And the dance just gets crazier and crazier. It would seem as though Chaz has managed to poke Broward County where it hurts ... repeatedly ... and, idiots that they are, they persist in their stupidity, only to get poked AGAIN.
Keep up the good work, Chaz. Your opponents are only getting what they deserve.
That kind abuse gets them all off. The right wing seems to be full of sexual repressives or out and out perverts who can’t stand seeing an accepting civilization take hold. It scares them to death so it comes out sideways.
Your donation link sends this message: "This organization can't accept donations right now." Have Trumpler and Muskolini and found a way to interfere with your donations? I'm sure theirs are working just fine.
You really like to punch where it hurts (the double standard). Just be careful, not because you are wrong, but because bigots are known to kill what and who they refuse to understand.
"Remember the ‘80s when conservatives were screaming about a Satanic Panic in schools?"
I asked DM once if she heard about the Satanic Panic. She didn't remember if she had but you can guess what she said when I explained it to her 🤣
I'm one of the few geeks of the '80's who never played Dungeons and Dragons. My mother was certain it was of the devil, and by the time I got old enough to be beyond that I was introduced to crack on a card (Magic: the Gathering) and never went backwards to D&D.
I did like "Frogger" and some space invaders game. I am old enough to remember "pong." My BiL got a copy from the hospital he worked at to see if it woulod work in hospitals. Never saw it there.
I remember that. It was so ludicrous that it was one of the factors that led me to walk away from religion. The evangelicals are the greatest conspiracy theorists of all time and the most gullible.
Outside of your country* ? Not one but I was in boardschool from September 1986 to December 1998, so it's normal I never heard about it before stumbling on Hemant's blog.
* Middle East and Africa countries still have witch hunts today, how many are related to the Satanic Panic ? No sé.
Too bad there isn't a Chaz Stevens in Florida's OTHER 66 counties. I suspect there's a lot of Jesus-pushing going on there in places where there's nobody courageous enuf to call them on it the way Chaz does for Broward County.
Apologies for the broken donate button—it’s working now.
No funds. Not a spare penny to my name. And zero—absolutely ZERO—interest from AA, AU, FFRF, or any of the usual suspects. But here I am, standing alone, fighting for what’s right.
I’ve pitched 100+ law firms across the U.S. about this. Crickets.
No one gives a flying fuck—let alone a sitting fuck—about this issue.
If this matters to you, and if you can’t take action yourself, I’ll do it for both of us.
P.S. Remember my Texas Arabic "In God We Trust" project? Well, it’s back—this time in North Carolina. Big moves coming soon.
Then again, maybe it's because few pro-se Federal litigants, involved in a 1A cause over Establishment, FFRA, and Free Speech issues, survive in the lawsuit.
Let alone flourish as I'm doing.
This stuff is hard, hard beyond belief ... but here I am, months later, with the Judge indicating "Plaintiff has good cause" and "Plaintiff has been personally injured."
I wish I could personally apologize to Canadians for the jackassery of the muskrump. And tell them to keep pushing back like this. Hard. Cancel those contracts. Pull American products from your shelves. Call out the jackassery for what it is, because American media sure as hell ain't gonna. Maybe people here will start thinking when all this starts hitting them in their pocketbooks (and you guys will have to explain why, in the most elementary of terms to make sure people understand, because the muskrump will just blame you. DO NOT allow them to get away with that).
Not a guarantee, but it's worth a shot.
The US is now the neighborhood crack house. You all to the north are the worried neighbors. Take steps to protect yourselves.
You name them, I’ve pitched them. Few even bother to respond.
Andrew Seidel? Great with the tweets—not so great with the help.
I survived the motion to dismiss (less than 10% of pro se litigants do). I was granted leave to file a second amended complaint—a rarity among rarities.
Fuck 'em. If they want to sit on their asses, raking in donations and cashing checks, so be it.
As for me? I don't waste my time with Twitter, I get off my can and in the game.
OT : Follow up on my last comment on the previous post. The social worker was wearing a mask and coughing a lot. In the afternoon, 2 or 3 hours after I was back home, I received a text asking me to call back because my Tuesday 4th appointment was cancelled 😅
Kind of like 'poisoning pigeons in the park' , this needs more alliteration... How about Bashing Babies against Boulders? (There's a song there somewhere.)
This book banning mania is a manifestation of entrenched Christian privilege. Given a free hand, they would ban every book above a middle-school level. The people who claim to be in possession of absolute truth, are terrified of being challenged Having nothing in the way of objective evidence to support their claims, they do what ever they can to silence their critics. It is an open admission of just how weak their message is. No matter how elaborate the theo-babble gets, it still comes down to myth and magical thinking.
The school board, in their letter to "Liberty" Counsel, explicitly states that they are revising their policy to separate "sponsorships" from "asvertising" with the explicit goal of allowing this church to continue a̶d̶v̶e̶r̶t̶i̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ sponsoring while deliberately excluding others. They really don't like the First Amendment, do they?
This is another attempt to force a Christian Privelege case up to SCOTUS so they can get the far right justices to declare the Establishment clause void.
Tried to donate, but PayPal reports "This organaization can't accept donations right now"
And the dance just gets crazier and crazier. It would seem as though Chaz has managed to poke Broward County where it hurts ... repeatedly ... and, idiots that they are, they persist in their stupidity, only to get poked AGAIN.
Keep up the good work, Chaz. Your opponents are only getting what they deserve.
They love the self flagellation apparently.
That kind abuse gets them all off. The right wing seems to be full of sexual repressives or out and out perverts who can’t stand seeing an accepting civilization take hold. It scares them to death so it comes out sideways.
They do have a deep history of it in the christian religion.
Jesus died for Howard from Broward. Believe THAT.
Your donation link sends this message: "This organization can't accept donations right now." Have Trumpler and Muskolini and found a way to interfere with your donations? I'm sure theirs are working just fine.
Fixed, sorry.
See? Proof that Jesus is watching and pulling the strings. Check mate.
indeed you are a POS
Ave Satanas.
You really like to punch where it hurts (the double standard). Just be careful, not because you are wrong, but because bigots are known to kill what and who they refuse to understand.
"Remember the ‘80s when conservatives were screaming about a Satanic Panic in schools?"
I asked DM once if she heard about the Satanic Panic. She didn't remember if she had but you can guess what she said when I explained it to her 🤣
I'm one of the few geeks of the '80's who never played Dungeons and Dragons. My mother was certain it was of the devil, and by the time I got old enough to be beyond that I was introduced to crack on a card (Magic: the Gathering) and never went backwards to D&D.
Never really liked games.
It was either that or reading at home* and in my first boarding school
* Until end of 88, when DM used me to buy her first video games console.
I did like "Frogger" and some space invaders game. I am old enough to remember "pong." My BiL got a copy from the hospital he worked at to see if it woulod work in hospitals. Never saw it there.
I remember that. It was so ludicrous that it was one of the factors that led me to walk away from religion. The evangelicals are the greatest conspiracy theorists of all time and the most gullible.
Seth Andrews on the satanic panic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW6UoIjy5F4
I still have my game boy color and the yellow pokemon cartridge from then 😁
you kind of answer my question already. But do you know of any bogus arrest that happen in any other country because of the satanic panic?
Outside of your country* ? Not one but I was in boardschool from September 1986 to December 1998, so it's normal I never heard about it before stumbling on Hemant's blog.
* Middle East and Africa countries still have witch hunts today, how many are related to the Satanic Panic ? No sé.
Too bad there isn't a Chaz Stevens in Florida's OTHER 66 counties. I suspect there's a lot of Jesus-pushing going on there in places where there's nobody courageous enuf to call them on it the way Chaz does for Broward County.
Richard, funny that you should say that.
I'm in the final stages of publishing a book 'DIY Activism - from the kitchen table to city hall.'
OT - Sauron
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250203.html
I see a sad kitten with big eyes and drooping ears.
I see a mad kitty.
A REALLY Grumpy Cat.
I see the Galactic Grumpy Cast.
Striking!
Apologies for the broken donate button—it’s working now.
No funds. Not a spare penny to my name. And zero—absolutely ZERO—interest from AA, AU, FFRF, or any of the usual suspects. But here I am, standing alone, fighting for what’s right.
I’ve pitched 100+ law firms across the U.S. about this. Crickets.
No one gives a flying fuck—let alone a sitting fuck—about this issue.
If this matters to you, and if you can’t take action yourself, I’ll do it for both of us.
P.S. Remember my Texas Arabic "In God We Trust" project? Well, it’s back—this time in North Carolina. Big moves coming soon.
Support the cause: https://www.chazstevens.store/school-church-banners/
Followed repaired link. Donated. Please keep up the good work!
Ditto on all counts!
Ditto. Respect!
"ZERO—interest from AA, AU, FFRF," "I’ve pitched 100+ law firms across the U.S. about this. Crickets."
Maybe it's you.
Likely ... very likely.
But, given my substantial, documented 30 year track record of effecting change at the local and state levels, I'm a force of nature.
Then again, maybe it's because few pro-se Federal litigants, involved in a 1A cause over Establishment, FFRA, and Free Speech issues, survive in the lawsuit.
Let alone flourish as I'm doing.
This stuff is hard, hard beyond belief ... but here I am, months later, with the Judge indicating "Plaintiff has good cause" and "Plaintiff has been personally injured."
Congratulations to Ontario, Canada for cancelling its $100 million Starlink contract with Elon just now.
I wish I could personally apologize to Canadians for the jackassery of the muskrump. And tell them to keep pushing back like this. Hard. Cancel those contracts. Pull American products from your shelves. Call out the jackassery for what it is, because American media sure as hell ain't gonna. Maybe people here will start thinking when all this starts hitting them in their pocketbooks (and you guys will have to explain why, in the most elementary of terms to make sure people understand, because the muskrump will just blame you. DO NOT allow them to get away with that).
Not a guarantee, but it's worth a shot.
The US is now the neighborhood crack house. You all to the north are the worried neighbors. Take steps to protect yourselves.
Is there any truth in the rumour (that I have just invented) that Trump wants to rename New Mexico as New America?
East Arizona.
Semi OT - A reading list for magats
𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐕𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲
https://patricemersault.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-book-club-of-complicity
I’m in the middle of reading this. Love her essays and subscribed.
Are you sure Mersault is a woman? Patrice Mersault is a male character in Camus's 𝘈 𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩.
In France, Patrice is only for boys/men, girls/women have Patricia.
PS : funny coincidence, one of Aria first human's cousins who took care of her while looking for a new family was called Patrice.
Wadaminit ... Magats actually READ??? 🤦♂️
One or two.
words
youtu.be/gFKc_oDSaX4
Real-life precedent for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives#Reaction
"I’ve asked several church/state separation organizations to help me take on this case and they have decided not to."
Which organizations? What was their reasoning? Thanks.
You name them, I’ve pitched them. Few even bother to respond.
Andrew Seidel? Great with the tweets—not so great with the help.
I survived the motion to dismiss (less than 10% of pro se litigants do). I was granted leave to file a second amended complaint—a rarity among rarities.
Fuck 'em. If they want to sit on their asses, raking in donations and cashing checks, so be it.
As for me? I don't waste my time with Twitter, I get off my can and in the game.
BTW, Meals on Wheels is operating.
Good. Glad to know you're getting your stuff.
OT : Follow up on my last comment on the previous post. The social worker was wearing a mask and coughing a lot. In the afternoon, 2 or 3 hours after I was back home, I received a text asking me to call back because my Tuesday 4th appointment was cancelled 😅
I should confuse days more often.
I had an appointment with a SW with the county, I was an hour late because of the time of day change. Spring ahead. She made me reschedule it. 😡🤬
You don't schedule them during Saturday to Sunday nights ?
It was on a Monday.
ON topic. 8^)
https://scontent-ord5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/472228637_1843748913078129_5533580939042469887_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=8F6F6gUD0WcQ7kNvgHjx4Fv&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-ord5-2.xx&_nc_gid=AGBQQ4gveguIlx_TQvuhKfk&oh=00_AYAgw4bCZXowVSp_5MXO9k3D5r9IR9R8yBgnp_9OiS3lLw&oe=67A6CBC9
Tell them about dashing babies against rocks. Ask them if THAT book should be banned.
Kind of like 'poisoning pigeons in the park' , this needs more alliteration... How about Bashing Babies against Boulders? (There's a song there somewhere.)
What’s truly disturbing is that image is in more than one part of the bible (Psalm 137:9 and Hosea 13:16).
Somebody had a sick, sick fetish.
Crying babies can very annoying...
Especially when they’re being dashed against rocks and stuff.
Are we eating these babies afterwards or what?
Maybe (!) he hadn't read it :-)
Wadaya mean, "maybe?" 😁
This book banning mania is a manifestation of entrenched Christian privilege. Given a free hand, they would ban every book above a middle-school level. The people who claim to be in possession of absolute truth, are terrified of being challenged Having nothing in the way of objective evidence to support their claims, they do what ever they can to silence their critics. It is an open admission of just how weak their message is. No matter how elaborate the theo-babble gets, it still comes down to myth and magical thinking.
The school board, in their letter to "Liberty" Counsel, explicitly states that they are revising their policy to separate "sponsorships" from "asvertising" with the explicit goal of allowing this church to continue a̶d̶v̶e̶r̶t̶i̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ sponsoring while deliberately excluding others. They really don't like the First Amendment, do they?
This is another attempt to force a Christian Privelege case up to SCOTUS so they can get the far right justices to declare the Establishment clause void.
Tried to donate, but PayPal reports "This organaization can't accept donations right now"
Fixed.