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Troublesh00ter's avatar

About all I can do with this one is shake my head and ask (rhetorically): "How fucked up is THIS?" For the umpti-umpth time, we have a preacher who thinks he can do anything without consequences. This time, though, law enforcement is involved, and I can only hope that the fact of his being a so-called "Man Of God™" has ZERO impact on how he is treated by the system.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I wouldn't hold my breath.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

I hear you. Much as I like blue, it ain't my color, as it comes to skin tone!

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Straw's avatar

That skin colour is mostly seen on the biggest animals on earth, if there still are some left. And Smurfene, but they are probably not real.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Let's not forget Krishna, while we're at it, along with Trimurti and some others of the Hindu pantheon! 😁

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xenubarb's avatar

Too much fentanyl will make you turn that color...

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I see you more with a deep purple skin tone 😇

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Interesting. Never got that much into Deep Purple, myself. More into Billy Joel and Joni Mitchell! 😁

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

I know Eddie and Margaret Mitchell 😇

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Donrox's avatar

Joni Mitchell is worth knowing. "Blue" is my favorite of her albums, but "Court and Spark" is probably the best all around introductory album to the Divine Ms.Joni

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

Thanks to DeNazi, this song is the one I'm reminded of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2595abcvh2M

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cdbunch's avatar

Just because he wanted to bulldoze a dozen state parks.

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Maltnothops's avatar

The blue skinned family of Kentucky.

https://www.thecollector.com/blue-fugates-kentucky/

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Straw's avatar

I would call that a lifesaving decision.

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Joe King's avatar

"All the while, he was telling everyone trans people, gay people, and atheists were problems.'

Money, drugs, power. To make the hypocrisy complete, IMAX level projection. The only surprising thing here is that there were no reported sex offenses. We're the problem? Sure, Jan.

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Henri Issacson's avatar

Don't hold your breath, sedating your daughter with fentanyl seems like it might be the gateway drug to a sex offense.

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Julie Duggan's avatar

It's also possible he doesn't even have a daughter - or if he does, she may not even be lost. Perhaps his ultimate plan was to hire a sex worker and use drugs.....or something much darker. This creep can't be trusted. Never trust a person that only reads one book.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

"Never trust a person that only reads one book."

Just flashed back to a number of preachers and guest speakers at our church who would habitually wave around Bibles and BRAG about having/owning/reading only one book, and it was enough for them. It was enough for ANYBODY. (This was back in the 60's and 70's)

Even more scary, "We don't need libraries! All we need is God's holy word!" All other books, apparently, were created by Satan to distract people from God and the Bible and send them straight to hell. Libraries were "dens of iniquity" disguised as something harmless, according to this loon.

I was about seven or eight when I heard that from the mouth of yet another terrifying summer revival preacher, and that same summer I happened to be part of a summer reading program at the local public library. After that particular sermon, I was afraid of going into or being in a library, and felt like I was committing a sin every time I went. My mom wouldn't allow me to quit because she had signed me up at my request and told me I had to stick to my decisions. I didn't mention why I wanted to quit. But when I went to the story hour, I would sit way in the back, a little apart from the crowd, so Jesus could see that I didn't really want to be there. (But in my heart of hearts, I did. I loved it. And therein lay the conflict.)

As time passed, my sense of unease dissipated, I pushed that memory out of my head, and slipped back into my love of reading. But I will always resent that lying lizard son of a bitch who ruined that particular summer tradition for me. Even after I had resumed reading anything and everything I could get my hands on, I never wanted to be a part of another summer reading program. I always associated that scared, unpleasant feeling with it.

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Julie Duggan's avatar

Yep, also when they say stupid shit like" the good book"......and you know darn well when they're at home they read all sorts of smut. Nowadays they just get it online.... saving their self-righteous judgement for Sunday church, then they run home and log back on the Hustler and Pornhub.

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Holytape's avatar

If you are not smuggling at least a kilo, three guns, and two women across state lines, are you even a Christian?

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Henri Issacson's avatar

thanks your post made my day...

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EllenThatEllen's avatar

Guns and drugs. Nothing screams louder than "I am a Christian and the head of a cult" louder than guns and drugs. Kool-aid?

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

♫♪ Bring Lawyers, Guns and Money / The shit has hit the fan! ♪♫

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EllenThatEllen's avatar

Very messy sht. Clean up aisle two we got a stinking mess here!

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Tinker's avatar

Oof! The Moonies are now Maga-Moonies! I'm not surprised that they embraced the Orange Mafia credos, what does surprise me is these nuts are still following a Moon.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Where do you think the word "lunatic" come from ? 😁

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Die Anyway's avatar

Well Hell, why didn't somebody tell me. I'm kissin' the wife and fambly goodbye and headin' for Thornton, Texass. I have found my people. Hell yeah, brother! Let's see the FBI come for THESE guns.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

In nabbott' and braxton' fiefdom ? Good luck my friend.

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Die Anyway's avatar

It's only a joke, BHm. I've already done my time in Texas and hope to never go back again.

* San Antonio - USAF basic training

San Angelo - radio school

Big Springs - high altitude training

Plus the 3 days I spent driving across Texass when I moved from California to Florida.

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cdbunch's avatar

Just because El Paso is closer to San Diego than Houston, you have to make a big deal about crossing this Gods-Forsaken state.

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Die Anyway's avatar

Yup.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

J'prendrais pas un Paris là-dessus 😇

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cdbunch's avatar

40 miles from Waco. Driving through, Waco doesn't seem that weird, but it seems to attract violent cults/militias.

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Suzanne Wright's avatar

Orange Koolaid at that!

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EllenThatEllen's avatar

Only the good stuff.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

Preachers love to say big cities or renowned places are super dangerous but it seems to be them that make them more dangerous. Even if they aren’t bringing in drugs and guns, they’re spreading lies and fear mongering about folks they really don’t know anything about. Which causes their congregation to be afraid and jumpy, and call police who tend to be itching to be aggressive with certain groups.

Vegas isn’t that scary. Last time I went, about three years ago, it was far more shopping centric than gambling. There were a lot of unhoused people, mostly because it’s warm all year round and there are a lot of people throwing money around with few inhibitions. Folks tend to equate homelessness with criminality and violence, which is only partially true, so they assume Los Vegas is dangerous. But really, it’s the tourists that are the threat most of the time.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Vegas isn't scary... it's just a monumental eyesore of a tourist trap, deliberately erected in a place that is absolutely inhospitable to human life, so as to be as wasteful in every way as humanly possible.

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Crowscage's avatar

The only reason I would have to go to Vegas is to get prime rib. There is literally nothing else about that place that I find attractive.

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cdbunch's avatar

But the Chippendales show is fun. As is their photo booth on Folsom St.

Thunder from Down Under isn't bad either. You get closer to the dancers, but you don't see as much cheek.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

It was a place chosen because of Nevada's lax gambling laws, IIRC.

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

I'm sure you've heard of the Denver apartments that have become Venezuelan drug lord HQ.

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Val Uptuous NotAgain's avatar

I have. To be honest though, I’ve lived in apartments in Denver that were overrun by gangs and drug dealers that aren’t Venezuelan. This is an issue in Denver, has been for decades. What doesn’t help is folks walking in and spreading misinformation about the victims, tying them to the gangs and/or claiming they deserve the things that are happening to them. Which is what preachers tend to do. And there are folks who have attacked the city council member who worked to get one of the victims out of the apartments. The gangs are the problem, but the targets/victims are almost always the ones who suffer from the attention.

This instance is more serious than the ones I’ve experienced, the drug gangs weren’t collecting rent and threatening us directly. This is more intense and violent. Though my mom and dad were living in and present during a shootout in a building. It was on the other end of the building and the police made them go back to their apartment (dad was taking out the trash). They only evacuated half the building.

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Moon Cat's avatar

That's another weirdo MAGA fable. They are immigrants and want the Landlord to fix the plumbing. So now they are a gang 🤣. The Aurora Police Chief came out and said there's no gang. This is the same as Portland OR burnt to the ground which friends living there find funny. By the way the scenes shown at the RNC Convention for Trump and Pence so long ago were of the Basques in Catalonia burning part of the town, not here. And the protesters beating police weren't AntiFa but in Belarus. So goes mythology.

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Joe King's avatar

He claims he was in Vegas to "rescue" his daughter from the tunnels. While I can accept that he has a daughter, I am not inclied to believe she needed "rescuing", especially not the drug fuelled evangelical kind of rescue. I wonder if anyone has verified the wherabouts of said daughter. I would bet she fled his church and does not want to be "rescued".

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Pastor McGee is more than likely the only one who anyone in Pastor McGee's orbit ever needed rescuing from.

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Elia's avatar
Sep 9Edited

I'm beginning to think the only type of person who becomes one of these "pastors" is the type with a God complex and a lot of issues that they're running from.

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Sko Hayes's avatar

You mean a drug addicted person with mental health issues.

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Elia's avatar

Drug addicted, power addicted, potato, po-tah-to.

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Matri's avatar

I mean, that’s kinda what attracts them to begin with.

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Mr.E's avatar

RIP James Earl Jones.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Shit... I 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 posted a Dr. Strangelove clip with him in it, and I'm in the middle of a marathon Star Wars rewatch. What a legend- even in his smallest and most obscure roles, he could command a scene with just a handful of words.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Yup ... the voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa, the actor who brought Terence Mann to life and did so much else is gone at age 93.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/entertainment/james-earl-jones-death/index.html

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Doesn't work in French.

Mufasa Voix française : Jean Reno (Le Roi lion) (film de 1994 et également dans le film de 2019), Laurent Gamelon (Le Roi lion 2, Kingdom Hearts 2) et Gilles Morvan (La Garde du Roi lion)

Dark Vador/Darth Vader https://www.laflammedelegalite.org/reperes-historiques/parcours-de-vie/georges-aminel#:~:text=Martiniquais%20par%20son%20p%C3%A8re%2C%20Georges,Marais%20et%20d'Edwige%20Feuill%C3%A8re.

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Len Koz's avatar

See? There are some ways the US is better.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

There is just a major problem. Il utilise la langue de Chaucer, pas celle de Molière. So, actually not better.

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Len Koz's avatar

That is personal preference, mademoiselle.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Madame, on a pas élevé les cochons ensemble 😋

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

Even in a terrible movie like Soul Man, he was great.

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xenubarb's avatar

It's pretty obvious. /s

Go down in the tunnels, hold daughter at gunpoint, drug her up and drag her home!

Nothing else really makes any sense to me. But then, I'm an atheist, so I can't think like a preacher.

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ericc's avatar

Almost right. Pretty obviously the drugs were for personal use. So it's "take the drugs, go into the tunnels..."

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Munchygut's avatar

"...fentanyl pills and powder that he claimed he wanted to give to his daughter."

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ericc's avatar

Sure, sure. And this roach I have I was just holding for a friend, officer.

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xenubarb's avatar

I think tunnels full of homeless people is one of the last places I'd want to be high AF...

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Old Man Shadow's avatar

I'd say his congregation got off easy.

This definitely seems like the type of guy who would make you all move to a compound with him, marry your thirteen year-old daughters, and go out in a blaze of ignominy with the cops.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Don't give him ideas, his first name is David.

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Kay-El's avatar

If this loon was your dad, wouldn’t you hide wherever you could? In a tunnel, in a cave, a zillion miles away? I’d also consider dyeing my hair and facial reconstruction surgery.

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ericc's avatar

Hemant, you forgot to describe how the drag queen is to blame.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

Well, if a Drag Queen had read a book to children less than 500 km from his home, he wouldn't have to fly to Vegas to bring back a prodigal daughter and wouldn't have been arrested. CQFD.

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cdbunch's avatar

Looking at the picture on the front page, I was wondering if he *was* a drag queen.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

OT - Racists gotta racist

𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐬

https://myfox8.com/news/vance-pushes-false-accusations-of-haitians-eating-pets/

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Mr.E's avatar

these people are becoming unhinged. Sorry but weird does not adequately describe their creepy behavior

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larry parker's avatar

Creepily, weirdly, unhinged.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

And nothing will ever happen to them. Cuz reasons.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

True, but it is the word they hate because they are under the delusion that they are the normal ones and we are perverts.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

So he’s got nothing to say about RFK Jr. and his weird DOCUMENTED habits concerning animals?

Whales, bears and roadkill, oh my!

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

A homeless person who left the carcass of a dead bear cub in a public park would probably be institutionalized for doing such a thing. Because RFK Jr., is rich and has a famous name, it's just considered "roguish" and "eccentric" (at worst).

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Dude had a freezer full of roadkill. Even for a Kennedy, that's above and beyond.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

And decapitated the head of a dead whale and drove home with it tied to top of his car.

Lunatic behavior.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

I wonder if anyone asked him that question.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

I mean, I would love to hear him try to splain/wriggle/twist his way out of it.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

I'm wondering if Trump will somehow work this nonsense into a mention at tomorrow's debate.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

The "do your own research!" crowd didn't do any research about whether this thing was actually taking place.

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Black Hole and DM mourner's avatar

What's next ? Jews feasting on newborns ?

Just for fun, free translation, too tired to look for the actual book

"Then there was a pause. A waiter just put put a rabbit white wine stew (gibelotte) served in a big hollow dish. Coupeau, thr fun guy, threw a good joke "Hey waiter, that's a stray rabbit we got here, he is still meowing." Actually, un slight meow, perfectly done, seemed to come from the dish"

L'assommoir, Zola

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Matri's avatar

“There’s a hare in my stew!”

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

It's something that the childless cat ladies do, as well. Since they don't have kids, they have more time to snatch up Fluffy for dinner.

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Guerillasurgeon's avatar

Well, Bear Grylls drinks his own piss. But I guess at least he owns the piss.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

🙄

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cdbunch's avatar

It's assholes like Klingenschmitt and this Dr. Chaps that cause nearly 40% of transgender teenagers to attempt suicide. The science shows that when they are accepted for who they are, the chance of suicide goes down dramatically.

And as I've said many times before, if LGBT people could recruit, Ryan Reynolds would not be married to a woman.

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Die Anyway's avatar

> "...often accusing transgender people of being under “demonic influence” and “full of the devil.” "

Hell, I'm not even transgender and I'M full of the devil. 👹

🎼 I'm hot blooded, check it and see. I've got a fever of a hundred and three. 🎶

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Joan the Dork's avatar

Earth to Klingyschitt- compared to cis/het white conservative men, mass shooters of every other demographic put together amount to a 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳.

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Daniel Rotter's avatar

So much for conservatives being against the "never let a crisis go to waste" ethos.

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Lynn Veit's avatar

Never heard of this asswipe until today, now I've added him to my list of people to avoid reading about. Don't need to burst an artery over trash like him.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

"...not many churches teach and follow he words of Jesus."

I can certainly agree with that sentient. Christianity's history is testament to this unintended truth. Davy accidently gave away the game.

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

Hmph ... more like an RPG!

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

Rickenbacker Propelled Grenade?

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Troublesh00ter's avatar

It sure as hell ain't no Gibson!

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NOGODZ20's avatar

A grenade propelled by a bass guitar? Or is Eddie Rickenbacker still alive?

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ericc's avatar

Good movie.

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

What is that from?

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Desperado.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Here's the clip

youtu.be/zLP6rSi08A4

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Zorginipsoundsor's avatar

Thank you.

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NOGODZ20's avatar

Glad to do it.

(I have to admit thinking it was from "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" at first)

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Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz's avatar

I don't remember if I've seen that one, but I thought El Mariachi and Desperado were essentially the same movie.

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