Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers
at December 9, 2013 12:02 AM
Those stories would be cuter if the people who were so proudly certain that virtue has no need of religion were, in any meaningful way, describing ways in which virtue might be inculcated otherwise.
They aren't.
Like so many believers themselves, they regard faith as an excuse to be snotty to people, and to make social distance from them...
Which is, y'know, unnecessary. People will dislike each other anyway.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail]
at December 9, 2013 12:44 AM
Just as a f'rinstance. The "Satanic Temple" is said to be "based in New York," though their website offers no postal address.
New York City has had it's financial backbone broken by the District of Columbia and a socialist-minded electorate; they've just elected the leftiest of lefties as mayor. They're sleazy, they're whining, and they're about to experience some Detroit-style financial desperation.
(I'm so proud of how my country responded to Gotham fiscal incompetence in my youth. We'll not get off so easy this time.)
So...
Crid [CridComment at Gmail]
at December 9, 2013 1:04 AM
So Laffer and his friends rate Oklahoma 19th for the soundness of their economic policies. New York is ranked 49th.
The Empire State nonetheless has plenty of (essentially anonymous) people with no better way to spend their time than making fun of Okies for being so, y'know, backwards. They're good and building websites and expressing themselves satirically.
I think responsible atheism is about other things.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail]
at December 9, 2013 1:07 AM
Yet another mess in the war on drugs
Annie Dookhan’s Falsified Lab Data: Symptom of a Corrupted System
I find it bizarre that you'll have better luck clawing your way from your parents' bracket to a higher economic strata in some Socialist country than in the USA.
What do you tell the kids? Abandon the failed experiment that is corporatized, back-room-funded used-to-be-the-bastion-of-liberty that was America?
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers
at December 9, 2013 8:28 AM
"It's hard to get people to come out into the cold. So really, for every person you see here, there are actually a thousand more black people that support this."
Grandstanding Christian politicians set themselves up.
What exactly does a Satanic monument look like?
The Ten Commandments are at least recognized as the foundation of a system of laws and governance - like the Code of Hammurabi, The Twelve Tables, The Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, etc.
What great Satanist codes have been used as the foundation of laws and governance?
Conan the Grammarian
at December 9, 2013 1:26 PM
What great Satanist codes have been used as the foundation of laws and governance?
Temple University Cuts Men's Sports. This is wrong on so many levels. There's the whole college-sports-as-revenue-enhancers thing. There's the cave-in to Title IX political correctness quotas. And then there's the angle of cutting good student-involvement sports to try to prop up a money-losing football team.
Cousin Dave
at December 9, 2013 2:35 PM
It's not about the shmuckfest of Satanists, it's about politicians pimping religion on government property to placate their base - thus setting a precedent allowing any Cult O' The Week equal footing.
Anyway.
GM now is sitting on $26.8 billion in cash and is considering restoration of a dividend.
$49.5 billion it spent to save the dying automaker at the height of the financial crisis five years ago.
The Center for Automotive Research, an Ann Arbor, Mich., think tank, issued an updated report Monday saying that if the government hadn't intervened and GM went out of business, nearly 1.9 million jobs would have been lost in 2009 and 2010. Federal and state governments also would have lost $39.4 billion in tax revenue and payments made for unemployment benefits and food stamps, the study said.
So in order to save 39 billion we spent 49 billion?
Consider the behavior of these men.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 8, 2013 11:57 PM
Damn that legal precedent.
Grandstanding Christian politicians set themselves up.
It's kinda funny.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 9, 2013 12:02 AM
Those stories would be cuter if the people who were so proudly certain that virtue has no need of religion were, in any meaningful way, describing ways in which virtue might be inculcated otherwise.
They aren't.
Like so many believers themselves, they regard faith as an excuse to be snotty to people, and to make social distance from them...
Which is, y'know, unnecessary. People will dislike each other anyway.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 9, 2013 12:44 AM
Just as a f'rinstance. The "Satanic Temple" is said to be "based in New York," though their website offers no postal address.
New York City has had it's financial backbone broken by the District of Columbia and a socialist-minded electorate; they've just elected the leftiest of lefties as mayor. They're sleazy, they're whining, and they're about to experience some Detroit-style financial desperation.
(I'm so proud of how my country responded to Gotham fiscal incompetence in my youth. We'll not get off so easy this time.)
So...
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 9, 2013 1:04 AM
So Laffer and his friends rate Oklahoma 19th for the soundness of their economic policies. New York is ranked 49th.
The Empire State nonetheless has plenty of (essentially anonymous) people with no better way to spend their time than making fun of Okies for being so, y'know, backwards. They're good and building websites and expressing themselves satirically.
I think responsible atheism is about other things.
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 9, 2013 1:07 AM
Yet another mess in the war on drugs
Annie Dookhan’s Falsified Lab Data: Symptom of a Corrupted System
http://townhall.com/columnists/ginaluttrell/2013/12/09/annie-dookhans-falsified-lab-data-symptom-of-a-corrupted-system-n1759588
Annie not Dookhan at December 9, 2013 6:44 AM
I find it bizarre that you'll have better luck clawing your way from your parents' bracket to a higher economic strata in some Socialist country than in the USA.
And in a big way.
What do you tell the kids? Abandon the failed experiment that is corporatized, back-room-funded used-to-be-the-bastion-of-liberty that was America?
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 9, 2013 8:28 AM
"It's hard to get people to come out into the cold. So really, for every person you see here, there are actually a thousand more black people that support this."
"They are breaching their legal responsibility to play soca, reggae and gospel (music)"
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 9, 2013 8:49 AM
Boston hospital misdiagnoses a teenager and then kidnaps her.
Jim P. at December 9, 2013 10:02 AM
County Forbids Land Owner From Using His Private Chapel
mpetrie98 at December 9, 2013 12:30 PM
Boy do I feel safer!
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/365823/tsa-seizes-sock-monkeys-toy-gun-andrew-johnson
Bob in Texas at December 9, 2013 1:15 PM
What exactly does a Satanic monument look like?
The Ten Commandments are at least recognized as the foundation of a system of laws and governance - like the Code of Hammurabi, The Twelve Tables, The Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, etc.
What great Satanist codes have been used as the foundation of laws and governance?
Conan the Grammarian at December 9, 2013 1:26 PM
What great Satanist codes have been used as the foundation of laws and governance?
Tax code comes to mind
lujlp at December 9, 2013 2:10 PM
Temple University Cuts Men's Sports. This is wrong on so many levels. There's the whole college-sports-as-revenue-enhancers thing. There's the cave-in to Title IX political correctness quotas. And then there's the angle of cutting good student-involvement sports to try to prop up a money-losing football team.
Cousin Dave at December 9, 2013 2:35 PM
It's not about the shmuckfest of Satanists, it's about politicians pimping religion on government property to placate their base - thus setting a precedent allowing any Cult O' The Week equal footing.
Anyway.
GM now is sitting on $26.8 billion in cash and is considering restoration of a dividend.
$10 billion of that cash is your tax money.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 9, 2013 3:21 PM
Gog ✔
Crid [CridComment at Gmail] at December 9, 2013 5:29 PM
Title IX requires that the percentage of male/female student-athletes should closely represent the student body population at the university.
Meaning if less women are interested in sports the men are shit out of luck
lujlp at December 9, 2013 6:16 PM
$49.5 billion it spent to save the dying automaker at the height of the financial crisis five years ago.
The Center for Automotive Research, an Ann Arbor, Mich., think tank, issued an updated report Monday saying that if the government hadn't intervened and GM went out of business, nearly 1.9 million jobs would have been lost in 2009 and 2010. Federal and state governments also would have lost $39.4 billion in tax revenue and payments made for unemployment benefits and food stamps, the study said.
So in order to save 39 billion we spent 49 billion?
That makes sense. /sarc
lujlp at December 9, 2013 6:24 PM
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