Want a black mermaid movie? Make one.
All this woke ---- does is make more people vote republican.

A fairy-tale about a girl who gives up her own dreams and independence to please a man is "woke" simply by casting one black actor?
Being a liberal has to mean more than who you root for in the midterms. If you allow Y'all-Qaeda to decide who can and can't be a Disney princess the terrorists win.

...mutilation..

a worldwide phenomena ... to gin up the hatred of "the other" who may be different from you.
Previously this tool was held as an exclusive right of religion.

Only about a third of evangelicals are Trumpers.
Intentionally lying, obfuscating or just wrong?

Overall, 59% of voters who frequently attend religious services cast their ballot for Trump, while 40% chose Biden. About seven-in-ten White, non-Hispanic Americans who attend religious services at least monthly (71%) voted for Trump, while roughly a quarter (27%) voted for Biden. White evangelical Protestants have been among the Republican Party's most loyal constituencies, and this remained true in 2020. More than eight-in-ten White evangelical Protestant voters who attend religious services frequently (85%) voted for Trump in the most recent election, as did 81% of those who attend less frequently.

I know a girl in Berryville.
Cant stick it in cus she won't stay still.
She kicks and screams and farts and hollers. She won't take less than 7 dollars.

I know a girl in Valentine.
Likes to drink that fancy wine.
Got a plume in her hat stands 2 feet tall.
Crack in her pants pays for it all.

California is the second largest producer of **rice** in the US
It's even worse than you think. Most of the rice grown in California is to fulfill trade agreements and shipped to Japan. It makes the guy selling ice to Eskimos look like a piker.
They grow alfalfa (((grass))) in Arizona and put in on one of the recently emptied container ships bringing Chinesium crap. We sail it across the ocean to fed cows on the other side of the world.

Why do you think they do that?
After Lenin took control the first thing he did was send his top lieutenants to form or take over rival leftist parties. Basically all the political parties were some form of what we would consider leftists, and these guys switched back and forth all the time. He would run the country as a centrist and they would try to nudge the ship of state left. At least that was the plan. In effect they just choked out actual dissent and the whole thing devolved into one party rule.

I think we had something similar. The republicans would govern as centrist (somehow even when Ds had control of Congress and the White House) and the Democrats would make sure no leftist movement would ever have enough oxygen to breathe. Constantly nudging us right.

Say what you will about the Democrats but it is truly a big tent. Civil Rights activists alongside former members of the KKK, Socialists and Dixiecrats together at fundraisers, hijab muslims and evangelical christians. Everyone is welcome!
The Democrats have held up their end. No leftist party exists, the "extremists" are all back benchers and often literal eye candy. Who was the last true lefty to emerge? What did the party do to his campaign?

It's the Republicans that have upset the balance. They stopped governing as centrists. They let the actual lunatics take over the asylum sometime around Nixon. And now the only thing standing in their way are feckless buffoons like Chuck Shumer and Bennie Thompson.

The specific religion isn't important.
It wasn't important when the fatwa was originally ordered, either. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Pope and christian leaders across America sided with the Ayatollah. Jerry Falwell joked about it from the pulpit. Bookstores refused to sell copies. Christianity Today wrote, "Worldwide religious communities are serving notice that trampling on the reputations of our founders in the name of 'art' will not be tolerated." When it comes to blasphemy all of Abraham's children stick together, they cant take any chances.
Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses, was stabbed to death, the Italian translator Ettore Capriolo was knifed in Milan. William Nygaard, the novel's Norwegian publisher, was shot three times in the back and left for dead in Oslo.
At the time President Bush (the elder) dismissed the whole affair as none of our business.

stock into what Dick Cheney has to say
I got over my hatred of the man after he got drunk and shot that lawyer in the face. Clearly he cant be all bad.
At this point, being mostly composed of pig parts and the best defibrillators Bethesda has to offer, he's like a ship of Theseus. Is he even the same man?

Liz is gonna get creamed, though. 22 points down. In any have decent society it would championed as a noble sacrifice to put your country ahead of your career. Instead Republicans mock her, which tells you everything you need to know about Republicans.

remember ole #34
I remember Jimmy Johnson trading him for two super bowl rings.

Southern Black evangelicals
Best explained in Sowell's "black rednecks" essays. Having lost their own culture they adopted the culture of the hillbillies around them who themselves descendants of Welsh crackers. If you could play them in Civ VI you'd get +2 religion, -2 science, +3 alcoholism and a stacking nerf to era progression.
Warnock seems like a good guy and he'll make a fine politician. But African Americans need to move on from tent preachers and "sample ballots". Arrivals from the West Indies and recent African immigrants, unburdened by white Jesus and promises of paradise in the next life, are among the most successful Americans. Meanwhile, the 'black rednecks' having been pulled down to the level of white hillbillies continue to "cling to their guns and religion". The instant they release their grip they will surpass Y'all Qaeda in every metric within one generation.

Shift the financial burden to the NFL where it belongs. Allow kids to sign a professional contract at 16 either directly with NFL teams and/or with third party agencies. Pro teams will pay the wages and tuition for their own players, send them to whatever school they think will produce the best outcome and move them up to the first team when they are ready. Some parents/players can insist on a graduation clause, or not.
No new rules or conference realignments required. Simply end the prohibition against athletes earning a living and 'the market' will work itself out.
Public institutions fully funding player development for the richest league in the world reaches a level of stupidity only possible in America.

Wolf Creek Pass? In the winter?

Places like that force you to slow down and pay attention. A stroad does the opposite. Wide straight lanes, long turning lanes, hundreds or road signs and advertisement and relatively fast speed limits with zero protection for bikes and pedestrians. If you're in a car you feel perfectly safe and free to rock K.Dot as loudly as you want. It's everyone not in a car rolling the dice. Luckily stroads are so inefficient that congestion often forces us to slow down. If they actually operated at the speeds intended there would be even more fatalities.

The American Stroad. Too slow and congested to be a road. Too dangerous and inaccessible to pedestrians to be a street. Perhaps the worst idea the continent has ever produced. Ugly, inefficient and wildly expensive to build and maintain. They are places you want to spend as little time as possible in. They are superhighways to municipal fiscal insolvency, and a death trap to anyone fool enough to ride a bike or walk near one.

I am praying with you at this important time when your country decides on the question of divorce. My prayer is that you be faithful to the teaching of Jesus: "a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife and they become one body. What God has put together, let no one divide". Our hearts are made to love " a love that is, not only unconditional but also lasting.
What is the meaning of true love in marriage? A man and a woman who really love each other will never promise, when they marry, "I will love you and be true " for a while".
They always promise "I will love you for ever and always be true no matter what happens and no matter what you do".
Breaking the vow of marriage to be faithful until death is not only against true love but it also hurts the children in a special way.

-hillbilly fascist known as "mother Teresa"

Stunning. A decade of anxiety over. If a meteor smashes it to bits tomorrow it was worth it at twice the price.

It's just simply too much space.
It's really hard, maybe impossible, to believe All That, the incomprehensible gianormousness of it, was put there just so that one day a poorly evolved hominid -half a chromosome away from a chimpanzee- might one day take a picture and lack the words to describe it.

There has to be other life out there, it just has to be. I take it on faith alone. And given sufficient time dont we all believe we can do anything? Isn't our arrogance an innate human quality?
This picture shouldn't make you doubt our resolve. It should remind you there is no such thing as the final frontier.

Without abortion some women will look for other options. I suspect some of the surge is due to 23yo men in relationships with 23yo women who discover they are unable to get a tubal ligation. Doctors wont do it and will treat a 23yo woman like she is crazy if she wants one. Just another example of men believing they have priority over women's reproductive systems. Seeking out a female doctor for the procedure wont help, either. The myth of 'motherly instincts' is plainly fiction, but it is a fiction nearly everyone subscribes to. All women yearn to be brood mares for more men, and the one's who aren't must be suffering from hysteria.

Italian-American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and the French PSA Group

Themselves the children of the Agnelli and Peugeot dynasties, old money aristocrats that predate capitalism. Real, down to Earth, pull yourself up by your bootstrap sort of men, relocating to the infamous beating heart of the automotive industry, Amsterdam.

Now that I think about it, Jeep does deserve the award, maybe Dodge as a whole. Rams shepherd about the most DUI drivers by good margin. I actually hate every Dodge ever made. Every time I see one I think, there's a guy with poor taste and bad credit (or a cop).
USA USA USA

My brother had a Jeep years ago. We took it on an Americana road trip one summer. Mount Vernon, old Boston, we walked the trail between Monticello and Montpelier, pushed a mower around Payne's house which isn't a publicly supported monument, just a house in a sleepy neighborhood supported by the locals.

All Jeep drivers wave to each other without fail. They'll come up and talk about tire setups and the best after market soft tops without provocation. Great turning radius, deafening road noise. 3/10 would not drive again. The Axis powers make all the cars worth buying.

You seem very certain that I've gotten it wrong.
On matters of your particular theology, which I interpret as a strange mixture of evidential-ism and regular ole axiomatic faith, whatever, I dont care. You are of course free to make up whatever meta physics you desire. Maybe you're right.

I dont think you can or would deny there has been a dramatic acceleration, exemplified by recent SC decisions, towards a theocratic state. You may not agree with prosperity gospel, seed money, worst-parts-of-Leviticus, Trump is like King David nonsense that has taken over your churches, but you arent innocent in the creation of this Golem. Upon seeing the invading army your instinct is help create a softer more loving theocracy where we'll have drum circles, write poetry about rainbows and contemplate the multi-verse.
We wont fall into a theocracy under the watch of a modern day Torquemada. It will begin with an appeal to benign and agreeable (and useless) religious slogans like, "what remains is faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love." The wheels and racks and witch trials come more towards the end.

And you know this how?

Again, and I'll keep doing this until you get this part right: I dont know much of anything with absolute certainty. All evidence would seem to indicate this life and this world is the only one we've got. If "god gave you a secret and denied it me, well well, what matters it? Believe that, too."

KNOW that their opinions are facts
I'm sure you will be eager the tell St. Peter you were holding doubts all along.
This charge of 'knowing' is poorly concealed projection.
Ive got no reservation admitting your god might exist. But like LaPlace's model of the solar system, my universe seems to carry on fine without him.

evolution ... computer simulation ... multiple dimensions
This is all encouraging progress of a sort. Not too long ago and going back for centuries, the church tried to make science conform to faith. After failing miserably they are now willing to make faith conform to science. Suggesting we all live in a computer simulation would have been grounds for excommunication. Now it is used as evidence of how clever god was all along.

There are prominent physicists
Oh, you mean "materialists"?

You will never convince them the bible isn't the divine word of god
I dont want to convince them of anything. It's still a free country, they can believe whatever they want. I just want them to STFU about it. And if they bring it up in a public forum I reserve the right to mock and laugh at them.

pretty good guide to life
Is it? I reject the premise.

they'll just tune you out
Imagine discussing systemic racism with someone who suggests the solution is more racism.

I think it's cute when Corky uses theology to combat the encroaching theocracy. It serves to highlight how systemic the problem is; he thinks he is doing a moral good with these Sunday school lessons. Never mind the opposition uses the same book, sometimes the same exact chapter and verse. That's the great thing about all those rusty old books: They Can Be Whatever You Want.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

watch the full interview.

Definitely. The reporter even plugged it, pure gold.
And the dude is right. Roosters are vicious bastards, running just encourages them. Go to a big chicken farm and they are dumping hundreds of squeaking lil male chicks in a meat grinder all day. No one cares about the welfare of chickens. Even the owner of this particular chicken giggles at the neighborhood kids throwing rocks, calling it "playing with the chicken".