Jordan Klepper chats with the handful of Trump supporters who actually turned out to protest the former president’s predicted arrest. #DailyShow #Comedy
re: #3 Joe Bacon
I can hear it now
“That teacher should have put a jockstrap on that statue of David!”
I recall seeing a copy of Michelangelo’s David at the Movieland Wax Museum in California with a fig leaf over his weenie. Even that was still enough to shock my grandmother.
re: #3 Joe Bacon
I can hear it now
“That teacher should have put a jockstrap on that statue of David!”
Yes, but that doesn’t resolve the entirely separate crisis of David’s packing a fantastically muscle-y ass.
Marble cake, if you will.
re: #1 Teukka
Out of the three parents, two said they wished they had been notified of the lesson beforehand, and the other parent complained the lesson was pornographic, Carrasquilla said.
FFS. It’s a statue of a naked guy just standing there. There is absolutely nothing sexual about it.
Charles Wadlington, Associate Professor in the psychology dept. at Abilene Christian University, has been charged w sexual abuse of a child & remains in jail on a $75,000 bond.https://t.co/TuDZKOU074 pic.twitter.com/txzMAbts5Q
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) March 23, 2023
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
Out of the three parents, two said they wished they had been notified of the lesson beforehand, and the other parent complained the lesson was pornographic, Carrasquilla said.
FFS. It’s a statue of a naked guy just standing there. There is absolutely nothing sexual about it.
Truth is pornography to the fascist mindset.
re: #7 jaunte
A Texas christian university professor has been arrested for raping his own adopted children.
shall I be the first to comment?
NADQ
re: #8 William Lewis
Truth is pornography to the fascist mindset.
Nah, it’s more like: “my kid shouldn’t experience anything that could make them develop a sense of erotism…not without me and several youth pastors standing by to tell them what they’re supposed to be turned on by!”
I am supposed to go abroad for work in August, but I waited to renew my expired passport until last week. Expedited, the form said 5-7 weeks. But now I read that it’s much longer than that. Oops.
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
Out of the three parents, two said they wished they had been notified of the lesson beforehand, and the other parent complained the lesson was pornographic, Carrasquilla said.
FFS. It’s a statue of a naked guy just standing there. There is absolutely nothing sexual about it.
I can hear the parents BS
“First it’s that’s nekkid David and next Little Jonny will be looking at them muscle magazines!”
re: #1 Teukka
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Tallahassee Classical principal out after complaints about ‘David’ statue lesson
You can call school board president Barney Bishop via his cell to ask him why he’s so triggered about Michelangelo’s David, but he’ll just tell you to go fuck yourself, because Florida
PS, his vm is full for some reason, just fyihttps://t.co/9iO9kJxljf https://t.co/wylkoy5N6i— Tara Dublin (@taradublinrocks) March 23, 2023
re: #1 Teukka
Why do you think I use the word “Talibornagain” so often?
Give a zealot an inch, they will try to take a mile.
re: #12 Joe Bacon
“How can we keep nudity nasty if schoolkids are free to look at statues?”
Less jocular than my last two statements: this is yet another permutation of the core reactionary premise, your body is not your own.
Whether David has any eroticism is entirely subjective, which is a subset of the fact that anything possessing eroticism is entirely subjective. I saw the David in person as a kid; it didn’t register as erotic to me at all, mostly I was amused by the hands and feet being out of proportion. I can joke now because I’m old enough to imagine someone else’s gaze, but not feel any kind of hazard or judgement expressing it: Mike was probably into dudes, it’s a feasible interpretation to see the male form as possessing erotism.
But if you view a child as simply something that must be pruned into another little simulacrum of the in-group culture—that they have to literally reproduce the culture by desiring in only the prescribed ways—then the idea that your kid might feel something on an individual basis is a crisis.
This creates the endless, bad-faith recursion of prudishness—the censors have to constantly dwell on the erotic to define it, then prohibit things they find erotism in to others…which doesn’t eliminate erotism, it just makes it more complicated and filled with shame.
This occasionally creates absolute monsters, but mostly it just makes people full of shame…which is close-enough to a victory for conservatives, because their theoretical support of individuality is dwarfed by their firm belief that people—but especially their kinds—exist only as functional units.
re: #3 Joe Bacon
I can hear it now
“That teacher should have put a jockstrap on that statue of David!”
Or something that Republicans would support…
So in Florida the Sistine Chapel ceiling would be classified as porn, is that what I’m getting out of today’s fresh insanity?
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 23, 2023
Michigan Court of Appeals panel affirms that parents of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley can stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges.
— Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) March 23, 2023
About effing time
From downstairs
I don’t think he realizes what he’s implying re 2 systems of justice
Rep. Tiffany grills a witness about Hunter Biden during a hearing on guns. Farcical. pic.twitter.com/uQF0rwmKMn
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2023
re: #1 Teukka
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Tallahassee Classical principal out after complaints about ‘David’ statue lesson
nudity is not pornography
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
Out of the three parents, two said they wished they had been notified of the lesson beforehand, and the other parent complained the lesson was pornographic, Carrasquilla said.
FFS. It’s a statue of a naked guy just standing there. There is absolutely nothing sexual about it.
Yeah were supposed to guess ahead of time whats gonna piss off every individual parent after
re: #22 Dangerman
nudity is not pornography
No, but authoritarians tend to be perverts. They don’t see things like we do.
re: #9 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A Texas christian university professor has been arrested for raping his own adopted children.
shall I be the first to comment?
NADQ
good band. //
re: #25 Crush White Nationalism
No, but authoritarians tend to be perverts. They don’t see things like we do.
Good erotism is anything that is specifically for their own enjoyment; bad erotism is anything that people enjoy at their own discretion.
Your body is not your own: it belongs to a succession of authority figures who may wrangle amongst themselves about whom is owed what, like aristocrats deciding who gets what cut of meat at the table.
Reactionary circles attract predators and foster predation precisely because the community is used to not questioning authority, which means that while there may theoretically be accountability, in practice one can abuse power just so long as one does not encroach on the power-consumption of one’s superiors.
re: #25 Crush White Nationalism
No, but authoritarians tend to be perverts. They don’t see things like we do.
If David was intended to be displayed as pornography, there would be a whole different vibe/behavior in the room there. Maybe a string of small carrels with doors…. //
re: #27 The Ghost of a Flea
one can abuse power just so long as one does not encroach on the power-consumption of one’s superiors.
This right here.
Chris Sununu says on CNN he’ll support the GOP nominee even if it’s Trump, adding them when he called him “effin crazy” it was a joke pic.twitter.com/5O5rfkAfAW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 2, 2023
Cornered, he reverted to the just joking defense
Italy’s Prime Minister Meloni becomes truly furious every time someone demands the West should stop supporting Ukraine.
By 1:40 she doesn’t need that microphone anymore…pic.twitter.com/QM6vkv5gKr— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) March 23, 2023
On Sununu, he has no chance at anything at the primary level here unless he courts the crazy. But not all NH republicans are batshit, so he has no chance. The only time he’s shown backbone was when some of his buddies in the local ski industry were under attack from Free Staters and the community had turned against the Free Staters.
On nudity, I’m sure someone has mentioned Ashcroft and Lady Liberty—sorry, I haven’t read that closely.
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
FFS. It’s a statue of a naked guy just standing there. There is absolutely nothing sexual about it.
Everything harkens back to sex with the far right.
Dumbass right wing freakout of the day; some jackass digs up an 18-year old C-SPAN clip with a random black person saying white people need to be “exterminated,” and they’re losing their shit over it.
This is no joke and C-Span is assisting in the calling for the genocide of white people. I’m speechless how this is able to be broadcast. @elonmusk @tedcruz @mattgaetz @RonDeSantisFL https://t.co/uPmMar2nPr
— Texan Vet (@DanFoley1964) March 22, 2023
re: #32 Dr Lizardo
I am amazed. Given her fascist background, I was assuming that she would be a fervid supporter of Putin and ending the war ASAP on Putin’s terms. What changed her perspective?
Donald Trump just posted a photo of him holding a baseball bat next to a photo of DA Bragg. This is totally cool, @SpeakerMcCarthy, right? pic.twitter.com/7sLJl6iRmn
— Spiro’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) March 23, 2023
re: #37 Hecuba’s daughter
I am amazed. Given her fascist background, I was assuming that she would be a fervid supporter of Putin and ending the war ASAP on Putin’s terms. What changed her perspective?
She’s been consistently pro-Ukrainian since the beginning of her tenure. One far-right Czech politician, who’s also pro-Ukrainian, explained it as more of a cultural matter: Occidental civilization versus Oriental despotism (and more than a few Czechs don’t view Russians as Europeans, at least not from the cultural POV - they see the Russians as “Asiatic descendants of the Mongol hordes”, as I’ve heard it said).
re: #38 Charles Johnson
Donald Trump just posted a photo of him holding a baseball bat next to a photo of DA Bragg. This is totally cool,
Is DT challenging Bragg to a game?
re: #35 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Everything harkens back to sex with the far right.
I refuse to be naked under my clothes
Yes, it would be an excellent choice for that purpose. https://t.co/GCHYZYZ8Tf
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) March 23, 2023
re: #35 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Everything harkens back to sex with the far right.
“Everything is about sex, except sex itself. Sex is about power” is the stone cold truth for the social conservative right.
NEW: Here is Manhattan DA Bragg’s response to Jim Jordan’s request for Bragg’s interrogation about his Grand Jury investigation into Trump. Bragg calls this Jordan, Comer and Steil effort “an unprecedent inquiry into a pending local prosecution.” 🔥https://t.co/MqetPDY595… pic.twitter.com/sqcOQosJAq
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) March 23, 2023
Soon now, an American right wing lunatic at the Louvre will attack The David’s penis with a hammer and chisel. Won’t somebody think about the children!!!
re: #36 Charles Johnson
Dumbass right wing freakout of the day; some jackass digs up an 18-year old C-SPAN clip with a random black person saying white people need to be “exterminated,” and they’re losing their shit over it.
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You know that Stew Peters is a moron. Why did you just go along with the propaganda he posted using an ancient video?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 23, 2023
The clip is 18 years old.
If it’s “a coordinated plot to commit White genocide,” it’s a very slow coordinated plot. https://t.co/XdzcSGAm7o— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 23, 2023
“Can you believe they want us to be PEACEFUL?” certainly sounds to me like a call to violence https://t.co/Zfdi2CDcAX
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) March 23, 2023
Show me on the statue where CRT touched you.
My chair thread from last night. It may not really be about chairs. https://t.co/28wHzdFMYD
— skullsinthestars (@drskyskull) March 23, 2023
re: #45 Dragonomics
Soon now, an American right wing lunatic at the Louvre will attack The David’s penis with a hammer and chisel. Won’t somebody think about the children!!!
That would need to be a very tall lunatic, or one with a subtle scaffolding. There’s a reason they went after the one in the Vatican, maybe.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
Dumbass right wing freakout of the day; some jackass digs up an 18-year old C-SPAN clip with a random black person saying white people need to be “exterminated,” and they’re losing their shit over it.
I remember the right wing freakout when he originally made that statement.
And he got cancelled. Most correctly.
re: #45 Dragonomics
Soon now, an American right wing lunatic at the Louvre will attack The David’s penis with a hammer and chisel. Won’t somebody think about the children!!!
Homing in on the big little worry of white American men.
JUST IN: Riley Williams, the Nick Fuentes devotee who surged into the Capitol and Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 and aided efforts to resist police en masse, has been sentenced to 36 months in jail
“She was not just a little waif blowing in the wind”
Earlier: https://t.co/KG9dojSPQ7— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 23, 2023
re: #3 Joe Bacon
I can hear it now
“That teacher should have put a jockstrap on that statue of David!”
John Ashcroft can always drape a robe on offending statues
re: #56 Barefoot Grin
Half of what prosecutors asked for
re: #53 jaunte
David is in Florence. My guess is that the thought challenged attacker would attack the copy that is outside on public display because they would be unaware they the original is displayed indoors at a museum nearby.
The problem with this is that it depends on people sending the saturated filters in to be decontaminated.
According to U.S. Center for Disease Control, forever chemicals may increase the risk of kidney or testicular cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, pre-eclampsia in pregnant women, and decreased vaccine response in children. They are no longer manufactured in Canada, but can leach into the waterways through use various products.
As it stands, they are usually removed from drinking water by filters that use activated carbon, but Mohseni said these tools don’t capture all of the forever chemicals — including some of the newer ones developed after the issue came to the attention of regulators in 2015.
Afterward, he added, those chemical-saturated filter materials are disposed of, leaving the PFAS in landfills to make their way back into the environment.
“We developed alternative absorbents to activated carbon that not only capture the long-chain PFAS, but also shorter-chain, so basically a wide spectrum of PFAS that might be in the water,” he explained. “Once we capture them, when they are saturated, we can regenerate.”
UBC engineers find permanent solution for removing ‘forever chemicals’ from drinking water (Global News)
re: #58 Scottish Dragon
John Ashcroft can always drape a robe on offending statues
Just what I was thinking!
re: #60 Markm1960
I think there’s also a 2x copy rendered in granite somewhere in Japan.
re: #61 Crush White Nationalism
The problem with this is that it depends on people sending the saturated filters in to be decontaminated.
UBC engineers find permanent solution for removing ‘forever chemicals’ from drinking water (Global News)
Really needs a monthly door to door collection and reinstallation program
I hope Alvin Bragg has an around the clock security detail.
He’s gonna need it.
re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg
I hope Alvin Bragg has an around the clock security detail.
He’s gonna need it.
I have to assume that as Manhattan DA, he’s probably had to deal with his share of death threats and the like. Probably nothing on a nationwide scale like he’s having to deal with now, though.
re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg
The last clip I saw of him getting into an SUV, he had guards.
re: #273 Crush White Nationalism
Ellie Mystal
@ElieNYC
Just thinking about how the Manhattan DA’s office did not take this kind of time and consideration before charging the Central Park 5 for crimes they didn’t commit.
In the real world - two questions criminal prosecutors ask before indicting:
1) Do we have sufficient proof of guilt?
2) Based upon evidence admissible at trial, can we get 12 jurors to convict?
A tale of two Governors. Unfortunately, the Kentucky legislature will certainly override Beshear’s veto.
Georgia Gov. Kemp just signed legislation that would prevent medical professionals from giving transgender children certain hormones or surgical treatment. #gapol https://t.co/CApzYc0RzL
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) March 23, 2023
‘Tears away the freedom of parents’: No action yet, but Beshear slams anti-trans bill https://t.co/PneyA3Ar2u ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 23, 2023
re: #69 BeenHereAwhile
In the real world - two questions criminal prosecutors ask before indicting:
1) Do we have sufficient proof of guilt?
2) Based upon evidence admissible at trial, can we get 12 jurors to convict?
2) I’d have to ask, How many Republicans on that jury?
re: #71 Semper Fi
2) I’d have to ask, How many Republicans on that jury?
I have to assume that they’d be able to weed out any strong feelings for or against the defendant in voir dire. Finding 12 people who can be impartial enough to participate in a Trump criminal trial is going to be difficult, for sure.
re: #47 Charles Johnson
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The clip is 18 years old.If it’s “a coordinated plot to commit White genocide,” it’s a very slow coordinated plot. https://t.co/XdzcSGAm7o
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 23, 2023
Nah, it’s not the white race we want to kill off (especially since I am white), it’s just the dumbest third or so. Let’s face it, if you’re white and you’re still dumber than a box of rocks after a thousand years of dominance, privilege, and, frankly, achievement, it is probably time for your bloodline to end so someone else can have a chance.
Many of them have forgotten their heritage too. White men landed on the Moon, yet many white people today are so stupid they deny it even happened. A white man, Ferdinand Magellan, organized the first circumnavigation of the Earth, yet many whites today deny that the Earth is even a sphere. Another white man, King Gillette, invented the safety razor, yet many white men today prefer to ignore its use and go around looking like cavemen and exceptionally pudgy vikings.
Raskin: Our colleagues embrace what is called the insurrectionist theory of the second amendment. Mr. Gaetz said the 2nd amendment is about maintaining within the citizenry to maintain an armed rebellion against the government.. pic.twitter.com/bKEgZ1fjgu
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 23, 2023
re: #72 Dopamine Fish
I have to assume that they’d be able to weed out any strong feelings for or against the defendant in voir dire. Finding 12 people who can be impartial enough to participate in a Trump criminal trial is going to be difficult, for sure.
It has to be assumed that any moderately functional Trumpist would lie their ass off in voir dire to get on the jury to find their God innocent. If they aren’t braying about their love for Trump 24/7 on social media, such lies would be difficult to catch.
IMO jury selection is not really set up to deal with this level of systemic bad faith.
re: #23 Dangerman
Yeah were supposed to guess ahead of time whats gonna piss off every individual parent after
One of my friends was tenure track at BYU, but they were given the left foot of fellowship after a student in one of their classes complained about the movie “Bye, Bye, Brazil.” The student claimed the movie had mentally r@ped her.
After wandering a bit, my friend ended up in a tenured spot at UVU, down the hill from BYU, where they are still corrupting those youth of Zion who couldn’t get into BYU.
re: #74 jaunte
Always deeply funny about the reactionary motherfuckers who imagine they’re going to be operators when the government comes for them, but shit their diddies and become state bootlickers if somebody breaks a window.
re: #81 Mattand
Yep. Brent Bozell and the Parents Television Council were the moralist scourge of the ’90s. I remember them attacking Pro Wrestling constantly.
re: #300 Dopamine Fish
The guy’s a former AUSA. That kind of service leaves scars on people. I mean, you’re not wrong, but I almost feel a kind of empathy when I read his stinging, bitter rebukes.
That’s because as an AUSA not only are you aware of the politics of sausage being made, you’re the guy on the front line feeding the perpetrators and convenient victims into the sausage grinder.
re: #35 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Everything harkens back to sex with the far right.
But I don’t wanna have sex with the far right!
re: #83 BeenHereAwhile
That’s because as an AUSA not only are you aware of the politics of sausage being made, you’re the guy on the front line feeding the perpetrators and convenient victims into the sausage grinder.
Which is why he draws such a hard line on the rights of defendants. He knows full well how often innocent people get shafted by shady shit from prosecutors and AUSAs.
re: #45 Dragonomics
Soon now, an American right wing lunatic at the Louvre will attack The David’s penis with a hammer and chisel. Won’t somebody think about the children!!!
but it’s so tiny! it most likely will make children feel better about their own equipment
re: #60 Markm1960
David is in Florence. My guess is that the thought challenged attacker would attack the copy that is outside on public display because they would be unaware they the original is displayed indoors at a museum nearby.
David’s arm was broken during mob violence in 1527 by a defenestrated chair/sofa.
re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep. Brent Bozell and the Parents Television Council were the moralist scourge of the ’90s. I remember them attacking Pro Wrestling constantly.
And Monty Python over 50 years ago via a Terry Gilliam animation.
A sleepy puppy and a fluffy chick are just the timeline cleanser we all need right now.https://t.co/2c1CfJX3kt pic.twitter.com/lULZsR5lu1
— The Poke (@ThePoke) March 23, 2023
re: #92 Crush White Nationalism
This is a pretty weird article on MSN.
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Any alternate sources for the story?
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
for those who don’t want to open the link to The Poke
Twitter needs this.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/yQqgBYi5OK
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) March 15, 2023
re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth
I really like pics like this. Just goes to show, no matter how fragile, love never squeezes too hard.
Let me get this straight Erin Hawley the wife of @HawleyMO is leading the way to ban the abortion pill and…. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk just donated to @HawleyMO campaign!
Compromised much, this is another layer on the already bought and paid for judges cake.
Deliberation start. https://t.co/kShnjtyKt7— Skyleigh Heinen (@Sky_Lee_1) March 23, 2023
I know some have despaired of Trump ever facing justice for his crimes. However, the speed with which the courts swatted away his objections to Corcoran being ordered to divulge material ordinarily protected by attorney-client privilege based on the crime fraud exception is incredibly bad news for him. Jack Smith has solid evidence Trump plotted to conceal his possession of classified documents, and the courts know it. I can’t conceive of how this doesn’t lead to an indictment.
A Clermont County man was arrested for child porn after allegedly meeting an 11-year-old ‘girl’. He had alcohol and lotion, according to the prosecutor. https://t.co/oEFNyvcLaq pic.twitter.com/tOk2bgrTCz
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) March 23, 2023
This town ain’t big enough for the two of us. pic.twitter.com/5ozIifa2Db
— U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (@USFWS) March 23, 2023
This photographer got a two-fer! Imagine spotting not only a bobcat but a coyote too! That’s what happened to a photographer in Texas. Robert Mines witnessed these two predators both hunting the same rabbit and snapped a tense and dramatic image. Isn’t nature awesome?
— U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (@USFWS) March 23, 2023
Today House Republicans embraced the mother of someone who attacked the United States Capitol while throwing out a family whose child was murdered at Parkland. https://t.co/YPbCSFwIIs
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) March 23, 2023
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
can we assume the standoff lasted long enough for the rabbit to get away? Neither of them got it.
re: #98 Crush White Nationalism
It’s a real story.
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Rolex is very aggressive about financing investigations then bringing in federal authorities to seize knockoffs.
The cases usually end with a video of a large road roller crushing the counterfeit watches to show to the folk back in Switzerland.
Somewhere I have a couple of knockoffs seized as evidence.
re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth
Seems like it’s always white guys getting nailed for this stuff.
Just gonna re-read this interview over and over again and lose my mind for the rest of the afternoon https://t.co/GUrJTyHtMC pic.twitter.com/YXMApmP5kW
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) March 23, 2023
this is just nutz
re: #105 BeenHereAwhile
Rolex is very aggressive about financing investigations then bringing in federal authorities to seize knockoffs.
The cases usually end with a video of a large road roller crushing the counterfeit watches to show to the folk back in Switzerland.
Somewhere I have a couple of knockoffs seized as evidence.
I like my nice low end Seiko, thankyewverymuch :)
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
A man who lost his child in one of the worst school shootings in American history was compared to the domestic terrorists who attacked the Capitol, attacked law enforcement officers, and attempted to stage a coup for Donald Trump.
https://t.co/KWlDXGMxW5 via @politicususa— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 23, 2023
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
God Dog.
There are no words.
Wait. Yes there are, and they all have four letters.
re: #106 Eclectic Cyborg
Seems like it’s always white guys getting nailed for this stuff.
It’s a lot harder to get arrested for abusing black girls. You can even be a famous musician and do it for years.
re: #1 Teukka
That whole thread is full of wingnuts complaining
We don’t know the context!
The context is DeSantis is a fascist and so is the complaining parent.
One Christian parent can determine what an entire school can learn under state law.
We really need more Bible challenges.
re: #106 Eclectic Cyborg
Seems like it’s always white guys getting nailed for this stuff.
There was R. Kelly. Or is that a separate category — successful entertainers (regardless of race)?
re: #108 William Lewis
I like my nice low end Seiko, thankyewverymuch :)
As Callahan says, “no one ever counterfeits a one dollar bill.”
A one dollar bill is good money and your Seiko is a good accurate timepiece.
Just because you purchased a watch from a Rolex dealer, doesn’t ensure it’s authenticity.
re: #106 Eclectic Cyborg
Seems like it’s always white guys getting nailed for this stuff.
Not that white guys need any defense, but the demographics of sexual violence perpetrators is about 57% white according to RAINN which is not surprisingly pretty close to the percentage of the population at large.
Everyone who claims this, without exception I have found, is a fascist in human being’s clothing. By your feed, you qualify. https://t.co/yUA4NMoCc0
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) March 23, 2023
JUST IN: Remakedable order from Judge MCFADDEN suggesting e sees cause to file disciplinary charges for Jan 6 defense attorneys Joe MCBRIDE and Jonathan GROSS.
He says they’ve actively harmed client Chris Quaglin and made quesitonable representations to the court. pic.twitter.com/SP0dHE1dYU— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 23, 2023
In local news, this morning around 5am my lights dimmed and a very loud but short electrical buzz rang from the cellar. About a minute later, another one did. My Nixie clock reset, as did my modem.
I made my way down to the cellar but didn’t see anything wrong.
Now I know what it is: My electric water heater went to plumbing heaven.
No hot water now.
The plumber will be here tomorrow, where he will see if it actually died (I’m pretty sure it did), and we will bite the bullet and have them install an on-demand water heater ($$$$$!)
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In local news, this morning around 5am my lights dimmed and a very loud but short electrical buzz rang from the cellar. About a minute later, another one did. My Nixie clock reset, as did my modem.
I made my way down to the cellar but didn’t see anything wrong.
Now I know what it is: My electric water heater went to plumbing heaven.
No hot water now.
The plumber will be here tomorrow, where he will see if it actually died (I’m pretty sure it did), and we will bite the bullet and have them install an on-demand water heater ($$$$$!)
Back when I had a house I was very happy with my switch to an on demand heater. It freed up space in my utility room and I never ran out of hot water again.
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In local news, this morning around 5am my lights dimmed and a very loud but short electrical buzz rang from the cellar. About a minute later, another one did. My Nixie clock reset, as did my modem.
I made my way down to the cellar but didn’t see anything wrong.
Now I know what it is: My electric water heater went to plumbing heaven.
No hot water now.
The plumber will be here tomorrow, where he will see if it actually died (I’m pretty sure it did), and we will bite the bullet and have them install an on-demand water heater ($$$$$!)
Sounds like it developed a nice fat short…
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In local news, this morning around 5am my lights dimmed and a very loud but short electrical buzz rang from the cellar. About a minute later, another one did. My Nixie clock reset, as did my modem.
I made my way down to the cellar but didn’t see anything wrong.
Now I know what it is: My electric water heater went to plumbing heaven.
No hot water now.
The plumber will be here tomorrow, where he will see if it actually died (I’m pretty sure it did), and we will bite the bullet and have them install an on-demand water heater ($$$$$!)
A few months back my hot water tank sprung a leak and since my furnace was the better part of 30 years old and more rust than metal, I bit the bullet and replaced my furnace and hot water tank with a combo unit. It cost as much as a small car but i got an interest free 7 year loan from Mass Save. My nat gas bill has been seriously slashed and endless hot water, so net plus I guess.
re: #11 Barefoot Grin
I am supposed to go abroad for work in August, but I waited to renew my expired passport until last week. Expedited, the form said 5-7 weeks. But now I read that it’s much longer than that. Oops.
I did expedited early in 2021, and it took much less time than the form said. Of course the lines could be longer now..
That picture of Trump with the baseball bat is actually the header photo for an article at a shitty right wing site, not something Trump came up with. I’d link to the site but it’s another one of those cookie cutter right wing “news” sites that are all over the fucking web now.
re: #123 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I did expedited early in 2021, and it took much less time than the form said. Of course the lines could be longer now..
I expedited last July, also dropped the application off at a local chancery court. Got my passport 3 1/2 weeks later, just in time for my trip back to home to Canada (which would end up being the last time I would ever see my grandmother).
re: #120 Crush White Nationalism
Back when I had a house I was very happy with my switch to an on demand heater. It freed up space in my utility room and I never ran out of hot water again.
on demand heaters are the greatest thing and seriously slash utility bills
Two Doctors Convicted for Unnecessary Urinalysis Testing Scheme https://t.co/vPJoxwD5gU
— Criminal Division (@DOJCrimDiv) March 23, 2023
A federal jury convicted two doctors today for their involvement in a scheme to commit health care fraud.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Dr. William Lawrence Siefert, 69, of Dayton, Ohio, and Dr. Timothy Ehn, 50, of Union, Kentucky, orchestrated their health care fraud scheme through Northern Kentucky Center for Pain Relief, a pain clinic in Florence, Kentucky. Siefert, a medical doctor, was employed by the clinic, and Ehn, a chiropractor, was the clinic’s owner. Siefert and Ehn engaged in a scheme to bill Medicaid for millions of dollars in medically unnecessary urinalysis testing for their patients, which included urinalysis testing purportedly conducted on faulty machinery.
Siefert and Ehn were each convicted of health care fraud. Ehn was additionally convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Siefert and Ehn are both scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 20. Siefert faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Ehn faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on each of the health care fraud conspiracy and health care fraud counts. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why do I think both of these guys are white Republicans?
re: #60 Markm1960
David is in Florence. My guess is that the thought challenged attacker would attack the copy that is outside on public display because they would be unaware they the original is displayed indoors at a museum nearby.
Also, it would be easier to reach, since the platform the original stands on is probably higher than the statue is tall.
The copy in Las Vegas would probably be the easiest to get to. (And for those with more peaceful purposes, it’s an exact, full-scale replica, and there was no-one else there when I saw it.)
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Daniel Cameron hits back, says Kelly Craft is in “panic mode” and gave $50,000 to the dreaded Obama. #kygov https://t.co/GvtqAD4PKJ
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) March 23, 2023
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
Out of the three parents, two said they wished they had been notified of the lesson beforehand, and the other parent complained the lesson was pornographic, Carrasquilla said.
FFS. It’s a statue of a naked guy just standing there. There is absolutely nothing sexual about it.
It is to these perverts.
My wife is proofreading a book now similar to Naomi Klein’s “Disaster Capitalism.” This book is on disaster spirituality. The premise of the book is the libertarian economic ideas of privatising everything are much easier to employ against religious people to create nationalist Christians (Nat-Cs), since they are primed by their faiths for authoritarianism already. It is much harder for a religious person to parse they are being down a path of exploitation, particularly when the person is popular and espouses normal religious ideas at first.
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
Why couldn’t Rick Scott have been sentences to jail for HIS medicare fraud, damnit!
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s why MLMs thrive so much in church circles.
re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth
on demand heaters are the greatest thing and seriously slash utility bills
I could not use an on-demand heater in a house. Currently, I pay no water bill because the gas heater in my unit supplies the downstairs unit as well (yes, of course I fucking pay for it, but it’s built into rent). I have been known to take half-hour showers because there have to be a hundred gallons of hot water in that tank and I’m paying for none of it directly. If I had unlimited hot water, my temptation would be to spend all morning under that glorious heat.
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s why MLMs thrive so much in church circles.
Oh tell me about it. My aunt and uncle were sucked in by Shaklee and Mom’s bestie was sucked into Scamway!
re: #6 Eclectic Cyborg
FFS. It’s a statue of a naked guy just standing there. There is absolutely nothing sexual about it.
Well, for a certain demographic, “naked guy” (especially sans figleaf) and “sexual” pretty much the same thing.
Unfortunately, said demographic has decided to leverage its influence on public education - aided and abetted by like-minded/pandering/scared officialdom - to make attitudes like this SOP for schools…
re: #136 steve_davis
I could not use an on-demand heater in a house. Currently, I pay no water bill because the gas heater in my unit supplies the downstairs unit as well (yes, of course I fucking pay for it, but it’s built into rent). I have been known to take half-hour showers because there have to be a hundred gallons of hot water in that tank and I’m paying for none of it directly. If I had unlimited hot water, my temptation would be to spend all morning under that glorious heat.
I have two sources of water: a spring-fed well and a spring-fed cistern. I hate wasting water waiting for the hot water to arrive and I hate wasting electricity (and paying for it!) keeping water hot in the traditional tank for the hours when I don’t need hot water. On-demand is the absolute way to go for me.
re: #76 jeffreyw
Dang. He FA and FO big time. Put a rock through someone’s windshield? Earned you quite the whammo.
That was crazy.
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips (@FormerDirtDart) March 23, 2023
Another church related scam I remember was Nutri-Bio and they had Bob Cummings and Harry Von Zell as their spokesmen. This scam was really pushed by the Birch Church in my hometown
The guy who did their ads was involved in that kinky scandal that almost got William Talman arrested
re: #142 Joe Bacon
Mrs. Fish did Mary Kay for a while, after one of her sisters snookered her into it. That didn’t last long, after she comprehended how it worked.
Speaking of complete jokes…been to Cancun lately? https://t.co/U56BoP6JPD
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 23, 2023
re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Republicans refuse to bring the coup plotters to justice, betraying us all. Once that happens, we’ll consider caring about what the Republicans who weren’t part of the plot have to say. The plotters have to pay for what they’ve done.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 23, 2023
Yay me!
A dangerous, flash-flooding and severe weather event is expected tomorrow, as heavy rainfall focuses along a slow-moving cold front across the Ohio Valley, while tornadoes, damaging winds, and hail develop south of the boundary in the Lower MS Valley and Mid-South. ⛈️⚡ pic.twitter.com/Uye6GZx9vJ
— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) March 23, 2023
re: #143 Dopamine Fish
Mrs. Fish did Mary Kay for a while, after one of her sisters snookered her into it. That didn’t last long, after she comprehended how it worked.
Yeah this is the closest most folks suckered into Mary Kay get to that Pink Cadillac!
re: #61 Crush White Nationalism
The problem with this is that it depends on people sending the saturated filters in to be decontaminated.
UBC engineers find permanent solution for removing ‘forever chemicals’ from drinking water (Global News)
Private people probably won’t. ($$$, time involved). This is where governments come in, such as my village sending our r/o unit filters to a hazardous waste company for proper disposal (not an option for people in town).
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Private people probably won’t. ($$$, time involved). This is where governments come in, such as my village sending our r/o unit filters to a hazardous waste company for proper disposal (not an option for people in town).
Filtering at the source does seem to be the solution.
Yep it’s official. It was a tornado that touched down in Montebello California yesterday.
A tornado ripped through an industrial area of Montebello on Wednesday, carving a path of destruction that included damage to several buildings and cars, the National Weather Service confirmed.
The twister touched down at 11:14 a.m. and was on the ground for two to three minutes, NWS said. Aerial footage from Sky5 showed roofs damaged and debris scattered across the area of South Vail Street and Washington Boulevard.
The National Weather Service immediately dispatched a team to Montebello, a city eight miles east of downtown Los Angeles, to assess the damage.
Officials later determined the tornado was an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale with peak winds of 110 miles per hour. It was approximately 50 yards wide and covered four-tenths of a mile.
The unintended consequences of legislation derived from fake culture wars.
— J/C MEDIA COMPANY (@JCMEDIACOMPANY1) March 23, 2023
🎶”So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?”🎶 pic.twitter.com/IgI8v41kjn— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) March 23, 2023
“I’m Freddie Fucking Cat!”
— Thomas Ian Russell (@ThomasIanRusse5) March 23, 2023
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