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and Now for something
Completely Different!
Rock and Roll Photos:
Simon and Garfunkel
Names of Sixties Bands:
that Most People Have Never Heard of...
The Five Americans, The Warm Sound, The Flower Potmen, The. Honeybus, Jim & Jean, The Consortium, The Royal Guardsmen, The Casuals, Elephant's Memory, IF, BEN, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Foundation, The Equals, The Scaffold, Moby Grape, Vanilla Fudge, just to name a few...
Simon and Garfunkel
Album Cover Couple Still Married...
Open Carry in Austin, Texas
Trippy Sixties Poster from Texas -
Armadillo World Headquarters
Mom says: It's Just the Abyss, Dear.
Try not to Gaze into It.
and then JJ said of FaceBorg:
Soapbox time:
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There are a few high-profile atheists out there (I’m not naming names, but one name in particular rhymes with Mill Baher) who really make the rest of us sound pretty arrogant.
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As far back as I can remember, I’ve never believed in a supreme being. It just didn’t make sense to me. Where does he live? Does he eat, sleep and poo? Who delivers his mail? But unlike the aforementioned HBO star, I have never and WOULD never mock those who believe.
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When I was a kid growing up in California, our closest friends were a Catholic family up the street. They would often invite me to go to their Sunday services with them. I went along just to be in their company. Their daughter, Susie and I were inseparable. But it never affected my views one way or the other, nor did they ever try to “convert” me. The priest on the other hand, was another matter.
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[SIDEBAR] I remember once when I was about 7 years old, he was at the church doorway greeting people. When he saw me, he said “Aren’t you the Lindner boy?” Yep. “You’re welcome to worship with us, but I wonder if your parents ever told you that it was the Jewish people who crucified the savior.”
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I was SEVEN! And he was pinning Jesus’ death on me! I digress.
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Mr. Baher can’t go ten minutes without ridiculing Christians. His mother was Jewish, his father Catholic, and he was raised in the church. I don’t know what his beef is, but he refuses to accept that not EVERY Christian is cast in the same mold as the ones he rails about. Yes, the evangelical movement is a negative blight on our national politics. But not EVERY evangelical follows the teachings of Franklin Graham.
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Being an atheist doesn’t mean you have to oppose people of faith strictly on their beliefs alone. That’s insane. I’d much prefer having a Christian friend who actually abides by the teachings of Christ; Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter for instance, than an atheist like Baher, who paints religious people with the broadest, darkest brushes.
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Your spiritual beliefs, no matter the flavor, have no bearing on me as long as you don’t insist on making them national policy . And my beliefs don’t threaten yours.
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That’s the thing the no-longer-funny-comedian doesn’t get. It’s as if he’s out to prove to the world that his views are the ONLY acceptable views—and if you disagree, you’re his intellectual inferior.
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Atheism is on the rise in America. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a good thing. Just don’t use it to bludgeon those who disagree. You might be beating up a Jimmy Carter.
and I replied:
But we have to Incarcerate Catholic Priests that Molest Children... Those Guys are EVIL.
and SC Said:
of course!! But that is not the majority of Catholic preists or Christians. We shouldn't paint everyone with the same brush.
and I Replied:
and televangelists that squeeze millions of dollars from easily fooled people... Joel O... Tax that freak! https://www.joelosteen.com/101thoughts
One of the Most Bizarre Things about the Christian Religion is: "Premarital Sex is a Sin." - an Attitude like that will make GETTING LAID in High School Unlikely... Losers!
and the MM said:
I am losing faith in My Country. I don't trust the SCOTUS any more. I don't feel as if I count as a citizen, a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen at that. I feel like I don't matter to these awful people who would jeopardize our rights and freedoms to suit their narrow-minded, bigoted, twisted agenda. They are pushing us closer to an autocratic dictatorship with every upside down ruling they hand down. I'm old, on the down side of the mountain of my life . . . . I was hoping to spend my twilight years in a country where everyone enjoys life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I see hard times ahead and that's sad. The Founding Fathers wouldn't recognize This Once Great Country, what a shame.
and then JB Said:
Dear fellow Democrats, I recommend we all to stop talking about the MAGA guy. We are only helping him. Pay attention. I know I’m not even getting comments or reactions on my posts today. That’s great, I’m probably making some of you think. Do it. Start talking about Biden or any other possible candidate. We will score more points for our side than for his side. Enough of playing. It’s time to start working. It’s been more than 3 1/2 years now. Not hard to see where this is going to end. Oh, and let’s not forget, he still has the Supreme Court he owns. Time to work.
In their minds, it's easy for a covert "deep state" crew of people to run around behind the scenes propping things up in front of TV cameras to make deepfakes everywhere, and then producing papers that pop up just in time to have a judge see them and rule on them, and then they all disappear like the Mission: Impossible tape-recorder so there's no evidence they were ever there. The CIA and the FBI are able to fake all these crimes they're accusing Trump of, and Tucker proved that the crowd at the picnic on January 6th was largely peaceful and the cops let everyone in and asked them if they'd like anything, water, snacks, the nameplate off Nancy's door, etc.,
Just say it out loud: the US Supreme Court is corrupt. And Americans know it! No other federal court in the nation would allow a defendant in a case before them to fly a judge on a private Gulfstream luxury jet to a luxury hunting retreat in Louisiana and then, a week later, watch that judge rule in that defendant's favor.
But Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia did exactly that when Dick Cheney was sued for allegedly lying about his secret "energy group" that was planning the seizure and sale of Iraq's oil fields as he and Bush lied us into the war that opened those oil fields up to exploitation.
No other federal court would allow a judge to give a speech before a group that was funding a case before them and then rule in favor of that group's openly stated goal.
But that's exactly what Neal Gorsuch did when he addressed the Fund for American Studies, itself funded by the Bradley Foundation that was helping fund the Janus v AFSCME case that gutted union protections for government workers.
No other federal court would allow a judge to swear revenge against a particular nonprofit corporation (in this case the Democratic Party), saying in his confirmation hearings that, "What goes around comes around," and then rule in cases directly affecting that organization (like voting rights).
But Brett "Beerbong" Kavanaugh did just that.
No other federal court would allow a judge to rule on a case where he owned a half-million dollars worth of stock in the company presenting amicus arguments before the court.
But John Roberts did just that in the ABC v Aereo case. As did Roberts, Bryer and Alito in 25 of 37 other cases where they owned stock.
No other federal court would allow a judge's wife to openly interact with and advocate for the interests of dozens of litigants before the court over decades, and take nearly a million dollars from a group regularly helping bring cases before his court.
But Clarence Thomas and his wife have done both.
It’s outrageous that we have to tell Supreme Court Justices that they are NOT above the law…but here we are.
But Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia did exactly that when Dick Cheney was sued for allegedly lying about his secret "energy group" that was planning the seizure and sale of Iraq's oil fields as he and Bush lied us into the war that opened those oil fields up to exploitation.
No other federal court would allow a judge to give a speech before a group that was funding a case before them and then rule in favor of that group's openly stated goal.
But that's exactly what Neal Gorsuch did when he addressed the Fund for American Studies, itself funded by the Bradley Foundation that was helping fund the Janus v AFSCME case that gutted union protections for government workers.
No other federal court would allow a judge to swear revenge against a particular nonprofit corporation (in this case the Democratic Party), saying in his confirmation hearings that, "What goes around comes around," and then rule in cases directly affecting that organization (like voting rights).
But Brett "Beerbong" Kavanaugh did just that.
No other federal court would allow a judge to rule on a case where he owned a half-million dollars worth of stock in the company presenting amicus arguments before the court.
But John Roberts did just that in the ABC v Aereo case. As did Roberts, Bryer and Alito in 25 of 37 other cases where they owned stock.
No other federal court would allow a judge's wife to openly interact with and advocate for the interests of dozens of litigants before the court over decades, and take nearly a million dollars from a group regularly helping bring cases before his court.
But Clarence Thomas and his wife have done both.
It’s outrageous that we have to tell Supreme Court Justices that they are NOT above the law…but here we are.