Bow down, mortals.
Too bad you missed it.
But don’t worry – there’s more!
Separation of church and state? What’s that?
Next they’ll be forcing us to do so.
By the way? I don’t trust their “god” – not for a second. Their god is a hateful shit and a bully.
… Read the restIf the Florida House of Representatives has its way, all public schools in the Sunshine State will soon be required to post the words “In God We Trust” — the state’s motto — on all campuses where students and staff can see them.
The House voted on the legislation Wednesday — 97 to 10, with members standing and applauding the results — after
Evangelist Billy Graham, who died Wednesday, will lie in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda from Wednesday, Feb. 28, to Thursday, March 1, according to an announcement from House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). Members of the public are invited to pay their respects. Ryan and McConnell will take part in a service upon the arrival of Graham’s casket.
What the hell? Billy Graham wasn’t a government official, he was a conservative religious huckster. What business does he have lying in the Capitol Rotunda as a stiff? What business do McConnell and Ryan have putting him there?
… Read the restGraham was a personal friend to several presidents, and preached to tens of millions
A bit more on the BuzzFeed story (read the whole thing to get the grim details).
In December, after BuzzFeed News contacted him about allegations of sexual harassment, Krauss tweeted a link to an article that argued the #MeToo movement was morphing into a “Warlock Hunt.” A month after that, he tweeted a story about French women denouncing #MeToo, writing, “I find their statement brave and thought-provoking, representing free-thought and skepticism at its best.”
Speaking out against a popular movement can provoke vicious reactions, but I find their statement brave and thought-provoking, representing free-thought and skepticism at its best. Agree with it or not, I am glad they spoke out. https://t.co/t5twA2VIud
— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) January 10, 2018
Science!… Read the rest
Oops. This could be awkward.
Next event in Phoenix is Dialogue with @SamHarrisOrg is Feb 23rd. Last chance to see us wrestle (verbally) on stage this year. :) Tix still available. https://t.co/0NQKBjsxa9
— Lawrence M. Krauss (@LKrauss1) February 17, 2018
Tomorrow.
Want to actually wrestle? https://t.co/uttaEkX0bC
— Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) February 18, 2018
On a hotel bed? No thank you.
For those who don't know, @LKrauss1 was actually a champion wrestler in school.
— Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) February 18, 2018
Ohhhh – no wonder his method is pinning women to beds.
God these bros are repulsive.… Read the rest
The BuzzFeed story is out at last.
Lawrence Krauss is a famous atheist and liberal crusader — and, in certain whisper networks, a well-known problem. With women coming forward alleging sexual harassment, will his “skeptic” fanbase believe the evidence?
Or will it just continue ranting about “SJWs” and “Cultural Marxism” and “witch hunts” and “going too far”?
The authors (Peter Aldhous, Azeen Ghorayshi, and Virginia Hughes) start with Melody Hensley’s story of Krauss’s Harvey Weinstein routine – moving a dinner invitation to his hotel room and then assaulting her.
… Read the restKrauss told BuzzFeed News that what happened with Hensley in the hotel room was consensual. In that room, “we mutually decided, in a polite discussion in fact, that taking it any
Oh god oh god oh god.
I never said “give teachers guns” like was stated on Fake News @CNN & @NBC. What I said was to look at the possibility of giving “concealed guns to gun adept teachers with military or special training experience – only the best. 20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2018
… Read the rest….immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions. Highly trained teachers would also serve as a deterrent to the cowards that do this. Far more assets at much less cost than guards. A “gun free” school is a magnet for bad people. ATTACKS WOULD END!
— Donald
Trump held a “listening session” with survivors of school shootings, but judging by the reporting on Twitter, it was a sour joke – carefully packed with Trump fans, and no naughty rebels allowed.
To help him simulate human reactions, Trump's minders gave him a cheat sheet that prompted him to say things like "I hear you" during the WH listening session on the #Parkland shootings. [@AP Photo by Carolyn Kaster] pic.twitter.com/cEyVNDlvjU
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) February 21, 2018
So I just tuned into this White House listening session late, but this is basically framing teachers with concealed guns as the common-sense compromise solution to school shootings?
— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) February 21, 2018
… Read the restI want to know why
Margaret Sullivan, media columnist at the Washington Post, is disgusted at the things the Twisted Right is saying about the surviving students from Stoneman Douglas high school.
… Read the restHere is the often-appalling pundit Dinesh D’Souza, outright mocking the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, after they showed their disappointment in a state legislature vote on assault weapons on Tuesday: “Worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs.”
Recall for a moment: These are teenagers whose friends were brutally murdered less than a week ago.
D’Souza, who has a huge social-media following precisely because he sinks so low, so often, also tweeted out his cynical scorekeeping: “Adults: 1. Kids: 0.” And he took a shot at what he called
I didn’t realize the Russian trolls had pounced on the Florida shooting that fast. The Times reported a couple of days ago:
One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia released hundreds of posts taking up the gun control debate.
An hour.
So not only do we have a brain-fryingly stupid politics around issues such as gun control and abortion and women’s claim to be actual people, but also the brain-frying stupidity of our politics is like rotting meat to flies. We get the authentic stupid politics and then we get even more of it courtesy of Putin.
That is not fair.
… Read the restThe accounts addressed
(It’s fun writing headlines that would have been gibberish 10 or 15 years ago.)
The hashtag #TwitterLockout has trended after an apparent purge of suspected malicious bots on the social network.
Dozens of users report having had their accounts suspended until they provided a telephone number which they then had to verify, to prove they were real.
Some members have raised concerns about their amount of lost followers, and claimed discrimination against right-wing political beliefs.
Is it the right-wing aspect or the deranged aspect? To put it another way, when so much right-wing pro-Trump discourse is batshit crazy and sounds like trolling whether it’s out of Russia or not, how can one tell whether it’s … Read the rest
Trump’s pet ex-sheriff (who still calls himself “Sheriff” even though he’s an EX-sheriff), back from his Twitter suspension:
The well ORGANIZED effort by Florida school students demanding gun control has GEORGE SOROS’ FINGERPRINTS all over it. It is similar to how he hijacked and exploited black people’s emotion regarding police use of force incidents into the COP HATING Black Lives Matter movement. pic.twitter.com/XDZ3bcwF6F
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) February 20, 2018
Really. Why would Florida students want gun control? What possible reason could they have to want fewer people wandering the landscape with an AR-15 and a backpack full of ammo? There surely is no such reason, therefore it must be Soros. Quod erat demonstrandum.… Read the rest
How graceful our new royal family is. Don 1 goes to visit survivors of the school shooting and grins like a partying frat boy for the cameras. Don 2 goes to peddle Luxury Properties in India and rejoices at the smiling faces of The Poor.
… Read the restDonald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, is in India this week to promote his family’s real estate empire and more than $1 billion worth of luxury Trump Tower projects in four cities, but he still had time to praise India’s poor for their smiles.
“I don’t mean to be glib about it, but you can see the poorest of the poor and there is still a smile on a face,” Trump said Tuesday
Florida legislators aren’t going to ban assault weapons just because a bunch of sissy kids think they should.
… Read the restThe Florida House rejects a motion to take up a bill banning assault rifles.
State Representative Kionne McGhee, a Democrat from Miami, asked for an unusual procedural move to consider his legislation, which had been filed earlier in the session but was never scheduled for a hearing.
“The shooting in Parkland demands extraordinary action,” Mr. McGhee said Tuesday on the House floor, as a group of Stoneman Douglas High students, who had previously arrived, peered down from the gallery.
The motion failed, 36 to 71, in a vote along party lines. At least one student burst into tears, Mr. McGhee said. One
The tweet
A woman I don’t know and, to the best of my knowledge, never met, is on the FRONT PAGE of the Fake News Washington Post saying I kissed her (for two minutes yet) in the lobby of Trump Tower 12 years ago. Never happened! Who would do this in a public space with live security……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2018
The tweet in response
… Read the restPlease, by all means, share the footage from the hallway outside the 24th floor residential elevator bank on the morning of January 11, 2006. Let’s clear this up for everyone. It’s liars like you in politics that have prompted me to run for office myself. https://t.co/ir7EEKoXRU https://t.co/GmkkZ5jUc7
— Rachel Crooks for
I wondered why Rob mentioned Dinesh D’Souza…then I saw that the latter was trending on Twitter, so I looked. Oh, that’s why.
Worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs https://t.co/Vg3mXYvb4c
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) February 20, 2018
The tweet he shared with that startling gloss:
AP photo of school shooting survivors watching Florida lawmakers vote down a bill to ban assault weapons https://t.co/fxYxXSBoRA pic.twitter.com/3K6N1jepGX
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) February 20, 2018
It turns out the whole thing is a left-wing plot to…um…to corrupt our precious bodily fluids? I’m not sure, but it’s definitely left-wing and a plot. And Soros.
… Read the restFormer GOP congressman Jack Kingston on Tuesday doubled-down on his inflammatory allegations that a group of school shooting survivors pushing for tougher gun laws are simply being used by left-wing political groups. Appearing on CNN, the Georgia Republican suggested that billionaire George Soros and other liberal activists had “hijacked” the “sorrow” of survivors of the Parkland, Florida, massacre, who in recent days have been helping organize a series of pro-gun-control protests.
“Do we really think, and I say this sincerely, that 17-year-olds on their own are going to plan a
Trump and Co want to ditch a law that protects birds. Yeah, who needs birds anyway?
… Read the restThe bird protection law—known officially as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act—is more important now than ever. It protects more than 1,000 species of birds by making it illegal to kill or harm any birds not covered by permits.
Stripping the nation’s longest-standing bird conservation law of its authority to protect birds contradicts decades of bipartisan support from Republicans and Democrats. If the law is decapitated by the Interior Department and by legislative proposals authored by Wyoming GOP Representative Liz Cheney, millions of our most iconic and beloved birds will be at huge risk.
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The penalties under the bird protection law are critical
Up for another Moral Quandary via Twitter session?
The BBC reported yesterday on the BAFTA awards and the MeToo Time’s Up campaigns.
Guests at the Bafta Film Awards showed their support for the Time’s Up and Me Too campaigns by wearing black and sending messages from the stage.
Virtually all the stars at the London ceremony were in black and some were accompanied by rights campaigners.
One of the few in a colourful dress was best actress winner Frances McDormand – but she told the ceremony: “I stand in full solidarity with my sisters.”
It’s all a bit knife-edge, isn’t it – movie stars all dressed up protesting and standing in solidarity with their sisters and stuff. A bit cringeworthy, … Read the rest