SlacktivistFred

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Galatians 5:12

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Lots and lots of good stuff in replies here. I’ll add Sly & the Family’s “Que Sera Sera” and Aztec Camera’s version of Van Halen’s “Jump.”

Other than Hurt by Johnny Cash and any version of The Sound of Silence, what are your favorite cover versions of famous songs?

French election a reminder that any individual candidate will have baggage or flaws or gaffes or bad nights, but making “Say No to Fascism” the focus eclipses all of that.

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If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.

Still pissed off at the moderators for not challenging Trump’s lies at the debate. And by “the moderators” I mean the pundits and posters on here who haven’t mentioned any of those lies ever since because they’re now more obsessed with Biden’s age than the NYT was with her emails.

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I suppose I was thinking of Joe Torre because he found a way to overcome the obstacle of George Steinbrenner, the second-worst New York City billionaire of the ‘80s and ‘90s.

In, like, '95 or '96, Joe Torre was asked about his rookie pitcher getting shellacked. He said good veterans have a game like that every 10 or 15 starts & for good rookies it's every 5 or 10 starts & that baseball writers should know that & not freak out like it defined the kid or the whole season.

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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John Howard Yoder.

“Hope has two beautiful daughters, Anger and Courage.”

there’s another alternative to despair too good old fashioned rage can get you out of bed in the morning don’t let them take it from you without a fight every bad guy has a plan until you punch them in the mouth

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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.

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Two things. First, I have said this before but it gets special emphasis today: I never, EVER want to hear conservatives talk about originalism or judicial restraint ever again. There is nothing about Presidential immunity in the Constitution.

Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: "He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. ...

"Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. "He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. ...

"He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. "He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. ...

"Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. "He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. ...

"When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.” -- 1 Samuel 8:10-18

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“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.

I recently said “Fred Ward” when I meant to say “Fred Willard” and now I’m imagining a very different version of “Tremors.” (And also “Henry and June.”)

Mail is homework.

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So coworker said that with the upcoming election that they’ll be glad to vote to stop paying the Biden tax they’d been paying since he came into office. I challenged him on that. “What new tax? What are you paying? Show your work.” He couldn’t, so I told him to stop lying.

Visitor on the patio.

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Gorsuch literally wrote, in almost those exact same words, "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

Gotta buy some fireworks for the 4th of July. I don’t really like fireworks, I just hate dogs. And veterans. And counting to ten. [please note: I do not actually hate dogs and/or veterans and will not really be buying any fireworks. If you do, have fun but please be considerate. And careful.]

Any country, any time, any election or succession or duel of ruling factions: if one side is the “I hate immigrants and refugees” party, has it EVER been true that they were the good guys in that story? Have they ever even been the *smart* guys in that story?

Sometimes, when I’m feeling reckless, I *don’t* allow something to stand for one minute in the microwave before serving.

Delightful thread. I saw Apollo 13 in the theater with Cliff Benzel, who was working at Grumman in April of 1970 -- with engineers who'd designed the lunar module. They told him what NASA was attempting would never work. They built the thing and they were sure it was going to burn on re-entry.

So my girlfriend is French and hasn’t heard of Apollo 13 and so while we’re watching it she has no idea how it’s going to end. I am predicting she’s going to scream and cheer at splashdown

Because they can. I mean, they’d also love to do a formal investigation of Taylor Swift, Rachel Held Evans, and Katharine Hepburn (for scandalously wearing *pants*) but, alas, none of them falls under the PCA’s jurisdiction. religionnews.com/2024/06/20/s...

The author of 'Jesus Calling' died last year. Why is a denomination investigating her?religionnews.com (RNS) — At a recent PCA meeting, critics of ‘Jesus Calling,’ written by Sarah Young, called for an investigation to see if the book was safe for Christians to read.

Roy Moore has weighed in on Louisiana’s 11 Commandments law. Now somebody ask him about Robert Morris’ resignation from Gateway Church. religionnews.com/2024/06/21/n...

New Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments churns old political conflictsreligionnews.com NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Under the new law, all public K-12 classrooms and state-funded universities will be required to display a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable fon...

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Suppose I should include this: www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...

Louisiana will post the Twelve Commandments in schoolswww.patheos.com The 12 commandments mandated for Louisiana schools are not from the Bible. They're from a 1950s promotional campaign by the Fraternal Order of Eagles.