Well now, you guys, this is just getting silly. First we LOLed because Hillary Clinton might win Utah -- UTAH . And then we LOLed because Hillary Clinton might win AZ -- AZ !! Then it was Georgia's turn for a LOL-line. And now we are ROTFLGBTQ because Hillary Clinton might win "the South."
Don't be stupid. Everyone always gripes about Vietnam, but they always forget all of this from LBJ's legacy:
Medicare
Medicaid
Head Start
Civil Rights Act 1964
Voting Rights Act 1965
Fair Housing Act 1968
Freedom of Information Act 1967
Clean Air Act 1963
Pesticide Control Bill 1964
Water Quality Act 1965
Water Resource Planning Act 1965
Water and Sanitation Systems in Rural Areas Bill 1965
Solid Waste Disposal Bill 1965
Sale Water Conservation Act 1965
Air Quality Acts 1966 and 1967
National Water Commission
Wilderness Act 1964
Central Arizona Project Endangered Species Act 1966
National Park Foundation 1967
Wetlands Preservation Bill 1967
Highway Beautification Act 1965
National Historic Preservation Act 1966
Endangered Species Act 1966
National Trails System 1967
Wild and Scenic Rivers System 1967
Creation of the National Endowment for the Arts
Creation of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Immigration Act of 1965 that finally lifted the racist bans on brown immigrants.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act AND the Higher Education Act. It was the most massive investment in education in this country's history, that still has not been matched.
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If that dump known as heaven existed, you can bet your fucking ass that LBJ is there. You look at that list and name one other president who did so much for we the people as LBJ.
I'll fucking wait.
Vietnam was bad, but the rest of that would have been a breathtaking list of accomplishments for two generations of presidents, never mind one who served only five years.
My understanding has been that he's always been really--really--bizarro. I remember him on CNN once with a panel talking about race and he said that he would love to be a black man now to get in on all those entitlements. Spike Lee was on the panel as well and told him he was either crazy or a liar.
I think he's actually insane enough to think that it would help him to campaign in LA and NYC, because a) those are the two places where he's made a name for himself and b) that's where the media hubs are. It will get him the most attention, and Trump has always been about getting as much of that as can be had.
The megachurch phenomenon was always smoke and mirrors. It was never about an expansion of religiosity, as they (typically) dishonestly claimed, but about a consolidation of failing smaller churches. That's just about complete now.
And why are those smaller churches failing? When pollsters ask the right questions, it turns out that Americans are not all that religious, really, and they don't attend church in the numbers that have been claimed.
Ask them if they went to church on Sunday, and the Halo Effect kicks in for about 40% of them to answer, "Oh yes of course!" Ask people instead what they actually did over the weekend, and only 10-20% say they went to church. These numbers are consistent, week to week. Only at Christmas and maybe Easter do the numbers get anywhere near the claimed 40% number.
Attendance numbers of 10-20% are positively European numbers, and our shopping centers and movie theaters and etc. back them up. Even in the South, there are more people mowing their yards or at the shopping centers on a Sunday morning than at the average church.
The internal numbers on the christer churches are abysmal. Young people are abandoning them in droves. They have better things to do on a Sunday than hang out with a bunch of judgmental bigots. That leaves churches graying out and dying off--and fast.
Nones are set to take over Evangelicals as the largest religious group in the country within the next 6-12 months, at current projections. The hold of the Religious Reich is fracturing, right before our eyes. The secularism movement needs to start ratcheting up the volume some more and pour on some more of the challenges and mockery. It's working.
I've always been afraid of fish hooks. My psycho brother got one caught in my upper arm when he was being stupid and goofing off with his fishing rod. It fucking hurt to get that taken out.
NC, GA, and FL for sure. TX, MS and LA in play. With the Walmart sister supporting Hilliary, even Ark, maay go.
Heh. Made my day, too.
Don't be stupid. Everyone always gripes about Vietnam, but they always forget all of this from LBJ's legacy:
Medicare
Medicaid
Head Start
Civil Rights Act 1964
Voting Rights Act 1965
Fair Housing Act 1968
Freedom of Information Act 1967
Clean Air Act 1963
Pesticide Control Bill 1964
Water Quality Act 1965
Water Resource Planning Act 1965
Water and Sanitation Systems in Rural Areas Bill 1965
Solid Waste Disposal Bill 1965
Sale Water Conservation Act 1965
Air Quality Acts 1966 and 1967
National Water Commission
Wilderness Act 1964
Central Arizona Project Endangered Species Act 1966
National Park Foundation 1967
Wetlands Preservation Bill 1967
Highway Beautification Act 1965
National Historic Preservation Act 1966
Endangered Species Act 1966
National Trails System 1967
Wild and Scenic Rivers System 1967
Creation of the National Endowment for the Arts
Creation of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Immigration Act of 1965 that finally lifted the racist bans on brown immigrants.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act AND the Higher Education Act. It was the most massive investment in education in this country's history, that still has not been matched.
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If that dump known as heaven existed, you can bet your fucking ass that LBJ is there. You look at that list and name one other president who did so much for we the people as LBJ.
I'll fucking wait.
Vietnam was bad, but the rest of that would have been a breathtaking list of accomplishments for two generations of presidents, never mind one who served only five years.
I think I found what I want to do on election day. I'll need to brush up on my Spanish, though, to make it a lot less atrocious.
My understanding has been that he's always been really--really--bizarro. I remember him on CNN once with a panel talking about race and he said that he would love to be a black man now to get in on all those entitlements. Spike Lee was on the panel as well and told him he was either crazy or a liar.
That had to have been around 1988 or so.
I think he's actually insane enough to think that it would help him to campaign in LA and NYC, because a) those are the two places where he's made a name for himself and b) that's where the media hubs are. It will get him the most attention, and Trump has always been about getting as much of that as can be had.
It's losing the college educated voters in the burbs that's probably killing him.
We do have some of those down here.
The megachurch phenomenon was always smoke and mirrors. It was never about an expansion of religiosity, as they (typically) dishonestly claimed, but about a consolidation of failing smaller churches. That's just about complete now.
And why are those smaller churches failing? When pollsters ask the right questions, it turns out that Americans are not all that religious, really, and they don't attend church in the numbers that have been claimed.
Ask them if they went to church on Sunday, and the Halo Effect kicks in for about 40% of them to answer, "Oh yes of course!" Ask people instead what they actually did over the weekend, and only 10-20% say they went to church. These numbers are consistent, week to week. Only at Christmas and maybe Easter do the numbers get anywhere near the claimed 40% number.
Attendance numbers of 10-20% are positively European numbers, and our shopping centers and movie theaters and etc. back them up. Even in the South, there are more people mowing their yards or at the shopping centers on a Sunday morning than at the average church.
The internal numbers on the christer churches are abysmal. Young people are abandoning them in droves. They have better things to do on a Sunday than hang out with a bunch of judgmental bigots. That leaves churches graying out and dying off--and fast.
Nones are set to take over Evangelicals as the largest religious group in the country within the next 6-12 months, at current projections. The hold of the Religious Reich is fracturing, right before our eyes. The secularism movement needs to start ratcheting up the volume some more and pour on some more of the challenges and mockery. It's working.
Um. OK. Hockey's the one with the wooden ball, I'm pretty sure?
I've always been afraid of fish hooks. My psycho brother got one caught in my upper arm when he was being stupid and goofing off with his fishing rod. It fucking hurt to get that taken out.
Texas men in gimme hats and hunting vests has always been my "get the hell out now" red flag.
And yet it's the closest to turning of any of the states of the lower south, other than Georgia.
And if y'all want really scary, Mississippi is right there with Texas in starting to get light red over at 538.
They love their tokens.
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He wasn't all that fond of brown people, either.
Molly Ivins and Ann Richards are turning over in their graves to say "Fuck you."