I've forgotten where I saw that, but yeah, Ohio Republicans want to force women to wait 24 hours before their procedures and get an earful of noise about the HORRIBLE thing they are supposedly doing to themselves, et cetera.
And a cup of coffee says all (or almost) of those Republicans are MEN. What did Gloria Steinem say about if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a SACRAMENT???
"If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks: Two on every corner and four in every airport. And the Morning After Pill would come in different flavors like Sea Salt and Cool Ranch."
If I could get abortions, I would get pregnant just to have an abortion. Because as a conservative commentator on the 87th most popular Red Pill site in all of Northern Iowa, that is exactly what women do now.
Indeed. Even before Roe fell, a number of states passed laws mandating ultrasounds and waiting periods to receive care. In other words, restrictions designed to discourage abortion, delay care, and shame patients.
When the supreme court said that this should be left to the states they didn't mean the citizens of the states. That would be silly to assume the voters matter. Like half of them are women, and what would women know about the moral and legal issues dealing with abortion?
Hence the latest Trumpism on Tylenol, the hints about voting being done by household rather than individually, and the unending attacks on women's body autonomy.
Here we go again. Just what part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." don't West Virginia and Ohio not understand. Honestly, I don't care WHAT the monies are being used for. The fact that West Virginia is using PUBLIC monies to fund a RELIGIOUS institution should have been a non-starter from Letter A, and yet it wasn't.
I'm pleased that the American Humanist Association and the ACLU are on the case here. What I worry about is the current political/religious environment and how that could influence what should be an open-and-shut case.
I went to college at West Liberty State in West Virginia. After being raised in suburban Cleveland, it was quite a change of pace.
Visiting Wheeling, the closest city to our school, was like going back in time…a decade or two!
And the roads…you’ve never seen anything like the West Virginia turnpike when I lived there. There was a widely distributed bumper sticker going around that said, “We Travel the WV Turnpike - Pray for Us!”
So, yes, there are a multitude of various good causes in West Virginia that would have benefited greatly from $5 Million. The people of that state have been shit on by their government from Day 1 - Joe Manchin, anyone? - and there is no end in sight.
There are good religious people, and maybe some religions are good in theory, but they don't change bad people into good people, nor are they able to keep bad people from prostituting them (no insult meant to sex workers)
There are no good religions since they all put faith equal to or a greater way to understand the world than the scientific method. Evidence is often ignored and 2000 years old writings are followed, writings by people who knew less about the world than my grandchildren in elementary school. Any form of dogma, religious or political, that ignores facts and evidence will only lead us to wrong decisions.
I would almost be willing bet any amount of money that he was talking with Nigerian romance scammers.
The claims in Chansley’s suit include:
That the central banking system and the Federal Reserve are unconstitutional
That the U.S. government is guilty of treason for prioritizing the interests of foreign financiers at the expense of the American people
That the NSA surveilled Chansley daily using the Patriot Act as he was writing a “2nd Declaration of Independence”
That “all radio stations and most of their DJ’s are a part of the intelligence community”
That a scene in the 2008 Christopher Nolan-directed Batman film “The Dark Knight” and many plot details in 2009’s “Avatar” were cribbed from his writing and are proof that the NSA was spying on him
That the NSA catfished him on Facebook by contacting him while pretending to be actress Michele Rodriguez, whom Chansley identifies as “my celebrity crush”
That he was then “offered the opportunity to work with the NASA covertly and help them deal with other-worldly matters” that his “shamanic beliefs” made him “a perfect candidate to handle”
That he was emailed by Donald Trump on Jan. 8, 2021, from an address of donaldtrump@nsa.gov
That the government stole more than $100,000 in cryptocurrency from him
DJs are the worst. My local classic rock station boasts about a 97 minute uninterrupted block of rock but they interrupt it every 5 minutes to tell us it's an uninterrupted block of rock. (FM 97.7, that's where the 97 minutes comes from.)
Talking over and/or fading out the intros and outros of songs was always what bothered me most about radio. Couldn't help but notice that they never pulled that shit with the ad blocks!
We've got a retro station that also airs minor league baseball games. Bugged the piss out of me that they'd advertise a game "tonight" when the team had already played earlier in the day or wasn't playing that day.
Who was airing those spots and were they not paying attention?
The tourist season is short up here in the Highlands. Unfortunately, that means many businesses don't survive.
The proprietor of the Inn (who is Japanese) has a good proposition. You get a reduced rate on the rooms out of season. If you book for a minimum of two nights, then you get a voucher that can only be spent on whisky.
As he told us, the aim isn't to allow you to have a lot of drams of the cheap stuff, but to encourage you to try out the better stuff. This might include the 1973 Ladyburn, which runs to £2,200 a bottle...
Fuckin' 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 that he's going after the spray-tanned shitlord who created him, though! Truly, in this endeavor as in no other he's yet undertaken, I wish that fuzzy-hatted little weirdo the very best of fortune. Watching MAGAts turn on Dear Leader just never gets old.
"...as long as a state approved grant is used for non-religious purposes and is a benefit available to the public, said grant is constitutional. To find otherwise would violate a grant applicant’s right to the Free Exercise of its religion."
In other words, I want state money. It won't be used for anything religious. But if you don't give me the money, you're violating my freedom of religion.
So then, to not award the money would be a violation of someone's religious freedom, even though that money can't be used for something religious.
The worst part of this article is that this is more or less what I expect to see anymore when the RCC is after taxpayer money. I expect lies, deceit, and various shenanigans; and I also expect that eventually the RCC will find a way to get their hands on money they very well know doesn't belong to them. I assume the truth is that the RCC doesn't actually care, that's certainly what the organization's actions tell me.
The College of St. Joseph the Worker is very clearly intended to be an arm of the RCC and to push Catholic goals onto the public. I stopped by their website, which is clearly professionally produced, and the Catholic stamp on the school is made very clear. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠. Actual education appears to be secondary to strong-arming Catholic belief and forcing Catholic agendas onto the public. It took me less than 30 seconds to verify this using basic internet search tools; so when some RCC lackey says "oh, we'll be good! We just won't do the proselytizing thing!" the sensible thing to do certainly seems to be not believing that.
There are, as Hemant observed, a number of other issues with this ruling, not the least of which is what will happen when the college decides to spend the money however it wants anyway. We all know this will happen at some point, so the college's goal seems to be to get the money so they can't be stopped, and it appears the leadership is completely willing to lie to make it happen.
File under: Yet Another Reason People Don't Go To Church Anymore
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
...but did the judge check carefully to see if the defendants were crossing their fingers behind their backs? Kinda seems like he maybe should've taken a quick peek, just to make sure.
The way these organizations fight for the tax funds is moronic. Worse is the way they get the funds anyway. They argue that they deserve them despite being religious without expressing how thy will use the funds to actually serve the purpose of the funding. School vouchers are another example. The religious schools say they should have access to the money because you can’t discriminate against them, but then they don’t actually educate the public. This money is meant for providing clean potable water to West Virginia, and yet they’re talking about building school buildings and businesses that are only tangentially related to providing water. The cities, towns and counties of WV should sue, any of those entities who were rejected for the money should be screaming about this. And any who never got word there was money available. This was a grift from the start. Whose cousin/buddy/kid is in St John the thief board? Go after them.
"Whose cousin/buddy/kid is in St John the thief board?"
I suspect the fraud was more ideological than personal. I.e. this is some conservative lawmaker or appointee's idea of how to divert government funding from water programs to an anti-abortion messaging program.
That is probably right, but I am thinking this school was tapped because of some connection to the lawmaker. Why would they leave the state to get anti abortion, those chuds are everywhere.
'Pottersville' North America is all about outsourcing and privatisation. You know that old chestnut that's a bigger myth than Bigfoot. Outsourcing and handing over all works & community services to private enterprises is cheaper and more efficient.
Always been part of 'Pottersville' culture but Reagan's gang - who verbally and financialy (underfunded) white anted public confidence in public utilities and pubic institutions - made it an art form.
Now you pay more & get less quality, while the privileged minority get richer.
There was an X Files episode where Scully was suffering from something related to …. a virus (?) affecting wheat? And there may have been a tattoo involved???
If the Catholic school was so fucking worried about abortions wouldn’t you think that keeping tainted water from pregnant women would be a consideration? Maybe the judge was bought off? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Not the same. If women were smart, they would move to a place where tap water is drinkable, or find a husband with a well paid job to buy bottled water.
Sure five million dollars sounds like a lot and ok, it looks like a bit of public corruption, but can we try to remain focused on the most important issue of the day,... What happened to Amelia Earhart, and why Joe Biden didn't release the Earhart file? What is Hunter Biden hiding?
What do you mean ? Don't you know she killed the grandmother of king charles III to take her place ? Or was it Anastasia Romanovna who died in place of Mata Hari, who then killed said grandmother? 🤔
Don't be silly. It is a well known fact, that due to the Royal decree to keep it in the family and their secret time traveling technology, Charles II is his own grandmother. Both of them. As well as one of two grandfathers.
I don’t really have much I could say to this. Red state people keep electing people whose primary goal is to serve themselves, or their religion, or their political/cultural causes. Red states generally speaking rank near the bottom on just about every measure of social well-being.
I googled “where does West Virginia rank on various measures of social well-being”. And this is what my friendly robot came back with:
West Virginia consistently ranks low on measures of social and physical well-being, often placing near the bottom nationally due to high rates of chronic disease, obesity, and smoking, as well as poor health outcomes and low access to healthcare services. Number 46 overall. For example, the state has ranked last for physical well-being in multiple years, is consistently among the least healthy states, and ranks poorly in categories like health care and health system performance.
Then I googled on one cup of coffee, what are the five lowest states rank on various measures of social well-being? (Yes I know the language is awkward, but I’m on my… you know). The five lowest states consistently are…. Wait for it…
Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana
They have been voting this way for something like 50 years now. In those 50 years, the Republicans and the good Christians they keep electing do absolutely nothing for the people of those states. For 50 years. Did I mention that the Republicans that they keep electing don’t do anything for the people of those states?
It simply boggles the mind.
But hey! At least taxpayer money can go to fun religious causes. So what if Billy Jim Bob dies from an entirely preventable disease. At least he did so knowing that he showed those two fags in California that they shouldn’t be able to get married.
Oh, could this be why Ohio Republicans are still trying to ban abortion even after voters passed a pro-choice ballot initiative?
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/18/ohio-abortion-regulations-appeal-attorneys-for-the-state-and-womens-health-clinics-make-arguments/
I've forgotten where I saw that, but yeah, Ohio Republicans want to force women to wait 24 hours before their procedures and get an earful of noise about the HORRIBLE thing they are supposedly doing to themselves, et cetera.
And a cup of coffee says all (or almost) of those Republicans are MEN. What did Gloria Steinem say about if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a SACRAMENT???
"If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks: Two on every corner and four in every airport. And the Morning After Pill would come in different flavors like Sea Salt and Cool Ranch."
If I could get abortions, I would get pregnant just to have an abortion. Because as a conservative commentator on the 87th most popular Red Pill site in all of Northern Iowa, that is exactly what women do now.
I heard a sermon a few years ago about a woman who was "really deep into abortions." I really wanted to ask what the hell that actually meant.
That's disgusting.
Sounds like someone's been reading The Iowa Standard. 🤔
Readin’?! How dare you accuse me of such a done low and dirty crime . I ain't done read nothing.
The Satanic Temple made abortion a sacrament, and AFAIK they didn't need any pregnant men (even transmen) to do it!
Indeed. Even before Roe fell, a number of states passed laws mandating ultrasounds and waiting periods to receive care. In other words, restrictions designed to discourage abortion, delay care, and shame patients.
And CONTROL WOMEN. Seriously, how much do Republican men HATE women? It just continues to boggle my mind. [sigh]
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set”
Lin Yutang
And to make them more expensive.
When the supreme court said that this should be left to the states they didn't mean the citizens of the states. That would be silly to assume the voters matter. Like half of them are women, and what would women know about the moral and legal issues dealing with abortion?
“Leave it to the states” like the central argument of the states rights’ doctrine that fueled the Civil War. That kind? ;)
The UNTIDY STATES of AMERICA.
So sad
💙 … 🦘🦘🦘
And I fully expect that the current SC will send gay marriage back to the states as well. Sigh!
They follow the same religion and the same pseudoepigrapha omnibus as you.
Didn't you say the other day the NT was consistent ? By the way, was your inexistant messiah born in Bethlehem or Nazareth ?
The NT consistent? Each gospel gives a different number of women at Jesus' tomb,
Shall I also mention that Judas has two different deaths?
If the writers didn't include everyone that does mean that they are contradictory. Some accounts just provide more details.
Both Matthew and Luke's gospels say Bethlehem.
I think so too 😞
"Like half of them are women, and what would women know about the moral and legal issues dealing with abortion?"
As I have said before, I don't think some of the religious right in the US regard women as persons, having a personal identity - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/
Hence the latest Trumpism on Tylenol, the hints about voting being done by household rather than individually, and the unending attacks on women's body autonomy.
From Finland, are you? And what is this Tylenol-thing that I have missed?
It causes autism if taken by pregnant wimmin. And even by kids of all ages.
https://ibb.co/NVzx2Df
💯 The hatred is deeper than I understood
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US tylenol = paracetamol.
Here we go again. Just what part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." don't West Virginia and Ohio not understand. Honestly, I don't care WHAT the monies are being used for. The fact that West Virginia is using PUBLIC monies to fund a RELIGIOUS institution should have been a non-starter from Letter A, and yet it wasn't.
I'm pleased that the American Humanist Association and the ACLU are on the case here. What I worry about is the current political/religious environment and how that could influence what should be an open-and-shut case.
I went to college at West Liberty State in West Virginia. After being raised in suburban Cleveland, it was quite a change of pace.
Visiting Wheeling, the closest city to our school, was like going back in time…a decade or two!
And the roads…you’ve never seen anything like the West Virginia turnpike when I lived there. There was a widely distributed bumper sticker going around that said, “We Travel the WV Turnpike - Pray for Us!”
So, yes, there are a multitude of various good causes in West Virginia that would have benefited greatly from $5 Million. The people of that state have been shit on by their government from Day 1 - Joe Manchin, anyone? - and there is no end in sight.
St. Jo realized that praying for the money got them squat, so they held out their hands to the govt. to back them when their god failed to do so.
Wasn't this Benjamin Franklin's definition of a bad religion?
There are good religious people, and maybe some religions are good in theory, but they don't change bad people into good people, nor are they able to keep bad people from prostituting them (no insult meant to sex workers)
There are no good religions since they all put faith equal to or a greater way to understand the world than the scientific method. Evidence is often ignored and 2000 years old writings are followed, writings by people who knew less about the world than my grandchildren in elementary school. Any form of dogma, religious or political, that ignores facts and evidence will only lead us to wrong decisions.
The qanon shaman is back, and this time he is even more crazy.
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-qanon-shaman-files-40-trillion-lawsuit-against-trump-22763479/
I would almost be willing bet any amount of money that he was talking with Nigerian romance scammers.
The claims in Chansley’s suit include:
That the central banking system and the Federal Reserve are unconstitutional
That the U.S. government is guilty of treason for prioritizing the interests of foreign financiers at the expense of the American people
That the NSA surveilled Chansley daily using the Patriot Act as he was writing a “2nd Declaration of Independence”
That “all radio stations and most of their DJ’s are a part of the intelligence community”
That a scene in the 2008 Christopher Nolan-directed Batman film “The Dark Knight” and many plot details in 2009’s “Avatar” were cribbed from his writing and are proof that the NSA was spying on him
That the NSA catfished him on Facebook by contacting him while pretending to be actress Michele Rodriguez, whom Chansley identifies as “my celebrity crush”
That he was then “offered the opportunity to work with the NASA covertly and help them deal with other-worldly matters” that his “shamanic beliefs” made him “a perfect candidate to handle”
That he was emailed by Donald Trump on Jan. 8, 2021, from an address of donaldtrump@nsa.gov
That the government stole more than $100,000 in cryptocurrency from him
I'm disappointed there's not even one Jewish space laser involved.
It all makes perfect sense. I don’t know what your problem is.
DJs are the worst. My local classic rock station boasts about a 97 minute uninterrupted block of rock but they interrupt it every 5 minutes to tell us it's an uninterrupted block of rock. (FM 97.7, that's where the 97 minutes comes from.)
Talking over and/or fading out the intros and outros of songs was always what bothered me most about radio. Couldn't help but notice that they never pulled that shit with the ad blocks!
We've got a retro station that also airs minor league baseball games. Bugged the piss out of me that they'd advertise a game "tonight" when the team had already played earlier in the day or wasn't playing that day.
Who was airing those spots and were they not paying attention?
Competence costs extra, and nobody wants to pay for it anymore.
You been tricked!
Forty TRILLION Dollars??? Man, I have no idea what that guy is smoking, but KEEP IT AWAY FROM ME!!!
Can I have your share?
Be my guest! I'll stick with good scotch whisky!
Good Scotch you say?
We stayed at the Highlander Inn in Craigallechie during the "Spirit of Speyside". We are going back in November for another dose.
Here is the page on their website about their Whisky Bar - https://www.whiskyinn.com/the-whisky-bar-at-the-highlander-inn/
And here is a picture of the bar - https://whiskycyclist.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/7/4/7674573/1726286_orig.jpg, showing some of the 300 whiskies that they have.
Far out! Looks like my kind of place!
The tourist season is short up here in the Highlands. Unfortunately, that means many businesses don't survive.
The proprietor of the Inn (who is Japanese) has a good proposition. You get a reduced rate on the rooms out of season. If you book for a minimum of two nights, then you get a voucher that can only be spent on whisky.
As he told us, the aim isn't to allow you to have a lot of drams of the cheap stuff, but to encourage you to try out the better stuff. This might include the 1973 Ladyburn, which runs to £2,200 a bottle...
I hope he wins.
See also: Crank Magnetism.
Fuckin' 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 that he's going after the spray-tanned shitlord who created him, though! Truly, in this endeavor as in no other he's yet undertaken, I wish that fuzzy-hatted little weirdo the very best of fortune. Watching MAGAts turn on Dear Leader just never gets old.
Sad commentary on the state of mental health care in the US, bless his little heart.
Hope he doesn't go out in the woods gussied up like that while Dick Cheney is in the area with a hunting party.
Nah, he'd only have to worry if he were wearing normal hunting clothes.
May he receive all the good fortune he deserves.
I would settle for mental health needs.
"...as long as a state approved grant is used for non-religious purposes and is a benefit available to the public, said grant is constitutional. To find otherwise would violate a grant applicant’s right to the Free Exercise of its religion."
In other words, I want state money. It won't be used for anything religious. But if you don't give me the money, you're violating my freedom of religion.
So then, to not award the money would be a violation of someone's religious freedom, even though that money can't be used for something religious.
What the fuck?
Don't ask me. I am here only to be sure I don't miss info about todays stupidest xian idea.
If you keep thinking your brain gonna itch. Have you tried itchy brain?
OT - Sick humor alert
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What does it say that I laughed at that?
You would love "Idées noires" from Franquin.
You're normal.
Charles Addams lives.
Billionaire bowling!
A bit less messy to use bowling balls for that purpose.
The worst part of this article is that this is more or less what I expect to see anymore when the RCC is after taxpayer money. I expect lies, deceit, and various shenanigans; and I also expect that eventually the RCC will find a way to get their hands on money they very well know doesn't belong to them. I assume the truth is that the RCC doesn't actually care, that's certainly what the organization's actions tell me.
The College of St. Joseph the Worker is very clearly intended to be an arm of the RCC and to push Catholic goals onto the public. I stopped by their website, which is clearly professionally produced, and the Catholic stamp on the school is made very clear. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑏𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝐶𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠. Actual education appears to be secondary to strong-arming Catholic belief and forcing Catholic agendas onto the public. It took me less than 30 seconds to verify this using basic internet search tools; so when some RCC lackey says "oh, we'll be good! We just won't do the proselytizing thing!" the sensible thing to do certainly seems to be not believing that.
There are, as Hemant observed, a number of other issues with this ruling, not the least of which is what will happen when the college decides to spend the money however it wants anyway. We all know this will happen at some point, so the college's goal seems to be to get the money so they can't be stopped, and it appears the leadership is completely willing to lie to make it happen.
File under: Yet Another Reason People Don't Go To Church Anymore
Easier to ask forgiveness than get permission right?
Especially if the person who forgives you doesn't exist.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
...but did the judge check carefully to see if the defendants were crossing their fingers behind their backs? Kinda seems like he maybe should've taken a quick peek, just to make sure.
The way these organizations fight for the tax funds is moronic. Worse is the way they get the funds anyway. They argue that they deserve them despite being religious without expressing how thy will use the funds to actually serve the purpose of the funding. School vouchers are another example. The religious schools say they should have access to the money because you can’t discriminate against them, but then they don’t actually educate the public. This money is meant for providing clean potable water to West Virginia, and yet they’re talking about building school buildings and businesses that are only tangentially related to providing water. The cities, towns and counties of WV should sue, any of those entities who were rejected for the money should be screaming about this. And any who never got word there was money available. This was a grift from the start. Whose cousin/buddy/kid is in St John the thief board? Go after them.
"Whose cousin/buddy/kid is in St John the thief board?"
I suspect the fraud was more ideological than personal. I.e. this is some conservative lawmaker or appointee's idea of how to divert government funding from water programs to an anti-abortion messaging program.
That is probably right, but I am thinking this school was tapped because of some connection to the lawmaker. Why would they leave the state to get anti abortion, those chuds are everywhere.
Blessed are the religious charlatans and grifters, for they shall get state subsidization and unwarranted privilege.
And another thing! (I’m sure I have a first thing somewhere in the comments.)
What’s the deal with a Catholic trade school anyway? Why does a trade school need to be sectarian? Is there a Catholic way to do plumbing?
'Pottersville' North America is all about outsourcing and privatisation. You know that old chestnut that's a bigger myth than Bigfoot. Outsourcing and handing over all works & community services to private enterprises is cheaper and more efficient.
Always been part of 'Pottersville' culture but Reagan's gang - who verbally and financialy (underfunded) white anted public confidence in public utilities and pubic institutions - made it an art form.
Now you pay more & get less quality, while the privileged minority get richer.
Once again a situation people voted for 🤔
That's an interesting slip of fingers 🤣
"in public utilities and pubic institution"
I attended a pubic institution of higher learning. Our sports teams were the Nads.
Go Nads!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well, there's slightly less swearing.
Citation needed!
Damn it!
lol.
Maybe Catholics specialize in plumbing involving holy water.
https://ibb.co/0jX9QP2S
https://chronicinktattoo.com/blogs/latest/tattoo-ink-ingredients-what-s-really-in-your-ink
There was an X Files episode where Scully was suffering from something related to …. a virus (?) affecting wheat? And there may have been a tattoo involved???
Rye, not wheat. And yes, it was about a contamined tattoo ink.
Pete?
OT:
https://ibb.co/JWFkdfJt
No, thanks. I'd prefer to support Charlie Hebdo.
I'd sooner support Charlie's Angels.
To each their own, my friend!
They certainly are.
Yes.
If the Catholic school was so fucking worried about abortions wouldn’t you think that keeping tainted water from pregnant women would be a consideration? Maybe the judge was bought off? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Not the same. If women were smart, they would move to a place where tap water is drinkable, or find a husband with a well paid job to buy bottled water.
That's a big "If". : )
Sure five million dollars sounds like a lot and ok, it looks like a bit of public corruption, but can we try to remain focused on the most important issue of the day,... What happened to Amelia Earhart, and why Joe Biden didn't release the Earhart file? What is Hunter Biden hiding?
https://apnews.com/article/trump-amelia-earhart-declassify-records-fbb34df150f5ae3ec4d99096f2e6f447
What do you mean ? Don't you know she killed the grandmother of king charles III to take her place ? Or was it Anastasia Romanovna who died in place of Mata Hari, who then killed said grandmother? 🤔
Don't be silly. It is a well known fact, that due to the Royal decree to keep it in the family and their secret time traveling technology, Charles II is his own grandmother. Both of them. As well as one of two grandfathers.
Yep, that's why I avoid the royals.
Oh, what the hell:
https://youtu.be/nlcIKh6sBtc
Seems awfully familiar
youtu.be/urglg3WimHA
'Ol Bonespurs is getting 𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘦𝘢𝘭 desperate for distractions, ain't he?
Pretty soon he's going to try distracting everyone by threatening to release the Epstein list.
Brain dead, brain dead, brain dead! What are you going to do! What are you going to do! When Trump has no fucking clue! Brain dead, brain dead!
Oops, wrong song and place. Sorry everyone!
You, bad boy 😋
His giant schlong?
I don’t really have much I could say to this. Red state people keep electing people whose primary goal is to serve themselves, or their religion, or their political/cultural causes. Red states generally speaking rank near the bottom on just about every measure of social well-being.
I googled “where does West Virginia rank on various measures of social well-being”. And this is what my friendly robot came back with:
West Virginia consistently ranks low on measures of social and physical well-being, often placing near the bottom nationally due to high rates of chronic disease, obesity, and smoking, as well as poor health outcomes and low access to healthcare services. Number 46 overall. For example, the state has ranked last for physical well-being in multiple years, is consistently among the least healthy states, and ranks poorly in categories like health care and health system performance.
Then I googled on one cup of coffee, what are the five lowest states rank on various measures of social well-being? (Yes I know the language is awkward, but I’m on my… you know). The five lowest states consistently are…. Wait for it…
Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana
They have been voting this way for something like 50 years now. In those 50 years, the Republicans and the good Christians they keep electing do absolutely nothing for the people of those states. For 50 years. Did I mention that the Republicans that they keep electing don’t do anything for the people of those states?
It simply boggles the mind.
But hey! At least taxpayer money can go to fun religious causes. So what if Billy Jim Bob dies from an entirely preventable disease. At least he did so knowing that he showed those two fags in California that they shouldn’t be able to get married.
This is the sickness.