pinecone Posted December 7, 2021 Report Share Posted December 7, 2021 15 hours ago, TrickstaPriest said: What's new down there? I Thought the official title was El heffe supreamo? Is that why I was tossed out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted December 7, 2021 Report Share Posted December 7, 2021 2 hours ago, pinecone said: I Thought the official title was El heffe supreamo? Is that why I was tossed out? Yes, absolutely. The spelling is abysmal, but worse???? When's the last time Texas had a non-white governor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 8, 2021 Report Share Posted December 8, 2021 Santa Anna? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted December 11, 2021 Report Share Posted December 11, 2021 THE TRUTH IS FINALLY OUT!!!!! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html Sometimes you need to laugh. Because the only alternative is screaming, and once you start you might not be able to stop. Dean Shomshak Grailknight, Old Man and aylwin13 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted December 11, 2021 Report Share Posted December 11, 2021 Wish I'd thought of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted December 12, 2021 Report Share Posted December 12, 2021 16 hours ago, DShomshak said: THE TRUTH IS FINALLY OUT!!!!! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html Sometimes you need to laugh. Because the only alternative is screaming, and once you start you might not be able to stop. Dean Shomshak CHINA LAUNCHES 'SPY BIRD' DRONE TO BOOST GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE pinecone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 12, 2021 Report Share Posted December 12, 2021 I remember playing with one of those when I was a kid. I hope the budget for those things takes into account losses due to hawks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. MID-Nite Posted December 12, 2021 Report Share Posted December 12, 2021 3 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: I remember playing with one of those when I was a kid. I hope the budget for those things takes into account losses due to hawks. There's always room in the U.S budget for military expenditures. Sigh.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 12, 2021 Report Share Posted December 12, 2021 ...except to fund the VA properly. Dr. MID-Nite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted December 12, 2021 Report Share Posted December 12, 2021 On a much less amusing note, the latest issue of Atlantic features a review article of the Republican Party's repudiation of democracy, from the flaming rage of its base to the development of, shall we say, novel and creative readings of the Constitution. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/ As Gellman says, it has become clear that the Jan. 6 insurrection was just the dress rehearsal. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted December 12, 2021 Report Share Posted December 12, 2021 From the article above: Quote It shook me that Patterson took this video for proof. If my house had caught fire 10 years before, my life might have depended on his discernment and clarity of thought. He was an Eagle Scout. He earned a college degree. He keeps current on the news. And yet he has wandered off from the empirical world, placing his faith in fantastic tales that lack any basis in fact or explicable logic. People really need to learn that emotional hijacking* is a real, tangible phenomena, and that even otherwise intelligent people are ripe for manipulation of their lower-level thought processes. Most people calm down and start reasoning even after a strong stimulus, but the social media, easy internet access, and smart phones make a constant, unhealthy level of negative stimulation possible. Trump supporters, conspiracy theorists, etc. are not all idiots. This makes them all the more terrifying, IMO. *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala_hijack TrickstaPriest and Joe Walsh 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 6 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said: *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala_hijack I've seen that episode of Clone Wars assault 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 I've also fought that boss in Bloodborne. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 California's governor pledges to model an assault weapons ban on Texas abortion law SMH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aylwin13 Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 57 minutes ago, Pariah said: California's governor pledges to model an assault weapons ban on Texas abortion law SMH I agree with you; but you knew it was coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 1 hour ago, Pariah said: California's governor pledges to model an assault weapons ban on Texas abortion law SMH This legalization of vigilantism has all sorts of implications for real life superheroes. TrickstaPriest 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickstaPriest Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 Yep. I think it's a stupid way to exercise this too. Like shooting oneself in the foot to prove a point. At this point? They are only hurting their own constituents. It's interesting that a few weeks ago I recall hearing the Supreme Court suddenly opinionating that the Texas Law was 'a flagrant run-around of their authority and something you can't just decide, legislatively, to do, by cleverly coding it into law'. And then this decision happens....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 32 minutes ago, TrickstaPriest said: Yep. I think it's a stupid way to exercise this too. Like shooting oneself in the foot to prove a point. At this point? They are only hurting their own constituents. It's interesting that a few weeks ago I recall hearing the Supreme Court suddenly opinionating that the Texas Law was 'a flagrant run-around of their authority and something you can't just decide, legislatively, to do, by cleverly coding it into law'. And then this decision happens....... Believe that's a reasonable paraphrase of the minority opinion. The problem is, Roberts, who wrote it, could NOT convince the 5 other conservatives. I think some of the reason why California's pushing this is to force the Supreme Court to recognize what allowing this to stand would do. The 5 conservatives seem to be taking an "end justified the means" position...abortion should be banned, and it doesn't matter how. Doesn't it???? Lord Liaden, Matt the Bruins, TrickstaPriest and 2 others 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickstaPriest Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 21 minutes ago, unclevlad said: I think some of the reason why California's pushing this is to force the Supreme Court to recognize what allowing this to stand would do. The 5 conservatives seem to be taking an "end justified the means" position...abortion should be banned, and it doesn't matter how. Doesn't it???? I'm pretty sure their 'interpretation' of how a fertilized egg is alive would suggest that a sperm, too, is alive. Not to mention that something like 33% of fertilized eggs don't stick to the uterus wall? Which means about half as many humans again were 'naturally aborted'? Then we can talk about the Bible suggesting medically-induced forced abortions for unfaithful wives... >_> Okay, I've started enough fights now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 It's adorable that you seem to think the average alt-right conservative has any idea what the Bible actually says. BoloOfEarth, aylwin13, Old Man and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickstaPriest Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 1 minute ago, Pariah said: It's adorable that you seem to think the average alt-right conservative has any idea what the Bible actually says. 😛 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted December 13, 2021 Report Share Posted December 13, 2021 26 minutes ago, TrickstaPriest said: I'm pretty sure their 'interpretation' of how a fertilized egg is alive would suggest that a sperm, too, is alive. Not to mention that something like 33% of fertilized eggs don't stick to the uterus wall? Which means about half as many humans again were 'naturally aborted'? Then we can talk about the Bible suggesting medically-induced forced abortions for unfaithful wives... >_> Okay, I've started enough fights now I was raised Catholic. But I got better. L. Marcus, TrickstaPriest and aylwin13 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 14, 2021 Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 3 hours ago, Pariah said: California's governor pledges to model an assault weapons ban on Texas abortion law I saw quite a few warnings when it was passed that this law could be interpreted in a number of situations against the desires of those who passed it. 1 hour ago, unclevlad said: I think some of the reason why California's pushing this is to force the Supreme Court to recognize what allowing this to stand would do. The 5 conservatives seem to be taking an "end justified the means" position...abortion should be banned, and it doesn't matter how. Doesn't it???? I have that suspicion as well. Object lesson being communicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aylwin13 Posted December 14, 2021 Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 18 hours ago, Ternaugh said: I was raised Catholic. But I got better. I always looked at it as being a "reformed Roman Catholic". Same thing, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 14, 2021 Report Share Posted December 14, 2021 20 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: I have that suspicion as well. Object lesson being communicated. "For ’tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard. And ’t shall go hard, But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon." -Prince Hamlet, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act 3 Scene 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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