'In 2022, a federal judge ruled that Davis broke the law when she refused to sign a legal marriage license for a gay couple on account of her bigoted Christian beliefs. She was a government worker and her personal beliefs, the judge said, couldn’t override the law she had sworn to uphold. When a jury heard the case in 2023 to assess damages, they didn’t buy any of the arguments offered by her attorneys at Liberty Counsel, a Christian hate group, so they eventually ruled that Davis owed David Ermold and David Moore $50,000 each. Liberty Counsel argued that Davis had qualified immunity and couldn’t be sued. The jury, on the other hand, was persuaded by the principle of fuck around and find out.
'At the time, Liberty Counsel said they would appeal the decision… and, of course, that went nowhere because Kim Davis clearly broke the law. When it came to the legal fees she owed, the couple asked for “$246,026.40 in attorneys’ fees and $14,058.30 in expenses.” Davis’ team tried to whittle that down to a little over $100,000, but the judge didn’t buy any of the Davis team’s arguments. (Even if you don’t follow legal cases, his decision was a pleasure to read.)
'Liberty Counsel kept appealing, all the way up to the Supreme Court, and they kept losing, which I’m sure they didn’t care about because she was great for fundraising. In any case, the additional litigation led a district court to award the couple’s side another $201,592.60 in attorneys’ fees.
'If you do the math, that meant Davis owed Ermold/Moore and their lawyers $565,285.91.
'But she hasn’t paid out a single dime yet because she insists she’s broke.
'According to a lawsuit filed in July from the lawyers of Ermold and Moore, however, that was a lie.
'Davis, they argued, inherited quite a bit of money and land when her mother died—her share was worth over $400,000—but she immediately transferred her half of the property to other members of her family so that the courts couldn’t take it away from her.'
And then we got to Edinburgh, and there was a street performer juggling clubs, and he said, "And this is how they do it in America," and laid them all down on the ground and, with one hand, started redistributing them. And then he looked up and he said, "Are there any Americans here?" Of course, I raised my hand. And he says, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'll do it again, only slower."
Years ago a fundamentalist group tried to amend the Colorado state constitution in order to instill discrimination against homosexuals so that they could be denied housing or employment. Now, I found out about this on a film that I had to watch for my government class. I didn't recognize the guy then because he wasn't yet famous, but the leader of this group was interviewed, and he said that, "As Christians, we have a right to treat certain people differently." When I heard that, I was aghast. "How does this man not know that that's bigotry?" Of course, he did know. He just didn't care. And ironically, the man who said that was Pastor Ted Haggard.
I got Oral Roberts University confused with Bob Jones, because always thought B.J.s was where you got oral.
Dump administration is attempting to setup a counter narrative to all the corruption investigations we're going to have. It will be an onslaught that we will do our best to keep up with. So the Blob is pulling JD Chancre off of Iran talks to have him focus on FRAUD in Democratic states. This will not work because there isn't much fraud and also because being led by Chancre. Ingenious stratergy.
It's the "high school cafeteria" theory of life in action! 🤪 🔥
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"Haley Stevens Isn’t Sitting with the Democrats"
“Haley Stevens is currently hanging out in the Republican side of the House chamber during this vote. She has spent previous votes this week in the Republican cloakroom.”
She seems to have the qualifications Trump looks for:
"Caroline Sunshine appeared to be auditioning for the White House press secretary job by drenching Donald Trump with televised praise. Sunshine, a former Disney Channel actor, has recently been doing damage control for Trump on TV. After Republicans lost both the House and Senate to Democrats in the midterms, she told Fox News last week that the president wasn’t to blame — and that the loss was due to poor messaging by his staff."
Okay, I'm calling it a day. With Outlook being stupid, I have no idea whether I'm sending emails to inboxes or the ether. I'll deal with stuff tomorrow.
On the bright side, I'm no longer a security threat! Hurrah!
>>“Unfettered immigration in Europe, where I lived for well over a decade, has been a disaster — depressing wages for the working class and resulting in mass social dislocation."
"Why are you hating us poor set-upon billionaires, when you can hate immigrants?" I'm starting to think this is the only purpose of rightwing politics.
“Unfettered immigration in Europe, where I lived for well over a decade, has been a disaster — depressing wages for the working class and resulting in mass social dislocation."
IOW, this dipshit is just doing what rich dipshits always do: Set the non-privileged classes to fighting each other for scraps, in what the dipshit insists has to be a zero-sum game. That way, those classes might not notice that their depressed wages and mass social dislocation are being caused by the same rich dipshits who encourage them to take their frustration out on foreigners, or those framed as such.
LOL, Jensen Huang apparently had affairs with not one, not two, but three people.
Dude. Did you not know that there are agencies who will set up persons of your means, with discretion? Did you even bother to ask Gates, Elon, Bezos, etc. about “yacht life”?
Y'all are so trump deranged that you can't even believe that a guy whose company is unironically named after Sauron's flock camera might be a Swell Guy Who's Definitely Not Up To Shenanigans.
We should surveil billionaires a whole lot more than we do.
'Kim Davis owes a gay couple $565,000. A federal judge wants her to stop lying about her assets.'
-- 'After years of appeals and alleged property transfers, the former Kentucky clerk must explain why she shouldn’t be sanctioned'
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/kim-davis-owes-a-gay-couple-565000
'In 2022, a federal judge ruled that Davis broke the law when she refused to sign a legal marriage license for a gay couple on account of her bigoted Christian beliefs. She was a government worker and her personal beliefs, the judge said, couldn’t override the law she had sworn to uphold. When a jury heard the case in 2023 to assess damages, they didn’t buy any of the arguments offered by her attorneys at Liberty Counsel, a Christian hate group, so they eventually ruled that Davis owed David Ermold and David Moore $50,000 each. Liberty Counsel argued that Davis had qualified immunity and couldn’t be sued. The jury, on the other hand, was persuaded by the principle of fuck around and find out.
'At the time, Liberty Counsel said they would appeal the decision… and, of course, that went nowhere because Kim Davis clearly broke the law. When it came to the legal fees she owed, the couple asked for “$246,026.40 in attorneys’ fees and $14,058.30 in expenses.” Davis’ team tried to whittle that down to a little over $100,000, but the judge didn’t buy any of the Davis team’s arguments. (Even if you don’t follow legal cases, his decision was a pleasure to read.)
'Liberty Counsel kept appealing, all the way up to the Supreme Court, and they kept losing, which I’m sure they didn’t care about because she was great for fundraising. In any case, the additional litigation led a district court to award the couple’s side another $201,592.60 in attorneys’ fees.
'If you do the math, that meant Davis owed Ermold/Moore and their lawyers $565,285.91.
'But she hasn’t paid out a single dime yet because she insists she’s broke.
'According to a lawsuit filed in July from the lawyers of Ermold and Moore, however, that was a lie.
'Davis, they argued, inherited quite a bit of money and land when her mother died—her share was worth over $400,000—but she immediately transferred her half of the property to other members of her family so that the courts couldn’t take it away from her.'
A few more Aron Ra quotes in honor of Skepti:
And then we got to Edinburgh, and there was a street performer juggling clubs, and he said, "And this is how they do it in America," and laid them all down on the ground and, with one hand, started redistributing them. And then he looked up and he said, "Are there any Americans here?" Of course, I raised my hand. And he says, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'll do it again, only slower."
Years ago a fundamentalist group tried to amend the Colorado state constitution in order to instill discrimination against homosexuals so that they could be denied housing or employment. Now, I found out about this on a film that I had to watch for my government class. I didn't recognize the guy then because he wasn't yet famous, but the leader of this group was interviewed, and he said that, "As Christians, we have a right to treat certain people differently." When I heard that, I was aghast. "How does this man not know that that's bigotry?" Of course, he did know. He just didn't care. And ironically, the man who said that was Pastor Ted Haggard.
I got Oral Roberts University confused with Bob Jones, because always thought B.J.s was where you got oral.
Dump administration is attempting to setup a counter narrative to all the corruption investigations we're going to have. It will be an onslaught that we will do our best to keep up with. So the Blob is pulling JD Chancre off of Iran talks to have him focus on FRAUD in Democratic states. This will not work because there isn't much fraud and also because being led by Chancre. Ingenious stratergy.
It's the "high school cafeteria" theory of life in action! 🤪 🔥
.
"Haley Stevens Isn’t Sitting with the Democrats"
“Haley Stevens is currently hanging out in the Republican side of the House chamber during this vote. She has spent previous votes this week in the Republican cloakroom.”
She seems to have the qualifications Trump looks for:
"Caroline Sunshine appeared to be auditioning for the White House press secretary job by drenching Donald Trump with televised praise. Sunshine, a former Disney Channel actor, has recently been doing damage control for Trump on TV. After Republicans lost both the House and Senate to Democrats in the midterms, she told Fox News last week that the president wasn’t to blame — and that the loss was due to poor messaging by his staff."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/caroline-sunshine-praises-trump-doing-the-right-thing-corruption_n_6af5a257e4b09e0b5c55291e?origin=home-latest-news-unit
What was her name 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 she changed it?
Betty Butthole.
Bluesman Bukka White was born on this day in 1906. Here's Bukka in 1940 with his recording of
"Fixin' To Die Blues":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCRQhDiNrJk
And here he is in 1967 playing "Aberdeen Mississippi Blues":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbHtNMyAB7g
Tim Pool is a moderate and Alex Caedmon Karp is a progressive.
Meanwhile, I'm a small furry creature from Alpha Centuri.
Alpha Centuri is four light-years away from here: how did you get here so soon?
Okay, I'm calling it a day. With Outlook being stupid, I have no idea whether I'm sending emails to inboxes or the ether. I'll deal with stuff tomorrow.
On the bright side, I'm no longer a security threat! Hurrah!
Huzzah hooray!
>>“Unfettered immigration in Europe, where I lived for well over a decade, has been a disaster — depressing wages for the working class and resulting in mass social dislocation."
"Why are you hating us poor set-upon billionaires, when you can hate immigrants?" I'm starting to think this is the only purpose of rightwing politics.
“I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet,”
My company's been spying on progressives for years!!!
Surprise!
“Unfettered immigration in Europe, where I lived for well over a decade, has been a disaster — depressing wages for the working class and resulting in mass social dislocation."
IOW, this dipshit is just doing what rich dipshits always do: Set the non-privileged classes to fighting each other for scraps, in what the dipshit insists has to be a zero-sum game. That way, those classes might not notice that their depressed wages and mass social dislocation are being caused by the same rich dipshits who encourage them to take their frustration out on foreigners, or those framed as such.
LOL, Jensen Huang apparently had affairs with not one, not two, but three people.
Dude. Did you not know that there are agencies who will set up persons of your means, with discretion? Did you even bother to ask Gates, Elon, Bezos, etc. about “yacht life”?
Three people so far...
He is, apparently, nuthin’ but a hound dog
Y'all are so trump deranged that you can't even believe that a guy whose company is unironically named after Sauron's flock camera might be a Swell Guy Who's Definitely Not Up To Shenanigans.
You too can be one of the Nine Ringwraiths!
I'd rather be an entwife so everybody will have to leave me be.
To be fair, Sauron just subverted the cameras, he didn't make them.
But yeah, it's still a shitty name for a company.
Gaslighting is correct.
I just ordered a trainload of beans and matches.