Tommy Emmanuel can rip through incredibly fast passages and play the most technically demanding pieces with ease, but one of the most impressive things about him is the way he devotes the same intensity to a moving ballad like this. Absolutely gorgeous.
The world turns:
Croatia Says 27,000 Migrants and Refugees Have Entered
Croatian police say about 27,000 migrants have entered the country since the surge started several days ago.
Police said Sunday that they are still expecting many more migrants to arrive from Serbia in the coming days. They say authorities are setting up tents for migrants to find shelter from rain and cold.
Migrants hoping to reach Western Europe started going through Croatia last Wednesday after Hungary pushed them away from its border with Serbia.
[…]
It’s not quite the same as seeing a monkey riding a pig backwards, but still, unusual:
RARE image: Seal Enjoys Surfing on Whale’s Back
Image: dnews-files-2015-09-seal-catches-ride-on-whales-back-670x440-jpg1.jpg
So have the David Cameron “lipstick on a pig” memes started yet?
Also, not sure if anyone watched Fear the Walking Dead tonight but, without giving much of anything away, I was kind of disappointed in the episode.
I kept waiting for something to happen but it never did.
That performance helped me settle tonight. Thank you.
Gorgeous. Ranks way up there on my ‘Most Beautiful Guitar Music’ list.
Mondays…… pic.twitter.com/tSVY02xOpT
— Vladimir Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) September 21, 2015
It’s been a warm year here (and most places), and today it was hot, records were falling again:
SXUS76 KSGX 202330
RERSGX
RECORD EVENT REPORT...PRELIM
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
425 PM PDT SUN SEP 20 2015
...HIGHEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORDS BROKEN OR TIED ON SEP 20 2015 ...
LOCATION NEW RECORD OLD RECORD PERIOD OF RECORD
RAMONA 102 98 IN 1991 1974
RIVERSIDE 106 TIED 106 IN 1943 1893
VISTA 98 97 IN 1979 1957
CHULA VISTA 97 96 IN 1939 1918
ALPINE 100 TIED 100 IN 1954 1951
EL CAJON 105 94 IN 2009 1979
All this monsoonal flow and ocean heat did bring us some unsual rain last week. And we have a chance of rain on Monday too (some on radar now.) We are however still very short of the norm of yearly rain total.
You can see the giant plume of convection over the gulf of California:
It’s a remnant of tropical depression 16 that never quite made it to being a tropical storm. Maybe it will bring us some rain tomorrow.
re: #10 freetoken
we’re already under a flash flood advisory here in S. AZ thru Tuesday
re: #11 piratedan
we’re already under a flash flood advisory here in S. AZ thru Tuesday
You are in/from Southern AZ? I lived in Tempe, Mesa, Tucson, Sedona and Flagstaff.
LOUISE MENSCH IS ACTUALLY DEFENDING HAVING SEX WITH A DEAD PIG THIS IS THE BEST OF TIMES #piggate pic.twitter.com/3v9XHgI8sg
— Linda Stupart (@LindaStupart) September 20, 2015
Holy shit man, you step out for a couple minutes then…WTF!!
David Cameron did what?!?
So, I’g going to rag on FTWD again.
Maybe I don’t want to like it. I don’t know.
What I do know is that I don’t like shows where the protagonists are too stupid. It’s difficult more me to sustain interest in a show if I can’t find some character that grabs my attention, in a positive way.
re: #15 Amory Blaine
Holy shit man, you step out for a couple minutes then…WTF!!
David Cameron did what?!?
I am not going to touch the issue of morality…but it does remind us that DC belongs to a class of people in the UK who feel themselves exempt from the moral standards they apply to the rest of society.
As a student, he also belonged to a “dining society” that used to go out and trash restaurants and then have their parents foot the bill for damages.
Compare that to his utterances about the London riots of 2011…
re: #15 Amory Blaine
Holy shit man, you step out for a couple minutes then…WTF!!
David Cameron did what?!?
Stuff. Apparently it came out in a new biography:
DAVID Cameron once put a “private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig’s mouth during a bizarre initiation ritual, it has been claimed.
Search twitter for #BaeOfPigs #Hameron #PulledPork #PigGate and #JeSuisCharcuterie. The UK has wrecked the internet.
Edit: There’s also #Snoutrage.
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
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I wake up, get organized, check the latest LGF thread and…
What did I just read?!You are officially banned from all kitchens everywhere. @LouiseMensch @roobishimmer
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) September 21, 2015
Color me a skeptic, but…
I do not believe anyone should take any statement from James Delingpole (now associated with the bratfrats) as the truth.
Lord Ashcroft has become soured on David Cameron the past couple of years and certainly wants to redo the political landscape.
Just sayin….
re: #23 freetoken
Color me a skeptic, but…
I do not believe anyone should take any statement from James Delingpole (now associated with the bratfrats) as the truth.
Lord Ashcroft has become soured on David Cameron the past couple of years and certainly wants to redo the political landscape.
Just sayin….
The UK has hellaciously strict libel laws. If the accusation can’t be substantiated he and his publishers are fucked.
Ashcroft in action:
Some truth here….actual climate change pronouncements over the years….. pic.twitter.com/1iV6vm4Du4 @DrEades
— Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) January 17, 2015
#piggate is clearly the most popular hashtag. It’s just a blur outputting a book a minute.
re: #24 goddamnedfrank
I’ve obviously not read the book and don’t plan to.
But remember that what is being reported in the book is a claim by one of Cameron’s old college acquaintances. Maybe it’s enough for Ashcroft to simply claim that Delingpole said this and that?
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I am not going to touch the issue of morality…but it does remind us that DC belongs to a class of people in the UK who feel themselves exempt from the moral standards they apply to the rest of society.
As a student, he also belonged to a “dining society” that used to go out and trash restaurants and then have their parents foot the bill for damages.
Compare that to his utterances about the London riots of 2011…
Was Cameron a product of one of England’s finer boy’s schools?
re: #19 Archangelus
I wake up, get organized, check the latest LGF thread and…
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You know what’s weird? The Rembrandts’ “I’ll Be There For You” (the theme for Friends) is playing on Sirius’s ’90s stations right now.
re: #28 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Was Cameron a product of one of England’s finer boy’s schools?
As are most of his Tory compatriots. Buggery and sexual deviancy are the norm in their initiation rituals. But these are not so much about sex as they are about establishing the social pecking order.
re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
As are most of his Tory compatriots. Buggery and sexual deviancy are the norm in their initiation rituals. But these are not so much about sex as they are about establishing the social pecking order.
From Teh Wikipedia:
From the age of seven, Cameron was educated at two independent schools: at Heatherdown School in Winkfield (near Ascot) in Berkshire, which counts Prince Andrew and Prince Edward among its alumni. Due to good academic grades, Cameron entered its top academic class almost two years early.[15] At the age of thirteen, he went to Eton College in Berkshire, following his father and elder brother.[16] His early interest was in art. Six weeks before taking his O-Levels he was caught smoking cannabis.[2] He admitted the offence and had not been involved in selling drugs, so he was not expelled, but was fined, prevented from leaving school grounds, and given a “Georgic” (a punishment which involved copying 500 lines of Latin text).[17]
Cameron passed 12 O-Levels and then studied three A-levels: History of art, History, in which he was taught by Michael Kidson, and Economics with Politics. He obtained three ‘A’ grades and a ‘1’ grade in the Scholarship Level exam in Economics and Politics.[18] The following autumn he passed the entrance exam for the University of Oxford, where he was offered an exhibition.[19]
Heatherdowne, Eton, then Oxford’s Brasenose College — all schools for Britain’s 1%.
So, how long will it be before one of the Republican candidates claims gay marriage leads to human-swine sex?
re: #34 freetoken
So, how long will it be before one of the Republican candidates claims gay marriage leads to human-swine sex?
Cameron is a conservative. If he were a Labour PM, they would be shouting from the rooftops already.
Someone who thinks they’re writing serious journalism wrote this:
Globalism, refugee crisis is fueling xenophobia
[…]
Many of the themes being sounded by Republican candidates are nothing new. In 1992, journalist Pat Buchanan challenged President George H W Bush for the Republican presidential nomination. Like Trump, Buchanan called for sealing the borders to immigrants. He also suggested erecting high protective tariffs to protect American manufacturing jobs, ending foreign aid and withdrawing American troops from aboard.
At the time Buchanan sounded like an isolated, discontented voice. With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1989, a new world order seemed an inevitable next step in the long movement toward democracy, universal human rights and a world without sharp borders and high fences.
Buchanan’s views no longer seem so outlandish.
[…]
Um, no. PaleoPat’s views were outlandish then, are outlandish today, and always will be “outlandish”.
The Guardian picks on on North Carolina’s bizarro prudery:
Teen prosecuted as adult for having naked images - of himself - on phone
A teenage boy in North Carolina has been prosecuted for having nude pictures of himself on his own mobile phone. The young man, who is now 17 but was 16 at the time the photos were discovered, had to strike a plea deal to avoid potentially going to jail and being registered as a sex offender.
Experts condemned the case as ludicrous. The boy was, however, punished by the courts, and had to agree to be subject to warrantless searches by law enforcement for a year, in addition to other penalties.
The young man was also named in the media and suffered a suspension as quarterback of his high school football team while the case was being resolved.
Cormega Copening, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was prosecuted as an adult under federal child pornography felony laws, for sexually exploiting a minor. The minor was himself.
[…]
re: #37 freetoken
Someone who thinks they’re writing serious journalism wrote this:
Globalism, refugee crisis is fueling xenophobia
Um, no. PaleoPat’s views were outlandish then, are outlandish today, and always will be “outlandish”.
None of those ideas are realistic in the least. We live in an interconnected, inter-dependent global economy now. If PaleoPat really wanted to isolate the USA entirely, he would have to forbid any US manufacturer from outsourcing to offshore factories, buying foreign components and hiring foreign workers. There’s no way American business would accept those restrictions, even if they made any economic sense at all.
As for our military presence abroad, we could argue that the mere presence of American troops and naval vessels keeps most would-be trouble-makers at bay — North Korea, Al Qaeda and Daesh being notable exceptions. Besides, where would we put all those servicemen and women and the equipment? What jobs would they have?
Anyone who thinks Pat Buchanan is worth paying attention to needs his head examined.
re: #38 freetoken
The Guardian picks on on North Carolina’s bizarro prudery:
Teen prosecuted as adult for having naked images - of himself - on phone
Because looking at yourself naked leads to … what? Pimping yourself out to yourself? Selling yourself sex videos of yourself?
Might as well tell the kid to remove all the mirrors from the house and always wear boxer shorts while taking a shower.
Apparently the Brit media will now go into full discourse on politician-swine relations:
Jeremy Corbyn Became A Vegetarian After Seeing Cruelty On A Pig Farm
Important question for the next GOP debate: ” How do you feel about pigs?”
He “became attached to the pigs” while working on the farm as a 20-year-old and stopped eating meat.
Yeah, that’s what they all say.
re: #42 freetoken
Important question for the next GOP debate: ” How do you feel about pigs?”
They give me a lard-on…
re: #42 freetoken
Important question for the next GOP debate: ” How do you feel about pigs?”
Dobro slide
re: #46 Amory Blaine
Looking at the picture in back, they must be preparing for a revolt against England.
re: #32 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Cameron passed 12 O-Levels and then studied three A-levels: History of art, History, in which he was taught by Michael Kidson, and Economics with Politics. He obtained three ‘A’ grades and a ‘1’ grade in the Scholarship Level exam in Economics and Politics. The following autumn he passed the entrance exam for the University of Oxford, where he was offered an exhibition.
That’s an impressive high-school resume. I struggled to get 9 O-levels and 5 Scottish Highers (1 year of study rather than the two years an ‘A’ level takes). Getting all three A-levels as ‘A’ grades is also impressive. It’s the sort of performance that would put someone at a US high school in line for a top university entry and scholarships.
For the USians among us the O-levels are the first graded exams taken in British schools, usually at the end of year 4 or in your terms freshman senior high year. Scottish Higher grades are taken in year 5, A-levels in an optional sixth year (aka six-form college) although a promising student can skip a year and do A-levels early.
Sure he was taught at a school which regularly produces top-grade results for these exams and tutored on a one-to-one basis but it still takes a lot of native smarts to get those sorts of grades. The O-level and A-level exams are independently set and marked but Oxford and other top universities hold separate entrance exams for most subjects as well as requiring an entrance interview, essays etc.
re: #46 Amory Blaine
What Kentucky stereotype?
Is the consolation photo Ted got after the Huckster’s staff pushed him aside for the TV shots?
re: #48 Nojay UK
That’s an impressive high-school resume. I struggled to get 9 O-levels and 5 Scottish Highers (1 year of study rather than the two years an ‘A’ level takes). Getting all three A-levels as ‘A’ grades is also impressive. It’s the sort of performance that would put someone at a US high school in line for a top university entry and scholarships.
For the USians among us the O-levels are the first graded exams taken in British schools, usually at the end of year 4 or in your terms freshman senior high year. Scottish Higher grades are taken in year 5, A-levels in an optional sixth year (aka six-form college) although a promising student can skip a year and do A-levels early.
Sure he was taught at a school which regularly produces top-grade results for these exams and tutored on a one-to-one basis but it still takes a lot of native smarts to get those sorts of grades. The O-level and A-level exams are independently set and marked but Oxford and other top universities hold separate entrance exams for most subjects as well as requiring an entrance interview, essays etc.
There’s no question that Cameron is an intelligent man. But I suspect he grew up within a very privileged and sheltered bubble world, kept apart from the quotidian problems of us ordinary sods.
re: #49 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
What Kentucky stereotype?
Is the consolation photo Ted got after the Huckster’s staff pushed him aside for the TV shots?
Every time I see that picture I think of Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell.
re: #51 Timothy Watson
Every time I see that picture I think of Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell.
Know whatta mean?
Mamie Kirkland, 107, returns to the Mississippi hometown she left as a child, because her father had been lynched.
re: #15 Amory Blaine
Holy shit man, you step out for a couple minutes then…WTF!!
David Cameron did what?!?
Pretty sure that is an electoral requirement to be our Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice.
NWS has pushed the flash flood watch now to west of the mountains.
Looking at radar there is rain just south of Ensenada.
freetoken
I’ve obviously not read the book and don’t plan to.
But remember that what is being reported in the book is a claim by one of Cameron’s old college acquaintances. Maybe it’s enough for Ashcroft to simply claim that Delingpole said this and that?
LBJ sets the bar.
Aide: “Lyndon, you know he doesn’t do that!”
Johnson: “I know. I just want to make him deny it.”
“Used” comments are sticking invisibly in my composition space again.
Off to walk the dog. We will have a reassuring discussion of human-pet relations. BBL
re: #50 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
There’s no question that Cameron is an intelligent man. But I suspect he grew up within a very privileged and sheltered bubble world, kept apart from the quotidian problems of us ordinary sods.
At least in the UK our political leaders don’t come from families with “compounds” like the Kennedies and the Bushes (or indeed the Koreshes). Maggie Thatcher was famously a grocer’s daughter but smart and ambitious, John Major famously ran away from the circus to become an accountant (his father was an entertainer). Gordon Brown was a son of the Manse, traditionally an academically-oriented family structure but not wealthy.
The British political structure filters for intellectually gifted types with a ferocious work ethic and ambition but family names and connections are less important than they used to be. It’s been over 150 years since a father and son became Prime Ministers, for example. The PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) degree has become a marker of someone who’s making a bid for a political life generally, a bit like in the US where military service of some sort is a favoured resume checkmark for would-be elected officials.
Gonna be a long week: Richard Dawkins is citing Breitbart now. Apparently, ol’ Dick can’t quite get his allegedly keen intellect around the concept that he was wrong about a 14-year-old Muslim kid possibly being a terrorist.
Sigh. Thanks, Monday.
re: #60 Nojay UK
At least in the UK our political leaders don’t come from families with “compounds” like the Kennedies and the Bushes (or indeed the Koreshes). Maggie Thatcher was famously a grocer’s daughter but smart and ambitious, John Major famously ran away from the circus to become an accountant (his father was an entertainer). Gordon Brown was a son of the Manse, traditionally an academically-oriented family structure but not wealthy.
The British political structure filters for intellectually gifted types with a ferocious work ethic and ambition but family names and connections are less important than they used to be. It’s been over 150 years since a father and son became Prime Ministers, for example. The PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) degree has become a marker of someone who’s making a bid for a political life generally, a bit like in the US where military service of some sort is a favoured resume checkmark for would-be elected officials.
Well, once we had a former B-movie actor as president …
Most of ours have been lawyers.
Scottish ‘hate preacher’ has diatribe shut down by a bagpiper
LONDON — A man who has been described as a “hate preacher” had his public lecture brought to a halt in Scotland by a man playing the bagpipes.
The “preacher” was delivering an anti-gay message, claiming that same-sex marriage is ruining the country, the Daily Record reported — however he was soon drowned out with a rendition of the traditional song “Scotland the Brave.”
Onlookers who cheered the musician’s actions filmed the footage from above, before a police van arrived on the scene. No arrests were made.
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
Scottish ‘hate preacher’ has diatribe shut down by a bagpiper
I saw that story and its just perfect.
re: #61 Mattand
Gonna be a long week: Richard Dawkins is citing Breitbart now. Apparently, ol’ Dick can’t quite get his allegedly keen intellect around the concept that he was wrong about a 14-year-old Muslim kid possibly being a terrorist.
Sigh. Thanks, Monday.
It’s nothing a Megadose of Cute won’t cure.
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
Scottish ‘hate preacher’ has diatribe shut down by a bagpiper
We need to try that at Trump’s next appearance.
re: #57 Decatur Deb
freetoken
LBJ sets the bar.
Aide: “Lyndon, you know he doesn’t do that!”
Johnson: “I know. I just want to make him deny it.”
I have to wonder about the veracity of this story, because the British sci-fi anthology series Dark Mirror had an episode in which a terrorist forced the PM to screw a pig live on TV.
More of my thoughts on FTWD:
It took me several hours to get through the latest episode, as I’ve already decided I can’t dig the characters enough to care about what happens to them.
Here’s what the writers want us to believe about these characters:
They never listen to radio (though there was one on in the truck in the first episode, for some reason it disappears.)
They never watch TV (in southern Californian?)
Even though they have smartphones with video, apparently they never continued to look at them after the initial zombie video.
And so on.
Now I realize the human element the writers are going for is that the blended family is numb to their feelings and the world, etc. But the showrunners have gone way overboard with this. Remember, the lead male was an literature specialist and the lead female a school therapist/psychologist. No matter how much they might wish to escape the realities of their (pre-zombie) life, I can’t believe such people would be as dull as presented.
As for the actors - I like Ruben Blades. The rest I find mis-cast.
I was rooting for the dog, until it got eaten last episode.
The producers are cashing in on TWD brand but not delivering a good product. It’s just run-of-the-mill acting with below average (for a drama) script.
re: #68 freetoken
Damn you!! I subscribe but can’t watch until today. I didn’t click to reveal but it’s like you know the milk has gone bad but you still take a whiff.
re: #66 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
We need to try that at Trump’s next appearance.
I think that Tuba guy followed him around on the golf course. There’s video somewhere.
re: #70 The Vicious Babushka
I think that Tuba guy followed him around on the golf course. There’s video somewhere.
Not loud enough.
re: #69 Doofus
Well, the other fall shows are starting up too. Continuum (north of the border) is even more disappointing.
I’ve not been impressed with small screen serials since Fargo finished.
Maybe a good drama will pop up on the small screen the next 6 months.
Till then it’s reality TV (Strictly Come Dancing and such) or light affair (e.g., DoctorWho.)
re: #61 Mattand
Gonna be a long week: Richard Dawkins is citing Breitbart now. Apparently, ol’ Dick can’t quite get his allegedly keen intellect around the concept that he was wrong about a 14-year-old Muslim kid possibly being a terrorist.
Sigh. Thanks, Monday.
Have to admit I’ve always thought Dawkins was a prick to some extent.
The way the Labor Party is fighting internally over in the UK, David Cameron is in no danger of losing his seat over something that happened in college:
Labour shadow minister savages Corbyn over Iraq apology and ‘complete nonsense’ claim that Blair is a war criminal
Labour’s ‘Mayor’ savages Corbyn: Party star Khan damns leader over anti-Semitism
The latter story is particularly good from my perspective as it features a Muslim (Sadiq Khan) tearing a strip off of a socialist (Jeremy Corbyn) for being anti-Semitic. In so doing, Khan puts the lie to Ben Carson quite nicely.
Of course there is another side of the story: The Shadow Chancellor and the Labor candidate for mayor of London are letting that city’s financial industry know they are against Corbyn and in favor of growth policies, and maintaining order. This conservative sees such a message as a good thing.
re: #61 Mattand
Gonna be a long week: Richard Dawkins is citing Breitbart now. Apparently, ol’ Dick can’t quite get his allegedly keen intellect around the concept that he was wrong about a 14-year-old Muslim kid possibly being a terrorist.
Sigh. Thanks, Monday.
As a scientist, Dawkins really shouldn’t be falling for this kind of shit. His job is to look at evidence and come to a conclusion based on that, not coming up with a conclusion and making up evidence to support it. You would think that would inform his approach to life, but I guess he’s so brilliant that he never has to check himself for bias.
re: #76 No Depression
As a scientist, Dawkins really shouldn’t be falling for this kind of shit. His job it to look at the evidence and come to a conclusion based on that, not coming up with a conclusion and making up evidence to support it. You would think that would inform his approach to life, but I guess he’s so brilliant that he never has to check himself for bias.
He is doing exactly what he accuses religious people of doing; letting emotions cloud his logic.
re: #74 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Fascinating story. Interesting the town has deleted its newspaper history for the period immediately surrounding the lynching.
There’s probably photos of the lynching and they wanted those gone. Few modern white people would want to the world to view a photo of an ancestor seen in the act of committing murder.
By admitting it happened, the injustice is confessed as honor requires, but getting rid of the photographic evidence keeps people from feeling shamed themselves.
Note: I am not saying I approve of such destruction of records. I do not so approve, but I understand why the people who deleted the records did so. But true honor requires a full accounting for the past if possible.
re: #25 freetoken
Ashcroft in action:
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Missing from the actual climate pronouncements are the actual references to papers, so that citations can be followed for judgement of the scientist’s peers as to accuracy and importance.
heh
The @TODAYshow refused to use their just in poll numbers where I have a massive lead but instead used @CNN numbers where my lead is smaller.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2015
oh look: Bobby thinks he’s still relevant:
Hillary’s the godmother of socialized medicine and is coming to LA to attack me for refusing to implement Obamacare: https://t.co/GVR4kgKAMd
— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) September 21, 2015
.@HillaryClinton Instead of battling through press releases though, let’s have a debate about healthcare. https://t.co/GVR4kgKAMd
— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) September 21, 2015
A Trump supporter, who didn’t appreciate that I stated that Trump is a little man (on character/judgment):
.@PeteNice1976 @realDonaldTrump yeah, just ignore the unconstitutionality of what he proposes doing, or the costs, or the morality.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 21, 2015
re: #67 aagcobb
I have to wonder about the veracity of this story, because the British sci-fi anthology series Dark Mirror had an episode in which a terrorist forced the PM to screw a pig live on TV.
The story (LBJ) is quite old in media years, but it’s considered ‘unverified’.
re: #77 HappyWarrior
He is doing exactly what he accuses religious people of doing; letting emotions cloud his logic.
The video’s caption: While discussing 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest for bringing a clock to school, Bill Maher suggested the school was justified in its actions.
It seems to me that ‘Clockhazi’ has induced some serious asshattery, both from those who dislike Islam and those who dislike religion in general.
re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh look: Bobby thinks he’s still relevant:
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Hillary is doing Jindal a favor by attacking him. The attacks will remind people he exists as something other than a junior-debate punching bag.
re: #83 Decatur Deb
The story (LBJ) is quite old in media years, but it’s considered ‘unverified’.
Oh, I was referring to the David Cameron story, not the LBJ story, sorry.
re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hillary’s the godmother of socialized medicine and is coming to LA to attack me for refusing to implement Obamacare: t.co
— Gov. Bobby Jindal
I think Bobby means he didn’t allow LA to set up its own health exchange and he didn’t expand Medicaid. But fortunately his citizens can still access the federal network and those with pre-existing conditions can now get healthcare. I know that’s hard for Bobby to understand.
re: #87 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
LA has among the worst health care outcomes/systems in the nation. Among the highest rates of uninsureds, and that rests entirely on Jindal’s refusal to expand Medicaid.
It is costing his state in money and lives. For all his talk of fiscal responsibility, he’s burdening those who are least able to afford health care with additional costs.
At the same time, Jindal’s attempted even more burden shifting, including an attempt to eliminate the personal income tax and replace it with a sales tax. That effort foundered last year, but it shows he’s all about catering to the haves.
Paul Ryan plans to hold a poverty summit. The Conservative “solutions” to poverty are well known: poor women need to abstain from sex until they are married, and massive tax cuts for the 0.1% richest Americans will trickle down on the poor.
Anti Muslim bigots claim Muslims in US govt r connected to radical Muslims. But not a peep yet about the biz partners Trump has in Mid East
— Dean Obeidallah (@Deanofcomedy) September 21, 2015
Can’t wait to see who Trump’s biz partners in Qatar and Dubai have also done biz with or funded. Wonder how that will play out?
— Dean Obeidallah (@Deanofcomedy) September 21, 2015
re: #78 Dark_Falcon
There’s probably photos of the lynching and they wanted those gone. Few modern white people would want to the world to view a photo of an ancestor seen in the act of committing murder.
By admitting it happened, the injustice is confessed as honor requires, but getting rid of the photographic evidence keeps people from feeling shamed themselves.
Note: I am not saying I approve of such destruction of records. I do not so approve, but I understand why the people who deleted the records did so. But true honor requires a full accounting for the past if possible.
You can believe that there were newspaper photos of lynchings. One of my distant relatives was a KKK Klalorn or some such down in Indiana in the Twenties and Thirties. You do not want to look at his scrapbook. The newspaper photos, usually including a group shot of the local dignitaries with the victim still hanging, are the stuff of bad dreams.
re: #89 aagcobb
Paul Ryan plans to hold a poverty summit. The Conservative “solutions” to poverty are well known: poor women need to abstain from sex until they are married, and massive tax cuts for the 0.1% richest Americans will trickle down on the poor.
Paul Ryan will lead the charge when Republicans, tired of the slow pace of demolishing the middle class, enact sumptuary laws.
re: #89 aagcobb
Paul Ryan plans to hold a poverty summit. The Conservative “solutions” to poverty are well known: poor women need to abstain from sex until they are married, and massive tax cuts for the 0.1% richest Americans will trickle down on the poor.
I presume there is an entry fee.
re: #91 Higgs Boson’s Mate
You can believe that there were newspaper photos of lynchings. One of my distant relatives was a KKK Klalorn or some such down in Indiana in the Twenties and Thirties. You do not want to look at his scrapbook. The newspaper photos, usually including a group shot of the local dignitaries with the victim still hanging, are the stuff of bad dreams.
Local photos of spectacle lynchings were turned into postcards, sold to those who couldn’t make it to the venue. There is a vintage market for them.
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re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
My deepest sympathies to you and your family, Sleuth.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
Holding you and yours in my heart today.
re: #89 aagcobb
Paul Ryan plans to hold a poverty summit. The Conservative “solutions” to poverty are well known: poor women need to abstain from sex until they are married, and massive tax cuts for the 0.1% richest Americans will trickle down on the poor.
Ryan, as a Catholic, has nicely timed the announcement of the summit to coincide with the arrival of Pope Francis who brings with him his message of service to the poor. The forum could be an opportunity to wrestle with issues that don’t get discussed much on the campaign trail—what role individual responsibility plays in poverty and how much of it is the result of systemic forces. Also, as budget chairman, Ryan proposed some modifications to the safety net that his critics claim would devastate the poor. If the presidential candidates come to engage with these topics, it will perhaps interrupt for a brief moment the campaign circus
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re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
My condolences to you and yours. May you be comforted by fond memories and the love and support of those around you.
re: #103 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
If the presidential candidates come to engage with these topics, it will perhaps interrupt for a brief moment the campaign circus
Yeah, right. Ryan is just trying to make people believe he’s still relevant.
Oh, this is sure to go well:
#AskTrump Send me your questions to answer live from @TwitterNYC later this afternoon.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2015
re: #105 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Yeah, right. Ryan is just trying to make people believe he’s still relevant.
If you’re the chair of the House Rules Committee and you played the leading role in getting Trade Promotion Authority through the House a few months ago, then you’re relevant. And that’s the job Paul Ryan has and the big project he handled.
re: #108 Dark_Falcon
If you’re the chair of the House Rules Committee and you played the leading role in getting Trade Promotion Authority through the House a few months ago, then you’re relevant. And that’s the job Paul Ryan has and the big project he handled.
There’s more to relevance that who’s trending on Twitter, you know. Now get off my lawn!
Trump Defends Ben Carson Muslim President Comments: “Talk About Freedom Of Speech”
TRUMP: He’s speaking his opinion, that’s his opinion. Talk about freedom of speech… he feels very strongly about it.
re: #105 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Yeah, right. Ryan is just trying to make people believe he’s still relevant.
Ryan certainly preened when the unanimous mouths of the media began characterizing him as a budget wonk. The fact that his budgets never add up has only dimmed, not extinguished, the media’s regard for Ryan.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
Sorry for your loss, Sleuth. Thinking of you and yours.
re: #110 freetoken
Trump Defends Ben Carson Muslim President Comments: “Talk About Freedom Of Speech”
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[wingnut]Freedom of Speech means people can’t disagree with me! [/wingnut}
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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We need Trees. A Branch of Medicine
Heartbreaking Photo of a Starving Polar Bear Has Become the New Icon of Climate Change
too awful to upload.
It is a nice balance to the pictures of the polar boars walking on the pipeline in Alaska that one GOP Congress Critter used to prove there was no climate change or the pipeline didn’t harm the environment or some such bs.
Chinese president kicks off his 1st state visit to the US tomorrow, and he’s spending the first two days of it in the Seattle-Tacoma area. I think its good for foreign leaders to see parts of the US other than New York City and Washington DC. Encouraging that was a good idea of Condoleezza Rice and I’m glad it continued under Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.
re: #114 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
[wingnut]Freedom of Speech means people can’t disagree with me! [/wingnut}
The candidates won’t say that. Their legions of adherents sure will. They will demand their constitutional right to a stacked deck.
THIS IS THE STUPIDEST PERSON ON TWITTER TODAY==>
@MelioraEsq and i heard harriet yTubman and I thought Its a fucking emmy for gods sake. She wasnt digging thru a tunnel
— Nancy Lee Grahn (@NancyLeeGrahn) September 21, 2015
re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I was watching a bit of that. I swear sometimes he acts like a 12 year old. He didn’t like Savannah Guthrie mentioning the newest CNN poll that has him trending down a bit.
It will be fun to see how he reacts when even the RWNJs grow tired of his act. They will need to send in specialists with the straight jackets and padded rooms. It will not be pretty.
The “Underground Railroad” was not a fucking subway system
re: #116 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
We need Trees. A Branch of Medicine
Well, the good news is that the importance of trees is well understood where you and I live. Cook Country has far more trees now than it did 100 years ago.
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. I finally woke up not wanting to die. Cold gone. Yeass! As for FTWD:
I enjoyed last night’s episode. Travis annoys me, pay attention to your son. Madison and Daniel seem to be the only ones who get what’s really going on. I would have slapped the shit out of Nick too. It’s interesting, but not surprising, how the government is handling this.
Have a good Monday, guys.
re: #122 The Vicious Babushka
The “Underground Railroad” was not a fucking subway system
When they whistle ‘Dixie’, just answer them with this:
I had forgotten about this:
Regulator turns down Google’s appeal on global ‘right to be forgotten’
A French regulator on Monday rejected Google’s appeal of a decision that requires it to remove links from its search results — no matter where they show up in the world.
The decision is related to last year’s “right to be forgotten” ruling in which a European court said that citizens could request that links about them be taken down from search results.
The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), France’s privacy regulator, has asked Google to apply the decisions related to European users around the world — meaning that a link removed in Europe would also be removed from search results on America’s google.com.
[…]
A Google spokesperson said that the search engine has “worked hard to implement the Right to be Forgotten ruling thoughtfully and comprehensively in Europe, and we’ll continue to do so.” But the spokesperson said that the company still disagreed “as a matter of principle” with the thought of a single country’s data regulator making a decision to restrict the content that people in other countries see in their search result.
Thousands of requests have been made of Google under the “right to be forgotten” ruling since it was handed down last year. The search engine has received 66,707 requests from people with a relationship to France alone. It has received 318,269 in total.
[…]
re: #121 ObserverArt
I’m staying with the premise that Trump started this run as just another publicity stunt. He found following winds and cracked on more sail.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Awwww. I was thinking about that late last evening and thinking of you. Take care Sleuth and Mr BWS.
#WhitePrivilege in a nutshell==>
And this my friends is what #WhiteFeminism looks like..@NancyLeeGrahn get it together #Emmys2015 #violadavis #history pic.twitter.com/MvQuxh0I4j
— jagger blaec (@BasicBlaecGirl) September 21, 2015
re: #126 freetoken
I had forgotten about this:
Regulator turns down Google’s appeal on global ‘right to be forgotten’
What would happen if Google simply refused to comply?
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
Punning before mid day is considered a mortal sin by some religions. Juat sayin’.
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
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Patricia Arquette is a good egg.
It was good to see Tracy Morgan at the Emmy’s and not missing a step. Yay for Peter Dinklage winning and Viola Davis, first AA woman to win Emmy for Best Actress.
Was Andy Samberg any good hosting? I didn’t watch much.
re: #130 Dark_Falcon
What would happen if Google simply refused to comply?
They’ll be fined. It’s not very much, I think, at least on a per-case basis. But if they get millions of cases I wonder if they have to pay a fine for each one.
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
She just kept digging. Know when to apologize and shut it.
re: #130 Dark_Falcon
What would happen if Google simply refused to comply?
I am vehemently opposed to global take-down orders like this one. There are plenty of awful people who would love to have their trails on the internet erased as well.
“George W. Who?”
A dog’s first flying adventure almost goes horribly wrong
.”I’d probably have been upset, but if it saved the dog…” — airline passenger
re: #140 Higgs Boson’s Mate
I am vehemently opposed to global take-down orders like this one. There are plenty of awful people who would love to have their trails on the internet erased as well.
“George W. Who?”
I’m conjuring up images of George Orwell rolling in his grave.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #142 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I’m conjuring up images of George Orwell rolling in his grave.
Wow! Hadn’t even thought of that. There’s nothing in that law that prevents someone from replacing and unflattering record with complete bullshit. Should this stand, I see at least three start ups forming to make you brand new on the internet - for a fee.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
May he rest in the light.
re: #137 Jenner7
She just kept digging. Know when to apologize and shut it.
People who would stop in real life often don’t on Twitter, because Twitter is where they go to be their ‘bad selves’.
re: #144 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Wow! Hadn’t even thought of that. There’s nothing in that law that prevents someone from replacing and unflattering record with complete bullshit. Should this stand, I see at least three start ups forming to make you brand new on the internet - for a fee.
I have heard ads on the radio for just such a service—they already exist.
re: #144 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Wow! Hadn’t even thought of that. There’s nothing in that law that prevents someone from replacing and unflattering record with complete bullshit. Should this stand, I see at least three start ups forming to make you brand new on the internet - for a fee.
It should be noted that such orders can only remove links from things like Google Searches related to a person’s name. They cannot force a takedown of the actual article or the removal of someone’s name from it.
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The biggest secrets about what happened at Attica in 1971 are still kept hidden.
The original five were called the “Declaration and 5 Demands of Attica.” They included such things as these:
“1. We want complete amnesty, meaning freedom from all and any physical, mental and legal reprisals.
2. We want now, speedy and safe transportation out of confinement to a non-imperialistic country.
3. We demand that the Federal Government intervene, so that we will be under direct Federal Jurisdiction.
4. We want the Governor and the Judiciary, namely Constance B. Motley, to guarantee that there will be no reprisals and we want all factions of the media to articulate this.”
The 5th item was a list of people they wanted to come and negotiate for them, and then it ended with this:“We guarantee the safe passage of all people to and from this institution. We invite all the people to come here and witness this degradation so that they can better know how to bring this degradation to an end. This is what we want.”
New Book: “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy” Heather Ann Thompson
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
So sorry B_S… sending good thoughts your way.
In the early morning I sometimes flip on Way Too Early on MSNBC to catch the first wave of big stories if I am awake. What happens next is Morning Joe comes on and I will listen to him ramble on for a few minutes to see what he will be pissed off today regarding Hillary/Obama/Liberals/Progressives. Then I watch the local news for weather and big local stories.
This morning Joke Scarborough was raging on about a report about US Soldiers in Afghanistan allowing Afghan soldiers to rape boys. I was in and out, not quite awake yet, and I think they said this is some kind of a custom, but don’t quote that. He then got onto who would allow this and he wondered if it went all the way to the top (Obama).
Anyone know anything about this? I’m going to do some searching later, but the LGFers are pretty good at finding news fast and mentioning it here.
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies
I wondered when this would be highlighted in the news.
re: #151 ObserverArt
In the early morning I sometimes flip on Way Too Early on MSNBC to catch the first wave of big stories if I am awake. What happens next is Morning Joe comes on and I will listen to him ramble on for a few minutes to see what he will be pissed off today regarding Hillary/Obama/Liberals/Progressives. Then I watch the local news for weather and big local stories.
This morning Joke Scarborough was raging on about a report about US Soldiers in Afghanistan allowing Afghan soldiers to rape boys. I was in and out, not quite awake yet, and I think they said this is some kind of a custom, but don’t quote that. He then got onto who would allow this and he wondered if it went all the way to the top (Obama).
Anyone know anything about this? I’m going to do some searching later, but the LGFers are pretty good at finding news fast and mentioning it here.
ah! GMTA.
Yeah, it’s a sad, sad thing.
All I can keep thinking is Jimmy Carter’s TED TALK.
There’s one more basic cause that I need not mention, and that is that in general, men don’t give a damn.
Thing is, he does need to mention it. He is the only one who has.
re: #153 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies
I wondered when this would be highlighted in the news.
Horrible. We can’t get out of that country fast enough.
re: #155 aagcobb
Horrible. We can’t get out of that country fast enough.
I just found that link and was getting ready to post it.
re: #153 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies
I wondered when this would be highlighted in the news.
You had heard about it prior? Have you mentioned it here and maybe I missed it?
re: #84 Dark_Falcon
The video’s caption: While discussing 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest for bringing a clock to school, Bill Maher suggested the school was justified in its actions.
It seems to me that ‘Clockhazi’ has induced some serious asshattery, both from those who dislike Islam and those who dislike religion in general.
I did see that with Maher. I don’t think you can say it’s anti religion people in general because of Dawkins and Maher. Two does not make a pattern.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m so sorry. You and your family will be in my thoughts.
Scott Walker At A Whopping 0 Percent In National Polls http://t.co/Lryxfl76fU #StopRush #UniteBlue #p2
— FierceFeline (@FFierceFFeline) September 21, 2015
re: #156 ObserverArt
I just found that link and was getting ready to post it.
You had heard about it prior? Have you mentioned it here and maybe I missed it?
No, I was waiting to see if anyone else noticed.
I had heard about it from other sources years ago, but never had a confirmation.
re: #153 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies
I wondered when this would be highlighted in the news.
Good lord….
re: #160 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
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Very pleased that the Kochbot has crashed and burned.
” . Men don’t give a damn: THANKS for saying it Mr President https://t.co/qYpExJSgUY @WarAgainstWomen @RightWingWatch
— ggt (@geegeetee) September 21, 2015
re: #160 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Scott Walker At A Whopping 0 Percent In National Polls t.co #StopRush #UniteBlue #p2
— FierceFeline
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. /
re: #164 aagcobb
Very pleased that the Kochbot has crashed and burned.
I’m sure they’ll open up the checkbook for some other bot.
Monday morning mood lifter: The best defense http://t.co/DOiBR7Q54K
— Feministe (@Feministe) September 21, 2015
#ScottWalker at 0% in new national poll #tcot #UniteBlue http://t.co/5C9zdBiLIt @acehanna54 @baldspotpower pic.twitter.com/f4Fv9JP7j2
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) September 21, 2015
Mike Huckabee’s Shriveled Manhood Threatened By Gay Homosexual Army Secretary http://t.co/siZUizO6zy via @EvanHurst pic.twitter.com/iF7hYfcqa4
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) September 21, 2015
re: #167 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I’m sure they’ll open up the checkbook for some other bot.
Which will be slightly less bother than buying a used Camry.
My I have opinions on this site —specifically the Ferguson Flash Cards?
what 14th amendment?
Huff Post: Texas Continues to Deny Birth Certificates to U.S. Citizen Children Born to Undocument… http://t.co/D6tPUwKIM7 #p2 #topprog
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) September 21, 2015
re: #170 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
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He can’t attempt to comprehend that a gay man can understand military issues better than he can. It really chafes his bigoted ass.
re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth
Scottish ‘hate preacher’ has diatribe shut down by a bagpiper
Who knew there that anything good could come out of a set of bagpipes?
re: #67 aagcobb
I have to wonder about the veracity of this story, because the British sci-fi anthology series Dark Mirror had an episode in which a terrorist forced the PM to screw a pig live on TV.
That was the first thing that crossed my mind, too. An awful lot of life imitates art going on, there.
Resilience: An Update PTSD RESEARC QUARTERLY
Most individuals are resilient and able to successfully deal with
a wide range of life stressors and traumas. In fact, Masten (2001)
coined the term “ordinary magic” to point out that resilience is
not rare. Humans are endowed with natural protective systems
that help them adapt to change and adversity. However, in order
for these protective systems to develop and operate effectively
individuals need basic social and material resources, and, ideally,
healthy family and community environments (see discussion in
Southwick, Bonanno, Masten, Panter-Brick & Yehuda, 2014).
AND:
PTSD for Children 6 Years and Younger this one is really interesting, IMHO
What types of trauma do young children experience?
Young children are exposed to many types of traumatic experiences, placing them at risk for PTSD. These include:
Abuse (7)
Witnessing interpersonal violence (8)
Motor vehicle accidents (9)
Experiences of natural disasters (10)
Conditions of war (11)
Dog bites
Invasive medical procedures (12)
Okay, I read the NYTimes article on the Afghan police rape abuse. I am betting Joke Scarborough makes this about Obama and if he gets the right story of blame together it will be used against Hillary in the elections since she was Secretary of State and possibly knew of this since she and Obama are evil actors together.
And I agree with many here…Afghanistan needs to be in the rear view mirror.
re: #170 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Out of all the times we traded shots with the enemy it never occurred to me to ask the guy next to me, “Are you, um, you know (Hand waggle)?”
re: #174 HappyWarrior
He can’t attempt to comprehend that a gay man can understand military issues better than he can. It really chafes his bigoted ass.
It’s hard for a bigoted or homophobic man to understand that homosexual men are anything but limp wristed effeminate wussies.
Lre: #179 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Out of all the times we traded shots with the enemy it never occurred to me to ask the guy next to me, “Are you, um, you know (Hand waggle)?”
“All I care about is whether they can shoot straight.”
B Goldwater
re: #180 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
It’s hard for a bigoted or homophobic man to understand that homosexual men are anything but limp wristed effeminate wussies.
Oh sure is, it’s just hilarious when they pretty much admit that their entire perception of lgbt individuals is based in a stereotype.
Hedge Fund Manager Buys Rights To Critical Drug, Hikes Price By 5000% @alternet http://t.co/CVYC7kRV7P #MartinShkreli #uniteblue #GOP
— Patricia Negron (@panegron) September 21, 2015
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m so sorry for your loss.
re: #110 freetoken
Trump Defends Ben Carson Muslim President Comments: “Talk About Freedom Of Speech”
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re: #185 HappyWarrior
There’s a special place for people like that.
The guillotine was invented for people like him.
re: #188 The Vicious Babushka
The guillotine was invented for people like him.
He needs a good ass kicking.
re: #188 The Vicious Babushka
The guillotine was invented for people like him.
Too nice. I’d prefer he come down with a long, painful, INCURABLE terminal illness (otherwise he could just buy the drugs he denies to others)
re: #182 HappyWarrior
Oh sure is, it’s just hilarious when they pretty much admit that their entire perception of lgbt individuals is based in a stereotype.
There are a couple of other issues, too, for the evangelical Christian nationalists. They consider the military as particularly Christian (I know, weird, but consider the issues in the Air Force Academy with proselyting officers, the linking of our wars with crusades, etc) and this confirms their view that The Homosexual Radical Agenda is taking over the government, etc.
re: #191 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
There are a couple of other issues, too, for the evangelical Christian nationalists. They consider the military as particularly Christian (I know, weird, but consider the issues in the Air Force Academy with proselyting officers, the linking of our wars with crusades, etc) and this confirms their view that The Homosexual Radical Agenda is taking over the government, etc.
Oh I know. Good point about the AFA.
re: #183 The Vicious Babushka
Hedge Fund Manager Buys Rights To Critical Drug, Hikes Price By 5000% @alternet t.co #MartinShkreli #uniteblue #GOP
— Patricia Negron
Yeah but the increased cost will be used to fund moar great profits greater more research .
re: #180 Camacho DeezNuts 2016
It’s hard for a bigoted or homophobic man to understand that homosexual men are anything but limp wristed effeminate wussies.
UNTIL someone in their family comes-out —at least if they are human enough to feel the bond of blood stronger than hatred.
re: #174 HappyWarrior
He can’t attempt to comprehend that a gay man can understand military issues better than he can. It really chafes his bigoted ass.
What can Huckabee understand about Military Matters at all?
re: #190 Interesting Times
Too nice. I’d prefer he come down with a long, painful, INCURABLE terminal illness (otherwise he could just buy the drugs he denies to others)
Curable is fine so long as it costs him everything he owns, like most major diseases do to most people.
re: #196 William Lewis
Curable is fine so long as it costs him everything he owns, like most major diseases do to most people.
I think he’s a plant designed to make our current medical system look bad.
“no Muslim should ever be President of the United States” -says the Party that won’t shut up about religious freedom https://t.co/nRmzPA1apY
— The Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) September 21, 2015
See how religious homophobia promotes child abuse (via @AliForneyCenter) http://t.co/xLiwXXwT07
— huffpostgay (@huffpostgay) September 21, 2015
re: #196 William Lewis
Curable is fine so long as it costs him everything he owns, like most major diseases do to most people.
The Republicans will just lower his taxes, since he’s a “job creator” and “money will trickle down”.
Like many wealthy folks, he got his money the old fashioned way. By sleazy business practices and ripping off folks.
I see lawsuits …
If price hike is to fund R&D, can I deduct the cost of any pills I buy? Or claim tax credits for funding R&D? https://t.co/imFHQ2kxzS
— David Waldman (@KagroX) September 21, 2015
Trying to bilk Medicaid????? or the Insurance Industry???
re: #198 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
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re: #195 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
What can Huckabee understand about Military Matters at all?
Or honestly any issue. He doesn’t understand law either.
When ur mate pulls but u have no where to sleep pic.twitter.com/J2FsGGwWqd
— Medieval Banter (@MedievalBantz) September 21, 2015
Netanyahu to Receive 2015 Irving Kristol Award http://t.co/ZhXh7rCuvF pic.twitter.com/rfs0pdX1HC
— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) September 21, 2015
Well, that just about says it all, doesn’t it?
re: #183 The Vicious Babushka
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Drug Goes From $13.50 a Tablet to $750, Overnight
Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62-year-old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life-threatening parasitic infection.
The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing immediately raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Turing’s price increase is not an isolated example. While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.
Although some price increases have been caused by shortages, others have resulted from a business strategy of buying old neglected drugs and turning them into high-priced “specialty drugs.”
Cycloserine, a drug used to treat dangerous multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, was just increased in price to $10,800 for 30 pills from $500 after its acquisition by Rodelis Therapeutics. Scott Spencer, general manager of Rodelis, said the company needed to invest to make sure the supply of the drug remained reliable. He said the company provided the drug free to certain needy patients.
And the same people bitching about health care cost exploding will continue to laud the free market.
So this Derp just showed up in my time line==>
@santo_aol @Wonkette @viciousbabushka just watch the video where planned parenthood staff kills babies. No politics needed to see that.
— Brian A Petersen (@brianadamp) September 21, 2015
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
So this Derp just showed up in my time line==>
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Derp Never Sleeps…
While I keep seeing adds, twitters and pintrests for some razor of the month thing, …
I bought 12 pink disposable razors for $2 at Big Lots and they are freaking awesome.
I’ll never do the coupon game again for razors.
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
So this Derp just showed up in my time line==>
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Ya know —don’t scream about not wanting to pay for those babies.
#208 The Vicious Babushka:
Show me a video of PP killing a baby, not a fetus, and prove the mother’s life was not in danger, and then we can talk.
RW talking points on Trump’s non-answer to his Obama/Muslim hating fan.
It is not up to republicans to defend Obama!
Freedom of speech!
Liberal media narrative…don’t fall for it!
Now for a thought experiment. Suppose in 2012, that Obama had a similar question/statement from someone at one of his events about Mitt Romney and his Mormon faith. Now imagine Obama gave a similar response to Trump’s.
How do you think Fox News/talk radio would have covered that?
Can a Muslim be President of the United States of America? In a word: Yes. Now let’s move on. -H pic.twitter.com/AB99hiUPie
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 21, 2015
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
Crap. So sorry to hear that. Condolences.
Ya know, ALL these women, doctors, professional organizations AND THE US GOVERNMENT are not so naive. Planned Parenthood is not killing babies and selling their body parts. No, we are not mislead.
This is as insidious as the rumors that go around the uneducated areas of the ME that Israel harvests body parts … and both are spread by religious people —how does that work?
#MustRead editorial via @clevelanddotcom #StandWithPP http://t.co/G4kjHgPMMu
— Planned Parenthood (@PPAOhio) September 21, 2015
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So sorry to hear that, prayers to you and your family Sleuth.
re: #173 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
what 14th amendment?
Texas Continues to Deny Birth Certificates to U.S. Citizen Children Born to Undocumented Parents]
I for one could support a change to the 14th Amendment to grant birthright citizenship only to children born to legal resident aliens. But only if it were part of a comprehensive packet of immigration law reform.
re: #214 Eventual Carrion
And privatize the roads while we’re at it.
Oh, now that is an idea. We can have Toll Trolls at every bridge and crossroads.
That is a great way to have a Free Market.
I think I heard where Hillary will soon be doing some policy speeches on prescription drugs and how the whole industry is messed up in the U.S.
With the story about the hedge fund managed company raising the price of a needed drug 5000%, I think she’ll have some ammo and a willing audience with this story.
re: #210 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I use an old school safety razor. the down side is I typically have to go to a pharmacy (Rite Aid or Walgreens) to get new blades - or I have to go to a specialty shop to get the high quality ones. But even with the off brand ones, I get a better shave than I ever did with an electric or multi-blade thing that I used in the past.
I’ve also recently bought a vintage straight razor, but need to have it sharpened before I can use it. It probably won’t be my regular razor, but I love barber shop shaves and I figured a straight razor can be nice a couple of times a month when I want to be very clean.
SodaStream offers 1,000 jobs to Syrian refugees in its plant in Rahat, southern Israel - http://t.co/U37VWxsWwd
— Jessica Montell (@JessicaMontell) September 21, 2015
re: #217 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
As Vicious has pointed out, this is a blood libel spread by anti choice extremists in an effort to destroy PP and eliminate access to health care for millions of women who rely on PP for their care.
It affects not only those who rely on PP for their birth control or reproductive health, but general health screening and care.
The functional result of the GOP efforts to defund would be higher health care costs for everyone as delayed health care is higher costs for treating ailments that could be treated for less at earlier stages (like say before a cancer metastasizes when a lumpectomy can prevent a cancer’s spread versus a mastectomy etc.) Or providing a HPV vaccine can prevent cervical cancer and other STDs, when the cost for treating those diseases can really climb fast.
re: #212 Belafon
#208 The Vicious Babushka:
Show me a video of PP killing a baby, not a fetus, and prove the mother’s life was not in danger, and then we can talk.
There are always risks to the mother’s life from pregnancy and birth. Much greater then from abortion.
re: #212 Belafon
#208 The Vicious Babushka:
Show me a video of PP killing a baby, not a fetus, and prove the mother’s life was not in danger, and then we can talk.
This is the “Holy Grail” of the anti-choicers: they want you to think they have a video of a HEALTHY FULL TERM NEWBORN, not a premature, non-viable miscarriage.
re: #226 wrenchwench
There are always risks to the mother’s life from pregnancy and birth. Much greater then from abortion.
Pregnancy is the single most dangerous activity in which a woman can engage.
Radio dude Hugh Hewitt on MTP yesterday said no funding murdering Planned Parenthood with his dollars!!!
That was after Maria Shriver explained that Planned Parenthood does all kinds of good things and Hewitt agreed. But then he ranted about the murder of babies for parts.
So Hugh, what is it you want?
re: #230 ObserverArt
Radio dude Hugh Hewitt on MTP yesterday said no funding murdering Planned Parenthood with his dollars!!!
That was after Maria Shriver explained that Planned Parenthood does all kinds of good things and Hewitt agreed. But then he ranted about the murder of babies for parts.
So Hugh, what is it you want?
and even Maria Shriver tries to steer clear of the abortion topic —focusing on birth control —trying to be a good catholic.
.re: #225 lawhawk
The other point is that the result they’re seeking is yet another example of privilege. If PP is destroyed, it’s poor women who will lose their reproductive choices. Middle class and wealthy women will always be able to find reproductive health services.
re: #230 ObserverArt
Radio dude Hugh Hewitt on MTP yesterday said no funding murdering Planned Parenthood with his dollars!!!
That was after Maria Shriver explained that Planned Parenthood does all kinds of good things and Hewitt agreed. But then he ranted about the murder of babies for parts.
So Hugh, what is it you want?
A bra that doesn’t show under his t-shirt.
re: #230 ObserverArt
Hugh wants the Republicans to win, plain and simple. Seriously, if a pro-marriage, pro-choice candidate somehow won the nomination, Hugh would change his position on those issues on a fucking dime. He’s a Republican first and foremost - he roots for Team Red and wants them to win, the same way he roots for the Cleveland Browns.
re: #229 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Pregnancy is the single most dangerous activity in which a woman can engage.
Maybe the most dangerous biological activity; I’d have to see some statistics.
re: #232 Blind Frog Belly White
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The other point is that the result they’re seeking is yet another example of privilege. If PP is destroyed, it’s poor women who will lose their reproductive choices. Middle class and wealthy women will always be able to find reproductive health services.
They want slavery to be a moral issue.
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Yeah that was the unemployment rate in 2001, courtesy of Bill Clinton.
By 2008 Bush doubled it.
Liberals Have Poor Selective Memories!! #tcot #ccot #pjnet pic.twitter.com/LF5P4ux1db
— DR. TWEET, Ph.D. (@Callisto1947) September 19, 2015
re: #231 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
and even Maria Shriver tries to steer clear of the abortion topic —focusing on birth control —trying to be a good catholic.
True. But I give her a bit of credit for trying to get the point out that PP is not an abortion mill. I am not sure, but I think she also tried to mention they do not sell baby parts, so she at least acknowledge they do abortions but they are not profiting on them which is the main scare tactic.
If she were a Catholic like Rick Santorum, she’d be all for defunding no questions asked.
re: #239 ObserverArt
True. But I give her a bit of credit for trying to get the point out that PP is not an abortion mill. I am not sure, but I think she also tried to mention they do not sell baby parts, so she at least acknowledge they do abortions but they are not profiting on them which is the main scare tactic.
If she were a Catholic like Rick Santorum, she’d be all for defunding no questions asked.
Yes, I give her a lot of credit.
re: #183 The Vicious Babushka
That hedge fund bumped the price of the drug 5000% for a very good reason: they need the dough to buy the rights for “air.”
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
{{BWS}} My sincerest condolences to you and your family.
re: #238 The Vicious Babushka
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
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Liberals Have Poor Selective Memories!!
Poor and selective? What are they trying to say? Our selective memories are not very good? OK, we can work on that. ‘
I really hate when stupid people attack. /rant
AMERICAN SOCIALISTS BECAME ANARCHISTS — 9/21/15
“At some point in 1884 the militant socialists of Chicago began identifying themselves as anarchists. This caused confusion among observers as well as among members of the International, because the movement’s leader, August Spies, insisted he remained a follower of Marx, and not of Marx’s anarchist enemy, [the Russian revolutionary anarchist Mikhail] Bakunin. It was true that Spies and his Chicago comrades had given up hope of finding a peaceful path to socialism via elections and legislative changes that they had broken decisively with their former comrades in the Socialistic Labor Party. Yet the Internationals continued to label their publications socialist in 1885, because they adhered to Marx’s belief that capitalism would be destroyed by its own contradictions and by the inevitable emergence of a class-conscious movement of workers prepared to abolish private property along with the forms of government that sanctioned and protected it.
“The Chicago militants thought of themselves as socialists of the anarchist type — that is, as revolutionaries who believed in liberating society from all state control, whether capitalist or socialist… . .
Heh…blaming Clinton for pharmaceuticals stock drop.
Couldn’t be the bad PR from the actual price gouging, huh?
Go Hillary!
Biotech falls on Clinton ‘price gouging’ comments
The major biotech ETF fell to its lows of the day after Monday morning comments from Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton saying she would take on “price gouging” in the pharmaceutical industry.
Price gouging like this in the specialty drug market is outrageous. Tomorrow I’ll lay out a plan to take it on. -H https://t.co/9Z0Aw7aI6h
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 21, 2015
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
{{{{{Sleuth}}}}}
re: #237 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
They want slavery to be a moral issue.
Sorry, more like a moral prerogative.
Jeffrey Lord on CNN blaming Clinton for the birther movement, citing a Politico article.
re: #249 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
?????
TBogg, when he was at his old place on Blogger, always referred to Hewitt as Hugh “Mantits” Hewitt, after Hewitt posted an unflattering photo of himself on line.
re: #236 wrenchwench
Maybe the most dangerous biological activity; I’d have to see some statistics.
Maybe having an intimate partner is more dangerous …
Sleuth, so sorry for you and your family.
re: #183 The Vicious Babushka
What a loathsome piece of garbage.
{{{{{ Sleuth}}}}} My deepest condolences to your family and all who loved your son. Such a difficult and tragic time for all of you.
re: #176 Bird in the Paw
That was the first thing that crossed my mind, too. An awful lot of life imitates art going on, there.
Well, the art got the idea from somewhere in the first place!
Why Women Are Shouting Out Their Abortion Stories On Twitter http://t.co/NuJxnfNSuH #ShoutYourAbortion #IStandWithPP #StandWithPP
— Shirley C (@ghhshirley) September 21, 2015
This bullshit regarding the price gouging for this drug has some serious implications for public health. Antibiotic resistent TB is a particularly alarming threat to all of us. By denying effective treatment by pricing it beyond reach for even a single patient can have disastrous effects making it an imperative for the law to step in where the free market won’t.
re: #156 ObserverArt
I just found that link and was getting ready to post it.
You had heard about it prior? Have you mentioned it here and maybe I missed it?
It’s for real and it’s called bacha bazi (don’t google it unless you have a barf bag handy, and rest assured the usual haters will claim that it’s an established “Islamic” practice—it is not). Frontline did a documentary on it that aired back in 2010. The full documentary is currently available on Vimeo, if you have the stomach for it.
re: #252 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Maybe having an intimate partner is more dangerous …
I failed at a search for stats.
re: #260 wrenchwench
There you are!
For @wenchwrench ;-) https://t.co/V0MNn504Zx
— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) September 21, 2015
It wasn’t so long ago that bicycles were off-limits for rural Tajik girls. Read @FarangisN: http://t.co/N5IDGb85Mp pic.twitter.com/aDKDNBjnMu
— RFE/RL (@RFERL) September 21, 2015
Since I do Breast Cancer research, I figured I should remind ppl: pic.twitter.com/7w7LXhiOYW
— Loreall Pooler (@LoreallPooler) September 21, 2015
re: #261 CuriousLurker
There you are!
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I’m one of the retweets on there, from early this morning thanks to your tweet.
Bicycles worked for women in this country; they can work anywhere!
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
So very sad to hear that. My condolences to your family.
re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #260 wrenchwench
I failed at a search for stats.
Just a real quick search…
Year 2011: according to CDC, 1751 pregnancy related deaths in US. 1818 deaths of women by male partners/aquaintances.
re: #265 blueraven
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re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth
Please let us know.
Ex-hedge funder buys rights to AIDS drug and raises price from $13.50 to $750 per pill http://t.co/f5y8kWrxcK
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 21, 2015
The guy’s photo has douchebag written all over it
re: #259 CuriousLurker
Also see An Afghan Dancing Boy Grows Up (written this summer). Excerpt below, but behind the private tag because… ugh, brain bleach:
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re: #269 Kragar
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The guy’s photo has douchebag written all over it
Am I too cynical, but where does the guy stand on the religio-political spectrum?
re: #269 Kragar
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The guy’s photo has douchebag written all over it
Wait for him to run for President in 20 years.
Okay, totally grossed out now. Need to go bury my head in code or something.
Later, lizards.
Sophia Loren turned 81 yesterday. What a beauty!
re: #263 wrenchwench
I’m one of the retweets on there, from early this morning thanks to your tweet.
Bicycles worked for women in this country; they can work anywhere!
Skateboards can do it too!
The kids from #Skateistan visited RS and demonstrated their skateboarding skills. http://t.co/mSJe233Oxj pic.twitter.com/VpLMGRKAow
— USForces Afghanistan (@USFOR_A) September 21, 2015
The #AskTrump hashtag is every bit out of control as one would have predicted.
:D
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
{{{{{{bws family}}}}}}
Much too young
re: #269 Kragar
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The guy’s photo has douchebag written all over it
He’s a parasite. No better than a disease. Hope he catches one.
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
But she quotes The Anti-Nowhere League!
(I have their “Live in Yugoslavia” album)
.@realDonaldTrump Same question regarding the claims you’ve made in the past about Obama’s birth. Why are you avoiding them now? #AskTrump
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) September 21, 2015
*facepalm*
Ben Carson: Christians Can Refuse To Do Their Jobs Because ‘This Is A Judeo-Christian Nation’ http://t.co/lHBb3C4Z3H
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 21, 2015
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ben Carson Advisor Blasts Muslim Group: ‘We Are No Longer Interested In The Rhetoric’ [VIDEO] http://t.co/BDSIR2HPsS pic.twitter.com/OZ2HgR9WGw
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 21, 2015
@271 Teukka:
Am I too cynical, but where does the guy stand on the religio-political spectrum?
He’s probably in pretty good with Mammon.
I liked the refugee with a kitten a little more, but this one’s awfully cute:
Teen refugee carried this puppy 300 miles to escape Syria: http://t.co/uAO9TxBBkK pic.twitter.com/mY54fwh0ZE
— The Daily Dot (@dailydot) September 21, 2015
The Marxist pope. More interested in redistribution of wealth than in freeing mankind through the gospel?! http://t.co/rPPPIJNP4r
— Michele Bachmann (@MicheleBachmann) September 21, 2015
Poe’s Law proof-of-the-day.
Can a Muslim be President of the United States of America? In a word: Yes. Now let’s move on. -H pic.twitter.com/AB99hiUPie
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 21, 2015
.@realDonaldTrump How is confronting your supporters’ racism = stifling their free speech but throwing out @jorgeramosnews isn’t? #AskTrump
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) September 21, 2015
re: #286 jaunte
Poe’s Law proof-of-the-day.
Another American Evangelical who’s thinks she’s more Catholic than the Pope.
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When you become president, what is the amount of winning you expect us to experience be4 the average American gets tired of it? #AskTrump
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) September 21, 2015
re: #14 goddamnedfrank
He was just being a teenage edgelord, is all. /
re: #286 jaunte
freeing mankind through the gospel
Remembering all the “freeing mankind through the gospel” that went on while African Americans were lynched in the South, when Americans stood in lines for food and lived in shacks during the Great Depression…
#286 jaunte:
The guy the Pope keeps referring to, named Jesus, did an awful lot of talking about wealth distribution specifically related to freeing the souls of those who had a lot of money.
*blink* pic.twitter.com/FuYk6kb1LF
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) September 21, 2015
re: #293 Belafon
But can’t our souls be freed without giving up the yacht?
re: #281 Lidane
*facepalm*
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re: #61 Mattand
Gonna be a long week: Richard Dawkins is citing Breitbart now. Apparently, ol’ Dick can’t quite get his allegedly keen intellect around the concept that he was wrong about a 14-year-old Muslim kid possibly being a terrorist.
Sigh. Thanks, Monday.
And it is still a step up from citing Blazing Cat Fur. Which Dawkins also did.
Regarding David Cameron.
First, I tend to take a dim view of these tell all books, so waiting to see how that goes.
Second…as creepy and gross and disgusting as these charges are, it is not beyond the realm of creepy frat boy behavior. And…it is preferable to many of the hazing rituals practiced in the US that have led to immediate death or subsequent suicide.
So Mr. 0% @BobbyJindal says a Muslim could be President - as long as they swear-in on the Bible. pic.twitter.com/8TfthRqNcP
— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) September 21, 2015
“Sure, a Muslim could be President. They would just need to be ‘saved’ first.”
— Imraan Siddiqi (@imraansiddiqi) September 21, 2015
re: #286 jaunte
A Christian who is too attached to riches has lost his way.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) August 25, 2015
re: #297 Nyet
And it is still a step up from citing Blazing Cat Fur. Which Dawkins also did.
I always think that D&D Dawkins would have Intelligence 16 and Wisdom 3.
re: #281 Lidane
When host Megyn Kelly asked Carson if he believes that a Muslim county clerk should have a right to “refuse a marriage license to Muslims who want to marry Christians,” the GOP presidential candidate said that Christians can cite their religious beliefs to refuse marriage licenses because “this is a Judeo-Christian nation in the sense that a lot of our values and principles are based on our Judeo-Christian faith.”
So a Muslim clerk can’t cite his or her religious beliefs when acting as a public official responsible for upholding the law but Christian ones can?
Derp
re: #297 Nyet
And it is still a step up from citing Blazing Cat Fur. Which Dawkins also did.
I’m afraid to ask, given Dawkins’ recent track record.
re: #303 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
That name could catch on.
Too nice for a guy who defunds Planned Parenthood, then complains about the supposed treatment of women by others.
re: #270 CuriousLurker
But but but all cultures are equal and should be respected!!!1 Cultural racism!!!/
re: #302 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
the problem with both monotheism and theocracy is that there is no place for other religious beliefs within their systems. For someone like Carson, who is essentially a Christianist, allowing the possibility that the religious beliefs of another religion (or even another sect of Christianity) can be accommodated is the first brick in that wall between church and state. They can’t abide that possibility, so it is religious freedom for them but not for anyone else.
re: #299 wrenchwench
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re: #299 wrenchwench
So he wouldn’t vote for a religious Jew then…
#302 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse:
The question someone should have asked her is if Christians could have refused to give her a marriage license for our fourth marriage, which was to remarry her second husband.
Dawkins is a smart guy asking smart-guy questions who is totally unable to understand that it’s a problem if white supremacists are asking the same questions for different reasons.
re: #305 Mattand
I’m afraid to ask, given Dawkins’ recent track record.
It’s a vile anti-Muslim Kahanist site. I’ll just point out that the terrorist Joshua Goldberg was writing for it.
re: #313 Nyet
Because the Bible he means is a Christian one.
A minor distinction, I think we would all agree, given the strong Judeo-Christian culture of this glorious nation.
Comedy things that will never happen, #356:
Newly-elected Jewish President steps up to take oath of office, rips New Testament out of Bible, proceeds with ceremony.
re: #320 iossarian
Comedy things that will never happen, #356:
Newly-elected Jewish President steps up to take oath of office, rips New Testament out of Bible, proceeds with ceremony.
It should be noted that usually the Christian translations introduce Christian bias into the OT (starting with the name “OT”), so it would still be a Christian book.
re: #321 Nyet
It should be noted that usually the Christian translations introduce the Christian bias into the OT (starting with the name “OT”), so it would still be a Christian book.
I make joke.
re: #320 iossarian
Comedy things that will never happen, #356:
Newly-elected Jewish President steps up to take oath of office, rips New Testament out of Bible, proceeds with ceremony.
CMIIW but an elected official taking the oath of office can swear (or “affirm”—there are some religious sects that do not “swear”) on any document he or she prefers.
re: #303 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
That name could catch on.
He’ll have to fight Scott Walker for it.
re: #315 iossarian
Dawkins is a smart guy asking smart-guy questions who is totally unable to understand that it’s a problem if white supremacists are asking the same questions for different reasons.
My brother was asking the same questions, and I had a hard time convincing him that his questions were pretty much irrelevant.
Did Ahmad “invent” the clock or do anything more difficult than disassembling something, and then reassembling it in a different case? Probably not.
Does this matter? No. He’s 14.
re: #319 The Vicious Babushka
“perfected” as Ann Coulter would say
But people formerly of ANY religion can be Christians! Acceptance is easy! Just give up your beliefs and culture and leave your family behind, if necessary!
/color blind applies to religions, too
re: #323 The Vicious Babushka
CMIIW but an elected official taking the oath of office can swear (or “affirm”—there are some religious sects that do not “swear”) on any document he or she prefers.
I believe that is correct, yes. Both the document and the affirmation thing, although I do think there are some groups who view even the affirmation thing as a bar to holding office.
re: #320 iossarian
How about: Atheist President completes the oath of office. Chief Justice says, “So help me God.” Atheist knows that’s not in the oath and just glares at the CJ. The moment lengthens, until the CJ sheepishly puts the Bible down.
re: #323 The Vicious Babushka
CMIIW but an elected official taking the oath of office can swear (or “affirm”—there are some religious sects that do not “swear”) on any document he or she prefers.
“I swear to faithfully uphold the duties of my office till the day the stars are right and the Great Old Ones awaken and wipe us from the Earth, so help me Cthulhu.”
re: #328 wrenchwench
But people formerly of ANY religion can be Christians! Acceptance is easy! Just give up your beliefs and culture and leave your family behind, if necessary!
/color blind applies to religions, too
HURR HURR LOOK U CAN BE A JEW & BE A CHRISTIAN TOO, HEAR ARE SOME RANDOM JUICE WHO WERE SAVED!!!11!!! IF THEY DID U CAN TOO!!!!!
(Actually had a missionary Jewsplain this to me)
re: #328 wrenchwench
But people formerly of ANY religion can be Christians! Acceptance is easy! Just give up your beliefs and culture and leave your family behind, if necessary!
/color blind applies to religions, too
No one is born Christian. The only way Christians can reproduce is by active recruitment into the lifestyle. They make it a habit to target family members, as well as going after the weak and vulnerable members of society.
/ (You should be able to see where I was going with this)
Backwoods_Sleuth, you and your family have my condolences.
re: #333 Kragar
No one is born Christian. The only way Christians can reproduce is by active recruitment into the lifestyle. They make it a habit to target family members, as well as going after the weak and vulnerable members of society.
/ (You should be able to see where I was going with this)
Normally I would see where you were going, but I walked into a wall.
re: #335 b_sharp
Normally I would see where you were going, but I walked into a wall.
Another prick in the wall?
/sorry
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re: #338 The Vicious Babushka
Why do you hate the Free Market?
/
@RubenBolling It’s out of bounds to mention who was president during 9/11. BTW, Hillary Clinton did Benghazi.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) September 21, 2015
re: #337 Kragar
Price gouging. Pure and simple.
There’s no reason for that drug to see a price jump like that other than pure unadulterated greed.
The company is still making a bunch of money on the drug, but they’ve now priced it at a level that makes it prohibitively expensive for people who need it to take it - or causes doctors to switch to other drugs that may not be as good at treating the ailment - indirectly increasing costs.
There is so little transparency on drug pricing, and companies play all kinds of games on drugs as well - compounding them so as to extend patent protections with slightly new formulations or taking a drug about to go off patent with another one so as to extend the protections further - keeping the costs high for the ultimate user.
And those costs get passed on to the user.
re: #336 Nyet
Another prick in the wall?
/sorry
Don’t be. That was brilliant.
Now, off to massage my head.
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He has a perfect face and demeanor for an Evil Prick.
re: #349 Nyet
He has a perfect face and demeanor for an Evil Prick.
Who is the biggest Douchebag in the room?
re: #350 The Vicious Babushka
From time to time, there are a contingent of Jews for Jesus at the WTC along Vesey (which until recently was quite narrow pedestrian pathway from PATH to the East Side of Lower Manhattan. They’d try to intercept people coming out of PATH, and invariably they would show around the Jewish holidays.
re: #354 lawhawk
From time to time, there are a contingent of Jews for Jesus at the WTC along Vesey (which until recently was quite narrow pedestrian pathway from PATH to the East Side of Lower Manhattan. They’d try to intercept people coming out of PATH, and invariably they would show around the Jewish holidays.
Very few of them are even actual Jews (as in having even one Jewish parent)
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
So sorry. You have my deepest condolences.
My son in Alabama is always swarmed by would-be conversionists and he always has some entertaining comebacks.
His favorite: “Well, what if MY version of the afterlife is correct and YOU will end up in Hell for not following the Hebrew scriptures?”
And another: “Who decided that the 2 most important commandments of the Bible are NO ABORTIONS and HATE GAYS?”
Oh look what I found MOAR FAKERY
You know that photo of veiled women swarming French welfare office? Fake. #tcot #UniteBlue http://t.co/jZWHtYL2gF pic.twitter.com/4ecJluCNqc
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) September 21, 2015
re: #357 The Vicious Babushka
My son in Alabama is always swarmed by would-be conversionists and he always has some entertaining comebacks.
His favorite: “Well, what if MY version of the afterlife is correct and YOU will end up in Hell for not following the Hebrew scriptures?”
And another: “Who decided that the 2 most important commandments of the Bible are NO ABORTIONS and HATE GAYS?”
Ask a Christianist Pro-Lifer to show the Biblical prohibition on Abortion, and you’ll get a lot of hemming and hawing, and some very weak tea.
re: #323 The Vicious Babushka
John Quincy Adams and Franklin Pierce used law books for their inaugurations. Pierce also appears to be the only president to affirm rather than swear.
re: #359 Blind Frog Belly White
Ask a Christianist Pro-Lifer to show the Biblical prohibition on Abortion, and you’ll get a lot of hemming and hawing, and some very weak tea.
They have some random out-of-context quote from Jeremiah as their basis for NO BORSHUNS but ignore a verse in Ezekiel that states specifically that Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed because of cruelty to the poor and homeless, not Teh Ghey sexytimes.
THIS ASSHOLE:
Jindal: I’d Support Muslim Candidate Who’d Swear on Judeo-Christian Bible http://t.co/3p5MlXhFLr pic.twitter.com/pptzW0VJTJ
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) September 21, 2015
re: #127 Higgs Boson’s Mate
I will enjoy watching his mast come un-stepped.
re: #362 Lidane
Jindal: I’d Support Muslim Candidate Who’d Swear on Judeo-Christian Bible
Because it’s required by the Constitution that presidents be sworn in using the “Christian” Bible. ///
re: #363 TedStriker
Shithead looks like he acts: a fucking douchebag.
Calling this price-gouging drug company “Turing Pharmaceuticals” is deeply offensive as well. Maybe they would have hiked up the price of the chemical castration drug that Alan Turing was sentenced to take?
re: #361 The Vicious Babushka
They have some random out-of-context quote from Jeremiah as their basis for NO BORSHUNS but ignore a verse in Ezekiel that states specifically that Sodom & Gomorrah were destroyed because of cruelty to the poor and homeless, not Teh Ghey sexytimes.
There is no evidence in any Bible that it was was specifically ghey sexytimes, but in the Christian Bible the sin of Sodom is at least partially sexual in nature.
re: #368 CuriousLurker
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