As I said in a previous post: Xtianity is a cult that needs to indoctrinate children because it cannot rest upon any merits it has (it has none). The cult needs unformed, submissive minds to keep a ready supply of sexual victims and handmaids at hand.
I would give real money to hear someone say that in a courtroom, where a trial like the one this BS was being questioned. It's past time WE said the quiet part out loud and call a spade a spade.
In 1785, James Madison wrote the following in his Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments:
"The free men of America [during the Revolutionary War] did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it. Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?"
In 1811, President Madison vetoed a bill that would have granted federal land to the Baptist Church for use as a religious school on the grounds that it violated the Establishment Clause. He didn't need to wait until the land was granted and the school was built to know that such an action would violate the First Amendment.
So-called conservatives who call themselves originalists and textualists like James Ho are nothing more than political operatives in black robes when they claim there's nothing wrong with public schools promoting christianity - a red line violation of the Establishment Clause. The 5th Circuit has been loaded up with christian nationalists, and this ridiculous decision is the result.
I'm dead serious, Jane. I had NO idea about Madison's statement or his action until you posted it. Then, too, I'm an engineer, and while I have a reasonable grasp of US History, there are doubtless holes in it you could drive a Kenworth through.
As much as I'm here to spout off (and FSM knows I do!), I'm here to LEARN as well. So again, I have to say thanks for your contribution. I think it matters ... a LOT.
Wow. I hardly know what to say except thank you.. But I'm here to learn as well, so I appreciate everyone in this community! Many thanks, Troublesh00ter.
How would you feel if instead of the Protestant Christian version of the Ten Commandments, it was the Seven Tenets of the Satanic Temple? Or maybe the Five Pillars of Islam? I bet you would understand the Establishment Clause then. You don't get to have special privilege for your religion just because of your distorted ideas of what the Founders believed.
I'd bet that Landry either doesn't think there are TST members OR Muslims in his state, or that they are so few as to be beneath his notice. News Bulletin, Landry: You are there to serve ALL Louisianans, NOT just the ones who voted for you!
If the Ten Commandments are a part of our history that need to be posted in classrooms, then so are the Five Pillars. After all, there were at least two Muslims who fought for the colonies during the Revolution.
I did some looking and didn't find anything definitive, but I did find one source, a Congressional resolution (H. Res. 276, April 1, 2019), that specifically named two Muslims who fought in the US Revolution and another source that named the same two as appearing on muster roles.
Beyond that, there are multiple sources about there being perhaps thousands of Muslims in the colonies at the time of the Revolution, mostly brought over as slaves. It doesn't seem much of a stretch to suggest that certainly some (and more than two) fought in the war.
Thanks for trying, I sure you are right about muslims fighting in the Revolutionary War. Perhaps an avenue that a historian should look into and write a book about it. In that way the Revolutionary War could be viewed in a different way.
One of my red-state U.S. Senators contacted me to let me know his office would not read my emails, accept my telephone calls, or answer any letters I sent to his office because I am not a Republican and I am not MAGA.
Fine: he doesn't want to read my comments about his nasty-ass MAGA legislation; so then I just send it to the newspapers with the top ten circulations in my state, so a MILLION people can read my comments, instead of just him and his office!
Wow, ASSHOLE. Openly ignoring your own constituents because they won't goose-step in line with the cult is very disturbing self-own. Democracy? Screw democracy!
It is indeed major assholism. Apparently, to receive any assistance from this Senator AT ALL, one must be a registered Republican in good standing, and a donor to this Senator.
He is on record as stating that he will not represent non-Republicans, AT ALL.
That should be grounds for immediate dismissal and criminal charges but noooo, can't have that in the land of the free to be corrupt as fuck and not even trying to hide it. I mean he's fucking demanding BRIBE MONEY in order to DO HIS JOB.
My letters to the editor regarding said Senator tend to be pointed, and frequently acidic. His choice. He could have chosen to deal with me directly, but he didn't want his office to be "tainted" with anything even remotely progressive.
I certainly hope in that letter you described his refusal to respond.
I, however, would prefer that to my own burning-coal red Rep, who just doesn't respond at all. The only two times I've ever heard back from his office was once when he wrongly thought I agreed with him on Israel's genocide in Gaza and once with a one-size-fits-all attempt to defend the OBBB (the Obnoxious, Bilious, Bombastic Bill). Other than those two, total silence, nada, zilch.
At least your way gives you a means to publicly show his silence is a deliberate conscious snub by a partisan extremist, not just a case of not bothering to answer.
Footnote, purely as an irrelevant sidebar: I was trying to pick an adjective to apply to "red" in the second sentence. I thought of "ruby, but a ruby is a lovely gem and he most certainly is neither lovely nor a gem. I then thought of "fire engine," but I think of fire engines as relating to rescue and genuine public service. Nope, that doesn't fit him, either.
Then I thought of a glowing red goal, something that would burn you if you tried to deal with it directly. Right. Better. That will do.
The religious right reeks of desperation, and their desire to force their religion into the public school classrooms is evidence of it. Any legislator who voted for this after having been informed it was illegal should be held personally liable for the costs of fighting it in court. These things are always a win-win for the evangelicals because they either force their religion on school children or they get to play the poor persecuted victims of the Godless left and the ‘woke’ courts.
Have you ever been in Louisiana? I lived in Austin, TX for the better part of 40 years, and had to drive across the state when I went to Ocala, FL to fix my father's computer. The French Quarter in New Orleans is nice. Parts of Baton Rouge are nice.
Most of the rest of the state is a Third-World Country. Kudzu is Louisiana's friend: it's gradually covering up the sheer awfulness of that state!
I was reading yesterday that Muslim schools in Texas are being left out of the voucher program, I imagine a lawsuit is in progress, but this should be worth watching.
We do not know, for example, how prominently the hand grenades will appear, what other weapons might accompany them, or how—if at all— teachers will pull the pin on them during instruction. More fundamentally, we do not even know the full shrapnel content of the hand grenades themselves. Although the statute requires inclusion of the hand grenades and a context statement, it expressly permits additional weapons—such as “an AR-15 rifle, a surface to air missile, and molotov cocktail”—to appear alongside them.
That Ruth Bader Ginsberg thing is pretty much a pure lie isn't it? They must've known it was a lie, and yet they did it anyway. How very Christian. Lying for Jesus. I really don't think Jesus would have approved, not that I'm HIS greatest fan either, but he did seem to me to try to be decent. At least his persona as shown in the Bible.
Yet in the last thread davyboy said that he and I could argue forever on who has the burden of proof! Another example of a Christian not knowing who has the burden of proof! The person making the claim has the burden of proof, why can’t Christians understand that!
“Behold the Man” is an interesting short novel about a 20 century man who uses a time machine to see if Jesus was real. Jesus was real but not as portrayed in the bible.
Jesus is supposed to be sinless, but he disresepected his mother at a Canaan wedding, a direct violation of the 5th Commandment (4th, if you’re Catholic).
As a Christian, I reject the idea that Jesus was sinless.
If an infant is going to survive, it must learn to manipulate its environment to its advantage so it gets its diaper changed, gets food it needs, gets attention it seeks. Sometimes that means taking unfair advantage of situation so that the baby/infant/child/adolescent thrives.
Given that Jesus was a Jewish man who was in his late 20s/early 30s, it would be expected for Him to marry. Mary Magdalene would be the obvious choice. He obviously loved her: if Jesus was fully human, he would have had sexual desire for her. (Sexual desire is not inherently sinful, even if conservative Evangelical Protestants and Opus Dei Catholics think it is.)
Jesus broke the literal rules of Torah ALL THE TIME — to make a point.
A god who does not understand human temptation, and who does the very real need to manipulate one’s environment in order to assure one’s survival is not a god worth worshiping.
And at the end of her life, dying of cancer, she refused to step down, leading to Trump's appointment of a conservative and tipping the balance of power to the Uber-Christian right wing.
As I read this, the actual decision I'm seeing is more along the lines of 'we like this violation, so we'll force a long delay before we have to concede the point'. Lying about supportive points hardly comes as any surprise, either, since that appears to be the current Christian MO for just about everything they want to get done anyway. All this reflects what I've said before in that we have an honesty problem here in the US right now, and Christianity isn't helping.
What I object to here the most is that this shouldn't even be in front of a court anywhere. The US has more than enough actual problems in desperate need of addressing that this sort of thing should be laughed out of lawmaking bodies before it comes up for a vote; this article is here just because someone thought the original bill would get them reelected. In other words, this whole thing was a waste of taxpayer money and courtroom time, and now the Fifth Circuit is insisting on wasting more courtroom time and taxpayer funds for something that should be irredeemable anyway in the name of Christian privilege.
Especially as this is not the first time this whole ten-commandment-in-schools thing is being litigated. Surely Americans aren't that dumb, that they can't understand something on the first/second/third time of telling and need to up it into double figures?
Should we stop fighting, we know the results: the complete stripping of Human Rights and Civil Liberties from everyone that is not like them. The Christian fascists may (I mean may) allow us some scraps of rights, which can be given and retracted on a whim, or deliberate action! That the non-MAGAS will bear the burden of the responsibilities, but non of the privileges of the state. While the MAGAS will of course have all the power and privileges, while non of the responsibilities.
That is why we must keep fighting, no matter how many times we have to keep fighting the same fight over and over!
BLOODY HELL! So ...a bill endorsing an illegal action can be considered in a legislative body. It can be passed and sent to the executive for signature and enacted into law. But until the action specified is actually PERFORMED, nothing can be done?
No new post. I guess Hemant is honoring the Sabbath.
We are expecting 5 inches of snow this afternoon and evening. I stand ready to snow blow the neighbors sidewalks and driveways — except for the asshole next door neighbor.
OT A controversial pastor who supports repealing women’s right to vote and believes homosexuality should be a crime led a worship service at the Pentagon this week, saying he was invited by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Probably not (his Wikipedia entry on his first divorce reads "after Hegseth admitted to five affairs")... but if it did happen that way, and on a date in May, that would certainly gives an interesting new meaning to the words "cinco de Mayo."
As I said in a previous post: Xtianity is a cult that needs to indoctrinate children because it cannot rest upon any merits it has (it has none). The cult needs unformed, submissive minds to keep a ready supply of sexual victims and handmaids at hand.
I would give real money to hear someone say that in a courtroom, where a trial like the one this BS was being questioned. It's past time WE said the quiet part out loud and call a spade a spade.
Really, that is the raison d'tre for the cult. It tells its adherents to rape, pillage and take women and children in the wholly babble.
It isn't limited to Chritianity. Almost every religion does the same thing.
Pointless all the way!
In 1785, James Madison wrote the following in his Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments:
"The free men of America [during the Revolutionary War] did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it. Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?"
In 1811, President Madison vetoed a bill that would have granted federal land to the Baptist Church for use as a religious school on the grounds that it violated the Establishment Clause. He didn't need to wait until the land was granted and the school was built to know that such an action would violate the First Amendment.
So-called conservatives who call themselves originalists and textualists like James Ho are nothing more than political operatives in black robes when they claim there's nothing wrong with public schools promoting christianity - a red line violation of the Establishment Clause. The 5th Circuit has been loaded up with christian nationalists, and this ridiculous decision is the result.
Wow, brilliant observation! Thank you!
You're too kind!
I'm dead serious, Jane. I had NO idea about Madison's statement or his action until you posted it. Then, too, I'm an engineer, and while I have a reasonable grasp of US History, there are doubtless holes in it you could drive a Kenworth through.
As much as I'm here to spout off (and FSM knows I do!), I'm here to LEARN as well. So again, I have to say thanks for your contribution. I think it matters ... a LOT.
Wow. I hardly know what to say except thank you.. But I'm here to learn as well, so I appreciate everyone in this community! Many thanks, Troublesh00ter.
Any time, Jane, any old time at all.
I totally concur! I've transcribed that profound insight into my quotations file and expect to use it a lot in the future.
𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝐺𝑜𝑣. 𝐽𝑒𝑓𝑓 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙. 𝐻𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 “𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘!”
Governor Landry:
How would you feel if instead of the Protestant Christian version of the Ten Commandments, it was the Seven Tenets of the Satanic Temple? Or maybe the Five Pillars of Islam? I bet you would understand the Establishment Clause then. You don't get to have special privilege for your religion just because of your distorted ideas of what the Founders believed.
I'd bet that Landry either doesn't think there are TST members OR Muslims in his state, or that they are so few as to be beneath his notice. News Bulletin, Landry: You are there to serve ALL Louisianans, NOT just the ones who voted for you!
If the Ten Commandments are a part of our history that need to be posted in classrooms, then so are the Five Pillars. After all, there were at least two Muslims who fought for the colonies during the Revolution.
Landry would likely lose his lunch if he learned that last little tidbit you mentioned!
I doubt Landry has actually read any real history; my bet Landry gets his history from Barton!
<GROAN!> 😝
Really, I didn’t know that! Any book recommendations that that might shed more light on that? Thank you!
I did some looking and didn't find anything definitive, but I did find one source, a Congressional resolution (H. Res. 276, April 1, 2019), that specifically named two Muslims who fought in the US Revolution and another source that named the same two as appearing on muster roles.
Beyond that, there are multiple sources about there being perhaps thousands of Muslims in the colonies at the time of the Revolution, mostly brought over as slaves. It doesn't seem much of a stretch to suggest that certainly some (and more than two) fought in the war.
Thanks for trying, I sure you are right about muslims fighting in the Revolutionary War. Perhaps an avenue that a historian should look into and write a book about it. In that way the Revolutionary War could be viewed in a different way.
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One of my red-state U.S. Senators contacted me to let me know his office would not read my emails, accept my telephone calls, or answer any letters I sent to his office because I am not a Republican and I am not MAGA.
Fine: he doesn't want to read my comments about his nasty-ass MAGA legislation; so then I just send it to the newspapers with the top ten circulations in my state, so a MILLION people can read my comments, instead of just him and his office!
Pulling his pants down in public may make your rep rethink his position. One can always hope!
Wow, ASSHOLE. Openly ignoring your own constituents because they won't goose-step in line with the cult is very disturbing self-own. Democracy? Screw democracy!
It is indeed major assholism. Apparently, to receive any assistance from this Senator AT ALL, one must be a registered Republican in good standing, and a donor to this Senator.
He is on record as stating that he will not represent non-Republicans, AT ALL.
That should be grounds for immediate dismissal and criminal charges but noooo, can't have that in the land of the free to be corrupt as fuck and not even trying to hide it. I mean he's fucking demanding BRIBE MONEY in order to DO HIS JOB.
My letters to the editor regarding said Senator tend to be pointed, and frequently acidic. His choice. He could have chosen to deal with me directly, but he didn't want his office to be "tainted" with anything even remotely progressive.
I think he is a DICK.
I certainly hope in that letter you described his refusal to respond.
I, however, would prefer that to my own burning-coal red Rep, who just doesn't respond at all. The only two times I've ever heard back from his office was once when he wrongly thought I agreed with him on Israel's genocide in Gaza and once with a one-size-fits-all attempt to defend the OBBB (the Obnoxious, Bilious, Bombastic Bill). Other than those two, total silence, nada, zilch.
At least your way gives you a means to publicly show his silence is a deliberate conscious snub by a partisan extremist, not just a case of not bothering to answer.
Footnote, purely as an irrelevant sidebar: I was trying to pick an adjective to apply to "red" in the second sentence. I thought of "ruby, but a ruby is a lovely gem and he most certainly is neither lovely nor a gem. I then thought of "fire engine," but I think of fire engines as relating to rescue and genuine public service. Nope, that doesn't fit him, either.
Then I thought of a glowing red goal, something that would burn you if you tried to deal with it directly. Right. Better. That will do.
Yeah, don't choose "ruby" for "red". Rubies and sapphires (indigo) are my two favorite gemstones.
The religious right reeks of desperation, and their desire to force their religion into the public school classrooms is evidence of it. Any legislator who voted for this after having been informed it was illegal should be held personally liable for the costs of fighting it in court. These things are always a win-win for the evangelicals because they either force their religion on school children or they get to play the poor persecuted victims of the Godless left and the ‘woke’ courts.
And Louisiana continues to fight for its position of dead last as "Best State to Live In."
Have you ever been in Louisiana? I lived in Austin, TX for the better part of 40 years, and had to drive across the state when I went to Ocala, FL to fix my father's computer. The French Quarter in New Orleans is nice. Parts of Baton Rouge are nice.
Most of the rest of the state is a Third-World Country. Kudzu is Louisiana's friend: it's gradually covering up the sheer awfulness of that state!
I was reading yesterday that Muslim schools in Texas are being left out of the voucher program, I imagine a lawsuit is in progress, but this should be worth watching.
You can smell that lawsuit coming a mile away!
Deservedly so.
What's sauce for the goose should certainly be gravy for the gander!!
I am in Texas too. Where are you reading that from??
Houston Chronicle has more information here:
"Texas could be sued for blocking Islamic school vouchers"
https://eedition.houstonchronicle.com/infinity/article_popover_share.aspx?guid=1dbb4b35-aa44-47d0-998a-440ccbe5fcbf&share=true
We do not know, for example, how prominently the hand grenades will appear, what other weapons might accompany them, or how—if at all— teachers will pull the pin on them during instruction. More fundamentally, we do not even know the full shrapnel content of the hand grenades themselves. Although the statute requires inclusion of the hand grenades and a context statement, it expressly permits additional weapons—such as “an AR-15 rifle, a surface to air missile, and molotov cocktail”—to appear alongside them.
That Ruth Bader Ginsberg thing is pretty much a pure lie isn't it? They must've known it was a lie, and yet they did it anyway. How very Christian. Lying for Jesus. I really don't think Jesus would have approved, not that I'm HIS greatest fan either, but he did seem to me to try to be decent. At least his persona as shown in the Bible.
Except for the times in the gospels where Jesus was kind of a dick. 🙂
Sir, if you don't retract the hedging "kind of" part of your comment, I'm not sure we can be friends anymore. *smiles*
I wonder how much of Jesus in the bible is actually Jesus TBH.
Well, he's an imaginary figure whose anonymous writers with conflicting agendas put all sorts of conflicting words in his mouth, so who can say?
Yet in the last thread davyboy said that he and I could argue forever on who has the burden of proof! Another example of a Christian not knowing who has the burden of proof! The person making the claim has the burden of proof, why can’t Christians understand that!
He’s been coming here since the Patheos days. Despite the fact that he’s been corrected endlessly by us, he persists in the same errors.
He doesn’t learn and he doesn’t want to.
I suspect it's mostly that their faith, under critical scrutiny, doesn't hold up worth a good damn ... and THEY KNOW THAT at some level or other.
So they'll do ANYTHING to shift that burden.
“Behold the Man” is an interesting short novel about a 20 century man who uses a time machine to see if Jesus was real. Jesus was real but not as portrayed in the bible.
Plot summary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behold_the_Man_(novel)
I probably read that when I was a kid – unfortunately about 60 years ago so I hardly remember it. I was a big Moorcock fan at the time.
Who doesn't love Moorcock?
I read the Elric saga recently. Started off pretty good, but got a bit tedious after a while.
Yeah, some of his stuff was a little overwritten and mannered.
None in the Bible Ginsberg cited.
Jesus wasn't even a twinkle in virgin Mary's eye when the real Bible was already thousands of years old.
Was that the bit where he did the Avada Kedavra curse on a tree because he was hungry but didn't know what time of year it was?
So many examples.
Jesus is supposed to be sinless, but he disresepected his mother at a Canaan wedding, a direct violation of the 5th Commandment (4th, if you’re Catholic).
As a Christian, I reject the idea that Jesus was sinless.
If an infant is going to survive, it must learn to manipulate its environment to its advantage so it gets its diaper changed, gets food it needs, gets attention it seeks. Sometimes that means taking unfair advantage of situation so that the baby/infant/child/adolescent thrives.
Given that Jesus was a Jewish man who was in his late 20s/early 30s, it would be expected for Him to marry. Mary Magdalene would be the obvious choice. He obviously loved her: if Jesus was fully human, he would have had sexual desire for her. (Sexual desire is not inherently sinful, even if conservative Evangelical Protestants and Opus Dei Catholics think it is.)
Jesus broke the literal rules of Torah ALL THE TIME — to make a point.
A god who does not understand human temptation, and who does the very real need to manipulate one’s environment in order to assure one’s survival is not a god worth worshiping.
As a non-christian I reject the idea of sin. Who cares about the whims of an imaginary being.
My response is prove that jeezyboy existed?
The irony is that Ginsberg was Jewish.
And at the end of her life, dying of cancer, she refused to step down, leading to Trump's appointment of a conservative and tipping the balance of power to the Uber-Christian right wing.
There are people who can't forgive her for that I understand. Can't really blame them either.
She will forever be on my shit list for letting her personal ego override reality. May she rot forgotten.
Yep, instead of taking on for the team, she fucked us over.
As I read this, the actual decision I'm seeing is more along the lines of 'we like this violation, so we'll force a long delay before we have to concede the point'. Lying about supportive points hardly comes as any surprise, either, since that appears to be the current Christian MO for just about everything they want to get done anyway. All this reflects what I've said before in that we have an honesty problem here in the US right now, and Christianity isn't helping.
What I object to here the most is that this shouldn't even be in front of a court anywhere. The US has more than enough actual problems in desperate need of addressing that this sort of thing should be laughed out of lawmaking bodies before it comes up for a vote; this article is here just because someone thought the original bill would get them reelected. In other words, this whole thing was a waste of taxpayer money and courtroom time, and now the Fifth Circuit is insisting on wasting more courtroom time and taxpayer funds for something that should be irredeemable anyway in the name of Christian privilege.
Disgusting.
Especially as this is not the first time this whole ten-commandment-in-schools thing is being litigated. Surely Americans aren't that dumb, that they can't understand something on the first/second/third time of telling and need to up it into double figures?
OT: The Olympics closing ceremony singers aren't singing in English. How rude!
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑢𝑝, 𝑝𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑢𝑝.
We've been fighting the theocrats for centuries. Why would we give up?
I ain't quit yet, and I don't see you backing off, either. ROCK ON!
Sadly, this has always been their strategy. It’s exhausting and unnecessary
Should we stop fighting, we know the results: the complete stripping of Human Rights and Civil Liberties from everyone that is not like them. The Christian fascists may (I mean may) allow us some scraps of rights, which can be given and retracted on a whim, or deliberate action! That the non-MAGAS will bear the burden of the responsibilities, but non of the privileges of the state. While the MAGAS will of course have all the power and privileges, while non of the responsibilities.
That is why we must keep fighting, no matter how many times we have to keep fighting the same fight over and over!
BLOODY HELL! So ...a bill endorsing an illegal action can be considered in a legislative body. It can be passed and sent to the executive for signature and enacted into law. But until the action specified is actually PERFORMED, nothing can be done?
HOW FUCKED UP IS THAT?
"We THINK it should be illegal to shoot your nabor, but let's wait until somebody actually does it to test the idea in court."
Ya THINK??? 🤪
No new post. I guess Hemant is honoring the Sabbath.
We are expecting 5 inches of snow this afternoon and evening. I stand ready to snow blow the neighbors sidewalks and driveways — except for the asshole next door neighbor.
Five inches, hell! We might be getting 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵 here.
I was just at the gym watching the news. I see NYC is shutting down roads at , 3.
Stay safe!
And shutting down schools Monday. First snow day since 2019.
I am also honoring the sabbath with an Ommegang Gnommegang Blond Belgian style ale. Praise be to the holy trinity of barley, hops and malt.
Can I have one too! Please.
There's always one in every neighborhood.
This guy is a piece of work. Of course, he probably thinks the same of me.
Hemant missed his window of opportunity. Shabbat is from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday. :)
That means Louisiana high schools can’t have Friday night football!
Their real religion.
Expected high of 72º/22º, low of 47º/9º today.
44F/7C currently, Supposed to get up to 50F.
Heat wave, huh?
Sweating my ass off. ;)
OT A controversial pastor who supports repealing women’s right to vote and believes homosexuality should be a crime led a worship service at the Pentagon this week, saying he was invited by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/politics/douglas-wilson-pastor-pentagon-service-christian-nationalism
"...saying he was invited by..."
a dude who who's been divorced twice and cheated on his first wife with FIVE different women.
Our holy Christian conservative moral betters in action.
"cheated on his first wife with FIVE different women."
At the same time?
Probably not (his Wikipedia entry on his first divorce reads "after Hegseth admitted to five affairs")... but if it did happen that way, and on a date in May, that would certainly gives an interesting new meaning to the words "cinco de Mayo."
Depends. How much did he pay them?
How long before it's discovered that Wilson used that beard to do unnatural things to children's genitalia?
5... 4... 3...
Mr. Wilson had a mustache but not a beard, and I seriously doubt he had any sexual designs on Dennis./s
Mr. Wilson didn't know what to do with Mrs. Wilson.
A shocker….. not, but more data needed.
High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds
https://www.psypost.org/high-iq-men-tend-to-be-less-conservative-than-their-average-peers-study-finds/
I could have told you that. ; )
But when it comes to men vs. women, who is smarter?
youtu.be/KABw4n2UwgY
Judging by the people who comment on FA, I would have to say the women.
"Smarter than the man in every way." :D
Dink Clack Froop*
*I can't think of a word for the last one.
Fun fact: Ethel played the cencerro, Fred the quijada and Lucy the cuica. :)
The Dead knew:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOJ-YEwIwZY&list=RDpOJ-YEwIwZY&start_radio=1
That old Belafonte tune got a lot of milage.