slick poles to achieve mealworm nirvana.
re: #51 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I think “abyss” is the only Sumerian loan word in English. Apsu was the void underneath the Earth.
not quite. the sumerians also gave us the phrase “casual Fridays.”
re: #156 retired cynic
Bad joke from Philadelphia: Have you tried greasing the pole.
(It does not work with Eagles fans but it may work with animals)
re: #156 retired cynic
Here an hour north of St Louis, had the first stray hummingbird yesterday, and an abrupt influx of goldfinches this morning.
On a not-unrelated topic, the raccoons are getting better at climbing slick poles to achieve mealworm nirvana.
I’ve seen some bad cover bands, but….
re: #155 Unshaken Defiance
Hang on, I’ll find my violin…but I need to find my electron microscope first…
re: #158 PhillyPretzel
Bad joke from Philadelphia: Have you tried greasing the pole.
(It does not work with Eagle fans but it may work with animals)
Heh. They’d just like the pole. They get my suit bars, no matter how far up and out on thin limbs I hang them. They use the rope to haul them up for a banquet in the treetops.
re: #160 I cannot.
Hang on, I’ll find my violin…but I need to find my electron microscope first…
Under the couch, probably.
re: #161 retired cynic
Heh. They’d just like the pole. They get my suit bars, no matter how far up and out on thin limbs I hang them. They use the rope to haul them up for a banquet in the treetops.
LICK the pole. Darn it.
re: #161 retired cynic
I’ve seen solutions involving something like a Slinky that works for squirrels. Not sure how a larger, heavier raccoon would fare.
I’ve got a new addition to my yard menagerie this year - a couple of black squirrels!
Shorter tails than the general issue squirrels, and they look a little smaller overall.
I’m wondering how they got here.
This is NFL player Desmond Marrow. He was wrongly accused of being in possession of a weapon (it was his cellphone). They knocked his teeth out & choked him until he was unconscious. He says they offered to drop the charges if he didn’t let this video go public.
Please spread. pic.twitter.com/5FAEWu6tS4— Together we rise 🌊 (@Matsamon) April 27, 2018
Anyone post about the layoffs at Red State yet?
re: #166 GlutenFreeJesus
See:
Video shows former NFL player’s violent arrest after he said police mistook a phone for a gun
re: #165 makeitstop
I’ve got a new addition to my yard menagerie this year - a couple of black squirrels!
Shorter tails than the general issue squirrels, and they look a little smaller overall.
I’m wondering how they got here.
Hopped the train from Princeton, transferred at Penn Station.
re: #167 GlutenFreeJesus
Discussed here yesterday. Mostly, I think many of us think this is just business as usual for religious groups.
re: #18 teleskiguy
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I’m not defending “incels” - their movement or their tactics. But I acknowledge that this is an area of suffering, which I think will eventually be addressed through some form of social policy, unimaginable at present.
— Greg Gardner (@GregGardner11) April 28, 2018
An area of …
Dude, shut the fuck up. https://t.co/ia5swAgvJE— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 28, 2018
re: #155 Unshaken Defiance
Yawn. Needs mah coffee.
You guys see this?
Multiple sources told CNNMoney that they believed conservative critics of President Trump were the writers targeted for removal.
“Insufficiently partisan” was the phrase one writer used in a RedState group chat.
why is this news? private enterprise, freedom of speech and association.
re: #167 GlutenFreeJesus
Anyone post about the layoffs at Red State yet?
12 posts back and yesterday as Freetoken mentioned. A purity purge. Or, was that looking for insanity?
WATCH: During an event with Team USA Olympians and Paralympians at the White House, President Trump said, “What happened with the Paralympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me. And I watched — it’s a little tough to watch too much, but I watched as much as I could.” pic.twitter.com/geYUUu9vmg
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) April 27, 2018
He said this to a crowd of paralympians. I wonder if he also performed his always hilarious Serge Kovaleski impression. What a monster. https://t.co/EDjXGpwY8v
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 28, 2018
re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg
“Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Pulpit Pimps will reply that The Big G gave rich people the ability to buy a giant needle.
O_o
There are policy levels that can influence the distribution of who gets how much sex that don’t require violating consent. Legalizing sex work is one,distributing money toward the unattractive is another, and there are many more.
— Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) April 28, 2018
“…distributing money towards the unattractive…”
The are not enough What the Fucks for this bullshit. https://t.co/QJJcrvdxan— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 28, 2018
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
“…distributing money towards the unattractive…”
Now we’re talking! I knew I’d find away to get rich someday!!
Using Spy, this morning when I hit the “Post It” button, I get dumped out to the front page. The posts have once worked anyway, but the last posting of mine did not and I had to hit “Post It” again.
so stupid
Lawmakers in more than a dozen states propose taxing prescription painkillers as a way to hold drugmakers accountable for the nation’s opioid addiction and overdose crisis. https://t.co/393epTtk8q
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 28, 2018
re: #169 wheat-dogg
Hopped the train from Princeton, transferred at Penn Station.
Or just took an Uber out from Peter Cooper Village in NYC.
That’s the first place I ever even saw a black squirrel. Those little varmints were absolutely fearless. I saw one steal a sandwich off a park bench one time. And if you walked up to one, they’d hold their ground and just glare at you.
Holocaust Controversies: Debunking the YouTube denial. https://t.co/DAbhLPY6TR
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) April 28, 2018
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
O_o
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Conditions in Robin’s mother’s basement continue to deteriorate….
— 22ndLetterx2 (@22ndletterx2) April 28, 2018
Bah, I meant to say “Using your logic”, but editing fail.
— jay (@random__name) April 28, 2018
re: #179 freetoken
Compare that with this woman. The cops would have leveled her the moment she told them to “shut the fuck up” if she were black.
re: #181 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The answer is going after doctors that are prescribing this stuff in excess because they get “commission” from the drug companies.
Election forecaster moves Nunes’ seat toward Dems https://t.co/Mf6oH8adny pic.twitter.com/NqDEbNz3oU
— The Hill (@thehill) April 28, 2018
I… don’t think you have to be an election forecaster to predict that one. https://t.co/HMZANaa57S
— Angry WH Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) April 28, 2018
re: #187 GlutenFreeJesus
The answer is going after doctors that are prescribing this stuff in excess because they get “commission” from the drug companies.
We don’t get kickbacks. Docs who overprescribe on purpose do so to keep patients addicted and coming back to them for high doses of meds.
If he comes to London, President Trump will experience an open and diverse city that has always chosen unity over division and hope over fear. He will also no doubt see that Londoners hold their liberal values of freedom of speech very dear.
— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) April 26, 2018
People aren’t jailed for flipping off traffic cameras over here. https://t.co/EzFJwRoUoh
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) April 27, 2018
Right - just for sitting in Starbucks while Black. Or asking for a spoon while Black. Or going through a TSA line while Black. Or while waiting for a ride to a basketball game while Black. Or filming the police while Black. Or drinking an Arizona Iced Tea while Black. Or… https://t.co/rS9p7GFjTP
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 27, 2018
re: #189 Ace-o-aces
We don’t get kickbacks. Docs who overprescribe on purpose do so to keep patients addicted and coming back to them for high doses of meds.
You’re a good doctor. I do know some that get “favors” however.
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
Do people who shoot video with cell phone cameras know they can hold them in landscape mode?
re: #192 First Epistle of Paul to the Bagmen
Do people who shoot video with cell phone cameras know they can hold them in landscape mode?
How would it even occur to anybody to hold them any other way—that’s the question.
re: #139 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Calvinists have been saying just exactly that for about 450 years. They said it in their inside voices for a century and a half or so here, but now they’re loud and proud again….
Yeah, if people weren’t aware, the Southern Baptist Convention has been captured by neo-Calvinists, aka the “Young, Restless and Reformed.” These are the pastors who would go to “Together For the Gospel 2018,” the preaching convention I picketed at two weeks ago. Most people don’t know the names of their leaders, like Albert Mohler, but I do, and they don’t have a goddamn problem with covering up child sexual abuse up until the point it’s exposed that their good buddies (like CJ Mahaney) covered up child sexual abuse.
It’s all of a piece. These Calvinista leaders (that’s what my friend Dee Parsons who runs the Wartburg Watch blog calls them) are pretty exclusively white men. And they’ve set up the scene so that only a very few men of color are brought on the stage, and women not at all. Women are not competent to teach men, at least according to Calvinista John Piper (another speaker at that event), because we don’t model maleness and manhood, which is incredibly important to Piper. So not a single woman was on the stage at “Together for the Gospel.” In fact, I can say that I was the only woman who had something important to say to the attendees as I stood out there with my sign. What a shame and a travesty. But this is what we have to look forward to as the creeping Calvinistas take over. :(
Edited to add a link to the piece of John Piper excreta where he says women really shouldn’t be seminary professors. desiringgod.org I want people to know about these jackasses because they infuriate me so very much.
“Access to sex”? As I read that, they’re not talking about ‘access’, they’re talking about guaranteed sex partners. They have access now, just like anyone else. What they don’t have is anyone obligated to have sex with them. Women don’t have to marry to live in our society anymore, and they are no longer stuck in the paradigm where having sex means likely getting pregnant, which means having to get married, which means being expected to have sex on demand with some guy you might not even like.
This is another of those things where some group of privileged people, who were dependent on that privilege, feel oppressed simply because they lose something they had no right to in the first place.
2018 America y’all. USA’s oldest terror org is running full page recruitment ads in American newspapers.
How is this any different than Daesh advertising to recruit youth? It’s not.
This isn’t free speech. It’s white supremacy terrorism. It must stop.https://t.co/LDnTZereLX— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) April 27, 2018
Terrorism has no religion.
But Remember, the KKK considers themselves a Christian organization. Their Christianity is as Christ-like as Daesh is Islamic—i.e. not in the least.
Don’t let terror groups convince you otherwise. https://t.co/mkwXsFbePD— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) April 27, 2018
“But it was only 30 Nazis protesting in Georgia!”
This shit is why we get worried about that. It’s not solely about the number, it’s about how comfortable they are spouting this shit…because for what number openly espouses it, even more silently assent.— Citizen K Calls BS (@Citizen_Kryptik) April 28, 2018
If Trump and Senate Republicans really, truly, felt like Tester lied about Ronny Jackson they could…. re-nominate Ronny Jackson. There’s no indication that they’re gonna do that.
— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 28, 2018
the truth is, Senate Republicans were more than happy to have Tester be the face of this because they too didn’t want to deal with the Jackson nomination https://t.co/8vAVwWhX66
— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 28, 2018
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s still a longshot, unfortunately. Same with wingnut Tom McClintock. Both went from “safe” to “likely” Republican seats.
Again, “These people come here and bring their own culture and language and want to take over.” rings hollow from a country that took over half the world by force.
I feel like this @sullydish piece could have been a fourteen word blog post. https://t.co/Z4642XMxQc
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 28, 2018
re: #119 Hecuba’s daughter
From my perspective, he has done nothing but sin since he took office. It is not adultery that is his real sin, but his denial of climate change, his repeal of every regulation designed to save the planet or help the poor, his personal corruption and that of practically everyone in his administration, his misogyny, his racism. What about bearing false witness? What about almost every other commandment? His unleashing the military without concern for “collateral” damage and his denial of refuge to those fleeing tyranny certainly must violate “Thou shalt not murder” commandment. Do the evangelicals actually care about the ten commandments at all?
Only for show, not for practice. They are a bludgeon not a guiding principal.
re: #202 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Pretty good. You?
Dunno what Andrew Sullivan said to deserve this, don’t want to know, but this is a sick burn.
Weird that Andrew Sullivan’s editors keep giving him 2300 words when he clearly only wants 14.
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) April 27, 2018
ETA: Scrolled up after posting and saw what it is about. *rolls eyes* As someone who is (according to 23andMe) 63 percent British/Irish and the rest French/German, I do not have this thing that White European Culture Is Best Culture that Sullivan has. ugh.
Inflatable Duck Drifts Aimlessly Down Street in Des Moines, Iowa pic.twitter.com/POseQr6H5E
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 28, 2018
The 2020 primary has begun. https://t.co/i7SbziB0Kn
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) April 28, 2018
So, for all you Lizards who are fans of unresolved mysteries, here’s one for you; the disappearance of Mary Boyle - Ireland’s longest-running unsolved disappearance (since March 1977).
I’m a conservative businessman with a 4-Point Plan to put hardworking Georgians first. I’m also the proud father of 3 teenage girls. Here’s the thing: If you want to date one of my daughters, you better have respect for women & a healthy appreciation for the 2nd Amendment. #gapol pic.twitter.com/dQvvfk06Rh
— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) April 27, 2018
No biggie. Just a Republican candidate for governor pointing a gun at a teenager’s face at point blank range. https://t.co/8G9eT79Fnn
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) April 28, 2018
re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Respect for women? He sure shows it by using his daughters as props and no doubt he’s a Trump fan too.
re: #208 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Giant Duck of Peace for President? I’d vote for him.
Better than Trump.
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Multiple sources told CNNMoney that they believed conservative critics of President Trump were the writers targeted for removal.
“Insufficiently partisan” was the phrase one writer used in a RedState group chat.why is this news? private enterprise, freedom of speech and association.
Not news. Category-Opposition intel.
Okay I admit I’m not a father and I do understand why fathers are protective especially of their daughters but I don’t get why some men think it’s funny to threaten suitors.
re: #212 Unshaken Defiance
Not news. Category-Opposition intel.
I think it does show the hypocrisy of those complaining about what the Atlantic did to Williamson.
re: #213 HappyWarrior
Okay I admit I’m not a father and I do understand why fathers are protective especially of their daughters but I don’t get why some men think it’s funny to threaten suitors.
Literally the only reason anymore is because it’s the sort of thing their dads and grand-dads did. They want to exercise whatever influence and power they can in order to keep control over their family.
re: #215 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Literally the only reason anymore is because it’s the sort of thing their dads and grand-dads did. They want to exercise whatever influence and power they can in order to keep control over their family.
Yep. I mean I know for a fact that my mom’s dad and my mom’s grandfather weren’t exactly sure about my Dad and Grandpa but I doubt they pulled guns on them.
re: #195 Blind Frog Belly White
“Access to sex”? As I read that, they’re not talking about ‘access’, they’re talking about guaranteed sex partners. They have access now, just like anyone else. What they don’t have is anyone obligated to have sex with them. Women don’t have to marry to live in our society anymore, and they are no longer stuck in the paradigm where having sex means likely getting pregnant, which means having to get married, which means being expected to have sex on demand with some guy you might not even like.
This is another of those things where some group of privileged people, who were dependent on that privilege, feel oppressed simply because they lose something they had no right to in the first place.
My guess is perfect Venn overlap with wanting to cut access to public assistance by minorities. They have access to sex 24/7. Certain businesses in Nevada are there to help anyone short of access to sex. Oh but they want it free, little effort no money right? Wow is that not exactly what they complain about in terms of safety nets like food assistance and general assistance? What was their worry, something like how welfare and food stamps create a climate of dependence?
re: #216 HappyWarrior
Yep. I mean I know for a fact that my mom’s dad and my mom’s grandfather weren’t exactly sure about my Dad and Grandpa but I doubt they pulled guns on them.
My dad did the whole “in the front room cleaning the rifle” thing on my now brother-in-law. Like, look, I love my sister, but I would never threaten her boyfriend, or joke about it, unless he was treating her wrong.
Actually, Mrs. Fish’s family introduced me to an almost polar opposite concept that I thought was pretty clever. As I’m waiting at the door to go into the church at my wedding, one of my soon-to-be brothers-in-law comes up. He says, “Look, dude, if you’re not sure about this, if you’re having second thoughts, I’ve got keys to my car in my pocket and we can be 10 miles away before anybody knows we’re gone. I’d rather that than you marry my sister and make her miserable.” It made me laugh, it made me think, and it put his mind at ease.
re: #171 mmmirele
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re: #204 mmmirele
Dunno what Andrew Sullivan said to deserve this, don’t want to know, but this is a sick burn.
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ETA: Scrolled up after posting and saw what it is about. *rolls eyes* As someone who is (according to 23andMe) 63 percent British/Irish and the rest French/German, I do not have this thing that White European Culture Is Best Culture that Sullivan has. ugh.
Well, he’s English, raised with stories of England’s greatness at a time when the British Empire was vanishing, and Britain itself was tired, broke, and worn out from WWI and WWII. England has always had this insular pride, from “We’re not really Europe!” to “Look how great we are for a small country to conquer half the world!”
Honestly, it’s the same kind of mythology we’re taught growing up. We’re special.
I’ve found that people who think white European culture is this fantastic thing are very selective about the things they consider part of it. They point to technological advancements, science, law, freedom, etc, but they ignore that it also produced catastrophic wars every couple decades for centuries, and the most ruthlessly efficient genocide in history.
re: #192 First Epistle of Paul to the Bagmen
Do people who shoot video with cell phone cameras know they can hold them in landscape mode?
Phones should have an option to always record in landscape mode. There’s no reason the phone needs to be horizontal to trigger it.
re: #218 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
My dad did the whole “in the front room cleaning the rifle” thing on my now brother-in-law. Like, look, I love my sister, but I would never threaten her boyfriend, or joke about it, unless he was treating her wrong.
Actually, Mrs. Fish’s family introduced me to an almost polar opposite concept that I thought was pretty clever. As I’m waiting at the door to go into the church at my wedding, one of my soon-to-be brothers-in-law comes up. He says, “Look, dude, if you’re not sure about this, if you’re having second thoughts, I’ve got keys to my car in my pocket and we can be 10 miles away before anybody knows we’re gone. I’d rather that than you marry my sister and make her miserable.” It made me laugh, it made me think, and it put his mind at ease.
Yeah I just don’t know why some guys see that as funny. I admit it I’m not a Dad but when my niece is older, I’d want to actually get to know the guy rather than scaring him off. Plus I’ve seen how my Dad is with the husbands and boyfriends of his nieces. Your BiL did the right thing.
re: #213 HappyWarrior
Okay I admit I’m not a father and I do understand why fathers are protective especially of their daughters but I don’t get why some men think it’s funny to threaten suitors.
Aye, I noticed that as well: “VOTE FOR ME!!! I’M WILLING TO GET INTO A GUNFIGHT OVER MY KID’S DATING CHOICES!!! [Voiceover] Vote Republican- you know it makes sense!”
re: #213 HappyWarrior
Okay I admit I’m not a father and I do understand why fathers are protective especially of their daughters but I don’t get why some men think it’s funny to threaten suitors.
They remember how they acted as young men. Observe daughter in attractive date dress. Recall past behavior as projected upon young suitor….
re: #219 The Major
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re: #223 Alephnaught
Aye, I noticed that as well: “VOTE FOR ME!!! I’M WILLING TO GET INTO A GUNFIGHT OVER MY KID’S DATING CHOICES!!! [Voiceover] Vote Republican- you know it makes sense!”
Yeah it’s just something I don’t get. I don’t have a sister so I don’t know how my Dad would have acted. The worst that happened with Dad’s Dad and Dad’s sisters’ suitors were political arguments with my one Aunt’s husband. Dad’s Dad being the liberal and my Aunt’s now ex being the conservative. The kids all ended up pretty liberal lol except my one cousin who had a brief conservative phase in the 80’s along with a bad stache.
re: #224 Unshaken Defiance
They remember how they acted as young men. Observe daughter in attractive date dress. Recall past behavior as projected upon young suitor….
Yeah I think that’s exactly it. And man did that guy sound like Georgia.
re: #222 HappyWarrior
Yeah I just don’t know why some guys see that as funny. I admit it I’m not a Dad but when my niece is older, I’d want to actually get to know the guy rather than scaring him off. Plus I’ve seen how my Dad is with the husbands and boyfriends of his nieces. Your BiL did the right thing.
I am a dad. I have a lovely young daughter and I know she’s going to get some attention when she grows up. I fully intend on teaching her to be smart about boys - and we’ll also make sure she can kick ass if she needs to - and to get to know the kids she hangs out with. I won’t be doing any threatening unless it’s a situation where I’d threaten anybody.
re: #228 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I am a dad. I have a lovely young daughter and I know she’s going to get some attention when she grows up. I fully intend on teaching her to be smart about boys - and we’ll also make sure she can kick ass if she needs to - and to get to know the kids she hangs out with. I won’t be doing any threatening unless it’s a situation where I’d threaten anybody.
Yeah that’s why I apperciate your pov on this. I think your daughter is around my niece’s age. I’m sure my brother is thinking the same thing you are.
re: #225 mmmirele
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re: #3 goddamnedfrank
The closest Orange Foolius ever came to fishing was when his Mom served Mrs. Paul’s Imitation Crab Cakes.
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) April 28, 2018
re: #231 Joe Bacon 🌹
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I’m trying to think of a funny word to describe McNaughton’s paintings. They remind me of Socialist Realism in the USSR except worse.
I understand the whole ‘cleaning the gun in the front room’ thing, in the sense that I grasp the concept. But it’s so rooted in women lacking agency over their own bodies and sexuality. And it goes back to what we talked about the other day, about the days when young men were taught that there were girls you screw, and girls you marry. As a Dad, you don’t want to think your daughter is the former.
re: #232 HappyWarrior
I’m trying to think of a funny word to describe McNaughton’s paintings. They remind me of Socialist Realism in the USSR except worse.
“Say what you will about National Socialism Socialist Realism, at least it’s an ethos aesthetic.”
re: #234 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
“Say what you will about
National SocialismSocialist Realism, at least it’s anethosaesthetic.”
Hahaha.
re: #233 Blind Frog Belly White
I understand the whole ‘cleaning the gun in the front room’ thing, in the sense that I grasp the concept. But it’s so rooted in women lacking agency over their own bodies and sexuality. And it goes back to what we talked about the other day, about the days when young men were taught that there were girls you screw, and girls you marry. As a Dad, you don’t want to think your daughter is the former.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. And the thing of it is, I understand; I don’t want my daughter just running around screwing anybody who comes on to her. But how exactly is being a borderline creepy jackass going to help? It might scare off a couple guys, but in the end it’s just going to foster resentment. Then she’s going to start making bad choices, and that ends badly.
re: #232 HappyWarrior
I’m trying to think of a funny word to describe McNaughton’s paintings. They remind me of Socialist Realism in the USSR except worse.
They remind me of the political cartoons in The Onion, where they ladle on the symbolism like gravy on biscuits, and then STILL label everything.
.@MSNBC’s Joy Reid addresses homophobic blog posts:
“I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things … But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don’t believe me.” pic.twitter.com/PWjdPfs5KB— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 28, 2018
re: #232 HappyWarrior
I’m trying to think of a funny word to describe McNaughton’s paintings. They remind me of Socialist Realism in the USSR except worse.
“Race Realism”.
re: #231 Joe Bacon 🌹
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Only just caught up on this: “Teach a Man a Fish”? Surely it’s “Teach a Man to Fish”?
Otherwise, Strangely Slim Trump is saying to this Rebel w/o a Cause stereotype strawman: “Well, there are these animals called a… FISH, and [… Later ..] and I caught a fish THIS big, the biggest and best fish in history, believe me!”
I don’t read Andrew Sullivan so I don’t know whatever is going on with him, so prompted here I went and read the piece:
Will There Always Be an England?
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I love the new London, but then I would, wouldn’t I? I’m an American now, and became one in part because I fell in love with its racial and cultural diversity. But most people, not gifted with a great education and lucky breaks, are not able to hop and skip between capital cities, finding each metropolis increasingly and pleasantly like the other. They’re in suburbs and small towns, or in the rust-belt north, whence Orwell’s patriotic (emphatically not nationalist) socialism sprang. And they’re anxious — in a way that the young are not anxious. For the under-40s, economic insecurity, college debt, and inability to own a home drive the angst. For the over-40s, it’s a sense that the England they identified with, that gave their lives meaning and pride — the England that was nearly destroyed in the “finest hour” of 1940 — this “sceptered isle,” is disappearing.
[…]
It’s just typical trying-to-understand-old-folk-who-don’t-like-change type of piece.
However, Sullivan also exhibits a great deal of ignorance:
If that is true in immigrant-created, multiracial, multicultural America, a vast and churning continent, always restless, always changing, it is triply true in the little, overcrowded, once remarkably homogeneous island that is Britain. This country’s core identity is thousands of years old. Yes, it has long accepted immigrants, but until the 1950s, net immigration was a rounding error. Since then, it has exploded. In the last 20 years, it has reached American levels. For those whose self-understanding is wrapped up in bluebells and tea, in English accents divided solely by class and region, in a nearly all-white and all-English country for centuries, these times are culturally terrifying.
These are just false statements.
What is the “core identity”?
Is it the Protestantism that brought about the KJV?
Is it the Angles who invaded in the post-Roman era and gave the country and language the name we use today?
Is it the Vikings who (cousins of the above Angles) also invaded? Or their descendants the Normans, who also invaded?
Is it the Celts who had invaded the islands a couple of millennia before that?
Is it the Romans who founded, after all, the city of London of which Sullivan uses as the centerpiece of his article?
Is it Ireland, which England invaded and ruled many times and even now the UK has carved out the NE quadrant of that island?
All the above groups brought war exactly because they did not share a “core identity.”
The above groups fought with each other over different identities.
re: #241 HappyWarrior
Tomáš Kulka in Kitsch and Art starts from two basic facts that kitsch “has an undeniable mass-appeal” and “considered (by the art-educated elite) bad” and then proposes three essential conditions:
Kitsch depicts a beautiful or highly emotionally charged subject;
The depicted subject is instantly and effortlessly identifiable
Kitsch does not substantially enrich our associations related to the depicted subject.
Charles: Using Spy with Chrome, when I use one of the text editing buttons in the upper right of the input box I get dumped to the front page of LGF. The action of the buttons are included, when I use the browser back button to return to Spy.
Organizers of @Paralympics respond to Donald Trump saying it was “a little tough to watch too much” of the Pyeongchang Games.@RobHarris https://t.co/EvTH2AuAXV pic.twitter.com/K2GUFCMWA6
— AP Sports (@AP_Sports) April 28, 2018
Paralympic Games organizers hope U.S. President Donald Trump won’t find it tough to watch their events in future.
The International Paralympic Committee pointed to the growing reach of its competitions in response to comments made on Friday by Trump when American athletes from the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Pyeongchang were welcomed to the White House.
“What happened with the Paralympics was so incredible and so inspiring to me, and I watched,” Trump said, surrounded by members of Team USA. “It’s a little tough to watch too much, but I watched as much as I could.”
The Paralympics in March were broadcast in the U.S. on NBC, NBCSN, and streamed on the NBC website.
“Record numbers of people around the world are not finding the Paralympics tough to watch,” IPC communications director Craig Spence told The Associated Press on Saturday. “Billions of viewers now take in the Paralympics in hundreds of countries around the world.
“We’re confident Tokyo 2020 will be the biggest Paralympics ever, breaking the cumulative 4.1 billion viewers who watched Rio 2016. We hope the U.S. President continues to watch and be inspired by the Paralympics, an event that has a track record for transforming attitudes towards disability.”
The U.S. topped the standings at the Paralympics in South Korea with 36 medals — 13 gold, 15 silver and 8 bronze.
re: #242 freetoken
Sullivan, like most racism sympathizers, buys into the mythology of racism, that there’s something special about HIS group, some purity worth keeping pure.
What Sullivan revealed is that his beliefs about the world outside his little bubble are shaped by the 1950’s television tropes.
The weirdest part of this Joy Reid kerfuffle is watching viciously anti-gay right wingers pretending for a hot second that they actually care about civil rights for LGBT Americans just so they can attack a liberal media personality.
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) April 28, 2018
re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth
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But of course it works because to be a Dem and liberal is to always be treated as inherently wrong the moment something comes up, and having to prove in triplicate your own validity. And even then, you’re suspect just by your presence.
And Joy is a black woman. That’s a triple threat right there.
re: #246 Blind Frog Belly White
Sullivan, like most racism sympathizers, buys into the mythology of racism, that there’s something special about HIS group, some purity worth keeping pure.
They should all stop procreating. It’s the only way to stay pure.
re: #250 Belafon
They should all stop procreating. It’s the only way to stay pure.
Pretty sure Sullivan already did that.
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re: #247 freetoken
What Sullivan revealed is that his beliefs about the world outside his little bubble are shaped by the 1950’s television tropes.
It’s the very heart of Conservatism to never question the idea that there was a point in the past when everything was better, and the best thing to do would be to return to it.
end of the shift…
Marcel Cerf
Sortie des usines Renault. Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), 1938 pic.twitter.com/jOGC7e6AiP— aucharbon (@alcarbon68) April 28, 2018
LA Senate Passes Permission-Slip Prayer Bill So Teachers Can Pray with Students https://t.co/ASwmV65UNj pic.twitter.com/QiYvkZbqEG
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) April 28, 2018
good grief
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
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good grief
I’ll bet a dollar it’s not going to include Muslim or Jewish prayer.
re: #257 Eventual Carrion
Can the kids bring their own prayer rugs?
Of course not. This is only for Christian prayer like the Founding Fathers intended, don’t you know. ////
It’s amazing that the most lucrative form of opinion writing is getting liberals to pay you to tell them that they’re unwilling to listen to people like you
— the reasonably limited gauntlet (@jesseltaylor) April 28, 2018
I didn’t watch, but what I hear of Joy Reid’s show today is that it went far beyond the Tweet that everyone’s posting, where she says she doesn’t believe she said those things, but understands why people don’t believe her. She talked about evolving, and had a number of folks on to challenge her.
That’s the key, isn’t it - evolving.
Where I grew up, when I grew up, homosexuality didn’t exist. By that I mean it didn’t exist as a thing that involved anyone you knew; it wasn’t talked about, or acknowledged. There were ‘confirmed bachelors’ and ‘spinster aunts’. “Faggot” was something you called other guys, not even really knowing what it meant. I don’t remember calling anyone that, and I’d like to believe I never did, but I can’t guarantee it.
Public displays of affection between two men used to bother me a bit, honestly. And I’m sure I said things and thought things that would make me cringe today. But, the point is - they make me cringe today. I don’t say them or think them anymore.
I didn’t used to think same sex marriage was ‘right’, somehow. I thought, as many others did, that Civil Unions, with all the legal rights and responsibilities should be enough. Then I thought, maybe it should be Civil Unions for everybody, and marriage should be a ceremonial thing that churches could do for anyone according to their beliefs, but with no legal aspect.
But I realized what I was really doing was trying to keep same sex marriage separate, but equal. So I evolved, and now I realize that was a silly attitude.
Honestly, when my coworker talked about ‘his husband’, it sounded odd, but I realize that this is MY problem, a remnant of my upbringing, and it’s something to get over.
We evolve in our thinking. We don’t think the same as we did years ago, because our experiences teach us that our thinking then was wrong. That’s a good thing.
re: #260 Blind Frog Belly White
where she says she doesn’t believe she said those things, but understands why people don’t believe her
No one believes her because she did write those things. Wayback Machine doesn’t lie.
re: #261 Nyet
No one believes her because she did write those things. Wayback Machine doesn’t lie.
Whatever. I can understand seeing things I wrote 10 years ago and not believing I wrote them, disowning them even. And i have no interest in joining the pitchfork and torch brigade. But you do you.
re: #258 Citizen K
Louisiana is one of the most religious states, as far as the religious-right type of religion is concerned. At least when we look at proportion of residents. Texas has many more religious-right types but it is a much, much larger state.
re: #262 Blind Frog Belly White
Pointing out she is a liar is not anywhere near “joining the pitchfork and torch brigade”. So yeah, you’re doing you.
re: #264 Nyet
Pointing out she is a liar is not anywhere near “joining the pitchfork and torch brigade”. So yeah, you’re doing you.
Sure.
As we grow older the more we learn the more we change.
re: #266 Nyet
Glad we agree.
Perhaps you don’t get the connotative meaning of that word in that usage.
re: #260 Blind Frog Belly White
I didn’t watch, but what I hear of Joy Reid’s show today is that it went far beyond the Tweet that everyone’s posting, where she says she doesn’t believe she said those things, but understands why people don’t believe her. She talked about evolving, and had a number of folks on to challenge her.
That’s the key, isn’t it - evolving.
Where I grew up, when I grew up, homosexuality didn’t exist. By that I mean it didn’t exist as a thing that involved anyone you knew; it wasn’t talked about, or acknowledged. There were ‘confirmed bachelors’ and ‘spinster aunts’. “Faggot” was something you called other guys, not even really knowing what it meant. I don’t remember calling anyone that, and I’d like to believe I never did, but I can’t guarantee it.
Public displays of affection between two men used to bother me a bit, honestly. And I’m sure I said things and thought things that would make me cringe today. But, the point is - they make me cringe today. I don’t say them or think them anymore.
I didn’t used to think same sex marriage was ‘right’, somehow. I thought, as many others did, that Civil Unions, with all the legal rights and responsibilities should be enough. Then I thought, maybe it should be Civil Unions for everybody, and marriage should be a ceremonial thing that churches could do for anyone according to their beliefs, but with no legal aspect.
But I realized what I was really doing was trying to keep same sex marriage separate, but equal. So I evolved, and now I realize that was a silly attitude.
Honestly, when my coworker talked about ‘his husband’, it sounded odd, but I realize that this is MY problem, a remnant of my upbringing, and it’s something to get over.
We evolve in our thinking. We don’t think the same as we did years ago, because our experiences teach us that our thinking then was wrong. That’s a good thing.
I can remember a comment thread here from a few years ago where someone was saying that ‘the gay lifestyle’ made him uncomfortable and saw it as a problem. I let him know that if he had a problem with it, it was his problem and not mine. I hope he got the message.
re: #268 Blind Frog Belly White
Perhaps you don’t get the connotative meaning of that word in that usage.
Make up your mind.
re: #269 stpaulbear
I can remember a comment thread here from a few years ago where someone was saying that ‘the gay lifestyle’ made him uncomfortable and saw it as a problem. I let him know that if he had a problem with it, it was his problem and not mine. I hope he got the message.
That’s really it, isn’t it? I used to know lots of folks who thought they were being enlightened by saying, “I don’t care what they do or who they do it with, but I don’t want to see it!”and thinking this should be enough, and that the problem was same sex couples not being sufficiently discreet, rather than it being THEIR issue.
re: #270 Nyet
Make up your mind.
Here we go round the mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush,
The mulberry bush.
Here we go round the mulberry bush
On a cold and frosty morning.
Have fun with that.
Watch: @MSNBC’s Joy Reid addresses homophobic blog posts:
“I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things … but I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and written in the past, why some people don’t believe me.” https://t.co/j0HEsnLuNp— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 28, 2018
Brains, guts, heart and soul — beloved Joy Reid has always been a treasured and brilliant colleague, but I’ve never been prouder to work with her than I am now. https://t.co/J95uL3CjMv
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 28, 2018
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wait a minute, what in the hell is going on in Los Angeles that makes….ohhh, we’re talking about the other LA.
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re: #272 Blind Frog Belly White
You’ll have to run around that bush alone, I’m afraid.
re: #275 Nyet
You’ll have to run around that bush alone, I’m afraid.
…he said, running around the mulberry bush.
re: #276 Blind Frog Belly White
…he said, running around the mulberry bush.
You’re good at self-description.
re: #277 Nyet
You’re good at self-description.
Nope. Just suffer from a pathological need to have the last word.
re: #279 Blind Frog Belly White
Nope. Just suffer from a pathological need to have the last word.
OK.
A while back, on FB, I was having a long, drawn out argument with somebody, and when he asked why I kept going, I said I had a need to have the last word, but I was gonna let him have the last word.
He replied, “Thanks”.
I replied, “You’re welcome.”
A completely different style of music than normal here, but my baby sister is in a Sweet Adelines competition this weekend and you can stream the contest here. Her group is in the next 20 minutes or so.
#Caturday
I said no… pic.twitter.com/8aa01GECzA— The Invisible Man (@invisibleman_17) April 28, 2018
re: #51 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I think “abyss” is the only Sumerian loan word in English. Apsu was the void underneath the Earth.
cool!
Just to throw out something about which to cogitate: there has been quite a bit written on topics like selective memory, selective memory loss, selective amnesia, etc.
I’m hardly knowledgeable in this area, but from what little I’ve read, our ability to forget stuff is not only universal but perhaps necessary.
re: #51 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I think “abyss” is the only Sumerian loan word in English. Apsu was the void underneath the Earth.
From Middle English abissus, from Late Latin abyssus (“a bottomless gulf”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + βυσσός (bussós, “deep place”),[1][2] from βυθός (buthós, “deep place”).[3]
re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth
The weirdest part of this Joy Reid kerfuffle is watching viciously anti-gay right wingers pretending for a hot second that they actually care about civil rights for LGBT Americans just so they can attack a liberal media personality.
there has also been a lot of momentarily pretending to care about black poverty before immediately going back to blaming it on them
and promoting racist fantasies
re: #286 freetoken
Just to throw out something about which to cogitate: there has been quite a bit written on topics like selective memory, selective memory loss, selective amnesia, etc.
I’m hardly knowledgeable in this area, but from what little I’ve read, our ability to forget stuff is not only universal but perhaps necessary.
I think one of the worst aspects of having a good memory is bad memories. There are stupid things I’ve said and done that I wish I could forget, but I can’t. Then there’s also grieving, where forgetfulness is the one thing that helps you crawl back out of the Pit Of Despair.
English abyss from Greek abyssos comes from Akkadian apsu which comes from the Sumerian abzu.
I think that’s not technically a “loanword” but an etymological derivation.
The craziest word that travels without any change of meaning? The Akkadian word sack.
re: #286 freetoken
Just to throw out something about which to cogitate: there has been quite a bit written on topics like selective memory, selective memory loss, selective amnesia, etc.
I’m hardly knowledgeable in this area, but from what little I’ve read, our ability to forget stuff is not only universal but perhaps necessary.
When I met the EMT who took care of me on my helicopter ride (6 months after that ride), he told me his name, then said, ‘I’m the guy who gave you the shot that let you forget that day.’ I said, ‘Thank you.’ Not a personally selected memory loss, but an appreciated one.
I’m just gonna leave this here, then run screaming from the room and take Rango for a walk, because this is some industrial-strength, weaponized horseshit.
i just. i can’t. these are human beings but they live on a different planet i think pic.twitter.com/1Y0PMi2fe5
— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) April 28, 2018
re: #290 The Ghost of a Flea
What sources state that βυθός (from which abyss derives) comes from Apsu?
Possibly a metathesis from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb-, with cognates including Old Church Slavonic дъно (dŭno), Old English dēop (English deep) and Albanian det (from Proto-Albanian *deubeta). Unrelated to βᾰθῠ́ς (bathús) and βένθος (bénthos).
However, Beekes soundly rejects Indo-European origin, and assigns it to Pre-Greek instead.[1]
Allegations made by Senator Jon Tester against Admiral/Doctor Ron Jackson are proving false. The Secret Service is unable to confirm (in fact they deny) any of the phony Democrat charges which have absolutely devastated the wonderful Jackson family. Tester should resign. The…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 28, 2018
In response, a spokeswoman for @JohnnyIsakson, GOP chair of VA committee: “Senator Isakson has a great relationship with Senator Tester. He doesn’t have a problem with how things were handled. I don’t know for sure but highly doubt he’s seen the president’s tweets this morning.” https://t.co/8AGjhmLNdb
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) April 28, 2018
the idea that these guys do not see and discuss every one of trumps tweets is fuckin hilarious https://t.co/k5QGjFPZT2
— darth™ (@darth) April 28, 2018
re: #290 The Ghost of a Flea
English abyss from Greek abyssos comes from Akkadian apsu which comes from the Sumerian abzu.
I think that’s not technically a “loanword” but an etymological derivation.
The craziest word that travels without any change of meaning? The Akkadian word sack.
there is a presumably pre indo european “substrate” in germanic languages like english. one often quoted example is the word “folk”, which some speculate might not have changed in sound or meaning for thousands of years
i think the whole pre indo european substrate issue in germanic and slavic languages has an element of romantic mystery to it: there are ancient dead languages buried under there
re: #282 Blind Frog Belly White
A while back, on FB, I was having a long, drawn out argument with somebody, and when he asked why I kept going, I said I had a need to have the last word, but I was gonna let him have the last word.
He replied, “Thanks”.
I replied, “You’re welcome.”
“Don’t mention it”…..
re: #286 freetoken
Just to throw out something about which to cogitate: there has been quite a bit written on topics like selective memory, selective memory loss, selective amnesia, etc.
I’m hardly knowledgeable in this area, but from what little I’ve read, our ability to forget stuff is not only universal but perhaps necessary.
What were we talking about?
re: #260 Blind Frog Belly White
Excellent! (I am on the same trajectory!)
re: #297 dangerman
What were we talking about?
Those topics just popped into my mind when people argued over whether Joy Reid really did forget those (mostly thought to be legitimate) posts of hers from years ago.
re: #283 klys (maker of Silmarils)
A completely different style of music than normal here, but my baby sister is in a Sweet Adelines competition this weekend and you can stream the contest here. Her group is in the next 20 minutes or so.
Oh, my father was a devoted Barbershopper. We were hauled all around the country for competitions. It takes real skill. Not my thing, but I try to go with it, in memory of my father’s enjoyment.
re: #300 retired cynic
Oh, my father was a devoted Barbershopper. We were hauled all around the country for competitions. It takes real skill. Not my thing, but I try to go with it, in memory of my father’s enjoyment.
It’s something she started after she moved for her first job and she’s really been enjoying it. There’s a family history, so it wasn’t out of the blue, but I’m still glad she’s found something to do fun like that.
They’re hoping to win and get to go compete at internationals in New Orleans next fall.
re: #299 freetoken
Those topics just popped into my mind when people argued over whether Joy Reid really did forget those (mostly thought to be legitimate) posts of hers from years ago.
Oh, I forgot. //
I don’t like people who are currently homophobic. If I was gonna be mad at people who used to be homophobic, I’d have to be mad at my mom.
— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) April 28, 2018
re: #300 retired cynic
Oh, my father was a devoted Barbershopper. We were hauled all around the country for competitions. It takes real skill. Not my thing, but I try to go with it, in memory of my father’s enjoyment.
we did a little barbershop in my high school chorus, which usually did early music
i enjoyed the close intervals and chromatic voice leading - cool chords!
re: #292 Blind Frog Belly White
That level of crazy just scares the crap out of me as a father to a little girl.
The way these people have of dehumanizing women and reducing their value to a single bit of their anatomy is truly frightening.
re: #13 Ace-o-aces
Doctor Zoom at Wonkette’s site explains the magic touch of RW America’s favorite artist.
America’s Greatest and Laziest Patriotic Artist, Jon McNaughton, has oiled forth a new masterpiece in his great line of America-loving paintings, which fuse the middlebrow artistic finesse of the late Thomas Kinkade with the subtle political messaging of a Ben Garrison cartoon.
A new Russian film about the Jewish revolt in the Sobibor extermination camp.https://t.co/qAJ3Cv80aZ
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) April 28, 2018
re: #305 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
we did a little barbershop in my high school chorus, which usually did early music
i enjoyed the close intervals and chromatic voice leading - cool chords!
Now, I LOVE early music! (Was a music major in college, and I still love to listen to those harmonies.)
To repeat myself from the other day: I think we ought to embrace a culture where people are encouraged to discuss how they’ve changed their mind on this or that.
Such will make for a more honest atmosphere and one in which the society can make progress.
Entrenchment of a few key opinions may be necessary for some baseline in a society, but in general I’d prefer most beliefs to be more fluid.
re: #300 retired cynic
Oh, my father was a devoted Barbershopper. We were hauled all around the country for competitions. It takes real skill. Not my thing, but I try to go with it, in memory of my father’s enjoyment.
My husband did barbershop, a member of the Houston Tidelanders and was in a quartet as well. I was inwardly groaning when faced with my first Tidelanders Christmas show, wondering how I would be able to sit through it. Turns out I had a blast and LOVED it! Couldn’t wait for both the Spring and Christmas shows every year after that.
re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I don’t think a “permission slip” would pass Constitutional muster but it’s not something I believe the courts have addressed. I still think there would be an element of coercion involved, where the parent/guardian signs the slip so their kid won’t stand out.
Fifty years ago, my second grade teacher humiliated me in front of the class at my new school because I didn’t stop to pray over my lunch. I still remember, and I want this to STOP. Keep the religion at home, not in our schools!
re: #71 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
This is hilarious.
An architecture expert reveals 19 of the ugliest McMansions in America
Everyone with an ounce of taste likes to mock mcmansions, the giant, pretentious, stylistically illiterate, and cheaply made cookie cutter houses that spread like a fungus across newly developed ‘burbs from coast to coast. The mid-90s were the heyday of mcmansions, but they are still alive (though not well).
You could almost feel guilty for ridiculing them and their clueless owners, except that they are so deserving of ridicule.Two of the worst are in Texas. They look like the sort of place where a Trumpite politician might live:
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I need to figure out where the one in Rockwall Co. is since that’s where I am. But, even in the smallest county in the state, there’s still a lot of ground to cover.
re: #273 Charles Johnson
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I mentioned last evening Rachel Maddow’s support or not will be key to Joy keeping her career at MSNBC.
But she is not out of the woods. There are people that will forgive and others that won’t. And a third group that doesn’t care about the nature of the tweets, they are doing everything they can to see her gone because of her politics and outspoken ways.
I do think she may have made those comments though as it seems to be pretty tough to make changes on archived pages that carry time stamps. But it is remotely possible. When she says I might have but I don’t remember but I have made others that could be seen as being similar it is getting close to saying she did. Just my opinion. I hope she learns from it all. That’s all I can ask from an outsider view.
re: #292 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m just gonna leave this here, then run screaming from the room and take Rango for a walk, because this is some industrial-strength, weaponized horseshit.
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Having looked at both men and women a lot, if we follow step two, there are going to be a whole lot more men not getting any.
re: #313 mmmirele
I don’t think a “permission slip” would pass Constitutional muster but it’s not something I believe the courts have addressed. I still think there would be an element of coercion involved, where the parent/guardian signs the slip so their kid won’t stand out.
Fifty years ago, my second grade teacher humiliated me in front of the class at my new school because I didn’t stop to pray over my lunch. I still remember, and I want this to STOP. Keep the religion at home, not in our schools!
How many kids have to agree to it in order for it to take affect? If it’s not 100%, then we’re back to a child being forced to observe participate in something they or their parent’s don’t want. And if you’re that one kid who’s different, what will happen to you when the other kids find out your parents didn’t allow it?
re: #307 Whack-A-Mole
That level of crazy just scares the crap out of me as a father to a little girl.
The way these people have of dehumanizing women and reducing their value to a single bit of their anatomy is truly frightening.
You know what would happen with that 1/10 to 10/10 rating system?
The guys that get the 6/10 and below will bitch about it.
The bitch would be they were being judged too harshly and the factors for the judgement are unfair.
In other words…same shit as before.
Then they would say that women get judged more favorably.
re: #292 Blind Frog Belly White
I’m just gonna leave this here, then run screaming from the room and take Rango for a walk, because this is some industrial-strength, weaponized horseshit.
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I now have the urge to go meet up with an incel, any incel, and slap the living bejesus out of him.
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... Cheechako
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Views: 511 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 5- A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...KGxvi
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Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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