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Lote
Aug 5, 2001

Place your bets
USPol April: Yellow cake to gays, Iranians unacceptable

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ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


A Winner is Jew posted:

Republicans have always been better at bumper sticker messaging.

Does pretending you're a republican give you those powers also?

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Okay is just me having an overactive imagination or is there a literal murder conspiracy happening in the Missouri state government?

Yeah probably.

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Ralepozozaxe posted:

Someone check on the status of Steven Crowder.

Burkas?

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Okay is just me having an overactive imagination or is there a literal murder conspiracy happening in the Missouri state government?

And Hillary Clinton is behind the whole thing.

Amergin
Jan 29, 2013

THE SOUND A WET FART MAKES

ReidRansom posted:

Needs tweaking I think, but I have to say you're consistently pretty good at these.

USPol April: Please RFRAin from gaying up my bizness?

I'm trying to come up with a decent one for the Mizzou killings but the best I can think of is USPol April: Are you a loyal Missouri conservative? Show me

Oracle
Oct 9, 2004

mastershakeman posted:

The half of Illinois below the mason Dixon line doesn't count!

Apparently Illinois had almost 500 of them, I'm more interested in any north of i80 I guess.


Edit: almost everywhere was sundown in Illinois. http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/sundowntownsshow.php?state=IL
That website is like almost all hearsay and 'oral tradition' with most of those towns on the list listed as 'possible' or 'someone at community college told me once that'.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Quote of the morning, "In my time in the Senate, there have been more than a few rocks tossed my direction from Democrats and Republicans. And yet in my entire time there, I haven’t reciprocated — you have never heard me speak ill of any senator, Republican or Democrat. And I don’t intend to start." ~ Ted Cruz, on his non-existent attempt to primary multiple of his Republican colleagues in the Senate that totally didn't happen.

JT Jag
Aug 30, 2009

#1 Jaguars Sunk Cost Fallacy-Haver

Joementum posted:

Quote of the morning, "In my time in the Senate, there have been more than a few rocks tossed my direction from Democrats and Republicans. And yet in my entire time there, I haven’t reciprocated — you have never heard me speak ill of any senator, Republican or Democrat. And I don’t intend to start." ~ Ted Cruz, on his non-existent attempt to primary multiple of his Republican colleagues in the Senate that totally didn't happen.
"I don't speak ill of my friends in the Senate, I just do everything in my power to gently caress over their agendas in favor of my own. Totally different."

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Joementum posted:

Quote of the morning, "In my time in the Senate, there have been more than a few rocks tossed my direction from Democrats and Republicans. And yet in my entire time there, I haven’t reciprocated — you have never heard me speak ill of any senator, Republican or Democrat. And I don’t intend to start." ~ Ted Cruz, on his non-existent attempt to primary multiple of his Republican colleagues in the Senate that totally didn't happen.

Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It's not real. It's just a dream.

Ralepozozaxe
Sep 6, 2010

A Veritable Smorgasbord!

mdemone posted:

Try to touch the past. Try to deal with the past. It's not real. It's just a dream.

Your avatar is an actual representation of the various senator's reactions to this statement.

On Terra Firma
Feb 12, 2008

DemeaninDemon posted:

So the OKCupid gender identity list but for shitheel businesses?

Basically yes. Get those signs up in the windows of businesses and have people out taking photos of those signs. These people need to be shamed nationally and since nobody will come out and say for certain whether this law discriminates (obviously it does) then this confirms it. It won't sway hardline conservatives, but I think a lot of people would look on it differently if it was framed a certain way.

Ghost of Reagan Past
Oct 7, 2003

rock and roll fun

On Terra Firma posted:

Basically yes. Get those signs up in the windows of businesses and have people out taking photos of those signs. These people need to be shamed nationally and since nobody will come out and say for certain whether this law discriminates (obviously it does) then this confirms it. It won't sway hardline conservatives, but I think a lot of people would look on it differently if it was framed a certain way.
Ooh, next time one gets proposed, they should propose amendments to require it to be claimed pre-emptively. The law just doesn't apply if you don't claim a religious freedom exemption...also, the list of businesses claiming an exemption gets published on an easy-to-search website.

Probably unconstitutional, but when the law you're amending is also unconstitutional who the gently caress cares, maximum trolling.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

DemeaninDemon posted:

So the OKCupid gender identity list but for shitheel businesses?
What's the OKCupid gender identity list?

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

Samurai Sanders posted:

What's the OKCupid gender identity list?

OkCupid lets you assign your gender/interested in/whatever based on a huge list of identities.

I want maximum trolling on Indiana. Andrew Luck should only throw picks because TDs are against his religious freedom.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

DemeaninDemon posted:

OkCupid lets you assign your gender/interested in/whatever based on a huge list of identities.

I want maximum trolling on Indiana. Andrew Luck should only throw picks because TDs are against his religious freedom.

Can't get ejected for breaking your receiver's legs, I have a religious mandate for all tackles to be horse collar tackles.

Samurai Sanders
Nov 4, 2003

Pillbug

DemeaninDemon posted:

OkCupid lets you assign your gender/interested in/whatever based on a huge list of identities.

I want maximum trolling on Indiana. Andrew Luck should only throw picks because TDs are against his religious freedom.
I don't see the connection with the Indiana thing then...

Toshimo
Aug 23, 2012

He's outta line...

But he's right!

Samurai Sanders posted:

I don't see the connection with the Indiana thing then...

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx
Needs more quadroons and octoroons. Maybe Melungeons for shits and giggles.

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

FAUXTON posted:

Can't get ejected for breaking your receiver's legs, I have a religious mandate for all tackles to be horse collar tackles.

The church of James Harrison?

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



A friend of mine said he'd read an article/essay that was recently in the New Yorker or Atlantic or something about a campaign to rebrand Christianity as pro-capitalism in midcentury American churches. He couldn't remember where it was but I wanted to read it. Does anyone know what I'm taking about?

Venom Snake
Feb 19, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo

Shear Modulus posted:

A friend of mine said he'd read an article/essay that was recently in the New Yorker or Atlantic or something about a campaign to rebrand Christianity as pro-capitalism in midcentury American churches. He couldn't remember where it was but I wanted to read it. Does anyone know what I'm taking about?

Well there was a fairly huge effort to nail down God as being a true supporter of the USA and only the USA, which is why the Pledge was changed during the Cold War. Ultimately the claim "Jesus was the first Socialist/Communist" is untrue, but it is absolutely true of the founder of the church Saint Peter.

On Terra Firma
Feb 12, 2008

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

Ooh, next time one gets proposed, they should propose amendments to require it to be claimed pre-emptively. The law just doesn't apply if you don't claim a religious freedom exemption...also, the list of businesses claiming an exemption gets published on an easy-to-search website.

Probably unconstitutional, but when the law you're amending is also unconstitutional who the gently caress cares, maximum trolling.

Yeah exactly. If they are going to claim something on religious grounds, then it should be made public so that others do not interfere with their decisions. It's about respect with other members of the community. We wouldn't want anyone saying they didn't know about someone's freedom and then subsequently discriminating against that freedom do we? Make it loud and clear so that everyone knows what someone's religious inclinations are so that everyone can accommodate their beliefs. It's the good Christian thing to do!

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

Shear Modulus posted:

A friend of mine said he'd read an article/essay that was recently in the New Yorker or Atlantic or something about a campaign to rebrand Christianity as pro-capitalism in midcentury American churches. He couldn't remember where it was but I wanted to read it. Does anyone know what I'm taking about?

It's called Prosperity Gospel. Sums up nicely with a bastardization of the camel through the needle metaphor. Basically it says the eye of the needle was a small gate or mountain pass that the camel just had to bow (before God) in order to pass on through.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Venom Snake posted:

Well there was a fairly huge effort to nail down God as being a true supporter of the USA and only the USA, which is why the Pledge was changed during the Cold War. Ultimately the claim "Jesus was the first Socialist/Communist" is untrue, but it is absolutely true of the founder of the church Saint Peter.


DemeaninDemon posted:

It's called Prosperity Gospel. Sums up nicely with a bastardization of the camel through the needle metaphor. Basically it says the eye of the needle was a small gate or mountain pass that the camel just had to bow (before God) in order to pass on through.

Well yeah I'm familiar with the way it is now but this was apparently some article/book review that cited research that argued that TPTB spending a lot of money on a concerted campaign was what caused modern American Protestantism to forget all that "love your neighbor" stuff. It sounded interesting and similar to the largely effective and well-documented campaign in the 70s-80s to install pro-capital claptrap in the academy.

mr. mephistopheles
Dec 2, 2009

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

Okay is just me having an overactive imagination or is there a literal murder conspiracy happening in the Missouri state government?

Those guys were 100% murdered and it will probably never be proven.

Swan Oat
Oct 9, 2012

I was selected for my skill.
http://gawker.com/did-clintons-backdoor-adviser-illegally-lobby-for-putin-1693111549 more Hillary email stuff.

JT Jag
Aug 30, 2009

#1 Jaguars Sunk Cost Fallacy-Haver

DemeaninDemon posted:

It's called Prosperity Gospel. Sums up nicely with a bastardization of the camel through the needle metaphor. Basically it says the eye of the needle was a small gate or mountain pass that the camel just had to bow (before God) in order to pass on through.
Evangelicalism: no moral biblical metaphors except for my biblical metaphors.

Tubgoat
Jun 30, 2013

by sebmojo

mr. mephistopheles posted:

Those guys were 100% murdered and it will probably never be proven.

Nuh uh, they just had terminal crises of faith regarding the one true religion, Totalitarian Capitalist Fascism, and thankfully saw the error of their ways before any damage could be done to our righteous and benevolent Captains of Industry.

Edit: TCF bank; it all makes sense now.

Fried Chicken
Jan 9, 2011

Don't fry me, I'm no chicken!
Reminder that conservatives are just hateful people. http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-30/ferguson-the-interactive-stage-play-brought-to-you-by-a-conservative-filmmaker

icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


quote:

McAleer only sidesteps one question about the play. He refuses to say what the goal is. Is it to calm down the "militants" who've arrived in Ferguson? Is it to publicize this or that uncovered fact about the case?

"That’s part of the problem, people who think journalists or journalism should have a legacy in mind," he says. "It should just tell you the truth. If you start out trying to change the world, you make mistakes. You should start off telling the truth. I want people to know the truth. If this is successful in Los Angeles I want to take it on the road, then to Ferguson, Mo."

I'M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS

Also he doesn't undertand there is no such thing as ubiased journalism, being convinced that rational Übermenschen such as himself can arrive at the Objective Truth if only the lie-beral media and sheeple surrounding him would let him

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007


And Now for Bloomberg to rip off Something Completely Different!

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde

DemeaninDemon posted:

It's called Prosperity Gospel. Sums up nicely with a bastardization of the camel through the needle metaphor. Basically it says the eye of the needle was a small gate or mountain pass that the camel just had to bow (before God) in order to pass on through.
My go-to response to this reasoning is that verse in Leviticus that says a man shall not lie with another man as he would a woman being an abomination means you can't do it missionary style as that precludes giving a good reacharound.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

SubponticatePoster posted:

My go-to response to this reasoning is that verse in Leviticus that says a man shall not lie with another man as he would a woman being an abomination means you can't do it missionary style as that precludes giving a good reacharound.

He who doth not give thy partner a reach around doth not give Thy Lord a reach around.

A Winner is Jew
Feb 14, 2008

by exmarx

DemeaninDemon posted:

He who doth not give thy partner a reach around doth not give Thy Lord a reach around.

God: I'll put a mans g spot in his anus... no homo sex though.

Ralepozozaxe
Sep 6, 2010

A Veritable Smorgasbord!

quote:

"If this is successful in Los Angeles I want to take it on the road, then to Ferguson, Mo."

Oh yeah, they'd really love to see it.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Amergin posted:

USPol April: Are you a loyal Missouri conservative? Show me

Goddamn what did you give away at the crossroads for this thread title power?

Raccooon
Dec 5, 2009

Is the deadline for Iran deal tomorrow?

Is a deal expected to be reached or is this dead?

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Lote posted:

USPol April: Yellow cake to gays, Iranians unacceptable

Abortions for some, miniature Iranian Flags for others!

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Goddamn what did you give away at the crossroads for this thread title power?

Half of Amergins heart now beats within Dick Cheney.

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PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Deadulus posted:

Is the deadline for Iran deal tomorrow?

Is a deal expected to be reached or is this dead?

Deadline is tomorrow. The news is the same as it's been for weeks, "We're very close to an agreement, but thorny issues remain." Presumably nothing much new is coming out lately because everyone who knows anything is locked in a backroom somewhere trying to hammer it out.

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