This is really good news for the country writ large because the end game for project 2025 is turning America into a Christian theocracy. And now they have one less precedent to support that aim, and the rest of us non Christians and non fascist Christians, have precedent to show that this shit won't be tolerated.
I think this should qualify for the certified Wonkette NICE TIME rating
I have this memory of having to recite The Lord's Prayer in 4th grade, which was 1965-66. This was awkward for me as I was the only Catholic child in the school (the rest went to the Catholic school which was right across the street from my public school) and for those of you who don't know, Catholics don't say The Lord's Prayer exactly the same way that Protestants do. Protestant versions usually include the doxology ("For thine is the kingdom...") at the end, while Catholic versions do not. However, the teacher insisted we say it the Protestant way, and I didn't make a scene or anything, I just stopped after "deliver us from evil." Nobody noticed.
I have no idea of why we had to recite this prayer in school but it was inappropriate, and it definitely stuck in my mind, probably because that was the first time I learned that Protestants said it differently.
Why do Right wingnut organizations have such ironic names? "Moms for America," "Moms for Liberty," "Center for American Liberty" (“…civil liberties of Americans left behind by civil rights legacy organizations.”), "Great American Family ("Hallmark movies aren't heterosexual enough[]") "Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence," "Honest Election Project" (A Leonard Leo joint), "Children’s Health Defense" (a Bobby Brainworm org), "Project Veritas," "Patriot Freedom Project," "Becket Fund for Religious Liberty," etc... etc... etc...
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"the day after it was revealed that he had spent over 100,000 state tax dollars meant for education"
The asshole also spent ~$24,500 buying 532 copies of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA Bible."
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"Those dissenting tried to make a case that the changes didn’t violate the act, because the meeting at which they implemented them was announced 24 hours before the board voted on them."
"You can't arrest me for Bank Robbery, I sent an email to the bank 24 hours before the stick-up."
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BTW, so much for "America First" and standing behind US manufacturers:
> "Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s [sic] “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices: China.
The only parent/guardian I know to actually call the school to complain about anything religious showing up in the school is a pastor. She was _livid_ to see a Bible quote on the margins of her 1st grader's coloring sheet. (the picture itself wasn't religious) Friend's a liberal Christian with a very strict interpretation of separation of church and state. She also advocates for the schools' winter concert to have no christmas carols.
Although the Christian religion itself is not racist, having been founded and initially spreading in an area that covered parts of the Near East, Europe, and North Africa, the assumption that Christianity is the sole sufficient truth of divine interaction with human beings IS racist. It locks out the whole of East and Southeast Asia, considerably more people than lived in the initial Christian area, plus everyone who lived in the Americas and Australia, and some of those people had to wait 700 to 1400 years before they heard this allegedly essential truth. Why was God running a Chinese Exclusion Act of his own? Why did he package his "truth" with epidemics for the peoples of the Americas? As always, "God's only excuse is that he does not exist."
Oh yeah - Jesus was a middle easterner - one of the brown people that they portend to hate. The “White boys” in my context are usually white men who misuse and abuse their power to take advantage of and keep everyone in their place. However, the misusers snd abusers are not always “white” there are women and people of color that try to play the white boy game. However the real white boy men rarely let them into the White Boy Club.
Turns out the Constitution still works when someone actually reads it instead of highlighting Jesus quotes with a Sharpie. Public schools aren’t Sunday school, and “freedom” doesn’t mean sneaking theology in through the lesson plan. Small win. Big precedent.
Why come is these kinda Christians are so insecure? Does not the Irrepressible and Undeniable Radiance of Property and Racism Naturally Attract all Sentient White Beings to the One True God?
IIRC, even Gov. Stitt, no prize himself, had had enough of this Walters guy. Walters won an office that no one cares about or pays attention to, and proceeded to spend every minute of every day desperately trying to get on Donald Trump's radar, while paying virtually no attention to his actual job.
Christians want their shit in public schools because that way, it can't be ignored. Christians love fighting -- they'll make up or pick fights if none are at hand -- but they absolutely cannot endure being ignored.
So, anyone fancy a wager as to PAB's Big Speech tonight?
I've read it'll be 15 minutes, devoted to walking back much of the nonsense he spouted last week in PA.
I bet it goes over an hour.
I bet it includes promises of a Big Beautiful New Health Care, so simple, you're gonna love it. And talk of how he's reduced inflation by 437%, while he's brought in $50 Trillion of new investment in America. All the crime is gone, and so are all the illegals from garbage countries.
LOL, when has Fuckface ever kept it short when there's a microphone in his face? I predict maybe 5 minutes of attempting to read the talking points, then 90-odd minutes of dementia rambling on his current favourite topics:
- All The Wars I've Stopped
- I Aced All The Dementia Tests and You Couldn't
- So Many MRIs I Passed, You Wouldn't Believe
- We're Shooting So Many Drug Dealers
- Meathead from Archie Bunker got what he deserved because TDS
- Sleepy Joe Biden Rigged and Stolle All the Elections
"I have renamed Venezuela's north coast as 'Normandy' and the beach is gonna be Omaha and we're sending in the Loser Division of Marines to take over the Resorts -- so beautiful! -- and rebrand them in my name! Tempus Fugit!"
Two thoughts: Why wasn't this crap shot down 9-0 ( I know: Oklahoma) Also, Lindel Fields had his lucky day. The supremes did him a huge favor by flushing this turd of a policy down the shitter.
If the name of an organization contains the words "Freedom" and "Alliance," one can pretty much be assured that its members are aggrieved bigots looking for attention, consequence-free behavior, and nothing more.
OT: We finally figured out what was wrong with Renfield Scott. He threw up and with the stuff was a big black hairball. So he's feeling better. Gave him some butter.
This is really good news for the country writ large because the end game for project 2025 is turning America into a Christian theocracy. And now they have one less precedent to support that aim, and the rest of us non Christians and non fascist Christians, have precedent to show that this shit won't be tolerated.
I think this should qualify for the certified Wonkette NICE TIME rating
I have this memory of having to recite The Lord's Prayer in 4th grade, which was 1965-66. This was awkward for me as I was the only Catholic child in the school (the rest went to the Catholic school which was right across the street from my public school) and for those of you who don't know, Catholics don't say The Lord's Prayer exactly the same way that Protestants do. Protestant versions usually include the doxology ("For thine is the kingdom...") at the end, while Catholic versions do not. However, the teacher insisted we say it the Protestant way, and I didn't make a scene or anything, I just stopped after "deliver us from evil." Nobody noticed.
I have no idea of why we had to recite this prayer in school but it was inappropriate, and it definitely stuck in my mind, probably because that was the first time I learned that Protestants said it differently.
"Teacher Freedom Alliance"
Why do Right wingnut organizations have such ironic names? "Moms for America," "Moms for Liberty," "Center for American Liberty" (“…civil liberties of Americans left behind by civil rights legacy organizations.”), "Great American Family ("Hallmark movies aren't heterosexual enough[]") "Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence," "Honest Election Project" (A Leonard Leo joint), "Children’s Health Defense" (a Bobby Brainworm org), "Project Veritas," "Patriot Freedom Project," "Becket Fund for Religious Liberty," etc... etc... etc...
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"the day after it was revealed that he had spent over 100,000 state tax dollars meant for education"
The asshole also spent ~$24,500 buying 532 copies of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA Bible."
-----
"Those dissenting tried to make a case that the changes didn’t violate the act, because the meeting at which they implemented them was announced 24 hours before the board voted on them."
"You can't arrest me for Bank Robbery, I sent an email to the bank 24 hours before the stick-up."
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BTW, so much for "America First" and standing behind US manufacturers:
> "Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s [sic] “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices: China.
Global trade records reviewed by The Associated Press show a printing company in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 of the Bibles to the United States earlier this year." https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/thousands-of-trump-bibles-were-printed-in-china-as-he-campaigned-against-trade-practices (Oct 2024)
As they say, you should read the whole thing.
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The only parent/guardian I know to actually call the school to complain about anything religious showing up in the school is a pastor. She was _livid_ to see a Bible quote on the margins of her 1st grader's coloring sheet. (the picture itself wasn't religious) Friend's a liberal Christian with a very strict interpretation of separation of church and state. She also advocates for the schools' winter concert to have no christmas carols.
Although the Christian religion itself is not racist, having been founded and initially spreading in an area that covered parts of the Near East, Europe, and North Africa, the assumption that Christianity is the sole sufficient truth of divine interaction with human beings IS racist. It locks out the whole of East and Southeast Asia, considerably more people than lived in the initial Christian area, plus everyone who lived in the Americas and Australia, and some of those people had to wait 700 to 1400 years before they heard this allegedly essential truth. Why was God running a Chinese Exclusion Act of his own? Why did he package his "truth" with epidemics for the peoples of the Americas? As always, "God's only excuse is that he does not exist."
More creepy white boys pretending they are Christians- aren’t they really trying to deflect from the fact that they are pedophiles. I’m just asking.
" ... More creepy white boys pretending they are Christians ... "
My limited knowledge and understanding is that Jesus was not a White Boy no matter what Jim Caviezel says or believes.
Oh yeah - Jesus was a middle easterner - one of the brown people that they portend to hate. The “White boys” in my context are usually white men who misuse and abuse their power to take advantage of and keep everyone in their place. However, the misusers snd abusers are not always “white” there are women and people of color that try to play the white boy game. However the real white boy men rarely let them into the White Boy Club.
I bet it wasn't English teachers who came up with the very awkward name "Teacher Freedom Alliance."
Perhas is was supposed to be "TEACHER FREEDOM APPLIANCE"!
Turns out the Constitution still works when someone actually reads it instead of highlighting Jesus quotes with a Sharpie. Public schools aren’t Sunday school, and “freedom” doesn’t mean sneaking theology in through the lesson plan. Small win. Big precedent.
Why come is these kinda Christians are so insecure? Does not the Irrepressible and Undeniable Radiance of Property and Racism Naturally Attract all Sentient White Beings to the One True God?
Same reasons they're trying to fry our elections. Because they're full of shit and are worried about it.
Well hey, not like god is gonna take care of anything. Experience shows us that he’s one fat lazy bastard.
IIRC, even Gov. Stitt, no prize himself, had had enough of this Walters guy. Walters won an office that no one cares about or pays attention to, and proceeded to spend every minute of every day desperately trying to get on Donald Trump's radar, while paying virtually no attention to his actual job.
Christians want their shit in public schools because that way, it can't be ignored. Christians love fighting -- they'll make up or pick fights if none are at hand -- but they absolutely cannot endure being ignored.
Who?
Good analysis.
So, anyone fancy a wager as to PAB's Big Speech tonight?
I've read it'll be 15 minutes, devoted to walking back much of the nonsense he spouted last week in PA.
I bet it goes over an hour.
I bet it includes promises of a Big Beautiful New Health Care, so simple, you're gonna love it. And talk of how he's reduced inflation by 437%, while he's brought in $50 Trillion of new investment in America. All the crime is gone, and so are all the illegals from garbage countries.
Or something like that.
Any takers?
My money is on announcing a new cadre of COVFEFE GO GETTERS!
One minute "Maduro Must Die," followed by 90+ minutes of "My Perfect New Ballroom and Triumphal Arch, also "My Peace Prize" and 'I Hate Wind Energy".
Don't care won't watch.
I'll wait for teh wonket to tell me
LOL, when has Fuckface ever kept it short when there's a microphone in his face? I predict maybe 5 minutes of attempting to read the talking points, then 90-odd minutes of dementia rambling on his current favourite topics:
- All The Wars I've Stopped
- I Aced All The Dementia Tests and You Couldn't
- So Many MRIs I Passed, You Wouldn't Believe
- We're Shooting So Many Drug Dealers
- Meathead from Archie Bunker got what he deserved because TDS
- Sleepy Joe Biden Rigged and Stolle All the Elections
- Wind Cancer
- Have you noticed how great my wife looks now?
Wonder if even Fox will cut away if it's as bad as recent ones have been.
What? And then more of that insufferable Chef Ramsey guy?
"I have renamed Venezuela's north coast as 'Normandy' and the beach is gonna be Omaha and we're sending in the Loser Division of Marines to take over the Resorts -- so beautiful! -- and rebrand them in my name! Tempus Fugit!"
"Christmas" "well-wishes."
He'll attack Biden about the economy.
Epstein denials?
Possibly declaring war on Venezuela.
What, you want someone to take a bet that Donald Trump will brag about himself?
That's like betting against the sun coming up tomorrow morning.
Maybe we will hear him fart during his bullshitting!
I'm sure there's a fart detection and sound override system in operation. If only someone could come up with a smell-override system.
Maybe he'll fall asleep mid-rant, THEN fart.
*I'm* curious what kind of insane drug cocktail they'll have him on so he doesn't look and sound like Professor John Gill in "Patterns of Force."
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Force)
Ten bucks on fake Ukraine peace treaty.
Don't forget that he will be fashionably late.
And fashionably off-script.
Blah blah Biden fart fart wank wank Biden wank wank best economy ever no one has seen anything like it belch scratch sasquatch shuffle
I cannot see him walking back 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. And if he tries, the hardliners in his cult will start sharpening knives. Very long ones.
Something about taking military action on Venezuela.
War on Venezuela seems horrifyingly likely. Epstein paper drop due Friday, right? Tail get wagging!
Venezuela. There might be something in there about Venezuela.
Ooh, could be, could be...
Two thoughts: Why wasn't this crap shot down 9-0 ( I know: Oklahoma) Also, Lindel Fields had his lucky day. The supremes did him a huge favor by flushing this turd of a policy down the shitter.
...𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝.
If the name of an organization contains the words "Freedom" and "Alliance," one can pretty much be assured that its members are aggrieved bigots looking for attention, consequence-free behavior, and nothing more.
And there are, like, four of them in the organization, max.
They hold meetings at the local diner.
Who are interviewed by the NYT as just ordinary salt-of-the-earth Americans.
OK
/oblig
OT: The fellows that installed our new siding walked off with all of our outdoor light fixtures and our doorbell fixture.
I am NOT at all amused.
(headdesks)
Jesus Christ. Buffoonish stupidity, or did they straight up rob you?
Damned if I know. Quite a bit of damage has been done. One of the gates has been knocked down among other things.
I am fucking FURIOUS.
wow
What? How dare they?
Call the company. Demand that they come back and replace those things.
It it possible to impound their truck?
That is precisely what I intend to do.
I hope you succeed.
OT: We finally figured out what was wrong with Renfield Scott. He threw up and with the stuff was a big black hairball. So he's feeling better. Gave him some butter.
Mmm, you could carve it to look like a nobel peace prize.
Then tRump would eat it.
Renfield Scott! [Awed sigh]
Yep. 16 pounds of black industrial cat.
< holds hat over heart >
(townsfolk, in chorus) RENFIELD SCOTT!!!1!!!!
Yay!