Robson - washing windows when he knows that there are pigeons on the roof.

They all say they don't want the job. It's a ---- job. She's a 20 year public servant. If the leader of her Party asks her to run she'll run.

I hope everyone is able to expel all the fear and doubt before the convention. That's the path to the dark side.
The D's have a great opportunity to bring life and excitement to what has become a predictable and dull affair sine the 1940s. Even if the floor fights are staged and Harris has the nomination on lockdown a scramble to fill the VP spot should make for good prime time tv.

Whitmer and Shapiro seem like the obvious choices to me. Newsome and Pritzker probably won't be happy trading their day jobs for a glorified ribbon cutter but they could make everyone see just how small Vance is as a man. My dark horse pick would be Gina Raimondo. Super smart, funny, killing it at Commerce, but RI only has 2 electoral votes. She and Harris could talk about abortion and child pageant weirdos who grab ------- everyday until November.

The SNR from Bray Falls takes my vote. Stunning. And it shows how far amateur astronomy has come in the last decade. That's not from some 100 million dollar 40m telescope. He has taken a photo of something 5000 light years away with persistence, patience and equipment you can buy on Amazon.

Her father has been married 7 times to 6 women (he married and divorced the same woman twice). He has 26 children. He kidnapped two of his daughters and kept them "medicated" in solitary confinement for over a year until they managed to escape.
He kidnapped a bunch of kids to be camel jockeys in his horse and camel races. He owns a stable in Kentucky and his horses are regularly flagged for doping.

The alleged infidelities of this girl's husband won't break the top 1000 crimes committed by her family. The family that supports the lavish lifestyle she showcases on instagram.

Donut's self-important hubris and sophistry is unrivaled. Scolding everyone for the exact thing he is about to do.
Whatever the investigation uncovers he'll be sure to congratulate himself for having been right all along.

If that's true then that's something they can hang on Biden
Only if "they" are willing to blame anything they don't agree with on the President regardless of how far he is removed from the process.
Maybe Biden assigned Trump's detail, seems unlikely.
My guess (hope) is the SS is a pure meritocracy. The best and most experienced agents get to fly around on AF One and attend concerts and The Kennedy Center whilst the ------- get assigned to Laura Bush DWI interventions or keeping Eric Trump's coke dealer from getting too close to the principal.

I doubt Trump's SS detail are the best and brightest. The S-tier crews are surely reserved for the acting President. They wouldn't put their best guys guarding Jimmy Carter's nursing home. We know from the J6 investigation some are Trump sycophants, in other words, goofs and dummies. It's hard for me to suspect a conspiracy when plain incompetence is so apparent.
Besides, every member of the Trump team rolls over like a beaten dog and shows their belly when put under the slightest bit of pressure. Who among them could be trusted to keep this plan a secret?

it was a group of Baptists who suggested keeping church and state separate to Jefferson, who responded in agreement with his wall of separation quote.

No surprise Dorky's Cliff Note version totally missed the plot.
Who were the baptists upset with?
The Congregationalists!! One sect of Christians had taken over the Connecticut legislature and imposed a tax on the others. The baptists didn't want a wall, they wanted rod to flay the backs of the Congregationalists, and they were asking Jefferson to step into their fight. Jefferson wasn't "agreeing" with the baptists, he was politely telling them he wasn't going to use the power of the Executive in their sectarian squabble.

The Danbury Baptists were just another in a long long long line of Christians who drab on about superstitious nonsense and the afterlife while devoting most of their time and energy seeking power in the natural world.

Christians make up about 70 percent of the American population
But not necessarily 70% of the respondents in that poll. You're making that assumption. We don't know. What we do know is Among The Christian Respondents most support legislation to make their god a centerpiece of public education. The percentages fall somewhere between a majority and a super majority depending on how the question is phrased.

I, like most Christians, don't support any of these things
"Link Please"
The LA legislature is going to dance with the girl who brung them. As the State Houses in Alabama and Texas did when similar measures were made law. Two stepping to this tune is how many Republicans get elected and keep their seats. If "most Christians" don't support this garbage why do they keep voting for the same people in districts were Christians make up far more than the 70% national average? Why do these laws only come from The Most Christian districts?

Your position is absurd. "Most Christians" don't support laws to strengthen Christianity. "Most Christians" think more Christianity would be bad for society.
If you actually believe that it only serves as more evidence of how toxic religion is to the brain.

I'd suggest you work on your defection "skilzzz".
My claim was/is: The majority of Christians support this and similar legislation.
Americans don't support this bill.

Among The Christian Respondents- 85% believe ...
Among The Christian Respondents- 52%believe ...
Among The Christian Respondents- 66%believe ...

The Gallop poll asked more than one question. Among the questions was: "allowing displays of the Ten Commandments in public schools"
You just don't like the answers. We both know why.

Your other numbers are the PERCENT OF THAT 1/3rd!
You made that up. The religious instruction question in the headline is separate from the percentages in the other questions. You know this, you're pretending to be stupid.
No surprise the Christians polled were more hesitant on "religious instruction". They want only their religion to have that power over other people's children.

I noticed you passed on any attempt at fuzzy math on the Gallop link. I'll pretend to be shocked you didn't engage in good faith.

Yeah, that's how belief works, goofus. You probably believe the Earth rotates around the sun (maybe not, you are a moon landing denier after all). You don't believe the Earth moves around the sun because you are clever enough to come up with an experiment yourself, you believe it because someone told you.

"Admire" is probably a bit strong. I definitely respect their political prowess and determination. Perhaps if more uneducated reactionary know-nothing blowhards -Like You- did the same they wouldn't be able to dunk on us so often?

Despite what our resident Christian apologists insinuate, the vast majority of Christians support this bill. They support school led prayer and time set aside for religious instruction in classrooms. They support it openly from the pulpit, with their money and most importantly with their vote. They are not an embarrassing breakaway minority, they are the norm. They are the "real" Christians. And while they appear as sexually repressed, anti-American, mealy-mouthed, hypocritical busybodies; they are preferable to the alternative presented here regularly. The "real" Christians will at least stand up straight and fight for what they believe in. They don't hide behind scholars' of dead languages and obscure ancient mythology hoping to benefit from the victories of the real Christians and be sheltered from the blame for the inevitable harm they will bring.

Of course, Jesus said that even thinking a wrong thing is a sin; the point being that everyone does one way or another.
Gentle Jesus meek and mild.
Glad he was able to correct the rules that god botched in the first edition.
Thought crime, brilliant. The essence of any totalitarian regime. It can convict you while you sleep.

One can draw a straight line from the celestial dictatorship of a vicarious redeemer-someone you must love and fear, another trademark of any totalitarian- to the universal Christian arrogance that insists your kids must also follow "His Law".

Every continent has colonial action. When those Egyptians and Syrians moved into The Levant - colonialism. Arabs converting N Africa by sword, colonialism. History is just one gigantic story of colonialism. The moon and Mars are next.
What's your point?

Russia is now (and apparently was in 1920) European. Someone should tell Putin. Now he doesn't have to go to war to prevent Ukraine,Poland and the Baltic States from joining the eurozone. Congratulations! You've done it. You've solved world peace. We're all European.

Who forced European Jews to go to Israel
More like "what" forced European Jews to go to Israel. America wouldn't take them. Pograms. Ghettos. The Final Solution. 2000 years of open antisemitism from every pulpit in Europe.
They had nowhere to go but Jerusalem, their ancestral homeland where Jews had been for 3000 years.

I don't think you're lying, either. I think you really do believe Jews and Palestinians occupy a unique and imagined tier of Statecraft where war and history are inconsequential. Each of them are bound (or immune) to some unwritten code that only applies to their conflict.
Only the Jews should be forbidden from buying, holding or acquiring by force territory they claim rights to. And Palestinians should be given squatter's rights to a country that never existed and land they never owned.
When Jews make an ally of the most powerful nation, it's evidence of the tricksy Jews being Jewy. When Palestinians make enemies of every neighbor ... .those sly Jews again, not playing fair.

It's ironic that you think propaganda is on Israel's side. No other people on Earth have been longer victims of the propaganda war. They killed Jesus (a fictional character)! The bake their bread with baby's blood. They own all the banks and run the media, ask Ye. Centuries of anti Jewish propaganda.
You're here. One of the brightest people on the DR in defense of mask-off terrorists who hide behind women and children.
And you think I'm the one being tricked.

Sarah Aaronsohn Syrian
Gershon Agron Russian
Abba Ahimeir Russian
Sholem Aleichem Russian
Chaim Arlosoroff Russian
David Baazov Russian
Meir Bar-Ilan Russian
Shulamit Bat-Dori Russian
Menachem Begin Russian
David Ben-Gurion born in Congress Poland (then Russian Empire)
Mordechai Bentov Russian
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Russian
Dov Ber Borochov Russian
Rachel Cohen-Kagan Russian
Abba Eban South Africa
Albert Einstein American when he supported Zionism
Nahum Goldmann Russian
Shulamit Goldstein Russian
I Aaron David Gordon Russian
H - Z ... same story

The overwhelming majority of Zionist leaders were Russian. Germans came in second, but only after The War. That's why "The West"/Europeans didn't support Israel in 48 and Stalin had to supply them.
This, Israel is a European colony' is total nonsense. It's more like a reservation. A tiny piece of land "the size of a tablecloth" where the undesirable, hooked-nose, moneylending killers of Christ were marched off to die at the hands of Arab squatters.
But they made a go of it. Transformed barren desert and malaria invested swamp land, the only strip in the Middle East with no oil, into a thriving society that towers above their neighbors.

If they had the will and ability. Yes
So as long as a people want to do terrorism and can do terrorism, they should do terrorism. Got it.
Maybe my question was poorly worded. Let me restate: Should the Seminole attack Orlando and carry off women and children? Would such an act be something you would attempt to justify?

Ability-"Possession of the means or skill to do something.
Talent, skill, or proficiency in a particular area."
If you fail at something for over 100 years, an unbroken streak of L's since 1918, can you claim to have "ability"? If every attempt leaves you worse off than before, how long before your attempts are no longer justified? Roughly

Why is this a good thing when The Ukrainians do it but so insufferable when the Palestinians do it?
Wait. Isn't it your position that Ukrainians should surrender and the Palestinians should fight forever?

Ashkenazi Jewish Ancestry
Please. When your side says "European Jews" you mean people that were citizens of The UK, France, Germany ... (and when it suits you, weirdly, Russians and Slavs). You do not mean people who might have migrated 10,000 years ago.

The Zionist movement IS the ROOT cause of all the problems.
Without accepting your premise, can you elaborate on the "ROOT" cause of Zionism?

the Zionist movement is akin to the colonization of the USA by Europeans and the Native American's plight
I think you might be half-right. You've just got your parties muddled up. The Jews were the ones who had been there the whole time. Before the Romans, before Islam was invented, before the United Kingdom existed. Today only~18% of Israel's population is of European ancestry. The Jews are The Indians. The Palestinians (Egyptians/Syrians) are the foreign invaders.

If the Japanese and Germans had chosen to continue resistance they did have that option.
Is that option still on the table? Can ze Germans send suicide bombers into Salisia? Can the Japanese resist' Mancunians ... forever until the end of time? Can the Seminole attack Orlando and carry off women and children?

Banger, Cutie.

The one constant is old people always think it was better when they were young and lacked perspective, experience and responsibility.
Pre-Raygun, huh. That was the good times? Except for Nixon. And that day in Dallas. Vietnam. The Civil War. Jim Crow.
Politics was cleaner and more polite way back when, too. Burr and Hamilton could settle their disputes over drinks and a game of chess. When John Adams growled, "Jefferson lives" he was actually very happy his old buddy was enjoying his golden years in Boca with Sally Hemings.

Dune was great but I almost walked out before it started. I checked the clock, 42 minutes of commercials!!!
I love Dune. All the mini series, all the books. Big Chalamet fanboy. But even with all that I only went to the theater b/ my flight got canceled and I had time to kill. 100+ seat imax, there was 4 people there on release week.

The respective leagues should be forced to foot the bill in baseball, basketball and especially football. The vast majority of the money will be going to players in those sports. The NFL, the most profitable sports league in the world, pays next to nothing for scouting or player development. They get ready-made players subsidized by the government.
In soccer (real football) a team will have hundreds of scouts all over the globe. Kids get signed at 6yo, their first professional contract at 14yo. Their education, housing, food, transportation ... all paid by the club for years. It's common for their parents to become employees of the club. Very few of those kids ever make it to the first team. Players development is a giant money sink for every club.
Compare that to the NFL. Maybe a half dozen "scouts" who evaluate adults that already have hundreds of hour of tape. The hottest prospects get put on franchise contracts where the player doesn't have negotiating power. The lesser players are on contracts where they can be cut or traded at anytime. The teams take on zero risk. No deployment leagues, no deployment teams to pay for. No relegation. No incentive to even win since all the profits are shared. The worst teams get the best players who are forced to join poorly performing clubs. To call it communism is an insult to communists.

"Made in Israel": spyware. A lot of the Islamic theocracies would have a hard time suppressing their populations without Israel's Silicon Valley. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing ... jus saying.

China must assume the the US will defend Taiwan (although our recent investment in chip manufacturing sends mixed messages and undermines the "chip shield"). Taiwan is useless if the factories are destroyed, they can't replace the ASML machines or reverse engineer them. So to take Taiwan China has to Pearl Harbor our bases in Japan and Guam before they can invade. That's a nightmare scenario. A full-on war with China would have to be won quickly. In the long run they will out produce us in a drawn out conflict. More importantly their war time economy won't be hamstrung by partisan in-fighting and a significant proportion on the population wearing a kaffiyeh and moaning about our "Asian genocide".

On the the bright side nuclear winter will do wonders for global warming.