The idiots who would add vaccines to that list have either forgotten or ignored what Salk and Sabin did for this planet over 70 years ago. Frankly, every time I hear someone say, "No" when asked if they or their kids are vaccinated, I cringe.
While, obviously, child marriage is abusive, I've never been convinced that it's a strategy by men attracted to children - which should also be obvious. It's far more, I suspect, about men enjoying control over women.
Thank you for posting this article! I am just reading it and this jumped out at me: "As Representative Chip Roy of Texas said in February, “We’re not going to let Dallas or Houston or any other city in this great country become what has happened to London and to Paris.” "
I'd lay a bet of my last shirt and your nicest tie that this bloke has not been to London or Paris, certainly not recently and maybe not ever! What a twat! And the likes of Mr Tuberville or that Florida twat Mr Fines (who calls himself 'Randy'??), can we get all of them voted out? Please?
Once again, sauce for the goose isn't a horse of a different color. Christian schools are JUST FINE, thankuverymuch, but an Islamic school? EEEEK! No! Shun it! Stop it! BURN IT WITH FIRE!!!
How I wish these idiots could understand the raw irony they project.
So true. The Islamophobia uptick is a desperate attempt to bring back together a splintered base and overlook an extremely unpopular administration. It’s not going to work!
Also, right before the war with Iran started (a month or so before) I started seeing my algorithm flooded with so-called “feminist” anti-Muslim propaganda. As if I would forget all about the way our OWN government treats the women (and children) of THIS country as less than human. Unbelievable, but very believable. Sad times all around in the USA.
(I'll go and read the article in a moment) It seems that this is (another!) case of 'a mile for mee, an inch for thee'.
If it weren't so serious it'd be funny to see the pretzeling pretzels people are trying to twist themselves into to avoid the 'sauce for the goose and gravy for the gander' standpoint.
The only way that Trumpyboy would get Canada to become an U.S territory is if that Putin’s cocksucker of a president send in troops to invade and conquer the country. I am sure that Canadians would fight to keep their country free from that scumbag’s control!
As if Putin’s bitch in the White House knows actual history. Trumpy thinks he is some sort of Rambo, rather the scared little putz that he is. Remember this is the guy who was hiding in the bunker when the group of Christian terrorists tried to overturn the election in 2021. Now, he is acting tough, for there is no risk of his fat orange ass getting hurt unlike the troops that are stationed in the Middle East.
Personally, I would just as soon that MacPherson had left his Book of Mormon at home and not even made the suggestion, whether it was tongue-in-cheek or not. As we've note here multiple times, sarcasm (and satire, for that matter) generally don't translate well into the printed word sometimes, and the whole State / Church separation issue is problematic enough these days as it is.
All I could think reading this is it is a sad joke, why is Kratom legal to sell anywhere? It is a biological extract with different concentrations of 20-some physiologically active alkaloids in it in each batch. If you take it and get sick or die (people have) which one did it. It is not that we don’t use biological derived drugs - just that they have been extracted, standardized, and tested. Think morphine, digoxin, colchicine, etc. old drugs in a safer format. Better than smoking opium, throwing a few foxglove leaves in your salad, or chewing on Fall Crocus bulbs…
Yeah, sure it is! I am the true king of U.K. I have more trust and respect for Satan (if he existed) than for the goddamm fucking braindead SMEGHEAD that is infesting the White House now. I bet the next president will have to have the entire White House fumigated to get rid of the stains of slime left from the ugly, idiotic, orange skunk ape. Perhaps it would be better to burn down this one and build a new one,!
I'd pretty well bet the farm that he was. That kind of mental conditioning doesn't fade easily, if it fades at all. That said, I am so very glad that Brian Keith Dalton did manage to slip its grip, thence to give us the stylings of Mr. Deity!
Mr MacPherson is a unicorn. That rate Republican in a Republican state who is actively trying to protect the freedoms of those he disagrees with. Of course, we would have to examine his voting record closely to determine just how much of a unicorn he is, but baby steps.
I even like his tactic -- going over the top with a ridiculous amendment to point out the ridiculousness of the bill's original goal.
WE see it every day, with thanks to Hemant. THEY can't see the forest for all them goll-darn TREES ... and I seriously wonder if they could perceive it at all, even if we pointed it out to them.
Drug bans are just about the most futile and counter-productive laws ever conceived. Pearl-clutching weirdos have been passing them for hundreds of years, against all sorts of drugs (including, in several places and times, fucking 𝘵𝘦𝘢 and 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦) but not a single one of them has ever led to anything but the birth of a robust black market trade in whatever the banned substance was. Without regulation, the product invariably gets cut with all sorts of horrible shit (sometimes literally) to either increase its addictiveness or adulterate the drug, and more people end up dying from using it.
How many times does humanity have to be taught this lesson, before it finally sinks in? People are gonna find ways to use the stuff regardless. The goal should be to make it safer; bans simply don't work. Never have, never will.
Prohibition against alcohol from 1920’s to 1933 led to the establishment of the mafia which grew rich and powerful, and people still got alcohol through speakeasies and trying to make their own moonshine! All which caused various health issues and other social ills!
Banning a substance anyone with access to literally any kind of edible plant matter can make in their bathroom has 𝘨𝘰𝘵 to be one of the dumbest things this country has ever done, apart from giving a bigoted pedophile with tapioca pudding for brains access to nuclear weapons. I'm not sure we'll 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 manage to top 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 one.
Once again, I have to wonder if those Republicans who are backstopping Trump actually give a rotten dump about this country, or whether they are so sold out to the supposed power they THINK they have that nothing else matters to them.
Yeah, yeah, I know. The latter FAR more likely than the former.
The orange skunk ape is threatening that it would be bad for NATO if the rest of the members don’t help out. (Source BBC News). Why should the rest of NATO clean up the mess that the president fuckwit has made. Draft Barron and Eric Trump and send them to patrol the Strait. According to that shitstain, the United States has won the war, so why need help to patrol the waterway.
I've mowed mine twice already and it could use it again but we're an hour or two away from one hella storm so I think I'll sit inside with a glass of wine and make snarky comments on FA.
We've been oscillating between highs in the 70s and the 30s for roughly a week now. THIS week we're only going up to the 50s, but this pattern continues to obtain.
A few legislators in Utah, but only a few, retain a sense of humor and a perspective on serious issues.
Otherwise, it is a desert bereft of common sense, where legislators unquestionably support a thinly disguised theological state, often leaning toward a version of Christian Nationalism, John Birch conservatism, and MAGA conspiracies.
The way things are going with State / Church separation these days, my sense of humor in that vein borders on nonexistent. As I suggested, MacPherson was better off leaving his holy book out of the discussion, particularly with all the misunderstanding his little stunt caused.
I use kratom for pain. Although not as much when I started using THC gummies. Medical pros can't seem to wrap their head around the fact that I can take kratom as needed, and that means many, many days I don't need it. Too bad our drug policies are so ridiculous. I know people in worse pain than me and they have been told they can't have any additional pain relief. I guess as long as I'm alive it doesn't matter if I can ever feel comfortable.
Sec. Brain Worms Felcher Wrestles Twinkie In AI Video
Trump’s top health goon is under fire for posting an unhinged AI-generated video to advertise a ‘Make America Healthy Again’ initiative by beating the snot out of a popular snack food.
In the clip posted to X on Sunday with the caption “MAHAMania: SnackDown,” a generated shirtless 72-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrestled a man dressed as a Twinkie. Set to “Rollin” by Limp Bizkit, AI Kennedy stretched out his jeans as he kicked and body-slammed the costumed man, before celebrating his win with a scream as fireworks erupt behind him.
Some days after watching the news, I wonder if I am wrong in my disbelief of an afterlife and am actually dead and suffering my eternal torment in hell.
Then I doubt that even that sick fuck YHVH could be this cruel.
While I have precious little use for any religion, I classify Mormonism under the heading “Some people will believe anything.”
“Some people will believe anything.”
Under which heading belong all religions, homeopathy, astrology, tea leaf reading, phrenology, and too many other snake-oil schemes to count.
All religions are frauds other than mine, and I'll kill anyone who says otherwise. /S
Sadly, some well-educated people who think they are cleverer than others add 'vaccines' to that list.
The idiots who would add vaccines to that list have either forgotten or ignored what Salk and Sabin did for this planet over 70 years ago. Frankly, every time I hear someone say, "No" when asked if they or their kids are vaccinated, I cringe.
Talk about nominating oneself for a Darwin Award!
Sadly , its usually the children (theirs or someone else’s) who pay the price.
Now there is a REAL tragedy.
A sect of Christianity founded by a man who had a 14-year-old wife.
I'm surprised Trump and so many of his MAGAts don't identify as Mormon.
A convicted con artist who had a 14 year old wife.
She was 14 all her life? Truly a miracle.
Helen Mar Kimball, the youngest of Joseph Smith's 30-40 wives. She married Smith in 1843 when she was 14.
While, obviously, child marriage is abusive, I've never been convinced that it's a strategy by men attracted to children - which should also be obvious. It's far more, I suspect, about men enjoying control over women.
Seer stones are less likely than talking snakes?
OT right out of the box: A high performing Islamic K-12 school in Alabama has Republicans freaking out. Free link from the NYT.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/us/politics/muslims-alabama-islamic-school-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.K60I.guCEjSHSXOJW&smid=url-share
Thank you for posting this article! I am just reading it and this jumped out at me: "As Representative Chip Roy of Texas said in February, “We’re not going to let Dallas or Houston or any other city in this great country become what has happened to London and to Paris.” "
I'd lay a bet of my last shirt and your nicest tie that this bloke has not been to London or Paris, certainly not recently and maybe not ever! What a twat! And the likes of Mr Tuberville or that Florida twat Mr Fines (who calls himself 'Randy'??), can we get all of them voted out? Please?
Once again, sauce for the goose isn't a horse of a different color. Christian schools are JUST FINE, thankuverymuch, but an Islamic school? EEEEK! No! Shun it! Stop it! BURN IT WITH FIRE!!!
How I wish these idiots could understand the raw irony they project.
So true. The Islamophobia uptick is a desperate attempt to bring back together a splintered base and overlook an extremely unpopular administration. It’s not going to work!
Also, right before the war with Iran started (a month or so before) I started seeing my algorithm flooded with so-called “feminist” anti-Muslim propaganda. As if I would forget all about the way our OWN government treats the women (and children) of THIS country as less than human. Unbelievable, but very believable. Sad times all around in the USA.
Aren't these the same NSGOP snowflakes who want to force Christian schools to be the default? Do I even need an answer?
Shariah law bad, christian shariah good.
Uh, oh. Are there any Tomahawks nearby?
The irony in that article is thick.
(I'll go and read the article in a moment) It seems that this is (another!) case of 'a mile for mee, an inch for thee'.
If it weren't so serious it'd be funny to see the pretzeling pretzels people are trying to twist themselves into to avoid the 'sauce for the goose and gravy for the gander' standpoint.
It's right out of Who Is America.
Coach Tuberville better do sumptin bout dem Muzlins ors else we gonna.
"Who Is America," Agreed, and what is America a country or land mass?
God Bless America?
The Orange Asshole wants to augment the country with the entirety of the land mass, at which point your question will be moot.
The only way that Trumpyboy would get Canada to become an U.S territory is if that Putin’s cocksucker of a president send in troops to invade and conquer the country. I am sure that Canadians would fight to keep their country free from that scumbag’s control!
We tried invading Canada before. It didn’t go so well for us.
As if Putin’s bitch in the White House knows actual history. Trumpy thinks he is some sort of Rambo, rather the scared little putz that he is. Remember this is the guy who was hiding in the bunker when the group of Christian terrorists tried to overturn the election in 2021. Now, he is acting tough, for there is no risk of his fat orange ass getting hurt unlike the troops that are stationed in the Middle East.
A religion founded by a pedophile and swindler who was illiterate.
I understand Muhammad (the founder of Islam) liked them much younger. And he was illiterate as well.
A bunch of dummies, just like today.
Funny how that works out.
Leave MAGA out of this.
𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛; 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛.
-- Paracelsus
Personally, I would just as soon that MacPherson had left his Book of Mormon at home and not even made the suggestion, whether it was tongue-in-cheek or not. As we've note here multiple times, sarcasm (and satire, for that matter) generally don't translate well into the printed word sometimes, and the whole State / Church separation issue is problematic enough these days as it is.
So maybe I'm being a buzzkill. So freaking what?
All I could think reading this is it is a sad joke, why is Kratom legal to sell anywhere? It is a biological extract with different concentrations of 20-some physiologically active alkaloids in it in each batch. If you take it and get sick or die (people have) which one did it. It is not that we don’t use biological derived drugs - just that they have been extracted, standardized, and tested. Think morphine, digoxin, colchicine, etc. old drugs in a safer format. Better than smoking opium, throwing a few foxglove leaves in your salad, or chewing on Fall Crocus bulbs…
OT:
The tiny fingered, Cheeto-faced, ferret wearing shitgibbon claims Iran is begging to talk to the US.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-war-trump-witkoff-araghchi
Chump's doublespeak about his shitty little war must have Orwell spinning in his grave.
Donald Verybigliar.
Yeah, sure it is! I am the true king of U.K. I have more trust and respect for Satan (if he existed) than for the goddamm fucking braindead SMEGHEAD that is infesting the White House now. I bet the next president will have to have the entire White House fumigated to get rid of the stains of slime left from the ugly, idiotic, orange skunk ape. Perhaps it would be better to burn down this one and build a new one,!
As always:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR361ASrMew
Crash course on Moronism...er, Mormonism
youtu.be/RaRsv1xNT3A
DumbdumbdumbdumbDUUUUMB!
MacPherson's proposal only counts if he was wearing his magic underwear.
He should have stuck his face into a top hat and read out the bill.
I'd pretty well bet the farm that he was. That kind of mental conditioning doesn't fade easily, if it fades at all. That said, I am so very glad that Brian Keith Dalton did manage to slip its grip, thence to give us the stylings of Mr. Deity!
Mr MacPherson is a unicorn. That rate Republican in a Republican state who is actively trying to protect the freedoms of those he disagrees with. Of course, we would have to examine his voting record closely to determine just how much of a unicorn he is, but baby steps.
I even like his tactic -- going over the top with a ridiculous amendment to point out the ridiculousness of the bill's original goal.
This stunt aside, how addictive and dangrous is religion? Tragically, we have seen the effects and consequences all too often.
WE see it every day, with thanks to Hemant. THEY can't see the forest for all them goll-darn TREES ... and I seriously wonder if they could perceive it at all, even if we pointed it out to them.
Drug bans are just about the most futile and counter-productive laws ever conceived. Pearl-clutching weirdos have been passing them for hundreds of years, against all sorts of drugs (including, in several places and times, fucking 𝘵𝘦𝘢 and 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦) but not a single one of them has ever led to anything but the birth of a robust black market trade in whatever the banned substance was. Without regulation, the product invariably gets cut with all sorts of horrible shit (sometimes literally) to either increase its addictiveness or adulterate the drug, and more people end up dying from using it.
How many times does humanity have to be taught this lesson, before it finally sinks in? People are gonna find ways to use the stuff regardless. The goal should be to make it safer; bans simply don't work. Never have, never will.
Prohibition against alcohol from 1920’s to 1933 led to the establishment of the mafia which grew rich and powerful, and people still got alcohol through speakeasies and trying to make their own moonshine! All which caused various health issues and other social ills!
Banning a substance anyone with access to literally any kind of edible plant matter can make in their bathroom has 𝘨𝘰𝘵 to be one of the dumbest things this country has ever done, apart from giving a bigoted pedophile with tapioca pudding for brains access to nuclear weapons. I'm not sure we'll 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 manage to top 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 one.
That we elected a man who lives in his own alternate reality the FIRST time will be to our everlasting shame.
Trump really is a lying twat, isn't he - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/mar/16/donald-trump-administration-tariffs-latest-updates
Gee, I thought we already won in Iran. Trump said so himself.
With the orange idiot in charge, and Kegbreath running the "Department of War", did anyone expect anything to happen apart from it going tits-up?
Once again, I have to wonder if those Republicans who are backstopping Trump actually give a rotten dump about this country, or whether they are so sold out to the supposed power they THINK they have that nothing else matters to them.
Yeah, yeah, I know. The latter FAR more likely than the former.
The orange skunk ape is threatening that it would be bad for NATO if the rest of the members don’t help out. (Source BBC News). Why should the rest of NATO clean up the mess that the president fuckwit has made. Draft Barron and Eric Trump and send them to patrol the Strait. According to that shitstain, the United States has won the war, so why need help to patrol the waterway.
Have you seen Phil's latest video? It's a real cracker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAfQLc496GU
One line 'For the love of puppies and pandas hand that man a map!'
That Trump is still breathing and causing total chaos is further evidence that there is no just, loving god. Or any god of any kind.
Between seasonable rain and a string of unseasonably warm days, I’m gonna have to mow the lawn. Middle of March!! Jeez.
I've mowed mine twice already and it could use it again but we're an hour or two away from one hella storm so I think I'll sit inside with a glass of wine and make snarky comments on FA.
30F yesterday, 63F today. A little snow left and lots of rain today.
Seasonable 1" of snow and 10F. The lawn can wait. : )
We've been oscillating between highs in the 70s and the 30s for roughly a week now. THIS week we're only going up to the 50s, but this pattern continues to obtain.
Same here.
I did mine 2 days ago 😳
A few legislators in Utah, but only a few, retain a sense of humor and a perspective on serious issues.
Otherwise, it is a desert bereft of common sense, where legislators unquestionably support a thinly disguised theological state, often leaning toward a version of Christian Nationalism, John Birch conservatism, and MAGA conspiracies.
The way things are going with State / Church separation these days, my sense of humor in that vein borders on nonexistent. As I suggested, MacPherson was better off leaving his holy book out of the discussion, particularly with all the misunderstanding his little stunt caused.
The headlines around this suggest that the theocrats have started gearing up to purge the heretics.
I use kratom for pain. Although not as much when I started using THC gummies. Medical pros can't seem to wrap their head around the fact that I can take kratom as needed, and that means many, many days I don't need it. Too bad our drug policies are so ridiculous. I know people in worse pain than me and they have been told they can't have any additional pain relief. I guess as long as I'm alive it doesn't matter if I can ever feel comfortable.
OT:
Sec. Brain Worms Felcher Wrestles Twinkie In AI Video
Trump’s top health goon is under fire for posting an unhinged AI-generated video to advertise a ‘Make America Healthy Again’ initiative by beating the snot out of a popular snack food.
In the clip posted to X on Sunday with the caption “MAHAMania: SnackDown,” a generated shirtless 72-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrestled a man dressed as a Twinkie. Set to “Rollin” by Limp Bizkit, AI Kennedy stretched out his jeans as he kicked and body-slammed the costumed man, before celebrating his win with a scream as fireworks erupt behind him.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/sec-brain-worms-felcher-wrestles-twinkie-in-ai-video/
Get this man some heroin and a whale head stat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7bHmuJ5iZQ
Never – and I mean NEVER – get between a man and his Twinkie!
WTF did I just watch?
Your government at work.
Some days after watching the news, I wonder if I am wrong in my disbelief of an afterlife and am actually dead and suffering my eternal torment in hell.
Then I doubt that even that sick fuck YHVH could be this cruel.
He's the first person since Dan White to use the Twinkie Defense.
Better yet, get him a 46-extra-long, wrap-around jacket (with buckles) and a nice 6x9 cell for him to rest in!
Yesterday Mr Velshi did a great monologue on pluralism. It's definitely worth listening to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJbQk-fqwkc