I have another hope . . . that Clarence Thomas is forced to resign and Justice Stephen Breyer retires while President Biden is still in office.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire at end of term

All these fundies and their churches will finally start give away free diapers, formula, food, daycare, clothing, and other essentials to families who couldn't afford to have another child, right?

They'll finally start adopting the hundreds of thousands of foster kids awaiting adoption instead of going overseas to countries where they have missionaries? Even if their skin is brown or black?

To oppose the sale of military grade assault weapons so living children won't get slaughtered in school?

To encourage people to sign up for private health insurance and offer to pay premiums for people who can't afford them, right?

To start spending their collection plates in their communities instead of sending it to missionaries overseas, right?

Uh, sure they will.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter

Bringing a knife to a gun fight would have allowed him to scrape off some of the mayo.

#15 | Posted by LampLighte

I remember a live remote TV broadcast where we were going to be playing along with a partially prerecorded track (on tape).

When the kleig lights went on during a quick sound check a minute before going live the power suck was enough to slow down the tape and make us ear-shatteringly out of tune with the track. A quick thinking grip ran a power cable to the remote truck and saved the day with seconds to spare. Close call!

If Sarah Huckabee Sanders thinks children are safe in a classroom then voters should not allow her to be governor, even if they dismiss her participation in the most corrupt presidential administration in history. pic.twitter.com/ZKRbDff7lf

" Lisa McCormick (She's one of Us!) (@LisaMcCormickNJ) June 26, 2022

Actually the drug companies did the fast tracking without needing Trump.

Posted by LauraMohr

True.

#4 | Posted by Danforth

When I signed up for a Kroger "rewards" card - which actually meant I paid what I did before they raised prices at the same time they rolled them out - I signed up using a fake Thai-sounding name, "---- Yu," fake address and phone number. Mr. Yu doesn't think it's anyone's business what he buys there.

Her words, are too many in America's words...
and utterly disgusting. I do not want to live with these Americans as my neighbors.

#6 | Posted by earthmuse

When I was young people only said s*** like that if they were drunk. Now they say it out loud.

Thankfully, we have a wall around Nashville that keeps redneck yahoos out: they can't afford to live here.

#7 | Posted by Scotty

Funny!

#398 | Posted by rstybeach11

I personally know half a dozen fundies who adopted. From China.

Guess American kids weren't good enough. Too brown? What? They wanted to be able to brag to their church friends ala "look at what a wonderful person I am to adopt from where we have missionaries!"

#398 | Posted by rstybeach11

Ya, currently 600,000+ foster kids who haven't been adopted. So much for all that "Christian" love, eh?

Do you believe Jesus Christ the Son of God would condone the dilberate murdering of the miracle of life inside a woman?

#389 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Fundies don't care about people once they're born. All yap yap yap about zygotes, vote for politicians who seek to defund anything and everything to keep anyone alive out here in the world

Quit supporting politicians who don't care about anyone living in this country!!!

For instance, Republicans are holding up renewing the school lunch program that guarantees every student a meal at school.

Not to mention how viciously Republicans and their ilk fought to ensure people couldn't buy private health insurance via the Affordable Care & Patient Protection Act. OH MY GOD!! They want to keep people alive!!!

Again, Matthew 25:31-46 is a test most Talibaptists would fail. Every time.

We've gone back to "States Rights" where the State determines what rights you may have.

YAV

But .. but ... the SC also just ruled states can't make their own laws about concealed carry.

Conservatives speak with forked tongues. Like snakes.

PS - I found videos about villages in Central Mexico where they still speak Nahuatln and most don't speak Spanish.

#53 | Posted by donnerboy

I've been a voracious reader since I was a small child, averaging one a week, fiction and history.

Thanks for the heads up. I'm sure I'll be reading about Guererro. My next are about the Maya. Read a couple years ago, but since reading Matthew Restall's book on the Aztec I know I'll get the facts. I've already ordered three books from the library, two of them his. A friend who grew up and lives in Merida (on the Yucatan) sent gave me a book years ago when I visited him. Fascinating history going back 11,000 years that they can trace.

Unlike how Spanish priests destroyed much of Aztec history, the Maya retained a wealth of written history.

Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) was a fascinating city and marvel of construction, for sure. As were the other cities in the Triple Alliance. And to think they built a city of 60,000-100,000 out of a swampy island in just a few decades. Aqueducts bringing spring water from the mountains to the city were better constructed than anything the Romans built. Each had two large terracotta pipes on top. Two in case they needed to make repairs to one of them. And bathrooms with running water and flushing toilets. Something Spain didn't have.

And their method of growing crops on 90' x 10' platforms that jutted out into Lake Texcoco was ingenious. What a shame the Spaniards drained that incredible lake system of thousands of square miles.

#5 | Posted by

A friend of mine was their chief sound man for much of the 80's and 90's. Massive operation.

Anyone see the PBS series, Classic Albums?

The episode of Pink Floyd recording Dark Side Of The Moon was really good.

"One answer to this question lies in the difference between the way Corts and Montezuma communicated, based on their cultural tradition. Montezuma's native language, Nahuatl, was a reverential mode of speech. When Montezuma spoke, he chose to portray false humility. That was how he communicated his nobility and power. But to Corts, Montezuma's humble words sounded like surrender."

Words that were at that moment double translated from Nahuatl to Maya to Spanish, which also meant much was lost in translation.

The story of Montezuma and Cortes that's been told for 500 years is little more than a glorified history written by the Spanish "victors." Cortes was a money hungry POS.

Semper Fi

#49 | Posted by donnerboy

The past two weeks I've been deep into a couple of books about Montezuma and Cortes. The first was a 1000+ page historical novel called "Aztec," and the second a book by a widely renowned linguist and Latin American history professor, Matthew Restall, called "When Montezuma Met Cortes." Factual information, not the glorified 500-year-old mythistory we're been taught about how Cortes took the Aztecs with 400 men. Didn't happen that way at all.

Anyhoo, at the very end of the second book, he explained where the line from the Marine Battle Hymn, "From the halls of Montezuma," originated.

During the Mexican-American War, the Marines landed at Vera Cruz (like Cortes) and proceeded along what is basically the route Cortes took to get to Tenochtitlan, today's Mexico City, and proceeded through the same neighborhoods where Montezuma's palace and zoo were once located.

For anyone interested in a history of the conquistador era based on facts rather than Cortes' and Diaz's romanticized accounts, I couldn't recommend Restall's book more highly. And, IMO, "Aztec" is one of the best historical novels I can remember reading.

BTW, Montezuma didn't "surrender" to Cortes at the "Meeting" that occurred when he met Cortes, thinking he was a returned god. Didn't happen. Montezuma invited Cortes to visit, suppied the Spaniards with food and protection all along their journey from Vera Cruz to Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), and welcomed him on the south causeway with words spoken in the manner high level Aztec officials did at the time.

But Matthew 25: 31-46 is a test about actually being actively pro-life ... to the sentient living.

But Talibaptists are far more concerned with the Old Testament and Paul - who never knew Christ in His lifetime - than they've ever been with practicing the tents of the namesake of Christianity.

An applicable term is "Cafeteria Christians," who pick and choose from the Bible when they don't want to do what Christ said to do in their Bibles.

"What did Jesus say about abortion, the favorite subject of Jeffress and the rest of the evangelical movement? Nothing. What does the Bible say about abortion, a practice as old as civilization? Nothing. Not one word."

Chris Ladd

#1 | Posted by SomebodyElse

Yep. Not one word.

#257 | Posted by sentinel

Ever single one the SC decisions you listed - denying or rescinding rights - were made moot because of new laws, amendments, or following SC decisions.

This is a first time in modern history a right the SC granted, considered settled law, a right has been rescinded by the SC.

Add "Overturn This" to the next SC's session docket when some gun nut sues to overturn it.

"Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of former President Donald J. Trump, told a documentary film crew in the middle of December 2020 that her father should "continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted" because people were questioning "the sanctity of our elections."

"Ivanka Trump tells the truth when she's under oath to the 1/6 committee: admitting Donald lost - but lies when she's not under oath in a documentary: urging they "continue to fight until every legal remedy is exhausted."

I've noticed how it seems a large swath of anyone under 30 is staring at their phone when I see them, from supermarket exits to the dog park.