August 22, 2013
— Ace Oh let's put off the video metaphor for now, because it's a real closer.
New Mexico's Supreme Court rules that people must set aside their religion in order to avoid creating the slightest inconvenience for gay people. It calls this "the price of citizenship."
The court said that Elaine Huguenin, the photographer, had discriminated against gay customers for not photographing their weddings, even though she had said she would be happy to take their pictures in different contexts. The court also refused any differentiation whatsoever between homosexual and heterosexual conduct under the law, despite the fact that same-sex marriage is not licensed in the state of New Mexico. Justice Edward Chavez wrote, “The difficulty in distinguishing between status and conduct in the context of sexual orientation discrimination is that people may base their judgment about an individual's sexual orientation on the individual's conduct. To allow discrimination based on conduct so closely correlated with sexual orientation would severely undermine the purpose of the NMHRA." In other words, orientation and conduct are so intertwined that to discriminate against activity would be to discriminate against the person -- an odd line of logic, given that it would then follow that discriminating against religious activity would constitute discrimination on the basis of religion, making the court's logic self-defeating.Justice Richard Bosson wrote, in concurrence, that the Huguenins are “compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives.” He concluded, “The Huguenins are free to think, to say, to believe, as they wish; they may pray to the God of their choice and follow those commandments in their personal lives wherever they lead. The Constitution protects the Huguenins in that respect and much more. But there is a price, one that we all have to pay somewhere in our civic life.” That “compromise,” he wrote, “is part of the glue that holds us together as a nation, the tolerance that lubricates the varied moving parts of us as a people. That sense of respect we owe others, whether or not we believe as they do, illuminates this country, setting it apart from the discord that afflicts much of the rest of the world. In short, I would say to the Huguenins, with the utmost respect: it is the price of citizenship.”
Yeah, they could compromise their religious beliefs, or, you know, the gay couple could simply find another photographer. No, by all means, let's use the power of the state to reach as deeply as possible into people's lives instead of just telling the gay couple to "Look online for ten minutes and find someone else."
Obama's NSA review panel is impressing experts due to its composition of skeptics, outsiders, conservatives, and libertarians.
Nah I'm just kidding, it's stuffed to the gills with Obama's cronies and employees.
Gee, I wonder if they'll come back with a report damaging to Obama, one that requires him to make any difficult changes at all, or if they'll just say, "Needs some work but looks PRETTY GREAT!!! (Boss!!!)"
Yeah I wonder about such things.
VDH, America the Trivial.
The media continues not noticing that Chris Lane was killed in a racially-motivated murder:
And three days before what police call the indiscriminate shooting, the suspect, 15-year-old James Edwards Jr., tweeted, “With my n****s when it’s time to start taken life’s.”Back in April, he tweeted, “90% of white ppl (people) are nasty. #HATE THEM.”
They're also missing the possible gangland initiation angle, Bryan Preston reports.
And on that subject, Time Magazine, a magazine of the Politically Correct Goonsquad Left, calls the part of town Chris Lane ventured into "the grittier part of town."
Whatever could they mean by that? Well what they mean is "black and poor," but they'd crucify anyone else who seemed to mean that.
I mean, anyone not in the media, Democratic Party, or New Class.
(Taranto of the WSJ caught this one and noted it in a tweet. I didn't see Time respond as to what they meant.)
And then there's this newest horror that we won't be discussing in the National Discussion on Race.
And all three networks finally devote serious time to bringing the public up to speed on the recent White House scandals.
Now, via @doreenhdickson and @chicksonright, the Video Metaphor for the Left. Enjoy!
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Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 03:33 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: New Mexico Supreme Court at August 22, 2013 03:33 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: HRH Princess Fuzzy Bunny a/k/a Lizzy at August 22, 2013 03:33 PM (UrtRh)
Posted by: Blue Hen at August 22, 2013 03:33 PM (PrDJQ)
Reverse the roles. Why can't gays accept someone else's beliefs? Don't they need to exhibit compromise and tolerance?
Posted by: pep at August 22, 2013 03:33 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 22, 2013 03:33 PM (XIxXP)
Posted by: Buzzion at August 22, 2013 03:33 PM (47V1T)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 22, 2013 03:34 PM (gTN+E)
Posted by: Nation of Islam at August 22, 2013 03:34 PM (PrDJQ)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 22, 2013 03:35 PM (XIxXP)
Zimmerman fearing a black youth is raaaacism.
Lane not not fearing black youths is stupid.
Posted by: HRH Princess Fuzzy Bunny a/k/a Lizzy at August 22, 2013 03:35 PM (UrtRh)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 03:35 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Captain Hate on an iPhone at August 22, 2013 03:36 PM (/XvV5)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 22, 2013 03:37 PM (XIxXP)
Posted by: Pretty, Pretty Princess Lauren at August 22, 2013 03:37 PM (ELdpj)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 03:37 PM (qyfb5)
So. What's the expiration date on this?
Posted by: Papist bograt at August 22, 2013 03:38 PM (PrDJQ)
Commie-speak for "you will comply with The State's wishes, or lose your livelihood". They won't be satified until every minute aspect of our lives is under their control.
Posted by: The Third Worfman Of The Apocalypse at August 22, 2013 03:38 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: the editors of Time, doing their Chris Rock impression at August 22, 2013 03:38 PM (zlEwG)
Remember me at your next wedding. I'm sure to get those pictures right.
Posted by: FYNQ Photography at August 22, 2013 03:39 PM (eHIJJ)
well this leftard judge has set a new standard
we need to find a way to make them own it and ...ahem... jam it down their throats...as it were.
Posted by: rain of lead at August 22, 2013 03:39 PM (J/npG)
That's pretty much what it comes down to. Crowbarring and sledgehammering their way in. Overall social comity be damned.
I'm a longtime supporter of gay marriage. Count me among those who argue that the Fourteenth Amendment requires that option.
Count me also among those who say that marriage is an intrinsically conservative institution. (As some liberals in the first wave of gay marriages are now learning to their horror, leading promptly to a wave of gay divorces. What? It's not all about fabulous receptions? You mean I can't casually fuck whomever I want at the drop of a hat any longer without busting up my marriage? Waaaaaah!)
But, while I find that I have to uphold gay marriage rights, I'm also uncomfortably aware that I'm ending up in the ranks with people who I find otherwise repugnant. To include those who Will. Not. Ever. Stop. trying to use government to force everyone else in society to bend a respectful knee to their sexuality.
At that point, Fourteenth Amendment rights start to run afoul of the First Amendment rights of the religious in particular, and as far as I'm concerned, there is a priority scale operating here.
Freedom of association, that often overlooked principle, is also at risk. One cannot have freedom of association without a corresponding freedom of disassociation.
Posted by: torquewrench at August 22, 2013 03:39 PM (gqT4g)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 22, 2013 03:39 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 03:39 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: The Third Worfman Of The Apocalypse at August 22, 2013 03:39 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Pretty, Pretty Princess Lauren at August 22, 2013 03:39 PM (ELdpj)
So in New Jersey it is illegal to attempt to covert someone from gay to straight. I wonder when it will be illegal in the US for the courts to stop attempting to convert us from straight to gay?
Posted by: blue at August 22, 2013 03:39 PM (mwctc)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2013 03:39 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: no good deed at August 22, 2013 03:40 PM (WmLrU)
Posted by: Carlos Danger at August 22, 2013 03:41 PM (/Jg6b)
What about polygamous marriages?
Can a Mormon photographer refuse to photograph drunken revelry? Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith
See, I told you. Not photographing my unit would be discrimination.
Posted by: A. Weiner at August 22, 2013 03:42 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Waterhouse at August 22, 2013 03:42 PM (VimQr)
Will there be handbaskets involved?
Posted by: John Bradley at August 22, 2013 03:42 PM (zlEwG)
Posted by: the judge formerly known as justice chavez at August 22, 2013 03:42 PM (joFbZ)
Posted by: Doctor Cynic at August 22, 2013 03:43 PM (3TTMv)
I have never seen anyone so pompous and condescending since Baroque and his middle-finger salutes...and she may have him beat. She sneers at reporters. Someone gave her crap tonight about the missing Samantha Powers of the UN after she read her statement on not knowing squat and then the typical transparent administration of batting questions to another dept (in this case, the UN in regard to chemical weapons in Syria0. She is mean. I would think men flee from her, but I could be wrong.
She always thinks she looks fabulous with her accessories as well. I hope the press revolts soon, as I think I am not alone. She makes Cankles look like Sally Fields the Flying Nun.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Queen of something and wears tiara. Deal with it. at August 22, 2013 03:43 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 03:43 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: rickl at August 22, 2013 03:43 PM (sdi6R)
I'm going to presume that I am normal and that there are other people 'out there' like me who are paying attention to the big stuff and have reached their limit. We're now just waiting out the next three years and hoping we'll get someone else in there, the Office of President.
In the meantime, we're not going to sweat the big stuff, and we're going to laugh at the little stuff, and if the fertilizer overloads the air circulation device, we'll be ready for that too. So, in the mean time, it's all fun and games until someone pokes and eye out.
Posted by: Caffeine affected Reactionary at August 22, 2013 03:44 PM (h3fR3)
Have no words. Can't wait until I can tell the HQ about it.
In the meantime, forgive me for my angry shit a couple of weeks ago.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 22, 2013 03:44 PM (lVPtV)
I don't have a link, but I'm sure it will come to light soon enough.
Or...maybe not.
Posted by: The MFM at August 22, 2013 03:45 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 03:45 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2013 03:45 PM (NAU+F)
I'm wondering what will happen when a couple tries to force the LDS church to perform a Temple Marriage.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 22, 2013 03:45 PM (IoTdl)
Posted by: YIKES! at August 22, 2013 03:46 PM (mETGQ)
@32 So in New Jersey it is illegal to attempt to convert someone from gay to straight. I wonder when the courts will stop trying to convert us from straight to gay?
fixed it, I am not good at this commenting thing I guess.
Posted by: blue at August 22, 2013 03:46 PM (mwctc)
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Queen of something and wears tiara. Deal with it. at August 22, 2013 03:46 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: Tuna at August 22, 2013 03:46 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: Y-not at August 22, 2013 03:47 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: the judge formerly known as justice chavez at August 22, 2013 03:47 PM (joFbZ)
Mark Levin is talking about an 89 year old white WWII vet who was beaten to death by two black teenagers.
Local News Story.
Posted by: The Narrative at August 22, 2013 03:47 PM (/Jg6b)
Posted by: dirks strewn at August 22, 2013 03:47 PM (n+DCP)
Posted by: phreshone at August 22, 2013 03:48 PM (Pr6hk)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 03:48 PM (qyfb5)
The perps looked like Choom Boy's sons.
I won't say what I think now must happen to keep the United States from collapsing into bankruptcy, violence, terrorism and all the other manifestations of Third World shitholes like *cough* Kenya *cough*.
Pro Tip: It ain't gonna be pretty. And a few well-known "Servants of the People" and Prophets of Choom are going to have to pay big-time for their treason.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 22, 2013 03:48 PM (kaGpp)
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Queen of something and wears tiara. Deal with it. at August 22, 2013 07:46 PM (baL2B)
Thank you, honey. You have no idea what the Japanese government is doing to our son (and others) to punish them for serving on Okinawa. Our son is about to lose every single dollar he worked for to a shake-down artist on the island, supported by the government. Even the JAG officer assigned to our boy has given him no hope.
Want to die.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 22, 2013 03:49 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 22, 2013 03:49 PM (cTZvT)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 03:49 PM (qyfb5)
it's in the post, "new horror that we won't be discussing..."
Posted by: ace at August 22, 2013 03:49 PM (/IWYB)
[Ace - ] "They're also missing the possible gangland initiation angle...
Yeah, Ace...that was my first thought, when I heard about this story.
A gang initiation.
The Crips and Bloods have been 'claiming' little towns here in OK for some time.
There were stories five years ago, about the gangs recruiting little kids to do burglaries for them...
Because the little kids wouldn't get put in jail, if they got caught.
The gang leaders know that juvies have a 'Get out of jail free' card.
And they exploit it.
Posted by: wheatie at August 22, 2013 03:50 PM (el7k2)
Posted by: 15 year old thug at August 22, 2013 03:50 PM (Aif/5)
I mean, after all, that's what I want and under this ruling it sure as hell seems like I get it.
Because, hey, if those are the rules? Game. On.
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 03:51 PM (Gk3SS)
it's in the post, "new horror that we won't be discussing..."
Gotta put that shit in the comments if you want us to read it, Ace.
Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2013 03:51 PM (/Jg6b)
Posted by: rickl at August 22, 2013 03:51 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 03:52 PM (Tnlh/)
Urban blacks like the knockout game. See a defenceless cracker, sucker punch him, and then beat him to death. It's such fun, and your friends can play too. Good times.
Unless the vic is packing, like Zimmerman was.
Posted by: redenzo at August 22, 2013 03:52 PM (vx61Q)
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 07:51 PM (Gk3SS)
Don't forget to demand that they use skimpily clad female employees. It's your right or something, after all.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 22, 2013 03:53 PM (oY6Yp)
>>> And then you have to participate to prove it.
Permission to fellate the State's witness, your honor?
Posted by: Gay Lawyer at August 22, 2013 03:53 PM (/Jg6b)
And what is going to happen in the schools is they won't even be allowed to discuss any sort of traditional sexual morality because it will be considered exclusive, Christian, and judgemental--"Heather has Two Mommies" and "Daddy's Roommate" however, will be diverse and inclusive and celebrated--and required reading.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at August 22, 2013 03:53 PM (E3gqr)
My guess is some gay people in various parts of the country are going to get some really bad pictures or some really nasty tasting cake if this crap keeps up. You can not make people your slaves and expect no retaliation.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 22, 2013 03:53 PM (uX+Qq)
We must accept their senseless anger and rage. It's the price of citizenship.
Posted by: NM Supreme Court Justice at August 22, 2013 03:53 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 03:53 PM (qyfb5)
@38Where's the percentage in forcing someone to take pictures anyway? Show up drunk with a disposable camera - there are your pictures, assholes. Hope you like em.
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Then they'd sue you for, "You ruined my wedding with your lousy pictures! Waaaaah!"
And probably win.
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 03:54 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2013 03:54 PM (+98Gb)
Got it.
Put more simply, the orthodoxy and practice of two religions were in conflict and the court picked the one their politics makes them like better.
Posted by: Liechendiener at August 22, 2013 03:56 PM (u3N3z)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 03:56 PM (Tnlh/)
@49And they will never get around to suing Christian clergy and churches for refusing to join a same-sex pair in "holy matrimony." /
Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 07:43 PM (Tnlh/)
Oh, wasn't that in the news a week or two ago?
You can't even sarcastically predict people's actions fast enough these days. The second you come up with a horrible perversion or word of law, someone is already doing it.
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Yes, and no. So far in the US that sort of thing has been restricted to non-church properties that are owned by churches. However, you might be thinking of the suit filed a couple of weeks ago in the UK to force the Anglican church to perform SSM weddings.
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 03:56 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2013 03:56 PM (+98Gb)
Posted by: Capp at August 22, 2013 03:57 PM (RfJHy)
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 22, 2013 07:53 PM (oY6Yp)
No, seriously, if it weren't for the fact that a. I don't live in NM, b. I'm not exactly seeing anyone at the moment and c. I don't want to get beheaded, I'd love to bring that suit.
I've read the ruling a few times and it sure as hell seems to me that a strong argument can be made that refusing to change your menu to accommodate the desires of someone in a protected class should also be verbotten. After all, it's a religious based objection.
How about this, go after some Gaia worshiping vegan caterer and demand cis serve veal. That should do it.
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 03:57 PM (Gk3SS)
51Anyone who doesn't see the state forcing churches to conduct "wedding" ceremonies is just not paying attention.
I'm wondering what will happen when a couple tries to force the LDS church to perform a Temple Marriage.
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My understanding is that we're already moving toward the "civil marriage first, temple ceremony afterwards" approach. It's already in use in some other countries due to restrictions on who can perform marriages.
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 03:58 PM (UWFpX)
I don't know why a couple would want the visual record of their nuptials--the one you show to the grandkids so they can ooooh over how sweet you look--to be provided by someone who seethingly resents having to be there, but I've never had a wedding, so what would I know.
Posted by: Nanny Bloomberg at August 22, 2013 03:59 PM (/kI1Q)
Two acts of completely capricious law I have read lately, this NM ruling and the other appellate court ruling that said law enforcement doesn't need a warrant to search your cell phone.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 22, 2013 03:59 PM (uX+Qq)
[Ace - ] "And then there's this newest horror that we won't be discussing in the National Discussion on Race."
The Left has created this 'culture of lawlessness'.
But they want to blame it all on...guns.
Yet it is this 'culture of lawlessness' that the Left has created, that makes it even more necessary that we arm ourselves in order to survive it.
Posted by: wheatie at August 22, 2013 03:59 PM (el7k2)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ is still at work and needs a beer at August 22, 2013 04:00 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: steevy at August 22, 2013 04:00 PM (9XBK2)
And then you have to participate to prove it.
I, for one, am sickened by your racist outbursts.
/
Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2013 04:00 PM (/Jg6b)
Posted by: President For Life Obama at August 22, 2013 04:00 PM (ZuiHO)
@76 Well all know that this will never happen. Leftists are cowards for the most part.
Back in 2008 when Proposition 8 (marriage solely between one man and one woman) was passed in CA, the usual suspects came out (no pun intended) and protested in front of several Mormon churches. Here's the thing: there are several megachurches in South Central LA with mostly black congregations. These churches actively asked that their congregants vote yes on Prop 8. And roughly 70% of black CA voters voted yes. One could argue that it was (black and Hispanic) voters who got the proposition passed.
But were there any Leftists protesting in the hood? Don't make me laugh. Cowards.
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There was even an anti-Mormon ad shortly before the vote that had a couple of Mormon missionaries storming into the apartment of a gay couple.
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 04:00 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 04:00 PM (Tnlh/)
So does this imply that it is OK to fear black youths when in the "grittier part of town"...
OR
One should avoid the "grittier part of town", and Lane was stupid for not doing so? (Sounds raaacist, doesn't it?)
Reminder: According to HUD's new master plan every community will become a "grittier part of town" because Fairness.
Posted by: HRH Princess Fuzzy Bunny a/k/a Lizzy at August 22, 2013 04:01 PM (UrtRh)
I have to call 'marriage' something that isn't, or I'm a homophobe.
I have to shut my fucking mouth about our shitstain of a president, or I'm a racist.
I loathe the left. My rage is quiet, but eternal. Woe to them should it ever be called to action.
Posted by: Bivalve Curious at August 22, 2013 04:01 PM (sYUAj)
Not if the other party is in a protected class. Maybe I should start loaning myself out to people in NM to help them get what they want. Can't get a reservation at that restaurant? Discrimination! Can't get into the salon? Discrimination!
Hmmmm. I shall have to ponder.
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 04:02 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: John P. Squibob at August 22, 2013 04:03 PM (V5PSm)
As much as we may want to fight the battle on class and economics, right now the Dems have been very effective at dividing us up by race (mainly because they've been able to get away with no push back I think) and unless you can get a really charismatic populist leader that can cut across those racial lines and realign people's thinking that is going to continue to be the battleground. I don't think it has to be a black or hispanic to do this, just someone with real blue collar cred that can connect.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at August 22, 2013 04:03 PM (E3gqr)
Our son is trying to come home. I'm so depressed over what the fucking Japanese are doing to him I can't see straight.
Anyhow, I love EoJ and all you fuckwits. Heh.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 22, 2013 04:03 PM (lVPtV)
The left is going to have us all killing each other over tribalism within ten years.
Posted by: Null at August 22, 2013 04:03 PM (xjpRj)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ is still at work and needs a beer at August 22, 2013 08:00 PM (/kI1Q)
Is it good?
Posted by: Horny Left Foot at August 22, 2013 04:04 PM (hpYnL)
Posted by: weft, all kitted up for RINOv.PURE [/i] [/b] at August 22, 2013 04:05 PM (hSwFv)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:05 PM (IXrOn)
codswallop!
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 22, 2013 04:05 PM (6xhLc)
Posted by: toby928© embraces the suck at August 22, 2013 04:05 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: redenzo at August 22, 2013 04:06 PM (vx61Q)
Posted by: Marcus at August 22, 2013 04:06 PM (RDnLo)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:06 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Queen of something and wears tiara. Deal with it. at August 22, 2013 04:06 PM (baL2B)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl i support the rodeo clown at August 22, 2013 04:07 PM (8JJ6O)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 04:07 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2013 04:07 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 08:02 PM (Gk3SS)
Find a sleazy lawyer to partner with and you can offer a full range of services from offense to judgment.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 22, 2013 04:07 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 22, 2013 04:07 PM (cTZvT)
Posted by: Craig Poe at August 22, 2013 04:08 PM (BVkEs)
Posted by: steevy at August 22, 2013 04:10 PM (9XBK2)
129Just saw a commercial for Al Jazeera America.
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There are times when I'm intensely grateful that I don't have cable...
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 04:10 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: toby928© embraces the suck at August 22, 2013 04:11 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 22, 2013 04:11 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: phreshone at August 22, 2013 07:48 PM (Pr6hk)"
Winston Smith wasn't killed in "1984" until he loved Big Brother.
Posted by: Sudden Clarity Clarence at August 22, 2013 04:11 PM (S3ODI)
That's one of the CRAs flaws. Forcing a business owner to do business with another entity is just as bad as forbidding a business owner from doing with another entity, e.g. Jim Crow. Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 08:07 PM (Tnlh/)
This ruling was under the NM Human Rights Act. I have no idea if the CRA did that but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
Find a sleazy lawyer to partner with and you can offer a full range of services from offense to judgment.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 22, 2013 08:07 PM (8ZskC)
Seriously, if it weren't for the fact that I can't move due to the 'rents being here, I would be very tempted to head for Santa Fe and engage in some lawfare. My brother used to live there and I like that area.
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 04:12 PM (Gk3SS)
103...Ah, the vicious circle.
Yeah, balilocks...it really is.
Question is, did they do this on purpose? ...Or are they too stupid to see the reality of what their policies have done.
Posted by: wheatie at August 22, 2013 04:12 PM (el7k2)
Perhaps there will be counseling to go from straight to gay. Who wouldn't want to be "superior"?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at August 22, 2013 04:12 PM (QDk4A)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:12 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Tuna at August 22, 2013 04:12 PM (M/TDA)
Posted by: Jeff Bee at August 22, 2013 04:12 PM (Aif/5)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/knvjwya
But you can make them use the back entrance.
"Manhattan developer Extell is seeking millions in air rights and tax breaks for building 55 low-income units at 40 Riverside Boulevard. . ."
Posted by: Caffeine affected Reactionary at August 22, 2013 04:13 PM (h3fR3)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 04:14 PM (Tnlh/)
breaks for building 55 low-income units at 40 Riverside Boulevard. . ."
Posted by: Caffeine affected Reactionary at August 22, 2013 08:13 PM (h3fR3)
Couldn't happen to a more self-righteous and judgemental group of coddled jerks.
Posted by: CAC at August 22, 2013 04:14 PM (r4gsK)
Posted by: toby928© embraces the suck at August 22, 2013 04:14 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:15 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: rickl at August 22, 2013 04:15 PM (sdi6R)
@138 Another business to go stealth.
Just say you're booked full.
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They'll hire you first, and only tell you that it's for a same sex wedding afterwards.
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 04:15 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: sonnyspats at August 22, 2013 04:15 PM (N3Al8)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 04:15 PM (Tnlh/)
business with another entity is just as bad as forbidding a business
owner from doing with another entity, e.g. Jim Crow.
remember when we thought Obamacare would die in the Supreme Court because there was NO WAY the Court would rule that government can force us to buy a product or service?
good times, good times
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 22, 2013 04:16 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:16 PM (IXrOn)
Drawing and quartering comes immediately to mind. Another thing those irrelevant old dead white guys were right on with.
Posted by: kartoffel at August 22, 2013 04:16 PM (TWglc)
#145
A great way to infuriate progressives:
Spell it Chelsea Manning*
But never explain the asterisk, just leave it there.
Posted by: CAC at August 22, 2013 04:17 PM (r4gsK)
Very very roughly speaking, how tall you can build.
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 04:17 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:17 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: steevy at August 22, 2013 04:18 PM (9XBK2)
Fuck Ron Paul.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 08:15 PM (ZPrif)
That's Chelsea Manning and Ru Paul, you cisnormative h8r
Posted by: mugiwara at August 22, 2013 04:18 PM (hpYnL)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:18 PM (ZPrif)
@155 If so, then they are dishonest, and vile.
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Yes, well, we're talking about people that are apparently willing to delay their wedding so that a lawsuit against a recalcitrant photographer can get settled first. Remember, court cases typically don't happen the week after you file the suit...
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 04:18 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: toby928© embraces the suck at August 22, 2013 04:19 PM (QupBk)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 08:12 PM (IXrOn)
Relative plays music for weddings and stuff as a home business, plus 4 kids.
She has plausible deniability - "Kids have a camping trip that weekend, sorry I won't make it".
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 22, 2013 04:20 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: toby928© embraces the suck at August 22, 2013 04:20 PM (QupBk)
I don't see the value they expect to get. Are they saying that because their tenants are poor, they must build the homes lower?
I am sure it is only a small portion of the total units they are looking to build on site. So, add some low income units and get the variance you are looking for.
Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2013 04:20 PM (/Jg6b)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:20 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: PersonFromPorlock at August 22, 2013 04:21 PM (lILC0)
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at August 22, 2013 04:21 PM (jucos)
Like carbon credits only in reverse. With carbon credits if you pollute you have to buy 'credits' from someone who doesn't pollute.
With 'air rights' you have to buy the right to sunlight and air flow from someone who has it and not using it. Because buildings in NYC have a 'right' to air and sunlight, so if you are going to take that away from someone else, you have to negotiate a price for it.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/bjbtrm4
NYTimes article.
Posted by: Caffeine affected Reactionary at August 22, 2013 04:21 PM (h3fR3)
Posted by: Y-not at August 22, 2013 04:22 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 08:17 PM (IXrOn)
Shabby t-shirt and jeans. T-shirt says, "Where's the Groom/Bride?"
I'm sure the Moron Horde can generate better slogans for that purpose.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 22, 2013 04:22 PM (sGtp+)
159...Very public with their condemnations of us.
While preaching that..."everyone should be tolerant of other people's views".
Leftists are the most intolerant people on the planet.
They have Zero Tolerance for anything resembling a conservative point of view.
Posted by: wheatie at August 22, 2013 04:22 PM (el7k2)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:23 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: steevy at August 22, 2013 04:24 PM (9XBK2)
Imaginary cameras for a make-believe "wedding".
Posted by: Normal Regular Human Beings - 8000 BC to present at August 22, 2013 04:24 PM (EZl54)
Heaven knows I don't know NYC building laws, at all, but my understanding is that in order to get a huge amount of tax breaks and variances on height, etc., they are going to build five stories worth of subsidized housing and then the expensive ones above them. I am purely guessing here but I assume that the cheaper places are on the lower levels due to a combination of accessibility and because the higher you go the more expensive the units are.
Basically, they are building two completely separate buildings but all in the same footprint. Thus, two separate doors.
I read somewhere that this builder has received tens if not hundreds of millions in tax breaks for doing similar things in the past.
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 04:25 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:25 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:25 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 08:18 PM (ZPrif)
"Can I borrow my snotty nephew for a bit? I need to be sick for this weekend."
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 22, 2013 04:25 PM (v3pYe)
Y-not...
I believe I read that Vic's okay...the doctor had some test readings that were a little 'off', or something.
Told him to get some exercise and watch his diet.
Posted by: wheatie at August 22, 2013 04:26 PM (el7k2)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2013 04:26 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: shredded chi at August 22, 2013 04:27 PM (Ct4hC)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:27 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 22, 2013 04:27 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 04:29 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: T. at August 22, 2013 04:29 PM (IRAqv)
http://tinyurl.com/knkys48
Tells GOP to fund government...
http://tinyurl.com/knkys48
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Posted by: caustic at August 22, 2013 04:30 PM (/b8+5)
Posted by: MTF at August 22, 2013 04:30 PM (ZuiHO)
@188While I have no problem with civil unions and am open to marriage (I just don't care that much), i have a big problem with judges using their position to push personal politics. Who does this bastard think he is?
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Earl Warren jr.
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 04:31 PM (UWFpX)
WooHoo!
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at August 22, 2013 04:31 PM (E3gqr)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:32 PM (IXrOn)
And, we see why the Left is consistantly changing the First Amendment to "Freedom of Worship" not "Religion." The former happens in a church. The latter throughout all your life in all circumstances. That is what they wish to forbid. No exercise of personal religous belief outside narrow confines.
What's worse, even if this ruling is unconstitutional, which I think it is, getting to such a reversal will cost huge amounts of money. This is designed to chill anyone from exercising their religious beliefs. Very few have those resources or the ability to close up shop during pending litigation.
Posted by: RS at August 22, 2013 04:32 PM (YAGV/)
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Not quite in the same vein, but Jane D'oh hasn't posted in quite a while either.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 22, 2013 04:32 PM (aDwsi)
Why can't a photographer have the same luxury?
Posted by: caustic at August 22, 2013 04:32 PM (/b8+5)
Posted by: Making Treason Pay at August 22, 2013 04:33 PM (R+cSS)
Posted by: steevy at August 22, 2013 04:33 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: steevy at August 22, 2013 04:34 PM (9XBK2)
breaks for building 55 low-income units at 40 Riverside Boulevard. . ."
Posted by: Caffeine affected Reactionary at August 22, 2013 08:13 PM (h3fR3)
To explain it a bit further, the low income housing units are subsidized units. The city pays the developer to build them. They are in 'the back of the building' away from the view of the river and will have a separate entrance off the 'back alley'.
Quite possibly being walled off from the rest of the building. There is also some kind of deal with other buildings.
This is the next step from Obama's zip code data, or the data base his administration is building to catalog the characteristics of any one particular neighborhood to see it a certain demographic is being denied the opportunity to reside at that location. It's his 'regionalism' initiative because White Flight Destroyed Detroit.
So if you people won't go to the grittier parts of your community, Obama's administration will bring those parts of your city to your neighborhood because that's the only way to make it fair for everyone.
Posted by: Caffeine affected Reactionary at August 22, 2013 04:35 PM (h3fR3)
Posted by: Adam at August 22, 2013 04:36 PM (Aif/5)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:36 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 22, 2013 04:37 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Methos at August 22, 2013 08:35 PM (hO9ad)
Yes. Yes, it is.
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 04:37 PM (Gk3SS)
As I have mentioned before, the solution for the photographer is a simple one.
- Insist on full payment up front.
- Take pictures of the event, but ensure that they are all out of focus or poorly composed.
- Declare an equipment malfunction, but refuse to reimburse the clients due to expenses you incurred during the shoot.
Special moment = Ruined.
Posted by: TXMarko at August 22, 2013 04:37 PM (UZNvX)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:37 PM (IXrOn)
@202Not quite in the same vein, but Jane D'oh hasn't posted in quite a while either.
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I think she was in one of the previous threads for a moment.
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She was in this thread, actually. See @47, among others.
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 04:38 PM (UWFpX)
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I think she was in one of the previous threads for a moment.
Posted by: Adam at August 22, 2013 08:36 PM (Aif/5)
She's in this thread. Eyes up there!
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 22, 2013 04:38 PM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Y-not at August 22, 2013 04:38 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: TXMarko at August 22, 2013 04:38 PM (UZNvX)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 22, 2013 07:44 PM (lVPtV)
Jane, all I have for you is big hugs. I think we can all understand your frustration and anger.
Posted by: DangerGirl, full of sweet rage at August 22, 2013 04:39 PM (GrtrJ)
Posted by: Y-not at August 22, 2013 04:39 PM (5H6zj)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:39 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Rusty Culvert at August 22, 2013 04:40 PM (qXUnq)
Posted by: Lady in Black, in a dead thread talking to myself at August 22, 2013 04:40 PM (XB5Ak)
Yeah, because their courts are going to stick up for Americans.
Posted by: Methos at August 22, 2013 04:40 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Rusty Culvert at August 22, 2013 08:40 PM (qXUnq)
poor focus
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 22, 2013 04:41 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: cormac_mcroadie at August 22, 2013 04:41 PM (4HsUp)
Posted by: Jeepers at August 22, 2013 04:42 PM (XDRsa)
Yeah, but you know that isn't the intent.
Any excuse to force the Gay Agenda...any little lawsuit that will find a sympathetic, activist judge...
We are not far off from churches and pastors being forced to conduct gay marriages against their beliefs.
I am beginning to regret my "live and let live" attitude regarding the homosexual community.
Posted by: SGT. York at August 22, 2013 04:42 PM (XgBat)
Posted by: puddleglum at August 22, 2013 04:42 PM (D1p3J)
Posted by: BignJames at August 22, 2013 04:42 PM (j7iSn)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:42 PM (IXrOn)
But 2012 kind of reset my thinking about this country. I think we'll be repeatedly subjugated until we are slaves to the state. I hate to think that, but the majority of this country doesn't care any more.
Posted by: DangerGirl, full of sweet rage at August 22, 2013 04:42 PM (GrtrJ)
Ever see that episode of the Flintstones when Fred gets his thumb perfectly centered in every shot?
Posted by: Methos at August 22, 2013 04:43 PM (hO9ad)
take the job, fuck it up, then refund their money
the standard implied warranty of any photographic service is basically limited to refund and replacement cost of materials
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 22, 2013 04:43 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2013 04:43 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: T. at August 22, 2013 04:43 PM (mwKH2)
Posted by: thunderb at August 22, 2013 04:43 PM (zOTsN)
And the beast shall rise out of the pit and with all his armies make war on heaven.
Posted by: Some red-eyed Ood at August 22, 2013 04:44 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 22, 2013 04:44 PM (uxi9i)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:44 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:44 PM (IXrOn)
http://tinyurl.com/lamxvkx
I will pass since I have no urge to become a Kardashian.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 22, 2013 04:44 PM (xDfWx)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:45 PM (ZPrif)
bad compositions probably wouldn't bring another lawsuit on top of them
bad focus and double images would
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Plus, everyone uses digital equipment these days for photography. That means that you can review the picture immediately after you take it. Or in other words, there's no excuse for not knowing that you "accidentally" underexposed that last picture.
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 04:47 PM (UWFpX)
The media portrays them as just wanting to live their life in "dignity". As if they they were being stoned all the time because they want to suck cock. If they want tolerance, how about respecting people's religious beliefs.
If they start forcing this shit on Churches, you're going to see bullets flying.
Posted by: Jeepers at August 22, 2013 04:48 PM (XDRsa)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2013 04:48 PM (jE38p)
@236 Artisanal 'ette
Which shows how insidious this is. Not only is one forced to work, inviolation of the 1st and 13th Amendments, but one will get sued if everything is not perfect. Not only to these shits get to stick their thumbs in the eyes of religious people, they're trying to get free wedding photos, too.
Posted by: RS at August 22, 2013 04:48 PM (YAGV/)
Posted by: hobbes at August 22, 2013 04:49 PM (dfwJa)
Posted by: Gman at August 22, 2013 04:49 PM (UkbKS)
fine
every time a white person is a victim of a crime perpetrated by a black person, it's a black on white hate crime and why aren't the authorities addressing this dangerous racial climate and is is open season on white people now?
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 22, 2013 04:49 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2013 04:49 PM (jE38p)
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Oh yes they would. If these knuckleheads sued instead of simply finding another photographer, they'll sue if the pics aren't exactly what they "feel" they should be.
Posted by: Retread at August 22, 2013 04:49 PM (Oz+LZ)
Posted by: Gman at August 22, 2013 04:50 PM (UkbKS)
Posted by: real joe at August 22, 2013 04:50 PM (5wsCu)
Golly, gee, it seems my memory card went bad. After I microwaved it a couple seconds.
Posted by: Clever American photographer at August 22, 2013 04:51 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:51 PM (ZPrif)
According to Drudge, Obama is meeting with bisexuals next month in a closed door meeting. WTH issues could bisexuals have that aren't covered by gays or straights?
Polygamy is coming ladies and gentlemen, and quicker than you think. I'd say less than five years, and by the end of this administration if they can help it along.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 22, 2013 04:51 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Cowboy at August 22, 2013 04:52 PM (m5TOl)
the client's only relief is not to pay you
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 22, 2013 04:52 PM (8sCoq)
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Then photographers should show up in the most outlandish, and embarrassing costume imaginable. Dirty overalls, barefoot, clown makeup, and BAD, BAD body odor.
Posted by: Lady in Black, in a dead thread talking to myself at August 22, 2013 04:52 PM (XB5Ak)
Posted by: toby928© says Thinner! at August 22, 2013 04:52 PM (QupBk)
WWII veteran Delbert Belton survived being wounded in action during the Battle of Okinawa only to be beaten and left for dead by two teens at the Eagles Lodge in Spokane on Wednesday evening.
Belton, 89, died from the injuries he suffered in the beating Thursday morning at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
http://tinyurl.com/mqu9pea
Jesse frowned.
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at August 22, 2013 04:53 PM (6xhLc)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 22, 2013 04:54 PM (lr3d7)
"A federal court in Washington blocked the Texas law in August 2012, but its ruling was undone in June when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
"We will not allow the Supreme Court's recent decision to be interpreted as open season for states to pursue measures that suppress voting rights," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
Separately, the Justice Department filed a motion to intervene as a plaintiff in a Texas redistricting lawsuit brought on behalf of minority voters."
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Queen of something and wears tiara. Deal with it. at August 22, 2013 04:54 PM (baL2B)
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Barry is seriously and bizarrely obsessed with gay/sexual issues.
Posted by: Lady in Black, in a dead thread talking to myself at August 22, 2013 04:54 PM (XB5Ak)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:54 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: rickl at August 22, 2013 04:54 PM (sdi6R)
The most perfect summations of America 2013.
Posted by: Hawkins1701 at August 22, 2013 04:55 PM (q7YYY)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 22, 2013 04:56 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 04:56 PM (IXrOn)
Barry is seriously and bizarrely obsessed with gay/sexual issues.
Posted by: Lady in Black, in a dead thread talking to myself at August 22, 2013 08:54 PM (XB5Ak)
It's the left in general. You see, what they want is to attack and destroy every vestige of traditional morality and every ritual, tradition, and custom in society. Partly this is out of a desire to lash out, and partly this is due to a desire to rebuild a socialist paradise from the wreckage.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 22, 2013 04:56 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Jessi Jackson Tweets at August 22, 2013 04:56 PM (Aif/5)
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Heh, it poured on my wedding day. I think it's supposedly a good sign to have a rainy wedding day.
May it rain locusts on their wedding day. There, that's better.
Posted by: Lady in Black, in a dead thread talking to myself at August 22, 2013 04:57 PM (XB5Ak)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2013 04:57 PM (jE38p)
Slavery? Anyone? the gay thing has no bearing, the decision requires pitchforks, torches, and about 200 feet of rope.
Posted by: tangonine at August 22, 2013 04:57 PM (x3YFz)
Barry is seriously and bizarrely obsessed with gay/sexual issues.
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Yes, and no. Remember that he was originally a hateful bigot *cough* with regards to SSM until Biden forced his hand late in his first term.
Yes, he was probably planning on "evolving" his view anyway, but the general concensus is that Biden triggered it earlier than Obama wanted. So for Obama, this has been a recent thing. But he's done a LOT in that very brief period of time.
Posted by: junior at August 22, 2013 04:57 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2013 04:58 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 22, 2013 04:58 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2013 08:57 PM (jE38p)
I salute you, sir!
Posted by: tangonine at August 22, 2013 04:58 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Lady in Black,
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That is because he is disproportionately effected by gheys. Ghey base, ghey money, ghey political influence, ghey entertainment interests.
The truth is we are all disproportionately effected by gheys, and for all of the same reasons.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 22, 2013 04:58 PM (aDwsi)
@267 'Ette
The problem with that strategy is that many of these people will lie about their "fiance" in order to get the photographer. S/he won't know until s/he shows up. Then it's too late.
Posted by: RS at August 22, 2013 04:59 PM (YAGV/)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 04:59 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at August 22, 2013 05:00 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: Raymond Luxury Yacht at August 22, 2013 05:00 PM (Jsiw/)
Once he's home I'll tell you how his host country treated him as he's tried to leave.
Our government can't help him.
He's fucked.
Angry/Sad Mom.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 22, 2013 05:00 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2013 05:01 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 05:01 PM (ZPrif)
to act like total assholes and make me uncomfortable and pissed off
right before I start drilling. I mean some people are just total
assholes and idiots. Oh and I do sometimes add a "liberal" or "asshole"
surcharge
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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Um..., any extra charge for squirming..., or gargling noises? By the way..., I miss those porcelain spit-bowls.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 22, 2013 05:01 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at August 22, 2013 05:01 PM (GScn4)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2013 05:02 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 22, 2013 05:02 PM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 05:02 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 22, 2013 05:02 PM (uxi9i)
Posted by: mindful webworker - just got back and find this!?! at August 22, 2013 05:02 PM (U13jb)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 22, 2013 05:02 PM (xDfWx)
That is because he is disproportionately effected by gheys. Ghey base, ghey money, ghey political influence, ghey entertainment interests.
The truth is we are all disproportionately effected by gheys, and for all of the same reasons.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 22, 2013 08:58 PM (aDwsi)
Well, duh. Dude's gayer than Top Model, but just doesn't have the balls to admit it.
I don't care if someone's gay, just don't be a pu**y about it.
Posted by: tangonine at August 22, 2013 05:03 PM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2013 05:03 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 05:04 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: Misanthropic humanitarian, now with 50% more sensitivity at August 22, 2013 05:04 PM (HVff2)
Posted by: Cowboy at August 22, 2013 05:04 PM (m5TOl)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 22, 2013 05:04 PM (jE38p)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 05:04 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 22, 2013 05:05 PM (8sCoq)
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I think we're already at the near bottom of the vat. I welcome our new excrement overlords.
Posted by: Lady in Black, in a dead thread talking to myself at August 22, 2013 05:05 PM (XB5Ak)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 05:05 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 22, 2013 05:05 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 22, 2013 05:06 PM (GEICT)
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Genes
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 22, 2013 05:06 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 22, 2013 05:06 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 05:07 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 09:04 PM (IXrOn)
How is this even possible.
Posted by: SarahW at August 22, 2013 05:07 PM (LYwCh)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 22, 2013 09:05 PM (qyfb5)
Have you considered a new dentist?
My wife switched and after having a cavity almost every year has not had one since.
I think her dentist was just an over aggressive "fill every little dent" type.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 22, 2013 05:07 PM (GaqMa)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 22, 2013 05:07 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: roman10s at August 22, 2013 05:08 PM (Iviut)
Posted by: Cowboy at August 22, 2013 05:08 PM (m5TOl)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 05:08 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: mugiwara at August 22, 2013 05:09 PM (hpYnL)
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at August 22, 2013 05:09 PM (uxi9i)
Posted by: rickl at August 22, 2013 05:09 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 05:09 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 22, 2013 05:09 PM (IXrOn)
Posted by: CDR M at August 22, 2013 05:10 PM (dKV5k)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 22, 2013 05:10 PM (0SHei)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 22, 2013 05:10 PM (GEICT)
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Heck..., maybe my dentist does still have the bowls. I haven't used one in quite a while. The hygienist just keeps jamming a Hoover attachment in my mouth.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 22, 2013 05:10 PM (aDwsi)
*looks at Drudge*
Well, I guess I should concentrate on something less depressing, like Constantinople's losing fight against Islam.
(Hey, at least they successfully held off the Arabs.)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at August 22, 2013 05:11 PM (d7tB2)
Posted by: Cowboy at August 22, 2013 05:11 PM (m5TOl)
Posted by: hobbes at August 22, 2013 05:11 PM (dfwJa)
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at August 22, 2013 05:11 PM (ZPrif)
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They would come and take your business, and your home, and your money..., because fair.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 22, 2013 05:11 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 22, 2013 05:12 PM (xDfWx)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 22, 2013 09:09 PM (qyfb5)
That's too bad.
I too had some teeth problems. My molars had holes in them as soon as they came in, some sort of disorder or something.
Cavities as soon as you get your permanent teeth, miserable.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 22, 2013 05:12 PM (GaqMa)
Learned from a friend about some fancy new toothpaste with an additive that helps your body rebuild teeth. Helps with sensitive teeth and cavities.
Banned in the US, of course, because the FDA doesn't like the "repairs teeth" marketing - so people have to import it themselves.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 22, 2013 05:12 PM (h0jlY)
In the grand scheme of things, I'll come out way ahead. Your momentous occasion doesn't get recorded and I waste a few hours making a point and winnowing down the clientele list to those with whom I choose to associate.
Short term pain; long term gain. And I get to show my ass by proxy to a Court that doesn't really understand law much less Liberty.
Posted by: FYNQ Photography at August 22, 2013 05:12 PM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 22, 2013 05:12 PM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: Raymond Luxury Yacht at August 22, 2013 05:13 PM (Jsiw/)
Got mentioned on the radio.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 22, 2013 09:10 PM (GEICT)
Was allegedly mentioned first?
I am happy you had a good day.
Please tell me you're watching Ghost Shark.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA The "effects". AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 05:13 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 22, 2013 09:10 PM (GEICT)
See we told you the blog was a good idea.
Oh you mean for your legitimate business 
.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 22, 2013 05:13 PM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 05:14 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: Me at August 22, 2013 05:14 PM (xGDj+)
Posted by: Obama's Third Term at August 22, 2013 05:14 PM (U13jb)
sorryPosted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 05:14 PM (qyfb5)
For PHOTOGRAPHIC purposes.
And keep it vague.
Posted by: zsasz at August 22, 2013 05:14 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: real joe at August 22, 2013 05:16 PM (5wsCu)
http://tinyurl.com/mevo7t9
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 22, 2013 05:16 PM (xDfWx)
Posted by: Me at August 22, 2013 05:16 PM (xGDj+)
Omfg. Omfg. It's Bull!
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 05:16 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: FYNQ Photography at August 22, 2013 09:12 PM (eHIJJ)
That reminds me, up thread someone asked about Mormons being forced to photograph a binge drinking fest.
If I'm reading Ken at Popehat right, the answer is "no" because binge drinkers aren't a protected class.
The real problem here is that public accommodation laws have gotten a bit out of hand (they've essentially become a chainsaw when all we need these days is a scalpel.)
The guys over at Volokh (who are very pro-SSM actually) filed briefs arguing this was compelled speech, and lost, sadly.
Some pigs are more equal than others.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 22, 2013 05:17 PM (GaqMa)
I suppose this won't be covered as "a local crime story"
Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at August 22, 2013 05:17 PM (KCvsd)
These people aren't about the wedding, they're about the FORCE.
Posted by: zsasz at August 22, 2013 05:18 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 22, 2013 05:18 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 22, 2013 05:19 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: zsasz
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I suppose that I am reinforcing Godwin's Law.
They are Nazis.
Posted by: Caspar at August 22, 2013 05:20 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Raymond Luxury Yacht at August 22, 2013 05:20 PM (Jsiw/)
Posted by: Caspar at August 22, 2013 09:20 PM (aDwsi)
There's a reason that gays were an important part of the early Nazi party.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 22, 2013 05:21 PM (lr3d7)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 22, 2013 05:21 PM (xDfWx)
Posted by: Cretin, a high-grade moron at August 22, 2013 05:21 PM (jYZuY)
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 05:22 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 22, 2013 05:22 PM (CeNUw)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Morons everywhere hoping for 'The Dress'
Posted by: Caspar at August 22, 2013 05:22 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 22, 2013 05:22 PM (xDfWx)
Posted by: zsasz
That's why we need to give their names, and the date of their "special day" to the westboro baptist church.
Seriously. That would be a hoot. The photographer, if she's actually religious should tell the judges to go fuck themselves and refuse to photograph the wedding.
Posted by: Gman at August 22, 2013 05:22 PM (UkbKS)
Posted by: real joe at August 22, 2013 05:23 PM (5wsCu)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo is trying to learn Greek again at August 22, 2013 05:23 PM (d7tB2)
Ha. I just learned what cosplay was recently and now I see a commercial for "The Heroes of Cosplay"
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 22, 2013 05:24 PM (uX+Qq)
Yes. I had a friend in the navy over in S. Korea. He said that it was a common blackmail thing the women over there did to trump up some "abuse" charge when they knew the serviceman was coming back home. They would take a bribe, and then drop all accusations...
Posted by: Gman at August 22, 2013 05:24 PM (UkbKS)
The way I've heard it is that after he went on his pilgrimage to Mecca, he saw that there were Muslims of all races and colors, and after that he tempered his earlier "white devil" talk
he went to Mecca and realized he didn't know shit. Nation of Islam never taught him to pray properly, or anything. That and Elijah Mohomed's extra marital affairs with secretaries turned him off the whole thing. So they had Farrakhan kill him
Posted by: thunderb at August 22, 2013 05:24 PM (zOTsN)
Posted by: Cretin, a high-grade moron at August 22, 2013 05:25 PM (jYZuY)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 22, 2013 09:14 PM (qyfb5)
NovaMin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NovaMin
Banned was probably the wrong word, but blame the FDA why it isn't more available in the US.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 22, 2013 05:25 PM (h0jlY)
And of course they announced my name.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 22, 2013 09:19 PM (GEICT)
Huzzah! You really need to turn it over the Ghost Shark. Lots of bikinis and the one chick has amazing abs. Plus other stuff.
Huh. Was just reading imdb stuff about Richard Moll and there was a comment that he was cast in Night Court in no small part because they needed someone taller than John Larroquette and Harry Anderson. I always forget how tall the two of them are.
Posted by: alexthechick - Team SMOD at August 22, 2013 05:25 PM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at August 22, 2013 05:26 PM (GEICT)
Posted by: Gman at August 22, 2013 05:26 PM (UkbKS)
Yeah I haven't seen him since the first episode of Highlander. I assumed he was dead.
Posted by: Methos at August 22, 2013 05:27 PM (hO9ad)
"In short, I would say to the Huguenins, with the utmost respect: it is the price of citizenship.”
Judge Bosson has shown the same level of "tolerance" and "respect" to the Huguenins that the people of North Korea are shown when they are required to publicly celebrate their Dear Leader -- or else.
Posted by: girldog at August 22, 2013 05:27 PM (i/s89)
Posted by: Colorado Alex
Don't forget Polyamory. I remember bringing this up when "gay civil unions" was the cause du jour (before I knew there was even a term for it) 20-25 years ago. Gay civil unions will turn into gay marriage and then the door will blow off and Polygamy/polyamory/whatever the fuck else will come on in. I got scoffed at.
Posted by: puddleglum at August 22, 2013 05:28 PM (D1p3J)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 22, 2013 05:28 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 22, 2013 05:29 PM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 05:29 PM (qyfb5)
Jane, you and yours are in my prayers.
Yes. I had a friend in the navy over in S. Korea. He said that it was a common blackmail thing the women over there did to trump up some "abuse" charge when they knew the serviceman was coming back home. They would take a bribe, and then drop all accusations...
Posted by: Gman at August 22, 2013 09:24 PM (UkbKS)
It has nothing to do with sex. It has everything to do with our son cancelling his cell phone service before he deployed (his cell phone was also damaged/destroyed). I can't even begin to tell you what he went through two years ago.
Jeebus, our son can't come home until he gives these lying bastards every cent he worked for while serving to these fucking Jap douchebags.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 22, 2013 05:29 PM (lVPtV)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 05:30 PM (qyfb5)
Posted by: puddleglum at August 22, 2013 09:28 PM (D1p3J)
Polygamy was my shorthand for poly-anything. And the left has admitted for years that gay marriage would mean that we straights would have to rethink our expectation of monogamy.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at August 22, 2013 05:31 PM (lr3d7)
It's pretty much cleavage, stress, cleavage, and one dude who's obsessed with full body armor.
Posted by: Methos at August 22, 2013 05:32 PM (hO9ad)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at August 22, 2013 05:33 PM (qyfb5)
So it's the official legal, constitutional policy of New Mexico that you can practice your religion or you can work for a living in your chosen field. Because... tolerance, and whatnot.
I really don't think these pinheads are going to like living (albeit briefly, for most of them) in a world where all of the basic First Principles moralities upon which virtually all of the pretenses of the very "civil society" the are laboring so intensely to create are stripped away - leaving, essentially, the societal underpinnings of ancient Moab and Edom.
Want to know where we're headed? Read the Old Testament - Judges, heck the post-flood chapters of Genesis would do - it's all there.
Nothing new under the sun.
Let it burn.
Posted by: DocJ at August 22, 2013 05:35 PM (du8Bm)
@ Mero
Friend who brought it up on Facebook does get a supply somewhere, so I think it's not too difficult to buy from overseas. Good luck with it.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at August 22, 2013 05:35 PM (h0jlY)
OMG Victoria should be drop kicked. First episode her embroidery machine breaks, her boyfriend stays behind to that done, she goes to the con, Friday night gets hammered in her MLP costume, wakes up late Saturday with hangover, picks up package from BF that arrived that morning while she still slept, and then she missed the costume contest because she was still sewing embroidery on. Second episode her boyfriend wires up her Tron dress for lights. At Emerald Con Yaya Han, a judge, asks her Friday night how much help Jiyo do so she tells Yaya. Then Saturday night in her light up Quorra Tron dress Yaya asks how much did she do on it. Victoria adits to doing a little bit of work but never mentions Jiyo's help. Stupid girl lied on the stage. She no win any awards.
It other words its like watching a train wreck.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at August 22, 2013 05:38 PM (xDfWx)
Posted by: Iblis at August 22, 2013 05:40 PM (3p2ni)
So what has happened is first people were lured away from religion. They were kept from prayer at school, kept from participating in religious exercises at school, saw religion mocked on TV, etc. etc. Church membership and attendance dropped.
Now we have a state which is so secular that religious freedom doesn't enter into most people's minds. On Sundays they do yard work or go shopping. Even soccer leagues and Little League baseball schedule stuff on Sundays, so you are forced to either skip church, find a Saturday mass/service, or skip the game.
Now that we are so secular (or, as I like to call it, pagan) this won't bother a great many people. They will say "What's the big deal?" and shrug their shoulders.
"This is the way the world ends... Not with a bang, but a whimper."
---Archibald McLeish
Posted by: Miss Marple at August 22, 2013 05:41 PM (GoIUi)
They wrote it up and published it back in 2006: http://beyondmarriage.org/
The goal is to destroy marriage.
Posted by: HRH Princess Fuzzy Bunny a/k/a Lizzy at August 22, 2013 05:43 PM (UrtRh)
Posted by: Northernlurker at August 22, 2013 06:45 PM (BLAfs)
Huguenins: "We would say, with the utmost contempt, that you can blow us. Also, fuck you if you think we're going to serve these people."
Posted by: physics geek at August 22, 2013 06:49 PM (llWHs)
Posted by: joe mack at August 22, 2013 07:06 PM (ZGKN0)
Posted by: Trump at August 22, 2013 07:20 PM (F8Lnm)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at August 22, 2013 07:33 PM (iEpNM)
If Barack Obama's mother had had a son, he might have looked like Chris Lane.
If I've repeated a gag, my apologies, I'm always way behind the curve
Posted by: oldgraymarist at August 22, 2013 07:53 PM (S4niq)
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Posted by: Sidney Allen Johnson at August 23, 2013 07:10 AM (Bl6fI)
The 'grittier' part of town, here in Duncan, OK, with two murders in the last five years? Yeah, that makes Chi-town's murder rate look pale in comparison. It makes Detroit look like paradise incarnate.
(Cluebat: Anyone trying to start a violent black gang in this town has a whole lot of white gun owners to contend with, first.)
Posted by: Warren Bonesteel at August 23, 2013 08:16 AM (klGLB)
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