Clearsky

Here’s Jon Stewart’s positive take on the hearings, broadcast on June 29th. Maybe we won’t get taken down to the lowest depths of Hell, but some level above it.

I start it at about 27-1/4 minutes in so there’s only about 17 minutes left but it has meat. (Before the point where it starts, I learned that Merrick Garland is Judy Garland’s son, and…[Read more]

Jake, everything you’re saying makes perfect sense, and I’d love it if our future could go that way.

This Trump era’s changed my expectations of what’s possible. I’ve seen how political arrogance and thirst for power have prodded a populist hate movement that can take over. What’s still gaining ground now is a political thirst for power, so…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
It’s already clear from what the GOP-dominated state legislatures are discussing that they sense a green light to drag the country back to the 1950’s.

I’m the guy with the odd opinion, here.

For years I’ve believed the US Constitution was never clear on these “rights” whether pro-life or pro-choice.

Right to lifers seem to act…[Read more]

My first impression after looking a bit into the coach and the Maine cases is that the SCOTUS rulings weren’t as broad as I first feared.

As mentioned here above, already, what might matter more is how future cases similar to the coach case are ruled. I would expect to see more cases, or even more extreme cases, where religious practices at…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
The absolutist’s hermeneutics of the bible and the constitution demand that we know what was intended by the framers. Never mind that modern conditions were never contemplated and the language, necessary for a well regulated militia, a complete anachronism.

This is exactly what I was thinking while finally reading this entire t…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Europe and Australia both are filled with domestic violence, soccer and cricket riots and hooliganism, Mafia extortion, robbery, and hits, knife violence, Islamic terrorists slaughtering people on the street with machetes and throwing bettery acid in the faces of unveiled women, Islamic invaders torching cars and police…

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Unseen wrote:
Hey, what about me. Did I make my case badly? LOL

I think most here know you present your cases pretty well.

Garland says he’s watching the hearings. I can’t yet see what kind of prosecution could ramp up or succeed once the GOP gains full power in Congress. Sorry to dodge the specific question but my biggest concern is how to…[Read more]

[i fixed typo in post #43224]

Unseen wrote:
If you want exceptions to the “Free speech is for the speech you don’t like rule,” then who is appointed as the Truth Czar who filters what we can read and can’t read?

“Czar” is a fitting moniker.

I created a group to gather recommendations for credible vs non-credible sources of news and investi…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
Johnson may have a loose notion of what constitutes truth, and he may be wrong or lying himself sometimes, but it doesn’t follow that everything he says is true.

I think you meant that last word to be “false”. I can change it if you like?

Good to know about Rumble, could be interesting to compare any extremes to each other. I b…[Read more]

Yeah, it was long, and painful, plus add another half hour for researching where these guys are coming from. I felt the need to look further because of a few red flags, phrases (my paraphrases) like “they kicked us off because we told the truth”, “a conspiracy theory is just a spoiler [for a future truth]”, and then berating (the left, of course)…[Read more]