The level of dishonesty represented by this effort to use a water project to fund a conservative Christian think tank should embarrass any Christian who actually cares about their faith, never mind people like us who look at such projects and cannot help but think, "Here they go again!" And once again, I find myself reminded of the following:
When some Christian outfit jumps through these kinds of hoops in order to evade scrutiny, the illegality just SCREAMS at me ... and I'm very glad those screams garnered the appropriate attention.
Republicans are only pro-life on one issue, and that concern is mostly about controlling women. They quit caring about the child the minute it's born. They call themselves pro-life but are opposed to universal healthcare, and any kind of meaningful gun control. They never seem to have met a war for corporate profit they didn't love.
The SBC (yes, that SBC) actually praised the Roe v Wade decision. They only started the rabid opposition to abortion 5 or so years later, when pushing radcism and segregation became a less viable strategy to accomlish the takeover of what was once the GOP and is now the Fascist party.
For now, this might be the party to reinstate slavery, or the very least serfdom. The regime will try for return of slavery first, if there is a public backlash of mass portions, then this regime will settle for serfdom.
Dear Leader has already made comments regarding enslaving the Latino and Hispanic communities heβs sending to concentration camps. But that didnβt go over well enough for him so his surrogate clarified that farm workers wonβt get amnesty and the Medicare recipients will instead be sent to the fields.
So, slavery didnβt play, but serfdom will, with the implication that it will likely be children doing the hard labor. And since theyβve already been undermining child labor laws, and the education system, they are ready to exploit our children.
Yes, they started this shit in my lifetime, so much for "traditional long-held beliefs." It was all about racism at it's roots, since they could no longer openly segregate their schools, they needed another issue to get their bigots to the voting booths, so they lied about abortion and it worked. Mostly because the bigots could not mind their own business.
Indeed. Also, enforced childbirth is a form of slavery. Having immigrants pick your strawberries for pennies as well. Whoβs going to work the fields now? Probably children as workers rights continue to decline.
The vast majority of the people celebrating, and purchasing merch related to, Alligator Auschwitz are the most rabid Pro-Life (not ever, not even close) proponents. Putting paid to the lie they are advocating for the value of life.
The Republican Party also pander to the most base and cruel elements of their redneck base. The more this regime cause the βotherβ to suffer; the more the redneck base will support the regime (until its policies affect them).
Hilary Clinton called them βdeplorablesβ. I think she was being generous and elevating the redneck up two levels.
They are the people easiest to manipulate. Republicans, of course, could not possibly care less about them and will make their lives worse given the chance.
"his America Party" Agreed, Musk a pure MAGA cultists is making the United States the one and only American country, ignoring the 34 other ones. Embarrassing and sad.
Musk is on record saying democracy is obsolete, and all the countryβs decision making needs to be turned over to people like him. People who never gave up on feudalism.
I look back at the backlash she received from that characterization and realized at that point there was no winning with the fascist crowd. We go low, they go lower, we go high, they go lower still. 'Deplorables' was incredibly mild compared to every other word from the orange Musalini.
They're not even pro-life on the one issue they call themselves pro-life π§π°π³. They're perfectly happy to watch a doomed pregnancy plant both fetus and mother in the same early grave, as long as it prevented an abortion- that's their only concern.
Having such a narrow view of βlifeβ limited to embryos/fetuses (who canβt talk back to you or challenge you) is LAZY at best and a low effort way to go about praising yourself for βprotecting lifeβ and good deeds. Bravo βpro-lifersβ π
Their only goal is to indoctrinate that baby as it takes its first breath and add more sheep to the herd.
Stripping millions of America's poorest citizens of their healthcare to fund tax cuts for billionaires is a declaration of moral bankruptcy on the part of Republicans.
They can cherry pick which social support gets them the best"return" on their investment.Short term windfall,as those that need help will cause more social strife for the middle class.Upward mobility(education,career,housing)was very bad before- this just makes that unattainable.THANKS
It's in their DNA to privatise anything and everything that makes profit at the expense of US citizens.
It could also be argued that the fact that the US has no national healthcare service for all US citizens means that the US in essence, is not a first world country and that such a status is just another US myth.
Concerning Abortion specifically, it's a valid argument that every pregnancy is a potential citizen and should be given the utmost respect and that women be provided with health care support which includes fully funded federal, state, and business maternity leave and child care.
The other myth that's bigger than big foot, is lack of money/funding for such health services. BS, the money and more is always there, one just look at what federal and state money is thrown at when it suits them. Also tax the rich because they will still be rich.
For a so-called astute capitalist nation, how wilfully stupid can the US be. Health care, maternity leave, funded child care and funding for overall education, is a big bloody investment that pays off in the short and long term. π€
Healthcare is a necessary part of infrastructure::why corporations won't pay their fair share(while they use the lions share)is a joke. Companies used to be a healthy part of society,now they pillage and profit on every aspect of life. Thanks
*Dr. David Gunn, murdered March 10th, 1993 in Pensacola, FL
*Dr. John Baynard Britton and clinic volunteer James H. Barrett, both murdered July 29th, 1994 in Pensacola
*Receptionists Shannon Lowney and Leanne Nichols, both murdered December 30th, 1994 in Brookline, MA
*Security guard and police officer Robert Sanderson, murdered January 29th, 1998 in Birmingham, AL
*Dr. Barnett Slepian, murdered October 3rd, 1998 in Amherst, NY
*Dr. George Tiller, murdered May 31st, 2009 in Wichita, KS
*Officer Garrett Swasey, murdered November 27th, 2015 in Colorado Springs, CO along with Jennifer Markovsky and Ke'arre Marcell Stewart, who were just accompanying their friend to a PPC
This is an incomplete list of women's pro-choice supporters who were killed by "Good Christians" who allegedly love life.
UK yahoo. "From 1977 to 2020 in America, anti-abortion activists committed at least 11 murders, 26 attempted murders, 956 threats of harm or death, 624 stalking incidents and four kidnappings, according to data collected by the National Abortion Federation. They have bombed 42 abortion clinics, set 194 on fire, attempted to bomb or burn an additional 104 and made 667 bomb threats."
I canβt speak for everyone, but Iβm sick and tired of special privileges for religious people.
Iβm a citizen and a taxpayer, and Iβm entitled to representation too. I also have objections to some of the things my taxes go for. Where the heck is MY consideration?
West Virginia and its citizens are struggling with a number of social and economic problems (substance abuse, limited employment opportunities, a declining population, poverty, limited access to healthcare facilities - especially miners who made their living in the coal mines and now suffer from Black Lung disease). How blind do the elected representatives of this state have to be to see that this grant money could have served a much better, if not higher purpose?
Oh, but it π₯πͺπ₯ serve a higher purpose- the exact purpose for which it was truly intended. ππ°π³π³πΆπ±π΅πͺπ°π―. As long as there's an ounce of grift-gravy left to be squeezed out of that blighted state, the vultures will keep picking over its corpse.
"West Virginia" Is a serious Bible Belt State. It's on the bottom in education and with excessive poverty. Many hills and towns littered with abandoned buildings and houses.
Not difficult to find a large Jesus cross on top of a hill, they are everywhere in he countryside.
In general the countryside is beautiful in the fall when tree leaves are turning colors.
Goddyboy blessed West Virginia with inbreeding, fucking barnyard animals, and an abundance of roadkill. I almost forgot goddyboy blessed West Virginia also with disease, because the Christian nationalist rednecks refused to get vaccinated.
The College of St. Joseph the Worker building looks like a dump. Almost like a money laundering or tax evasion scheme...................................................................
You can scratch almost. I went to a legitimate trade high school (secretarial, accounting, cooking, waitressing, laundry, auto and boat mechanic, and others).
The facilities were not a small building stuck like this. I don't see how they can build a campus big enough for their claims with most of the money diverted elsewhere. And which secondary campus ? From what I see, there isn't even a primary one. The building in the photo may not be big enough for the administrative offices.
Way back in navy bootcamp, I got assigned to the Educational Building for a week of grunt work. Besides sweeping the floors and dumping the trash I had several heads to keep clean. One of them was huge. Down one wall were 20 chest to floor size urinals. About half as many toilet stalls on the other side. The funny thing is there was only 5 or 6 people that ever used that restroom.
According to the Ghoul of Calcutta, a holy death requires a great deal of pain, in order to be closer to Jesus. So, thatβs why the church is against death with dignity.
I do not sin. Sin is a cudgel used by religion to pound hatreds into the hearts of its followers. Sin is used to separate and divide people. The church has always been an us versus "them" tribe You re either with us, or you are our enemy.
their god does ALL wanking. NO others are lklowed any pleasure. New galaxies are constantly created as each load of god-splooge becomes a new galaxy. And you thought no good comes from god watching kids being raped. /s
Best case scenario is the appeals court will say affirm the lower court on the unconstitutionality of the grant, but will say that the cash doesn't have to be returned since the Church/school already has it.
That doesn't sound like water development to me. I am glad that the funding was declared constitutional, but now we need a corruption investigation into who the hell thought that giving water infrastructure funds to a barely established Catholic school outside The $5M is a drop in the bucket for the RCC.
So, who in the WDA has the connections to the school? Was it just a mistaken idiot who at first thought "building project, we have building project money"? Was it (more likely) someone connected to both who saw the big slush pile and thought, "why not"? Did they know it was inappropriate, or did they just not think about that, because WV conservative forced-birther? Did they get a cut?
"Bioethics" in this context can only mean more anti-abortion, anti-trans, anti-bodily-autonomy-in-general bullshit to crap up the airwaves with- in other words, the exact π°π±π±π°π΄πͺπ΅π¦ of anything ethical.
And "water development" in this context I must therefore assume to mean the piss they intended to take on the Constitution and the taxpayers of West Virginia.
I agree that a thorough examination of the mechanics of this deal deserves to be made, both to understand just HOW it happened and to make clear to the participants that such behavior will NOT be tolerated in the future.
No need to guess. From the link: "In her divorce filing, Senator Paxton alleged that her husband had committed adultery, listing it as the "grounds for divorce." "
That's a scam, not a school. The gym at my high school was bigger than this and it was on the small side. The only way it can accommodate 5 different trades is to have 5 students at most for each. Memories from tech class from 6th to 9th grade. There was only 5 drills available at the back of the class.
Didn't Jesus tell believers who wanted something to gather in groups of 2 or 3 and pray to God in Jesus' name to get it? Guess xtians realized THAT didn't work and got tired of grumbling "His will be done" when nothing happened.
The level of dishonesty represented by this effort to use a water project to fund a conservative Christian think tank should embarrass any Christian who actually cares about their faith, never mind people like us who look at such projects and cannot help but think, "Here they go again!" And once again, I find myself reminded of the following:
πβππ π ππππππππ ππ ππππ, πΌ πππππππ£π ππ‘ π€πππ π π’πππππ‘ ππ‘π πππ; πππ π€βππ ππ‘ ππππ πππ‘ π π’πππππ‘ ππ‘π πππ, πππ πΊππ ππππ πππ‘ ππππ π‘π π π’πππππ‘ ππ‘, π π π‘βππ‘ ππ‘π ππππππ π πππ πππ πππππππ π‘π ππππ πππ π‘βπ βπππ ππ π‘βπ πππ£ππ πππ€ππ, 'π‘ππ π π πππ, πΌ πππππβπππ, ππ ππ‘π πππππ π πππ πππ.
-- Benjamin Franklin
When some Christian outfit jumps through these kinds of hoops in order to evade scrutiny, the illegality just SCREAMS at me ... and I'm very glad those screams garnered the appropriate attention.
Can we tattoo the Franklin quote on the foreheads of the idiots responsible?
Not that it would do any good, but sure, why not?
Backwards, so they can read it (they can read, can't they?) When they look in a mirror.
Shame don't enter into it because they are incapable.
Christians call it a βTuesdayβ.
jesus is the biggest liar in the universe
Also donβt forget jeezyboy is the biggest asshole of the multiverse!
Ben Franklin even admitted lighthouses were more useful than churche$.
He knew bullshit when he saw it.
That's not an admission. It's a statement of FACT!
"level of dishonesty"
Feature, not a bug.
They took this long to spend COVID funds???
Thier leadership is abysmal-or maybe the pollution situation is too big to cope with.If they try to clean pollution, they bump against "KingCoal".
Hey free housing for teachers/health workers would be a better " investment"- keep theπ²in state.$for propaganda/waste. SAD
Republicans are only pro-life on one issue, and that concern is mostly about controlling women. They quit caring about the child the minute it's born. They call themselves pro-life but are opposed to universal healthcare, and any kind of meaningful gun control. They never seem to have met a war for corporate profit they didn't love.
Let's not forget how many of them celebrate executions.
The SBC (yes, that SBC) actually praised the Roe v Wade decision. They only started the rabid opposition to abortion 5 or so years later, when pushing radcism and segregation became a less viable strategy to accomlish the takeover of what was once the GOP and is now the Fascist party.
For now, this might be the party to reinstate slavery, or the very least serfdom. The regime will try for return of slavery first, if there is a public backlash of mass portions, then this regime will settle for serfdom.
Dear Leader has already made comments regarding enslaving the Latino and Hispanic communities heβs sending to concentration camps. But that didnβt go over well enough for him so his surrogate clarified that farm workers wonβt get amnesty and the Medicare recipients will instead be sent to the fields.
So, slavery didnβt play, but serfdom will, with the implication that it will likely be children doing the hard labor. And since theyβve already been undermining child labor laws, and the education system, they are ready to exploit our children.
That is worrisome and scary, we (non-magas) must continue to give pushback and point out the hypocrisy of the regime.
No.
Not enough.
Never enough.
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Arkansas already has. Florida failed to vote on the child-slavery bill so it will have to wait until the next session. DeathSantis really wanted it.
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Yes, they started this shit in my lifetime, so much for "traditional long-held beliefs." It was all about racism at it's roots, since they could no longer openly segregate their schools, they needed another issue to get their bigots to the voting booths, so they lied about abortion and it worked. Mostly because the bigots could not mind their own business.
Indeed. Also, enforced childbirth is a form of slavery. Having immigrants pick your strawberries for pennies as well. Whoβs going to work the fields now? Probably children as workers rights continue to decline.
Oh yes. I should have mentioned that. They solidly support the death penalty.
Except for themselves.
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The vast majority of the people celebrating, and purchasing merch related to, Alligator Auschwitz are the most rabid Pro-Life (not ever, not even close) proponents. Putting paid to the lie they are advocating for the value of life.
I haven't seen that but it's unsurprising. Republicans pander to the preachers and view human decency as a character flaw.
The Republican Party also pander to the most base and cruel elements of their redneck base. The more this regime cause the βotherβ to suffer; the more the redneck base will support the regime (until its policies affect them).
Hilary Clinton called them βdeplorablesβ. I think she was being generous and elevating the redneck up two levels.
They are the people easiest to manipulate. Republicans, of course, could not possibly care less about them and will make their lives worse given the chance.
Wait until Musk has his way with his America Party. He's been consulting with Curtis Yarvin. Hint: it has nothing to do with preserving democracy.
"his America Party" Agreed, Musk a pure MAGA cultists is making the United States the one and only American country, ignoring the 34 other ones. Embarrassing and sad.
God Bless America?
I suspect Musk thinks he can out-Trump Trump ... and with his money, he might just do it.
Musk is on record saying democracy is obsolete, and all the countryβs decision making needs to be turned over to people like him. People who never gave up on feudalism.
I look back at the backlash she received from that characterization and realized at that point there was no winning with the fascist crowd. We go low, they go lower, we go high, they go lower still. 'Deplorables' was incredibly mild compared to every other word from the orange Musalini.
It was always known to be a marketing term.
https://www.printmag.com/political-design/the-semiotics-of-a-movement-how-pro-life-became-a-marketing-campaign/
They're not even pro-life on the one issue they call themselves pro-life π§π°π³. They're perfectly happy to watch a doomed pregnancy plant both fetus and mother in the same early grave, as long as it prevented an abortion- that's their only concern.
Yup! Their so-called morality is very one dimensional, and they are among the worldβs best hypocrites.
Theyβre the best at what they do.
And what they do is Evil.
ππ―
Having such a narrow view of βlifeβ limited to embryos/fetuses (who canβt talk back to you or challenge you) is LAZY at best and a low effort way to go about praising yourself for βprotecting lifeβ and good deeds. Bravo βpro-lifersβ π
Their only goal is to indoctrinate that baby as it takes its first breath and add more sheep to the herd.
The pedophile priests need a constant supply of fresh meat.
And their rich republican enablers.
Medicaid cuts prove those worrds.
Stripping millions of America's poorest citizens of their healthcare to fund tax cuts for billionaires is a declaration of moral bankruptcy on the part of Republicans.
The republicans havenβt had morals since 1960βs.
They can cherry pick which social support gets them the best"return" on their investment.Short term windfall,as those that need help will cause more social strife for the middle class.Upward mobility(education,career,housing)was very bad before- this just makes that unattainable.THANKS
It's in their DNA to privatise anything and everything that makes profit at the expense of US citizens.
It could also be argued that the fact that the US has no national healthcare service for all US citizens means that the US in essence, is not a first world country and that such a status is just another US myth.
Concerning Abortion specifically, it's a valid argument that every pregnancy is a potential citizen and should be given the utmost respect and that women be provided with health care support which includes fully funded federal, state, and business maternity leave and child care.
The other myth that's bigger than big foot, is lack of money/funding for such health services. BS, the money and more is always there, one just look at what federal and state money is thrown at when it suits them. Also tax the rich because they will still be rich.
For a so-called astute capitalist nation, how wilfully stupid can the US be. Health care, maternity leave, funded child care and funding for overall education, is a big bloody investment that pays off in the short and long term. π€
Its bettet than compound interest.
Healthcare is a necessary part of infrastructure::why corporations won't pay their fair share(while they use the lions share)is a joke. Companies used to be a healthy part of society,now they pillage and profit on every aspect of life. Thanks
Anti-abortionists are "pro-life?"
*Dr. David Gunn, murdered March 10th, 1993 in Pensacola, FL
*Dr. John Baynard Britton and clinic volunteer James H. Barrett, both murdered July 29th, 1994 in Pensacola
*Receptionists Shannon Lowney and Leanne Nichols, both murdered December 30th, 1994 in Brookline, MA
*Security guard and police officer Robert Sanderson, murdered January 29th, 1998 in Birmingham, AL
*Dr. Barnett Slepian, murdered October 3rd, 1998 in Amherst, NY
*Dr. George Tiller, murdered May 31st, 2009 in Wichita, KS
*Officer Garrett Swasey, murdered November 27th, 2015 in Colorado Springs, CO along with Jennifer Markovsky and Ke'arre Marcell Stewart, who were just accompanying their friend to a PPC
This is an incomplete list of women's pro-choice supporters who were killed by "Good Christians" who allegedly love life.
The accurate term is: Pro-Forced-Birth."
That's why I put "pro-life" in quotation marks. Christian pro-life is an outright lie.
Okay, lady. You had the id. Our responsibility here has ended. Need formula or diapers Not our problem Baby is sick? Too bad. Try praying real hrd.
UK yahoo. "From 1977 to 2020 in America, anti-abortion activists committed at least 11 murders, 26 attempted murders, 956 threats of harm or death, 624 stalking incidents and four kidnappings, according to data collected by the National Abortion Federation. They have bombed 42 abortion clinics, set 194 on fire, attempted to bomb or burn an additional 104 and made 667 bomb threats."
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/anti-abortion-movement-killed-people-094505241.html?
I canβt speak for everyone, but Iβm sick and tired of special privileges for religious people.
Iβm a citizen and a taxpayer, and Iβm entitled to representation too. I also have objections to some of the things my taxes go for. Where the heck is MY consideration?
To the Christians in any sort of authority in West Virginia (or any other state, for that matter)...
Keep the hands you use to pray out of the pockets of the public.
Tax the Churches! Frank Zappa -1980
West Virginia and its citizens are struggling with a number of social and economic problems (substance abuse, limited employment opportunities, a declining population, poverty, limited access to healthcare facilities - especially miners who made their living in the coal mines and now suffer from Black Lung disease). How blind do the elected representatives of this state have to be to see that this grant money could have served a much better, if not higher purpose?
Oh, but it π₯πͺπ₯ serve a higher purpose- the exact purpose for which it was truly intended. ππ°π³π³πΆπ±π΅πͺπ°π―. As long as there's an ounce of grift-gravy left to be squeezed out of that blighted state, the vultures will keep picking over its corpse.
True. And sad.
"West Virginia" Is a serious Bible Belt State. It's on the bottom in education and with excessive poverty. Many hills and towns littered with abandoned buildings and houses.
Not difficult to find a large Jesus cross on top of a hill, they are everywhere in he countryside.
In general the countryside is beautiful in the fall when tree leaves are turning colors.
God Bless West Virginia?
Obviousy, gawd did bless them with poverty, illiteracy and gawd only knows whqat else.
Goddyboy blessed West Virginia with inbreeding, fucking barnyard animals, and an abundance of roadkill. I almost forgot goddyboy blessed West Virginia also with disease, because the Christian nationalist rednecks refused to get vaccinated.
From your description, West Virginia is most definitely not βAlmost Heaven.β
Country roads, Letβs-a go
Itβs-a me,β Mario
Mushroom Kingdom, mama mia
Take me home, Mario
Totally agree = they exported $ for propaganda?? Corrupt π±π€π²
When the first con man met the first gullible rube, religion was invented.
The College of St. Joseph the Worker building looks like a dump. Almost like a money laundering or tax evasion scheme...................................................................
You can scratch almost. I went to a legitimate trade high school (secretarial, accounting, cooking, waitressing, laundry, auto and boat mechanic, and others).
The facilities were not a small building stuck like this. I don't see how they can build a campus big enough for their claims with most of the money diverted elsewhere. And which secondary campus ? From what I see, there isn't even a primary one. The building in the photo may not be big enough for the administrative offices.
Same here. I attended a similar trade/vocational school before college and it was a major sized campus.
The greenhouse at my tech school was bigger than their building.
The toilets at my secondary school was bigger.
And more functional.
Way back in navy bootcamp, I got assigned to the Educational Building for a week of grunt work. Besides sweeping the floors and dumping the trash I had several heads to keep clean. One of them was huge. Down one wall were 20 chest to floor size urinals. About half as many toilet stalls on the other side. The funny thing is there was only 5 or 6 people that ever used that restroom.
So it's just like every other private religious "school," then.
I hearby rename the school as College of St. Joseph the Wanker since they were trying to pull a fast one.
St. Joseph in the Catholic Church is, among other things, the patron saint of a happy death. That is, a peaceful and holy death.
If the RCC is for a peaceful death then why do they oppose people's right to die to avoid a very unpeaceful and pain-filled unholy death?
According to the Ghoul of Calcutta, a holy death requires a great deal of pain, in order to be closer to Jesus. So, thatβs why the church is against death with dignity.
That standard, of course, only applies to the laity. Clergymen- and sufficiently sadistic, high-ranking penguins- are evidently close enough to Jesus already; π΅π©π¦πΊ can have the high-test happy-pills πΈπͺπ΅π©π°πΆπ΅ upsetting the boss upstairs.
Obviously because many of us are sinners and deserve the pain.
I do not sin. Sin is a cudgel used by religion to pound hatreds into the hearts of its followers. Sin is used to separate and divide people. The church has always been an us versus "them" tribe You re either with us, or you are our enemy.
π―
A stroke of genius.
Takes giving someone a hand to a new level.
May it grow big.
But let's hope things don't get too sticky.
Can see good things bursting forth.
My new patron saint!
their god does ALL wanking. NO others are lklowed any pleasure. New galaxies are constantly created as each load of god-splooge becomes a new galaxy. And you thought no good comes from god watching kids being raped. /s
Good! Abortions should be a womanβs decision alone, a medical choice in conjunction with her Dr. period!
"Dr. Period"
Appropriate name for an ob-gyn.
I once went to a urologist named Dr. Peter Stone about my kidney stones...
In junior high, the most hated PE teacher (ex military) was Mr Champion.
Oooops. Didnβt do that on purpose! π€£
I know, it was just too funny to ignore.
When I try to be funny, I think Iβm hilarious (others, not so much). When Iβm accidentally funny itβs always funnier! π€£π€£π€£
Glad you enjoyed! π€£
Now that the lemon test no longer exists, the appeals court will decide that this grant is fully acceptable when you apply the orange test.
Best case scenario is the appeals court will say affirm the lower court on the unconstitutionality of the grant, but will say that the cash doesn't have to be returned since the Church/school already has it.
I saw that as orange zest at first. It works too.
π¨π«ππ§π π πππ¬π: Whatever the orange man "thinks" is profitable for him will pass the test, anything else will fail.
$1,000,000 πππ βπππ£πππππ¦ πππ‘ππ£ππ‘πππ .β ππππππππππππ¦, π‘βππ¦ πππ‘πππ π‘π ππ₯ππππ πππ‘π πππππ‘βπππ ($250,000) πππ βπππ π‘π ππ’πππ π πππ ππππβ πππππππ‘π¦ ππππππ βπΆπππ‘ππ πππ π‘βπ πΆπππππ πΊπππβ ππ πππππ π‘π βπ π’πππππ‘ πππππππ¦ ππππ-πππππππππ ππππππ¦ ππ πππ π‘ ππππππππβ ($750,000).
That doesn't sound like water development to me. I am glad that the funding was declared constitutional, but now we need a corruption investigation into who the hell thought that giving water infrastructure funds to a barely established Catholic school outside The $5M is a drop in the bucket for the RCC.
So, who in the WDA has the connections to the school? Was it just a mistaken idiot who at first thought "building project, we have building project money"? Was it (more likely) someone connected to both who saw the big slush pile and thought, "why not"? Did they know it was inappropriate, or did they just not think about that, because WV conservative forced-birther? Did they get a cut?
"Bioethics" in this context can only mean more anti-abortion, anti-trans, anti-bodily-autonomy-in-general bullshit to crap up the airwaves with- in other words, the exact π°π±π±π°π΄πͺπ΅π¦ of anything ethical.
And "water development" in this context I must therefore assume to mean the piss they intended to take on the Constitution and the taxpayers of West Virginia.
ππ―ππ
I agree that a thorough examination of the mechanics of this deal deserves to be made, both to understand just HOW it happened and to make clear to the participants that such behavior will NOT be tolerated in the future.
OT - Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Attorney General Ken Paxton, citing "Biblical grounds!"
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/angela-paxton-divorce-texas-attorney-general-ken/
"Biblical grounds?" What YOU been up to, Kenny???
Did he wear cloth made from more than one type of fiber? or eat shrimp?
Who DOESN'T these days???
Nudists?
Hassidim, for one.
One π©π’π³π₯ππΊ needs to cite bible verses to justify not wanting to be around Ken Paxton.
The better question is... what kind of person would want to marry Ken Paxton in the first place?
Indeed ... just WHO drove WHOM away here?π€
guessing they are talking about a affair, that is the only valid reason according to the bible.
No need to guess. From the link: "In her divorce filing, Senator Paxton alleged that her husband had committed adultery, listing it as the "grounds for divorce." "
And it's not the first time.
No, it is not. didn't he get someone in the gov't to hire his girlfriend?
Or a pool boy.
That's a scam, not a school. The gym at my high school was bigger than this and it was on the small side. The only way it can accommodate 5 different trades is to have 5 students at most for each. Memories from tech class from 6th to 9th grade. There was only 5 drills available at the back of the class.
Didn't Jesus tell believers who wanted something to gather in groups of 2 or 3 and pray to God in Jesus' name to get it? Guess xtians realized THAT didn't work and got tired of grumbling "His will be done" when nothing happened.
The "power" of prayer, everyone.
Prayer works wonders when the prayer you make is asking forgiveness after your blatant theft.
Off topic for a moment. More children killed and other serverly injured due to air strikes in Gaza.
All approved by moral vacuums in Washington Tel Aviv.