GOP Failure Watch Part VI (Majority in House Edition) The Insurrection Caucus Sh*tshow.

Christ almighty, how old are you? You’re the Kevin McCarthy (no, not that one) character from the Twilight Zone.

 

Astroturfed Karens with a Kock behind..

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/07/09/just-who-is-behind-moms-for-liberty-column/

 

This article, if accurate, explains much.

 

I believe, but am not certain, that it wasn’t even outlawing, it was some kind of warning related to…hell, it was so trivial I can’t remember. Something about a byproduct of heating the metal with gas.

 

tbf though, replacing dirty products with crappy products isn't going to do anything to combat climate change. There just isn't that critical mass of people that would be willing to pay for shitty stuff. This applies to big items like electric stoves right down to the little shitty stuff like paper covers on to-go coffee cups.

 

Heritage Foundation is one of the few mustache twirling supervillain organizations out there. Straight up.

 

I work down the street from their headquarters. I'm sure I see some of their people in the little cornerstore for lunch. You'd think they'd normally dine on the reconstituted remains of civilian war victims.

 

I once made a Christian's head explode with the "what if you're wrong" theory.

A) "Homosexuality is a sin, so we mustn't condone that lifestyle. They deserve to be punished."
B) "Everyone, regardless of whether you agree with them or not, should be treated with dignity and respect."

What if you're wrong, regardless of whether you agree with A or B? What will Jesus say when the Lord calls you home?

Considering that Jesus always sided with the underdog, always tried to help the people who were down and out, ostracized by society, etc. I doubt he would fault you for erring on the side of kindness toward people who are being discriminated against. Even if option B is "wrong" and those people are sinners, God will deal with them on his own terms. You know, judge not and all that..

On the other hand, if option A is wrong, you spent your whole life persecuting a certain subset of the human race in a terrible way. How do you think Jesus is going to react to that?

The guy started quoting Leviticus, but before he even got to the end of the verse they had to make the "Cleanup on Aisle 6" announcement on the intercom.

 

72.

But my dad was a historian-- Maurice Sendak didn't teach me to read, Samuel Eliot Morrison did.

And one of his close colleagues/coauthors had a Boston marriage.

 

They always, always, fall back on Leviticus. (Yet I've been criticized by certain Christians here for bringing up Leviticus when discussing the Bible)

The two main things they don't realize about the two passages in Leviticus are:

1. It only deals with males (lesbians are never condemned in the Jewish scriptures and arguably not in the Christian New Testament either)
2. The wording used (toebah) indicates it is a behavior that leads to a religious purity violation (equivalent to eating pork, having sex with a menstruating woman, getting a tattoo, wearing cotton/polyester blends, etc). Religious purity violations were serious concerns among the Jewish community, but not as much among some of the prominent authors of Christian scriptures.

I fondly remember Pride in Glasgow a few years ago where I confronted some street preachers. They were saying both the Old and New Testament clearly condemn both gay males and lesbians. I told them they were bearing false witness and stood condemned before God and challenged them to find a single Old Testament passage that condemned lesbians. Needless to say they went immediately to Leviticus and read the passages out loud. I reminded them it only references male-male sex and again called them out on lying to people regarding what the Bible says. It was quite fun exposing their ignorance for all to see.

 

Apparently there are now electric ranges (the induction type) that work even better than gas.

 

Okay. ******** the world. Jitty needs his gas stove!

 

We need to transform our economy and reduce our consumption. Yes, switching to electric vehicles and appliances can help, assuming that you have higher efficiency and clean energy sources, but what we really need to do is cut back in all the unnecessary crap that we buy and make things last longer, especially now that a big portion of the world is catching up with the US in our abuse of natural resources. Oh, and also eliminate almost completely all the fancy plastic packing.

I'm yet to figure out how to do so relying on the magical hand of the market.

 

True. Almost double the price of a regular range but maybe the prices will come down.

 

Timely article about LGBT+ people leaving Republican states for Democrat states or overseas (including New Zealand of course). It mentions gun laws as a contributing factor.

It highlights that my comments and opinions here, especially about getting the hell out of this country while we can, are indeed fairly representative of a broader set of LGBT+ people.

What I didn't know is that there is already an organization set up to help us escape red states.

 

They keep buying homes in my hood and filling then with people who spend their days thinking up new ways to do bad things.

 

Of course he did. The Christian Bible is a huge book filled with a ton of stuff -- so much so that a motivated person can probably find something in there to justify any point-of-view they want. Americans used the Bible to justify chattel slavery and then segregation for a long time, after all.

 

Induction ranges are unpopular because you need to replace all your cookware.

 

That could be a fun ice-breaker at a Bible study!

 

The Christian Bible ain't that big. The Jewish Bible is massive. Christians, as far as I can tell, pick and choose what they want from the Jewish Bible and ignore the rest.

It's so crazy that they cite Leviticus to show that butt stuff is morally wrong and then they ignore Leviticus so they can eat a lobster roll. Make up your freaking mind!

 

Don't forget Deuteronomy! I like to bring up this very explicit and unequivocal law when they cite Leviticus against me:

Yeah, you're going to make me live by the Bible, well guess what - if your 10 year old daughter is raped, God demands that she marry the rapist and can never divorce him. It's what God demands! But hey, you'll get some money out of it. Enjoy!

(ps - great news if you're an Incel, you now have a way out of your situation!)

 

God Hates Shrimp