So it’s come out that Netanyahu and the govt knew about the attack weeks before including all pertinent intel including how many hostages were intended to be taken and moved the music festival CLOSER to the incursion point

it’s just so evil…

RIP Jack. Loved his music tastes and his draft takes.

He will be missed

Zooey, I saw the movie, Click… you don’t wanna do that… you’ll be an old Adam Sandler with tons of regret and divorced from Kate Beckinsale

Patience, young padawan…

RIP Ag.

Even as an infrequent visitor, I feel the loss. He will be missed.

Yeah, Jack, I saw that…

When I said that with the way Alito’s opinion was written as an all out attack on “right to privacy”, I meant it…

Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood are already completely done

Obergfell v Hodges (gay marriage), Lawrence v Texas (anti-sodomy laws) and Griswold v Connecticut (contraception) are ALREADY being either outright gone after or the preparations are in place.

Several state AGs have stated that they will essentially refuse to follow Obergfell or Lawrence in an outright challenge and since even without hearing arguments or getting evidence or testimony, Alito’s opinion with 5 Justices states that Obergfell and Lawrence were wrongly decided and we can expect Griswold to fall as well.

Moreover, women in Missouri (and apparently Louisianna) have already been called by some Drs to have their IUDs removed as they expect them to become illegal in the state the moment the Roe decision is announced, signaling that these states and likely others plan to make all contraception illegal the moment the Roe decision is announced. This will include the MANDATORY removal of IUDs and other implants as well as pill surrender/confiscation and removal of all contraception from condoms to Plan B and RU486 pills

So yeah… Loving v Virginia is likely to be challenged as well as viewing porn (a number of precedents apply here, but they’ll go after any and all that rely on “right to privacy”

This fucking place is now on a RAMjet to a Christofascist theocracy and I’m just not here for it.

My wife for the first time in our lives, been together 35 years now, is asking “so… what country do we move to?”

This is someone who can’t stand to be away from her grown children or baby/7yo grandchildren for a few days without getting the grandma jitters…

Yeah… those takes have aged like milk left in a car in Las Vegas in July…

Zooey wrote:

Mackeyser wrote:

My thing is like the guy in the Tiktok with the wife with cancer… If you don’t trust medicine, at least be like a 7th Day Adventist and refuse all medical care.

One tiny little thing there:

7th-day Adventists don’t refuse medical care. I know. I was brought up a 7th-day Adventist. My grandpa, my dad, and one of my idiot brothers were all doctors. Loma Linda University is one of the most reputable medical universities in the country, and it is a 7th-day Adventist institution. Medical care is actually the SDA’s strong point.

You may be thinking of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who refuse blood transfusions, or Christian Scientists, who have made headlines refusing health care. In the latter case, though, their official belief is that prayer works better when there is no medical interference (which has led to people “proving” their faith), but most adherents do access health care for most needs.

Yes, you’re right. I did mean Christian Scientists…

I feel so disconnected from the Christian community these days.

To say I HATE the people who by the Bible are NOT Christians, but seem in charge of all things Christian is an understatement… sorta like saying one of those 1 Million Scoville peppers is a tad hot…

Mea culpa. Also, good catch. I’d rather be corrected than get something wrong, even if by accident, and have it left.

Some people leaving’ just hurts more than others, ya know?

He also corrected Peter Jackson.

They were filming a scene where Lee as Saruman gets stabbed in the back by Grima Wormtongue and he’d directed Lee to make a certain sound.

Lee responded: that’s not the sound a man makes when he’s been stabbed in the back.” He then proceeded to demonstrate what it does sound like.

Peter Jackson was spooked because of the absolute authority Lee dispensed the information.

“Okay, Mr. Lee. You know what you’re doing” and they filmed it using Lee’s knowledge of what it sounded like.

Belated Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and a Happy, Safe and better New Year!

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waterfield wrote:

Most voters are shallow. We know that because we everyday talk and socialize with them. Few of us sit around in Haight Ashbury coffee houses smoking weed, listening to poets, and talk about revolution. We talk to neighbors and friends and family. We have BBQs and we watch sports. The 60s are gone ! What we do know is that “image” is important to us. Not the candidates “depth” or knowledge but his “image”. Because of tv we want the guy who “projects” better than the other. Kennedy didn’t have Nixon’s command of the facts but he had the image of someone who “knew better’. Forgetting about policies and views -which I highly recommend- the only candidate the democrats had and the one I did not think was good enough for me to support was Beto ” O’Rourke. Young, bright handsome, energetic, charismatic, etc. He could have appealed to the “apolitical” voters. And whether we like it or not Trump appeals to the “apolitical” voter. I only wish I could have seen that before.

That reference if Haight Ashbury is dusty as hell. I can hear the Mamas and the Papas singing “if you’re going to San Francisco”…

Image is definitely valued by the masses over substance, but hyper transactional millennials and zoomers are changing that.