The one of the few good things I can say about the Catholic Church, having grown up in it, is that the majority of Catholics take their religion with a grain of salt. There are, however, Catholic fundamentalists who are every bit as intolerant as every other fundamentalist. This seems to be the case with the man opposing the admission of trans women. Their solution to every problem is turning back the clock, which never works.
The last straw for me was listening to an idiot priest in Vietnam give what we came to call the 'kill a commie for Christ' pep talk. All we wanted to do was survive and go home. Few, if any, of us believed we were there to defend the church from the godless.
I had a few asshat chaplains when I was in, most were fairly decent or innocuous, a couple were outstanding and treated all of us with dignity and respect.
As an aside, I've known that the saying "there are no atheists in foxholes" is bullshit at least since I first time I spent in one. All it takes is one black swan.....
I see from the tweets referenced above that Railey Gaines has seen fit to weigh in on this. Guess she's still all butthurt about tying for fifth place with a trans woman in a college swim competition. She already caused enough damage to trans women's ability to compete in women's sports (as if less competition would have made her a better swimmer), now she wants them barred from all women's colleges as well.
I mean, tying for fifth place for chrissakes, and here it is a year later and she's still smoldering over it. Guess what, Riley, at least four other women did better in that competition than either you or the trans woman you hate so much. She made a decent showing, but she's hardly the threat you make her out to be. Let me pour you a nice tall glass of get the fuck over yourself. Oh, and here's a straw so you can suck it up.
I'm not honestly convinced Gaines ever was truly upset about that competition. For one, she'd have lost it even if she hadn't tied Lia Thomas... and for another, she's achieved 𝘸𝘢𝘺 more fame and fortune milking her shared fifth-place standing for conservative outrage cookies than she ever could have hoped for even if she'd won Olympic gold. She saw an opportunity to turn a mediocre swimming record into a lucrative career as a talking head, took it, and never looked back. The fact that she did it by throwing an entire fucking demographic under the bus doesn't seem to weigh on whatever passes for her conscience, either.
In any competitive sport there will be disappointments. Intelligent, secure athletes will mourn the loss for a short time, take it for what it's worth, learn from it, and move the fuck on. Good coaches will always counsel on how to lose with grace and dignity, because there are always more losers than winners. Entitled little shits like Gaines will find a way to blame other people she regards as lesser human beings and throw them under the bus as Joan states above, to turn mediocrity into lucre. I think she has a point. I hadn't thought of that angle before (I focused on the resentment and revenge angle) but Joan makes a very good point.
Like the Catholic Church had a mission during the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Medieval Witch Hunts, the Conquistadores, the convert-or-die missionaries in the 'New World'...
Look at your religion's bloody history, Ms./Mrs. Ezell. Trans women are what get you riled? How do feel about the RCC and its traditional treatment of women? Have you withheld giving your money at Mass on Sunday due to the RCCs appalling track record on child sexual abuse by its clergy? Maybe it's time for you to sort out your priorities.
We can also talk about the loooong tradition of catholic church to change their tradition : deaconesses, married priests, no baptising children, pontifical infallibility.
Last but not least if god is the one choosing the new pope why election and why 2 (or 3) popes at the same time.
Ceremony and ritual. Can't just do something, must make it an *event*. Pretty much true of everything Catholic from what I've seen. Everything has to be mysterious or magnificent. It can't simply be.
Pretty sure their mission once included outreach, education, and ministering to sinners. The Pope gets it. The school board gets it. Conservatives? Well conservative Jesus closes the fence and shoots any outside soul looking help or even just regular social interaction.
"Medical Freedom." Christianese for "Freedom to infect both our children and yours with deadly diseases because our imaginary friend takes priority over all health and safety." Not surprised this is happening in Mississippi. They're tied with Alabama as the most religious state in the country. What IS surprising is that for 4 decades they had one of the strictest school vaccination requirements in the USofA.
I keep saying it. Unless you are a Christian Scientist or a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, you have no religious basis for being opposed to vaccination.
Euthanasia always implies inclusion of a society discarding it's elderly to death to me. I find I prefer the longer and more accurate 'Medical Assistance in Dying' Of course, that will just get you blank stares.
I just now flashed back on Brittany Maynard's story and the BS she had to go through just to be able to end her agony on her own terms. AS I followed her story, I was shocked at the number of people who weighed in to excoriate her for her 'Immoral' decision to end her own life.
But mostly, the story was just heartbreaking and tragic.
I always want to ask people like that, "It's her life, who the hell are you to tell her she has to live it?" "God says... Then that's between her and God and none of your damned business"
"Sovereign Citizens", they call themselves, not wanting to participate in our rules and regulations yet demanding all the same perks of citizenship that the rest of us pay for.
Oh Kay-El, lets go for mumps(decended), tetanus or polio, the disease that my mother contracted when she was twenty years old and who had to live with the after effects for the rest of her life. At least she survived. These antivaxxers have no idea what kind of Hell they will be letting loose in their neighborhoods or their own families nor do they seem to care.
Spot on. Mumps (which I had as a kid, no vaccine then and sucked) and polio were on my mind too. My neighbor had polio as well. The nutters are v itching for more plagues aren’t they now.
Basically the only vaccine when I was a kid was polio. My parents took advantage of that because there were people all round the place showing the effects of having had it. But as far as childhood diseases went, I had them all. My mother deliberately infected me with them when I was a kid, so I wouldn't get them when I was older. I have a friend who is deaf because of – measles I think, and another acquaintance of mine got the mumps when he was post puberty and was rendered more or less sterile. Anti-vaxxers are nuts. But then they've never seen the effects like some of us have.
[Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah! The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you,this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening.
Your hands are full of blood!
Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.]
Forgive the long quote. God supposedly told his people that he hates all of the religious ritual. He hates people having worship services while the people lack love and empathy and a passion for justice for those who are poor or oppressed or ostracized by the larger culture and community.
I wouldn't expect a Catholic Bishop to particularly care about my interpretation of the Bible, but having studied this book most of my life, I would say that this message about loving the "least of these" being more important than religious ritual stretches from Isaiah to Jesus.
Granted, Ezra and Nehemiah emphasize the opposite. But Ezra and Nehemiah were assholes. And so are you, Bishop, if you cannot love your trans-neighbor as yourself and cling to your bigoted dogma.
I just received my flu shot and latest cootie (my name for covid in 2020, not to downplay it, but to keep me from losing my mind) vaccine. Primed for winter.
I am supposed to get mine too. I nearly passed out after reading the letter*. Bad day, first DM's insulin pen fell from her handbag and I saw it, then I looked toward her when a nurse removed her catheter...
"The Vatican says trans identities seek to 'annihilate the concept of nature'“
It might annihilate YOUR concept of nature, but nature is far, far more complicated than your childishly simplistic, centuries-behind concept. One of the most complicated parts of nature is human nature, and one of the most complicated parts of that is human sexuality. Nature owes nothing to you to fit into your self-serving little box. Your vain, naïve concepts are like flimsy folded paper boats on a vast, stormy sea. Nature doesn't give a damn about your concepts, and increasingly, society is dismissing them too.
"… After a formal warning, [Bishop Rhoades] could prohibit the university from identifying itself as Catholic..."
Since Catholic institutions are increasingly using that word as a fading status symbol rather than a statement of fealty to an aging, legalistic anachronism, perhaps the college could proudly rename themselves "Mary's EX CATHOLIC College," and enjoy even more prestige based entirely on their academic excellence and progressive policies.
Normally, I try to avoid reading too much into things, but in this case, I'm sort of feeling like this bishop is just mad his privileged opinion wasn't asked by the women he seems to think are subordinate to him.
Kudos to St. Mary's for at least attempting to do the right thing. My guess is that this bishop is going to be difficult about it for a while, though. I still would like to see religion out of education, but I'm willing to give them credit for making the effort where it's due. I guess we'll see if it lasts.
I've been mulling this scenario over for years. What would happen if the crew of the ISS looked down (or up) and watched as the powers-that-be engaged in a full thermonuclear exchange?
I would HOPE that they would be more intelligent and foresighted than the idiots who "pushed the button." Apparently, whoever wrote I.S.S. thinks those few people would devolve down to survival of the most ruthless. [sigh]
They're dead no matter what they do. Fight. Don't Fight. There's no resupply, there's no trip down even if they could figure out somewhere to go. They will suffocate or starve or go Jack Torrance.
I'll admit I'm not up on the current crop of capsules, but don't they still just basically fall from orbit and hope to hit ocean. Who's going to pick them up in the middle of the Pacific?
Reminded me a bit of the novel by Ben Bova and Doug Beason called "Space Station Down" about terrorists aboard the ISS. The lead was a racially diverse female who didn't need a man to rescue her or to save the day.
When the Catholic Church starts taking the pedo priest thing seriously is when I stop completely ignoring them on matters of morality. I won’t agree with them, since even if they stop the egregious crimes they’re still on the wrong side of morality in pretty much every way that matters. The church’s positions regarding women in general are beyond misogyny, just dehumanizing really, that I will never turn to them for guidance on anything.
I find it funny that the Bishop’s concerns are about “annihilating the concept of nature” but not protecting women from the boogey man called trans women. It’s clear that he’s worried about the power of the church (and therefore his power) rather than any facade of pretending to care about the people involved. Not that I believe any anti transgender person cares about protecting women and children from the predatory transgender agenda (it’s not real nor are there many predatory transgender people stalking bathrooms). At least he’s not trying to use the vulnerability of women and girls to abuse innocent people, but he’s still not willing to acknowledge the humanity of women, or LGBT people.
It’s good the school is admitting trans women, for now.
It seems to me that schools like St. Mary's are the ones that will at least assist in pulling the Catholic Church (kicking and screaming, most likely) into the 21st century. Granted that they have their own conflicts, outside of the trans issue, but that they're willing to deal with that issue in something resembling an adult fashion is encouraging, to put it at its mildest.
The questions now are how much wrangling is going to go on between St. Mary's and its supervisors and what will come out of all of that. I'm hopeful, but honestly, not very.
Since she works for an institution promoting empowerment and knowledge Julianne Wallace should study the meaning and the history of the word "quickening".
Ever see "The Shawshank Redemption"? He was the sadistic Capt. Hadley. He also turned up in "Starship Troopers" as Sgt. Zim as well as Rawhide in "Buckaroo Banzai."
On TV, his most recent outing was as Ryder Azadi in "Ashoka."
The one of the few good things I can say about the Catholic Church, having grown up in it, is that the majority of Catholics take their religion with a grain of salt. There are, however, Catholic fundamentalists who are every bit as intolerant as every other fundamentalist. This seems to be the case with the man opposing the admission of trans women. Their solution to every problem is turning back the clock, which never works.
Catholic hierarchy doesn't like uppity women.
I don't think they like women, generally.
That was certainly my take, and one of the reasons I am no longer a Catholic.
The last straw for me was listening to an idiot priest in Vietnam give what we came to call the 'kill a commie for Christ' pep talk. All we wanted to do was survive and go home. Few, if any, of us believed we were there to defend the church from the godless.
I had a few asshat chaplains when I was in, most were fairly decent or innocuous, a couple were outstanding and treated all of us with dignity and respect.
As an aside, I've known that the saying "there are no atheists in foxholes" is bullshit at least since I first time I spent in one. All it takes is one black swan.....
It was the insanity that was Vietnam, that drove me away from religion. Not the worst war in history, but it was the worst one I was ever in.
Also, Welcome Home. 💚
TY
Maybe that's why the nuns treated us in such a sadistic manner.
There were some very unhappy and frustrated women in those convents.
Yep.
I see from the tweets referenced above that Railey Gaines has seen fit to weigh in on this. Guess she's still all butthurt about tying for fifth place with a trans woman in a college swim competition. She already caused enough damage to trans women's ability to compete in women's sports (as if less competition would have made her a better swimmer), now she wants them barred from all women's colleges as well.
I mean, tying for fifth place for chrissakes, and here it is a year later and she's still smoldering over it. Guess what, Riley, at least four other women did better in that competition than either you or the trans woman you hate so much. She made a decent showing, but she's hardly the threat you make her out to be. Let me pour you a nice tall glass of get the fuck over yourself. Oh, and here's a straw so you can suck it up.
I'm not honestly convinced Gaines ever was truly upset about that competition. For one, she'd have lost it even if she hadn't tied Lia Thomas... and for another, she's achieved 𝘸𝘢𝘺 more fame and fortune milking her shared fifth-place standing for conservative outrage cookies than she ever could have hoped for even if she'd won Olympic gold. She saw an opportunity to turn a mediocre swimming record into a lucrative career as a talking head, took it, and never looked back. The fact that she did it by throwing an entire fucking demographic under the bus doesn't seem to weigh on whatever passes for her conscience, either.
It was just tra****s, not like it was real people /s
Oh, I like your response. Epic!
In any competitive sport there will be disappointments. Intelligent, secure athletes will mourn the loss for a short time, take it for what it's worth, learn from it, and move the fuck on. Good coaches will always counsel on how to lose with grace and dignity, because there are always more losers than winners. Entitled little shits like Gaines will find a way to blame other people she regards as lesser human beings and throw them under the bus as Joan states above, to turn mediocrity into lucre. I think she has a point. I hadn't thought of that angle before (I focused on the resentment and revenge angle) but Joan makes a very good point.
"The school has betrayed its Catholic mission."
Like the Catholic Church had a mission during the Inquisition, the Crusades, the Medieval Witch Hunts, the Conquistadores, the convert-or-die missionaries in the 'New World'...
Look at your religion's bloody history, Ms./Mrs. Ezell. Trans women are what get you riled? How do feel about the RCC and its traditional treatment of women? Have you withheld giving your money at Mass on Sunday due to the RCCs appalling track record on child sexual abuse by its clergy? Maybe it's time for you to sort out your priorities.
We can also talk about the loooong tradition of catholic church to change their tradition : deaconesses, married priests, no baptising children, pontifical infallibility.
Last but not least if god is the one choosing the new pope why election and why 2 (or 3) popes at the same time.
Not just why do they need an election, why does it take more than one round of voting?
And why does it take a particular color of smoke coming out of the chimney to let everyone know what the result is?
Ceremony and ritual. Can't just do something, must make it an *event*. Pretty much true of everything Catholic from what I've seen. Everything has to be mysterious or magnificent. It can't simply be.
One wonders how she might feel if, years after her child had grown up, they came to her and said, "Mom ... Father McPherson molested me."
https://www.zentaur.org/memes/hermione_priorities.gif
You made me do it.
Did not. But knew you would. 😉
Pretty sure their mission once included outreach, education, and ministering to sinners. The Pope gets it. The school board gets it. Conservatives? Well conservative Jesus closes the fence and shoots any outside soul looking help or even just regular social interaction.
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Those anti-vaxx, pro-disease Christians are at it again.
'Medical Freedom' Activists Take Aim at New Target: Childhood Vaccine Mandates"
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/medical-freedom-activists-aim-target-155947790.html
"Medical Freedom." Christianese for "Freedom to infect both our children and yours with deadly diseases because our imaginary friend takes priority over all health and safety." Not surprised this is happening in Mississippi. They're tied with Alabama as the most religious state in the country. What IS surprising is that for 4 decades they had one of the strictest school vaccination requirements in the USofA.
I keep saying it. Unless you are a Christian Scientist or a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, you have no religious basis for being opposed to vaccination.
"Christian Scientist"
The ultimate oxymoron.
Medical freedom to not vaccinate, but reproductive slavery for when abortion is at issue. Also, they’re against euthanasia, I’m sure.
But very pro-death penalty and pro-war (so long as they don't have to risk their own skins. They wanna be with Jesus but they don't wanna die).
Euthanasia always implies inclusion of a society discarding it's elderly to death to me. I find I prefer the longer and more accurate 'Medical Assistance in Dying' Of course, that will just get you blank stares.
Just call them "Obama Death Panels," because we all know that's what they are.
That's what Chuckles the Cowardly Liar Grassley called 'em.
I'm so looking forward to reading his obit.
I just now flashed back on Brittany Maynard's story and the BS she had to go through just to be able to end her agony on her own terms. AS I followed her story, I was shocked at the number of people who weighed in to excoriate her for her 'Immoral' decision to end her own life.
But mostly, the story was just heartbreaking and tragic.
I always want to ask people like that, "It's her life, who the hell are you to tell her she has to live it?" "God says... Then that's between her and God and none of your damned business"
"Everybody should be able to make whatever choice they want.”
So I can make the choice to drive a 18 wheelers without license ?
There are Libertarians who consider a driver's license to be government overreach.
"Sovereign Citizens", they call themselves, not wanting to participate in our rules and regulations yet demanding all the same perks of citizenship that the rest of us pay for.
"Anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."
There are libertarians who consider the legal obligation to feed your kids government overreach. They are as crazy as anti-vaxxers in the main.
I’m betting every one of those idiots were vaccinated when they were young. Perhaps a taste of measles (which can kill) would rectify that.
Oh Kay-El, lets go for mumps(decended), tetanus or polio, the disease that my mother contracted when she was twenty years old and who had to live with the after effects for the rest of her life. At least she survived. These antivaxxers have no idea what kind of Hell they will be letting loose in their neighborhoods or their own families nor do they seem to care.
Spot on. Mumps (which I had as a kid, no vaccine then and sucked) and polio were on my mind too. My neighbor had polio as well. The nutters are v itching for more plagues aren’t they now.
I had measles, mumps and chickenpox and I was vaccinated. I shiver to the though I may not have been able to survive otherwise.
Chickenpox in my thirties.
Ugh. I had it when I was 4 so the memory is slightly fuzzy but I remember talking oatmeal baths
Basically the only vaccine when I was a kid was polio. My parents took advantage of that because there were people all round the place showing the effects of having had it. But as far as childhood diseases went, I had them all. My mother deliberately infected me with them when I was a kid, so I wouldn't get them when I was older. I have a friend who is deaf because of – measles I think, and another acquaintance of mine got the mumps when he was post puberty and was rendered more or less sterile. Anti-vaxxers are nuts. But then they've never seen the effects like some of us have.
"We do too! Jeebus said so, so there!"
Cuz they're SPESHUL.
Last time I checked trans people are human beings so they are natural in my eyes.
Tut tut, you are the proud parent of a plastic doll.
lol, he’s a much better human than any of these so called men of god.
I expected Barbie girl by Aqua 🤣
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Claus did not get enough screen time.
You are kenough.
Hi Kay-El.
Nice to see you here SPW!!
[Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah! The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you,this trampling of my courts? Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening.
Your hands are full of blood!
Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.]
Forgive the long quote. God supposedly told his people that he hates all of the religious ritual. He hates people having worship services while the people lack love and empathy and a passion for justice for those who are poor or oppressed or ostracized by the larger culture and community.
I wouldn't expect a Catholic Bishop to particularly care about my interpretation of the Bible, but having studied this book most of my life, I would say that this message about loving the "least of these" being more important than religious ritual stretches from Isaiah to Jesus.
Granted, Ezra and Nehemiah emphasize the opposite. But Ezra and Nehemiah were assholes. And so are you, Bishop, if you cannot love your trans-neighbor as yourself and cling to your bigoted dogma.
Fundamentalists. Ruin. Everything.
I just received my flu shot and latest cootie (my name for covid in 2020, not to downplay it, but to keep me from losing my mind) vaccine. Primed for winter.
I've got my flu, COVID and neumo shots. I'm vaxxed to the max.
Did you get RSV?
Is that the same as the neumo vaccine or something separate. If the latter, my primary never mentioned it.
I am supposed to get mine too. I nearly passed out after reading the letter*. Bad day, first DM's insulin pen fell from her handbag and I saw it, then I looked toward her when a nurse removed her catheter...
* Usually it wouldn't bother me.
"The Vatican says trans identities seek to 'annihilate the concept of nature'“
It might annihilate YOUR concept of nature, but nature is far, far more complicated than your childishly simplistic, centuries-behind concept. One of the most complicated parts of nature is human nature, and one of the most complicated parts of that is human sexuality. Nature owes nothing to you to fit into your self-serving little box. Your vain, naïve concepts are like flimsy folded paper boats on a vast, stormy sea. Nature doesn't give a damn about your concepts, and increasingly, society is dismissing them too.
"… After a formal warning, [Bishop Rhoades] could prohibit the university from identifying itself as Catholic..."
Since Catholic institutions are increasingly using that word as a fading status symbol rather than a statement of fealty to an aging, legalistic anachronism, perhaps the college could proudly rename themselves "Mary's EX CATHOLIC College," and enjoy even more prestige based entirely on their academic excellence and progressive policies.
Normally, I try to avoid reading too much into things, but in this case, I'm sort of feeling like this bishop is just mad his privileged opinion wasn't asked by the women he seems to think are subordinate to him.
Kudos to St. Mary's for at least attempting to do the right thing. My guess is that this bishop is going to be difficult about it for a while, though. I still would like to see religion out of education, but I'm willing to give them credit for making the effort where it's due. I guess we'll see if it lasts.
OT - Interesting and true
𝐈𝐟 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐨-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐱 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚’𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐲𝐬?
https://news.yahoo.com/moms-liberty-co-founder-had-011147807.html
Is there a female equivalent of "it's not gay if the balls don't touch?"
Scratch a crusader, get a hypocrite,
OT
Oooooooh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BywoLxuBgT0
Had to go look. Currently, there are 4 Americans, 1 German and 2 Russians on board.
Whoa...
I've been mulling this scenario over for years. What would happen if the crew of the ISS looked down (or up) and watched as the powers-that-be engaged in a full thermonuclear exchange?
La spirale du temps/The time spiral Yoko Tsuno comics and the final episode of "Il était une fois l'homme*" (Once upon... Man) from Albert Barillé.
In French it's the 11th I don't understand why the publisher would mess up the original order
https://www.amazon.com/Yoko-Tsuno-Vol-2-Spiral-2008-01-03/dp/B019TMKXH4
* Really about men since obviously women never did anything worth notice.
I would HOPE that they would be more intelligent and foresighted than the idiots who "pushed the button." Apparently, whoever wrote I.S.S. thinks those few people would devolve down to survival of the most ruthless. [sigh]
Have you met Christians? “Survival of the most ruthless” is something they aspire to.
I've known my share of Christians who weren't like that, but they also weren't the evangelical variety, nor were they Catholic.
They're dead no matter what they do. Fight. Don't Fight. There's no resupply, there's no trip down even if they could figure out somewhere to go. They will suffocate or starve or go Jack Torrance.
Yup. All the choices they have are bad ones.
Even if some of them got in a Soyuz capsule docked with the ISS, where would they go? The Earth is dead.
We are a long way away from self-sustaining extraterrestrial habitats.
I'll admit I'm not up on the current crop of capsules, but don't they still just basically fall from orbit and hope to hit ocean. Who's going to pick them up in the middle of the Pacific?
Yup ... pretty much true, I suspect.
That looks great!
Reminded me a bit of the novel by Ben Bova and Doug Beason called "Space Station Down" about terrorists aboard the ISS. The lead was a racially diverse female who didn't need a man to rescue her or to save the day.
That’s what I loved about Aliens. The women were the bad asses.
Maybe but Hicks made an adorable damsel in distress.
https://images.app.goo.gl/Gt9r9ShBSgD6Tokf9
When the Catholic Church starts taking the pedo priest thing seriously is when I stop completely ignoring them on matters of morality. I won’t agree with them, since even if they stop the egregious crimes they’re still on the wrong side of morality in pretty much every way that matters. The church’s positions regarding women in general are beyond misogyny, just dehumanizing really, that I will never turn to them for guidance on anything.
I find it funny that the Bishop’s concerns are about “annihilating the concept of nature” but not protecting women from the boogey man called trans women. It’s clear that he’s worried about the power of the church (and therefore his power) rather than any facade of pretending to care about the people involved. Not that I believe any anti transgender person cares about protecting women and children from the predatory transgender agenda (it’s not real nor are there many predatory transgender people stalking bathrooms). At least he’s not trying to use the vulnerability of women and girls to abuse innocent people, but he’s still not willing to acknowledge the humanity of women, or LGBT people.
It’s good the school is admitting trans women, for now.
The Bishop and his diocese don't contribute any money toward the running of Saint Mary's College, so he can just STFU.
That being said, why do we still have single-sex colleges?
It seems to me that schools like St. Mary's are the ones that will at least assist in pulling the Catholic Church (kicking and screaming, most likely) into the 21st century. Granted that they have their own conflicts, outside of the trans issue, but that they're willing to deal with that issue in something resembling an adult fashion is encouraging, to put it at its mildest.
The questions now are how much wrangling is going to go on between St. Mary's and its supervisors and what will come out of all of that. I'm hopeful, but honestly, not very.
The RCC will finally reach the 21st century some time around when the rest of the world is entering the 25th.
35th.
https://youtu.be/N03Uoj6p9QA
I expected the Buck Rodgers intro with Gil Gerard and Erin Grey.
Like-a dis?
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qeio1
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/DuckDodgers.png
So long as the parishioners act like sheep, the Church will treat them like sheep.
Since she works for an institution promoting empowerment and knowledge Julianne Wallace should study the meaning and the history of the word "quickening".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8lr7II3dwQ
So that's what Clancy Brown used to look like!
I've most recently seen him in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘴 and 𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Buster_Scruggs#%22The_Ballad_of_Buster_Scruggs%22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence_(TV_series)#Premise
Ever see "The Shawshank Redemption"? He was the sadistic Capt. Hadley. He also turned up in "Starship Troopers" as Sgt. Zim as well as Rawhide in "Buckaroo Banzai."
On TV, his most recent outing was as Ryder Azadi in "Ashoka."
He is also in 𝘎𝘦𝘯 𝘝, a spinoff of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘺𝘴, along with two of the regulars from 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘢, and Ahnold's son.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_V
Lots of voicework as well. Played Taskmaster in "Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United" and Lex Luthor in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies."
(What's strangely missing from his voicework credits is "Jackie Chan Adventures").
Mr Krabs.