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7-2-22, 4:35pm
Yes--with Alito emulating a 17th century jurist who hated women and had two of them executed as witches, and other justices looking with nostalgia on...
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7-2-22, 10:51am
Raceless, by Georgina Lawton, the memoirs of a mixed-race woman who was raised white, by white parents--one of whom obviously wasn't. Not e riveting...
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7-1-22, 1:02pm
Excellent choice!
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6-30-22, 2:34pm
I might contribute $500 to the home improvement fund, and pay down debt with the rest. Bae's idea of investing in foodstuffs with some of it is good,...
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6-28-22, 3:20pm
I never merged my AT&T account with a Yahoo account either. I'm just lucky, I guess. >:(
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6-28-22, 3:18pm
Someone pointed out that the trouble with state laws is that administrations change and if, say, Republicans take over, they can change laws. Maybe...
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6-28-22, 1:21pm
Oh yeah, spam blocker is a treasure.
These are special, though. >:(
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6-28-22, 12:21pm
I notice the Supreme Court decision didn't mention how "a well-regulated militia" fits into New York's new wild wild west firearm situation.
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6-28-22, 12:17pm
You can't avoid these ads--they masquerade as incoming posts.
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6-28-22, 11:23am
My Yahoo/AT&T account is spam-based, ads up the wazoo. So "free," but not free.
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6-28-22, 10:18am
I still love two-tone cars--probably why I find Fiats so appealing.
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6-27-22, 11:01pm
And then--as George Carlin pointed out--as soon as they're born, they're on their own.
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6-27-22, 10:34pm
Apparently, a lot of men don't consider women "persons" worthy of equal treatment under the law.
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6-27-22, 9:33pm
I can't imagine a scenario where a child is aborted "the day before its natural birth." Can you cite an instance? The vast majority of terminations...
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6-27-22, 7:23pm
I hope outrage can be sustained long enough to get voters to the polls and spur activism on reproductive and other issues.
ETA: If women,...
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6-27-22, 6:22pm
The circa 1911 house I grew up in was painted charcoal gray. My favorite paint jobs ever were shades of purple. I kind of like black doors.
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6-27-22, 6:11pm
I report; you decide. I think Amy Coney Barrett has made similar statements. Personally, I'd leave my offspring on a mountaintop rather than consign...
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6-27-22, 5:33pm
Of course anyone considering abortion realizes a potential human life is involved; what isn't sane, IMO, is declaring an embryo is equivalent to an...
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6-27-22, 5:15pm
We have that, too--it's getting the recyclables out to the curb that stymies me at this point.
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6-27-22, 11:27am
Yeah, I'd happily pay for a cardboard retrieval service. I try to have my orders consolidated, too.
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6-27-22, 10:34am
Not to mention today's right wing is united in its refusal to support a whole range of issues--child care, immigration, affordable health care,...
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6-27-22, 9:27am
I wonder how many of these "pro-lifers" (sic) who are characterizing pregnant women as "murderers" and "baby killers" for making a very personal...
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6-26-22, 9:08pm
I wouldn't be without Amazon Prime; If I didn't have it, I would have to depend on a cobbled-together amalgam of delivery services. For me, its...
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6-26-22, 2:37pm
We'd have a much tougher vetting process-maybe with lie detectors and a dunk tank. :D
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6-26-22, 2:20pm
If it were dissolved, state courts could make their own decisions. Maybe we could institute a federal three judge panel for emergencies.
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6-26-22, 1:32pm
So no settled law or stare decisis--got it.
Since we're going all-out federalist, why not just do away with the Supreme Court and throw decisions...
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6-26-22, 11:08am
Basic black seems more chic, somehow. But I wear my stretchy knit 2-ply black masks under cotton ones from Beau Ties of Vermont.
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6-25-22, 8:39pm
"We are all trained to be female impersonators"--Gloria Steinem
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6-25-22, 2:08pm
IMO it's just an opportunity for adults to play dress up and for kids to enjoy the costumes. A library gimmick, maybe, but harmless.
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6-25-22, 2:03pm
The Carnivore Code by Paul Saladino, making a strong case for the nutritional superiority of meat, particularly red meat..
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6-24-22, 7:38pm
:D Have a productive march!
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6-24-22, 7:08pm
Hahaha! How is that working out for us?
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6-24-22, 7:05pm
I think it's a way to illustrate that there are thousands of people riled up, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. People angry enough to take to...
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6-24-22, 7:01pm
Adding Justices to the Supreme Court has been done before. I propose any interviewees must show proof of religious non-affiliation. I think that's...
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6-24-22, 6:53pm
More rabble for LDAHL to look down his nose at. Just like BLM marchers who were tired of their friends and relatives being targeted, harassed, and...
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6-24-22, 4:39pm
That's a moot point, if we can't pass a bill.
Per Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, there's a bill going nowhere in the Senate that addresses...
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6-24-22, 4:29pm
The planet that's never heard of the First Amendment, apparently.
He makes me think of the Simpson's Superintendent Chalmers' observation "Good...
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6-24-22, 4:06pm
Congress can't do anything about it as long as there's a filibuster and intransigent Republican senators. There are hundreds of House-passed bills...
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6-24-22, 3:11pm
Embryos are composed of human tissue; that's as far as science seems to go. You can't claim your fetus as a dependent, or list it in the census, for...
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6-24-22, 3:01pm
I counsel the young people I know to be prepared to emigrate as our rights continue to erode, but to continue to vote in the meantime.
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6-24-22, 2:59pm
The "unborn," having not been born, is not a person.
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6-24-22, 12:53pm
I'm disgusted beyond words that we've come to this. Alito's reference to an 17th-century misogynist* in setting out his opinion is the perfect...
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6-23-22, 8:11pm
Or Molly Ivins, Ann Richardson, Jim Hightower...
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6-23-22, 6:46pm
Spectacular.
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6-23-22, 1:27pm
So should it still be a states' rights issue, in your opinion?
And the federal government only stepped in to "punish" the South? Not because the...
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6-23-22, 11:53am
I'd like to believe it is "a living document."
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6-23-22, 11:48am
Slavery was legal when the Constitution was ratified; huge cohorts of people were disenfranchised, etc.
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6-23-22, 10:58am
Isn't the logical result of Federalism that we'll have fifty states all going their own way? Like the South can reinstate Jim Crow--if not outright...
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6-23-22, 10:23am
Not my spin; I wasn't there. From Only I Can Fix It (Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker)
Speaking about the threats to Pence on Jan. 6 and the...
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6-23-22, 9:19am
Hitler failed at a coup attempt in 1923, and was jailed for five years. Apparently, you can't keep a bad man down, either.
The most chilling...
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6-22-22, 11:20pm
And those people were arrested, as they should have been.
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6-22-22, 10:34pm
I agree the capitol coupsters should have been met by an overwhelming response, but Trump didn't authorize any response for hours, aside from the...
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6-22-22, 10:07pm
I hear that's how they deal with dissenters in Putin's Russia. Shame on you.
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6-22-22, 9:56pm
The First Amendment still stands. We still have the right to protest. And, IMO, BLM had a valid grievance.
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6-22-22, 7:45pm
I'm not sure about Seattle, but the meth heads are heavily involved with chop shops, car thefts, and petty crime almost non-stop in Portland. My...
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6-22-22, 6:47pm
LDAHL seemed to be referencing the BLM protests (usually paired with references to the terrorist* group Antifa.)
*Note: Antifa is not in any way a...
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6-22-22, 5:38pm
Sticking it to the libs, writ large.
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6-22-22, 5:37pm
Portland would have nothing to apologize for, if it weren't for the Proud Boys (sic) who regularly showed up to cause trouble--practicing for January...
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6-22-22, 12:26pm
The financial considerations alone for a family with few means, marginal jobs, existing children, etc. comprise another angle that is rarely...
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6-22-22, 11:54am
You can discuss the nature of embryos and fetuses all you like, but really, it's only the business of the woman involved. That shouldn't be hard to...
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