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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nope. Not for any of the bullshit you want people to read.
NSBA tried and failed to delete evidence.
AP and other Legacy Media tried and failed to cover it up.
Idiots like you tried and failed to spread that false narrative.
Fuck the NSBA. Fuck the AP. Fuck the Legacy Media. Fuck you.
There are four lights.
(6ix is referring to the four lights mime.
That's the Four Lights Meme.
The Left can't Meme.
Too bad they can't mime either. Nobody wants to hear from them anymore.
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The Supreme Court’s new death penalty order should make your skin crawl
The Court’s new death penalty order is almost too cruel to be believed.
The Supreme Court held in Atkins v. Virginia (2002) that “death is not a suitable punishment” for someone with an intellectual disability. Nevertheless, in its 2021 decision in Dunn v. Reeves, the Supreme Court voted along party lines to effectively prevent Reeves from avoiding execution. An expert employed by the state gave Reeves an IQ test and determined that “Reeves’ IQ was well within the range for intellectual disability.”
In Hamm v. Reeves, a death penalty order that the Supreme Court handed down Thursday night, Reeves was executed using lethal injection, a method that may have caused him excruciating pain, most likely because that man’s disability prevented him from understanding how to opt in to a less painful method of execution. As Justice Elena Kagan describes Alabama law in her dissenting opinion in Hamm v. Reeves, “a recently enacted state law gave those inmates one month to select execution by nitrogen hypoxia” — where the inmate is placed in a gas chamber filled with nitrogen gas and asphyxiated — “rather than lethal injection.”
Many experts believe that nitrogen hypoxia is much less painful than lethal injection, especially if the state does not have access to reliable anesthetics.
The specific legal issue in Hamm v. Reeves concerns the paper form that the state gave inmates, which allowed them to choose nitrogen hypoxia over lethal injection. As Kagan notes, “the form was written in legalese, and according to unrebutted evidence, an inmate needed at least an 11th-grade reading level to understand it.” But Reeves had “cognitive limitations.” He had “the same reading ability as an elementary-school child,” and “one expert testified that Reeves’s ‘reading comprehension was at the 1st grade level.’”
But five justices, in a two-sentence order that offers no explanation whatsoever of why they reached this decision, permitted Alabama to move forward with the execution — and to do so using lethal injection.
Several justices have indicated that they have a personal reason for denying relief to death row inmates. The justices appear quite bothered by the fact that they need to decide these last-minute appeals, which may arrive at the Court on a night when a justice has other plans. As Justice Brett Kavanaugh complained to the inmate’s lawyer, “if we rule in your favor in this case, this will be a heavy part of our docket for years to come.”
More at https://www.vox.com/22906309/supreme-court-death-penalty-alabama-intel
lectually-disabled-hamm-reeves
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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That actually is scary, because most Leftist's IQ falls within the range for intellectual disability.
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Quote:A Professor of Sociology writes a long article that Trump voters don't believe their own words are true so don't worry about what they are saying. The Professor is mistaken in my opinion. Oh, they do believe, but their words are a symptom of delusions of grandeur. What Are Delusions of Grandeur? According to Web MD:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
That actually is scary, because most Leftist's IQ falls within the range for intellectual disability.
Delusional disorder is a serious mental illness where you can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not. Delusions, or false beliefs, comes in several types. Delusions of grandeur are one of the more common ones. It’s when you believe that you have more power, wealth, smarts, or other grand traits than is true.
Symptoms may include:
Change in your mood. You may be irritable, angry, or feel low.
Hallucinations. You see, hear, or feel things connected to your delusion that aren’t really there. For example, if you believe that you have a special relationship with God, you may hear God’s voice.
More at Web MD https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/delusions-grandeur
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No, America is not on the brink of a civil war
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/27/no-america-is-no
t-on-the-cusp-of-a-civil-war
According to a number of polls and surveys, significant majorities of Republican-aligned voters seem to believe the big lie that Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 US presidential election and, consequently, the Biden administration is illegitimate.
Taking these data at face value, a growing chorus insists that we’re living in a “post-truth” era, where members of one political party, the Republican party, can no longer tell facts from falsehood. As a result of the Republican party becoming unmoored from reality, the narratives typically continue, America is drifting headlong into a fascist takeover or a civil war.
Fortunately for all of us, these dire predictions are almost certainly overblown. We are not living in a “post-truth” world. We are not on the brink of a civil war. The perception that we are is almost purely an artifact of people taking poll and survey data at face value despite overwhelming evidence that we probably shouldn’t.
For instance, in the wake of the 2016 election, Trump claimed to have had higher turnout at his inauguration than Barack Obama did. Subsequent polls and surveys presented people with pictures of Obama and Trump’s inauguration crowds and asked which was bigger. Republicans consistently identified the visibly smaller (Trump) crowd as being larger than the other. A narrative quickly emerged that Trump supporters literally couldn’t identify the correct answer; they were so brainwashed that they actually believed that the obviously smaller crowd was, in fact, larger.
Of course, a far more obvious and empirically plausible explanation is that respondents knew perfectly well what the correct answer was. However, they also had a sense of how that answer would be used in the media (“Even Trump’s supporters don’t believe his nonsense!”), so they simply declined to give pollsters the response they seemed to be looking for.
As a matter of fact, respondents regularly troll researchers in polling and surveys – especially when they are asked whether or not they subscribe to absurd or fringe beliefs, such as birtherism (a conspiracy that held that Barack Obama was born outside of the US and was legally ineligible to serve as president of the United States).
However, many academics and pundits do not seem to be in on the joke. Instead, post-2016, a consensus quickly emerged from credulous readings of polls and surveys that America is facing an epidemic of “fake news”, which was leading people to believe things that were obviously false, and to vote for unsavory political candidates. Some of the initial studies on this topic were blatantly prejudicial in their design; other widely shared studies were ultimately retracted.
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Quote:Other than the delusion, someone with this condition doesn’t usually seem or act odd. But sometimes, the delusions can get serious enough to cause problems in their daily life. -- What Are Delusions of Grandeur?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol
https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/delusions-grandeur
This is usually the point where a Trump defender says it is the Democrats with Delusions of Grandeur, not themselves who have problems in their daily life, but that is only a childish riposte: “I’m rubber, you’re glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I have a newspaper clipping I saved. Not much has changed in the 18 years since this was written:
Sounding Board: Fair, balanced conservative manifesto
James Howard Gibbons
April 12, 2004
SOME readers have complained that the Chronicle's opinion pages do not adequately express the conservative view. They overlook William Safire, George Will, Charles Krauthammer and the other conservative commentators whose work frequently appears.
However, in the interest of fairness and balance, I have cobbled together the following conservative manifesto that I hope will provide a useful summary of the agenda on the right:
• In time of peace or during war, the first priority is to lower taxes. Government takes more and more from Americans' paychecks, letting them keep less and less. Tax cuts made across the board cannot help but go disproportionately to those who pay the highest taxes.
If the tax cuts contribute to federal deficits running above $400 billion per year, so be it. Eventually, the deficits will force Congress to reduce spending. For every dollar Congress borrows and spends today, it will have $2 less to squander when today's children grow up and have children.
• The Internal Revenue Service should be torn up by its roots. The complicated and inefficient income tax should be replaced with some kind of consumption tax, with rebates to the poorest citizens.
• Money is not the root of all evil. In our time, the root of most evil is the Clinton administration. Before that, it was the breakdown of traditional values in the 1960s and '70s.
• Illegal immigrants should be stopped at the border. Those who make it into this country's work force take jobs away from Americans and should be rounded up and deported to the extent possible. Those who remain and their foreign-born children should be barred from receiving any tax-paid schooling, health care or welfare benefits.
• Our Founders attended church, and the United States is a predominantly Christian nation. Those who object to prayer and religious tablets posted in schools and public places should either get over it or move to a country more to their liking. If encouraging children to recite the Pledge of Allegiance with the words "under God" is deemed unconstitutional, the Constitution should be amended.
• Marriage is a sacrament involving a man and a woman. Allowing same-sex couples to marry would threaten the sanctity of opposite-sex marriages and undermine the stability of the traditional American family.
• When the president sends U.S. troops into battle, it is unpatriotic and possibly treasonous to question his motives, judgment, strategy or tactics. Those who do give aid and comfort to the enemy and erode the popular support our troops on the front lines need and deserve.
Furthermore, the fine companies that make our weapons and feed and house our troops also should be above suspicion.
• Freedom of speech has its limits. The government should be able to punish anyone who burns an American flag or desecrates a beloved national symbol.
• Parents who wish to send their children to private school should be eligible for a government check made out for the sum that the public schools spend per child. The lost revenues just might stir the public schools to do a better job.
• A woman has no constitutional right to choose to have an abortion. The Supreme Court was wrong to extend that right in Roe v. Wade and should reverse itself.
• The government has no right to tell industries how to run their business or regulate the liquids, gases and particulate they emit. Industry produces needed jobs. Any increased incidence of cancer and respiratory disease from emissions — as yet unproved — is a necessary trade-off for a prosperous economy.
• Since most people prefer to travel in their own car or truck, spending money on mass transit is a waste. Those dollars should be invested in more highway lanes and street repairs.
• As Americans should be free to buy whatever vehicle they please, we're going to n
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How's those book burning sessions going?
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Frank Luntz footnote: His recent Guardian profile . . .
. . . Having once worked for rightwing Republicans such as Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani, he no longer hesitates to condemn Donald Trump’s pernicious influence. . . .
. . . “Be thankful that you don’t have our poison [he told his British audience] … I’m very afraid of the American system being hopelessly damaged.”
. . . Luntz, who does not think he will be in the polling business much longer, hopes politicians will consider the lessons of his “Great Rethink” presentation and rethink their own ways before democracy seizes up for good. “I want to hit them over the head with this,” he says. “I want to be able to say to them: cut it out. Just stop. Nothing is worth destroying the country – and you are this close to destroying the country.”
. . . is worth reading in full.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/27/frank-luntz-interview-
pollster-us-uk-politics?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
Best quote: “If I didn’t die, I’m not afraid any more, so you will hear me criticise people I never would have criticised two years ago. What are they going to do to me? It can’t be any worse than what I’ve been through and, when you become more fearless, it makes life easier to navigate.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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